In partnership with Raygill Astronomy Club
Mr John Oldfield from Bradford Astronomical society was the guest speaker at the March monthly meeting of Keighley Astronomical society Mr Oldfield covered both the personal life and struggles of Prof Hawking and his professional discoveries in the study of cosmology and understanding of the wider universe. In the mid 1960’s he studied...
Read MoreBy April the seasonal change from winter constellations to spring constellations is more or less complete. The Plough is practically overhead, with the ‘W’ of Cassiopeia is at its lowest. The stars Vega and Deneb which form two thirds of the summer triangle are rising in the northeast although they have yet to become prominent. The...
Read MoreImages of the Northern lights submitted by society members Henry Curran from his recent trip around...
Read MoreSix students completed the five week ‘Improvers’ Astronomy course conducted by Keighley Astronomical society at the Craven College, Skipton, on Wednesday 15th March 2017. The students looked at the properties of stars at different stages of their evolution; how they form, what happens to them as they age, and what becomes of them when they die....
Read MoreNow it is time to welcome March and hopefully spring. The March equinox on the 20th or 21st marks the astronomical beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere and the beginning of autumn in the southern hemisphere. Leo on is in the southern sky at around about 11pm. Orion and Taurus are starting to move out of the sky, and with Leo being...
Read MoreThe aim of the Apollo programme was to land the first person on the Moon. However, when the program was announced, in 1961, only two people had actually been in space. Scientists were faced with a daunting task – to construct a rocket powerful enough to reach the Moon and a spacecraft that could travel there and back. Mr Frank Rouke from Salford...
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