In partnership with Raygill Astronomy Club
Last month, Society Chairperson, Mr Paul Neaves visited the Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, In Italy. It is located just outside the centre of Florence, on the same hill where Galileo Galilei spent, in forced exile, the last 11 years of his life. In 1610, Galileo published his ‘Starry Messenger’, describing the surprising observations that he had...
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Sagittarius the archer was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy. It remains one of the 88 modern constellations today. It is the most southerly of the zodiacal constellations and is always very low in the night sky over Yorkshire. Part of it remains permanently below our horizon. This group of stars is not particularly...
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Keighley Astronomical society were delighted to have as this months guest speaker Prof Jamie Gilmour from the school of Earth,atmospheric and Environmental sciences, at the University of Manchester. His presentation was titled, ‘Meteorites, stardust and the early Solar System. Prof Gilmour and his colleagues analyse samples of Meteors and...
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Wednesday 29th May 2013. Society secretary Dominic Curran met Dr Rhaana Starling from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester after she presented a short lecture at the National Space centre on ‘Hunting for Gamma Ray Bursts’. Dr Starling uses the SWIFT satellite to search the universe for cosmic explosions...
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Keighley astronomical society away day. The family orientated events at this years Arts Trail festival were themed as ‘Fly me to the Moon’. Events included ‘Grow an alien brain’, Build a Space Station Den’, and of course building your own rocket and lauching it into space. Keighley Astronomy society contribution was called...
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