In partnership with Raygill Astronomy Club
Keighley Astronomical society were the lead astronomers at this years Bradford Stargazing Live. The event was organised with the BBC following on from the success of the Stargazing programme presented by Prof Brian Cox and comedian and Physicist Dara Ó Briain. Space Connections, which run and organise the city’s annual science festival, invited Keighley...
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The oxygen we breathe, the iron in our blood, and almost all the other elements that make up the world around us, were formed during the lives and deaths of stars in the distant past of our Universe. Nuclear astrophysicst Dr Alison Laird brought together the physics of the very very small with the physics of the astronomical! At the November meeting of...
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On Wednesday 11th December 2013. 44 society members where present as French astro-physicisc Dr Stephane Regnier discussed the ‘Sun’s Atmosphere’. Dr Regnier is currently a research fellow at the university of central Lancashire. He received his PhD in Plasma Physics from the University Paris XI (France). With postdoctoral experiences in...
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Wednesday 11th December Keighley Astronomical Society were the guest presenters at the fortnightly meeting of Shipley Men’s forum. Society chairperson Mr Paul Neaves gave a short lecture on the basics of Astronomy to approximately 30 ‘Probus’ members. Aspects covered were the history of astronomy, the solar system, galaxies and the...
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Several members from Keighley astronomical Society held an observation evening at the side of Recar Tarn, on Keighley Moor. With the naked eye, binoculars and a small selection of telescopes the winter night sky was scanned. The sky was half covered in cloud but it moved quickly in the cold wind to allow a good spectrum of constellations of stars to be...
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