What's Up & Newsletter - May 2021

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By Steve Harris

The May edition of the Society Newsletter and What's Up of items to see over the coming month are now both available to read from the below links. Featured this month is the Ingenuity Mars drone's recent flight testing and the birth & expansion of the universe.

May 2021 Newsletter
What's Up: May 2021

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What's Up & Newsletter - April 2021

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By Steve Harris

The April edition of the Society Newsletter and What's Up of items to see over the coming month are now both available to read from the below links. Featured this month is a look at a recent bright meteor & recovery of it on the ground, and solar observation.

April 2021 Newsletter
What's Up: April 2021

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What's Up & Newsletter - March 2021

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By Steve Harris

The March edition of the Society Newsletter and What's Up of items to see over the coming month are now both available to read from the below links. Featured this month is Charles Messier & his catalogue, with the various types of deep sky objects.

March 2021 Newsletter
What's Up: March 2021

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What's Up & Newsletter - February 2021

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By Steve Harris

The February edition of the Society Newsletter and What's Up of items to see over the coming month are now both available to read from the below links. Featured this month is our Solar System, from formation & development to the planets and moons.

February 2021 Newsletter
What's Up: February 2021

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What's Up & Newsletter - January 2021

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By Steve Harris

The January edition of the Society Newsletter and What's Up of items to see over the coming month are now both available to read from the below links. Featured this month are planetarium software and the 21st of December 2020 conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.

January 2021 Newsletter
What's Up: January 2021

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What's Up & Newsletter - December 2020

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By Steve Harris

The December edition of the Society Newsletter and What's Up of items to see over the coming month are now both available to read from the below links. Featured this month are The Star of Bethlehem and the Winter Solstice.

December 2020 Newsletter
What's Up: December 2020

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December 2020 Main Meeting - Dr Alexandra Loske (University of Sussex)

Posted by Newbury Astronomy Society | Tags: 2020, december

The next Newbury Astronomical Society meeting on the first Friday in December has been moved back a week, to the second Friday of December (the 11th). The meeting subject has also changed, and will be a Christmas lecture.

In this talk art historian Dr Alexandra Loske will give an introduction to colour and pigment history and how artists and illustrators have coloured the universe. Alexandra is the curator of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton and teaches at the University of Sussex. She has published widely on colour in art and is the co-author of a book about the Moon in art and science (with astronomer Robert Massey).

Ann Davies, Programme Organiser

Added on: Nov 18, 2020   Read more

What's Up & Newsletter - November 2020

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By Steve Harris

The November edition of the Society Newsletter and What's Up of items to see over the coming month are now both available to read from the below links. Featured this month are Venus and the Leonid meteor shower.

November 2020 Newsletter
What's Up: November 2020

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What's Up & Newsletter - October 2020

Posted by Newbury Astronomy Society | Tags: newsletter, whatsup, 2020, october

By Steve Harris

The October edition of the Society Newsletter and What's Up of items to see over the coming month are now both available to read from the below links. Featured this month is the planet Mars and a homemade DSLR mount.

October 2020 Newsletter
What's Up: October 2020

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October 2020 Main Meeting - Tony Bell

Posted by Newbury Astronomy Society | Tags: 2020, october

The next NAS zoom meeting on Friday the 2nd of October at 7:30pm will be given by Professor Tony Bell. Tony is professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College Oxford.His research interests are in cosmic rays and high energy particles.

The title of his talk is 'Astrophysics at the highest energies'.

I hope you will be able to join us and look forward to seeing you.

Ann Davies, Programme Organiser

Added on: Sep 22, 2020   Read more