Welcome!
Welcome to the on-line home of Bedford Astronomical Society! On here, you'll find lots of information about us, pictures taken by our members and an up to date program of events. Feel free to browse through the pages and if you want to get in touch, please visit the Contact Us page. Check out the latest Sky Diary - produced by Dave Eagle (member and former Chairman!), and keep an eye on the Events page for changes and updates to the current program. And if you want some more information on becoming a member, visit the About Us page. Clear Skies!
Latest News
Website Update ...
Well, the website move went pretty smoothly - many thanks to Grant! Email should be getting through as normal - well, better than normal as that was one of the problems! - and the site looks to br performing as expected, however, if you do spot something out of the ordinary, please let one of the committee know
The Events page has been updated - if you know of any other events that should be in the calendar, please let us know. For the Christmas Social evening, we shall be running a quiz as a dry run of the Astro Quiz (see below). You can expect picture questions, music questions and perhaps some with a tenuous astronomical connection! It should be fun though!
Group Photo + Talks, 30th June
Many thanks to everyone who turned up for the group photo - expect to see it up here soon! And many thanks to Seb for talking about observing Jupiter (I still don't fancy the 3am start though!!) and Phil for telling us about his great pier project! To go along with Seb's talk, you can find a Jupiter Transit sketch form on the Links page, along with a document showing what the weather features are. These are both PDF documents and are courtesy of Sky at Night.
2011 Astro Quiz
You will be delighted to hear that we took part in a local astro quiz back in May, and came 2nd! Hosted by Papworth, this is an annual event played for he Admiral Smyth cup! Papworth were the run-away winners, but we decided to give them a break from hosting the event and we would take on the challenge!
Date is still be set, but will be held over at Papworth. Linton has kindly volunteered to be quiz master and he will be supported by Bob Wickens as Scorer. So between now and then we'll be looking for volunteers for the team and a lively supporting crowd!!
Web Site hosting and email - June 28, 2010, 02:36:07 PM by Darren
just recently we have been experiencing issues with the website and the email hosting. To try and resolve these issues, Grant and I will be moving the website hosting to an alternate provider. Hopefully there will be no loss of service, but just in case, you will at least be aware of what's going on...
Cheers
Darren & Grant
**REMINDER ** - June 28, 2010, 02:32:16 PM by Darren
Just a reminder to everyone that we will be taking a group picture in front of the dome on Wednesday evening. This will appear on the web site and other advertisements as well.
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible!
Please arrive well before 7:30
Many thanks
Darren, on behalf of the Committee
Tonights planned observing session.... - May 07, 2010, 04:39:50 PM by Darren
Well, it looks like the curse of Daisy Banks strikes again!!
Forecast is showing ever thickening cloud, with a good chance of rain showers.
So, we'll postpone tonight and look to reschedule later in the year.....
Friday 7th Dark Site Observing - May 03, 2010, 10:34:01 AM by Darren
We are aiming to be at Daisy Banks between 7 and 7:30, and hopefully will have the opportunity to do some solar observing, and to get some views of Venus. The attached image shows the Sun and Venus as at 7:30pm.
If you are interested in coming, please do call and check with Darren or Linton beforehand - especially if the weather is "iffy"! If it's clear, we'll be there!
Do wrap up warm - it can still be chilly even though we are in Spring!
Also, we may well have the facility to make a hot drink, so do bring a cup!!
Hope to see you there!
Venus and Sun Image
Update - May 02, 2010, 11:06:28 PM by Darren
- Events page updated
- Moon page now working correctly again
- Moon thumbnails on the right-hand column now working correctly again
We have also implemented a new method of posting up "Latest News". This will allow other members of the committee to make announcements, and you can see the date, time and the person making the announcement. This will hopefully make it a bit quicker to get announcements out to you all!!
Best Wishes
Darren
As always, anyone with reports or images or other articles of interest, please send them into the web-master address (se the contact us page) or bring them in to any of the committee/members meetings
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