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Dark Planets Tonight 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 |
Northumberland Astronomical Society was founded in January 2000 and has approximately 40 members. We are a friendly, active society of professional and amateur astronomers.
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- you can take a short course in astronomy, you can have access to a wide range of astronomy equipment, participate in or lead sessions, have your own personal tour of the night sky, join us in our famous observing night barbeques, meet people with similar interests and make life long friends!
In our next meeting we will be discussing how we will move forward as a society now we have our observatory up and running. We are planning to open to the public and offer a series of courses and events to boost membership and promote our society publically. At the moment Dave is working on a new leaflet and poster, Tim and Malcolm our working on getting a good deal on a generator to power the telescope and Adrian is writing a course plan. Everything will be finalised by the end of the meeting which will take place at 7.30pm on Thursday 25th of June. Come along to have your say and be involved in our exciting venture!
On the 6th of June 2009 Sunderland Astronomical Society held a Meet-Up
event for all of the local Astronomical Societies.
The Astronomical Societies represented were: Newcastle, South Shields ,
Durham , Cleveland & Darlington, Sunderland, Kielder and the newly
formed Luna Society. Each group gave a 10 minute talk about how they
formed as a society and said a bit about what they do. If you would like
to know more about these Societies then you can visit our links &
Sponsors page to be directed to their websites.
Austin Bowman represented NASTRO and Paul Lewis represented Kielder.
This Event provided a great opportunity for us to meet new people, to
exchange ideas and the names of possible guest speakers.
We would like to thank the Sunderland Society for organising and hosting
this event.
 Our members outside the Sunderland Astronomical Society's Cygnus Observatory. |
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On this website you will find the latest society news as well as useful astronomy resources
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- The Dave Scott Zone - Adrian's Article: The June Night Sky - The Northern Nights back issues - The Outings Gallery |
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We have a very active Yahoo
group which is our preferred way to communicate with other
members of the society and local astronomers outside of the
monthly meetings. Astronomy discussions and the organising
of observing sessions can be found here. We welcome you to join.
For more information please visit NASTRO and sign up. The most
recent posts from the discussion group are shown below:
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Web Designer: Emma Jane Maddison
© Northumberland Astronomical Society 2009
Last site update: 16th June 2009