In partnership with Raygill Astronomy Club
June brings our summer solstice on the 21st and sees Jupiter remain as the stand-out object in a night sky that is blighted by persistent twilight at our latitudes. The latter is so severe over northern Britain that it swamps all but the brighter stars and planets. Those bright stars include Vega in Lyra, which is high in the eastern sky, as is the...
Read MoreThe guest speaker at the May meeting of Keighley astronomical society was Mr Rod Hine from our neighbours at Bradford Astronomical Society ‘Children of the Sun’, was the title of his presentation. Mr Hine explained that the energy provided by the Sun has to come in the right amount, shape and form to be useful to Life on Earth. Mr Hine had...
Read MoreMay is the first month when the constellation of Orion is absent from the night sky altogether, and of the prominent winter stars only Capella in Auriga the Charioteer and Castor and Pollux in Gemini remain above the western horizon. The Plough or Ursa Major (the Great Bear) is still more or less overhead with the pointers pointing to the North...
Read MoreMr Martin Lunn OBE, FRAS was the guest speaker at this months meeting of Keighley astronomical society. Mr Lunn is the founder an operator of neighbours Earby astronomical society. One of Mr Lunn’s previous posts has been the astronomer in residence at the York museum. His presentation was on the collaborative work carried out at York between two...
Read MoreMr Brian Jones opened the April meeting of Keighley astronomical society. Mr Jones founded neighbours Bradford Astronomical Society many years ago. He has had several books and many articles published over the years. He visited us to promote the 2017 Yearbook of Astronomy. In cooperation with Richard Pearson FRAS He has produced this long running...
Read MoreSociety members Debbie Spurr and Neville Whittingham have just returned from a trip to India where they visited Jantar Mantar in Jaipur, It was a fascinating place, they commented. “We would had enjoyed it more had it not been 42 degrees so we were wilting in the heat”. The Jantar Mantar monument in Jaipur, Rajasthan is a...
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