Posted by admin on Feb 25, 2017 in Main |

  Now 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...

Posted by admin on Feb 25, 2017 in Main |

The 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...

Posted by admin on Feb 15, 2017 in Main |

  It has been officially announced that the popular BBC Stargazing Live TV show will be on our screens once again on the 28th, 29th and 30th March 2017. This year the team will be broadcasting live from Australia. Professor Brian Cox and Dara O Briain are taken from London to the other side of the world for an astonishing stargazing...

Posted by admin on Feb 2, 2017 in Main |

Saturday 28th January 2017 was the annual Keighley girl guides interest day held at the University academy campus, at Green Head Lane. Groups of guides from all across the Keighley area spent a full day of activities. Keighley Astronomical society conducted three Rocket making and launching sessions, during the course of the day, where the subject was...

Posted by admin on Feb 2, 2017 in Main |

  On Wednesday 18th January 2017, Keighley Astronomical Society paid a return visit to Victoria Primary School, Keighley. The pupils of Mrs Tokarski class had a afternoon of Islamic Astronomy. The pupils were taken back to the golden age of the ‘House of wisdom’ and the works of Ibn al-Haytham. Through a series of work sheets; the making of a flip...