Posted by KeighleyAstro on Mar 17, 2025 in Main |

Society Secretary Dominic Curran visited the Yorkshire Museum on Saturday 15th March 2025. He couldn’t find the Middlesbrough Meteorite, and had to ask a member of staff. “It’s on the third floor” was the reply I don’t think visitors know that there is a third floor. There was very little on the third floor other than the meteorite looking...

Posted by KeighleyAstro on Mar 3, 2025 in Main |

The guest speaker at the meeting of Keighley Astronomical society on Thursday 27th February was our good friend from Bradford Astronomical society and formerly of the University of Leeds, Mr Rod Hine. Mr Hine has a large list of quality presentations many of which he has delivered at our society meetings over the previous years. ‘Luck breaks in...

Posted by KeighleyAstro on Feb 21, 2025 in Main |

This month will give you a few reasons to celebrate. Spring is on its way. On the 20th we have the vernal equinox. After that date the days become longer than the nights. This is followed on the 30th of March when British summer times starts and it will be around 8 pm before it becomes dark. March 2025 will be eclipse month. We will see eclipses of both the...

Posted by KeighleyAstro on Feb 13, 2025 in Main |

Wednesday 12th February 2025. As part of the annual Yorkshire Dales Dark Skies Festival, Paul Neaves with Keighley Astronomical Society, held an astronomy evening at Gargrave village hall, introducing the wonders of the night sky. The event was part theoretical, part practical and the idea was to enable participants to learn astronomy and understand the...

Posted by KeighleyAstro on Feb 7, 2025 in Main |

Back to the Moon was the title of the presentation given at the January meeting of Keighley Astronomical society, by the ever popular Dr Sue Bowler. Dr Bowler is the current editor of the’ Astronomy and Geophysics’ publication and forum of the Royal Astronomical Society. Dr Sue Bowler started her presentation by stating that mankind is going back to the...

Posted by KeighleyAstro on Jan 28, 2025 in Main |

On February evenings, our sky is filed with more brilliant stars than we can see in any other month. The first signs of spring are now on the way, well as far as the night sky in concerned. The winter star patterns, Orion, Taurus and Gemini, are drifting westward as a result of our annual orbit around the Sun. Leo and Bootes are rising higher in the...