Welcome to NASTRO
Promoting astronomy education and encouraging people to look up since the year 2000
We are currently running our Beginners Guide to Astronomy Course, look here for details!
Nastro, Northumberland Astronomical Society was founded in January 2000 and has approximately 100 regular members. We are a friendly, active society of professional and amateur astronomers from the North East area. Our mission is to promote astronomy and science education and we regularly do outreach sessions for various groups.
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Nastro secured funding for a 14 inch research grade telescope and a custom made observatory was built to house it at Hauxley Nature Reserve in 2008. Our regular meeting place at the Visitor Centre was destroyed by fire in 2010, and thankfully the observatory was unharmed. We now host our bi-monthly meetings in the Bee Hive function room at The Trap Inn, Broomhill until the Visitor Centre is rebuilt. See our News page for more information. |
We welcome new members to come and join us in our bi-monthly meetings and observing sessions where you can learn and experience new things email us if you are interested in finding out about our up and coming events or if you are interested in joining our society where you will have the chance to take our beginners course in astronomy and have access to our observatory and other equipment! We also host observing sessions open to the public at our Hauxley Observatory so if you are interested in coming to see though a telescope contact us and we'd love to give you a tour of our part of the night sky.
Dark PlanetsTonight there is no moon to see,
The clouds obscure the stars, No guiding lights above us, No distant gleam from Mars, No Venus to excite us, And make us dream of love, No wondrous rings of Saturn, To thrill us from above, The giant planet Jupiter, Is hidden from our view, I wonder if they can see Earth, Our planet of brilliant blue. Poem by Matt Donoghue |
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