Posted by KeighleyAstro on Jun 29, 2024 in Main |

Thursday 27th June 2024 witnessed a very well attended meeting of Keighley astronomical society. The guest speaker was the ever popular Mr Peter Rea FRAS from the Cleethorpes and district astronomical society. Mr Rea’s presentations are always on his love of the exploration of space. The title of this presentation was ‘The Origins of Planetary...

Posted by KeighleyAstro on Jun 20, 2024 in Main |

The July Night sky On the 6th July the Earth is at it’s furthest from the Sun at just over 152 million kilometres away. On the 3rd of this month we have the first all the four super moons this year. The Moon will be just 357,418 kilometres away and it will be 30% brighter than the faintest full Moon. The full Moon in July is called the Buck Moon as it is...