Posted by admin on Mar 16, 2017 in Main |

  Images of the Northern lights submitted by society members Henry Curran from his recent trip around...

Posted by admin on Mar 16, 2017 in Main |

Six students completed the five week ‘Improvers’ Astronomy course conducted by Keighley Astronomical society at the Craven College, Skipton, on Wednesday 15th March 2017. The students looked at the properties of stars at different stages of their evolution; how they form, what happens to them as they age, and what becomes of them when they die....

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...