Posted by KeighleyAstro on Oct 26, 2019 in Main |

On the 11th of this month, there will a rare occurrence as Mercury crosses the face of the Sun. The transit will mainly take place during daylight hours beginning at 12.35pm. It will behalf way across at 3.20pm so it will still be in transit as the sunsets around 4.30pm. Mercury will look like a small sharp blob, unlike the fuzzy blur of a sunspot. When I...

Posted by KeighleyAstro on Oct 26, 2019 in Main |

Thursday 24th October 2019. At one of the largest attended meetings, Dr Sue Bowler from The Royal Astronomical society and The university of Leeds. Delivered a presentation entitled “ fifty years on the Moon after Apollo”. She started as close to the beginning as we can get. The Moon is thought to have formed about 4.51 billion years ago, not long...