Welcome to NASTRO

NASTRO, Northumberland Astronomical Society, was founded in January 2000 and has approximately 70 regular members. We are a friendly, active society of professional and amateur astronomers from the North East of England.  Our mission is to promote astronomy and science education.

We welcome new members to come and join us at our bi-monthly meetings. As a member you will have access to regular training sessions and lectures as well as our well-established beginners course in astronomy.

From time to time we have public observing sessions at our Hauxley Observatory when you can come along and get practical experience of using a telescope for astronomy.  If you're not yet a member but interested in finding out more, why not come along to one of our meetings as a visitor?  For more details of both forthcoming meetings and public observing sessions, see our Meetings and Events page.

Why not try our binocular challenge (also works with telescopes)?
PLEASE NOTE:  Low Hauxley is a dog-free nature reserve. Members and visitors are requested not to bring dogs either to NASTRO meetings or to observing sessions at Low Hauxley. Please see the NWT website for more information ​
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NEXT MEETING
THURSDAY 10 July 2025 @ 19:30
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A Galactic Cruise
Presented by Dr Adrian Jannetta FRAS

Boarding your spaceship at Planet Earth you'll go on a site seeing
tour of our galaxy

This meeting will be open to both members (free)
as well as non-members (£3 charged at the door)

Next meeting after this Thursday 31 July 2025

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How's the viewing at the Hauxley Observatory? Is it cloudy? Is it clear? See below for a helpful guide from clearoutside.com

Current sky at Hauxley

Near live solar images from the SDO and SOHO satellites.

Some interesting Twitter accounts to look at. These will change every now and again. Contact us with any suggestions.