In partnership with Raygill Astronomy Club
Wednesday 12th February 2025. As part of the annual Yorkshire Dales Dark Skies Festival, Paul Neaves with Keighley Astronomical Society, held an astronomy evening at Gargrave village hall, introducing the wonders of the night sky. The event was part theoretical, part practical and the idea was to enable participants to learn astronomy and understand the...
Read MoreBack to the Moon was the title of the presentation given at the January meeting of Keighley Astronomical society, by the ever popular Dr Sue Bowler. Dr Bowler is the current editor of the’ Astronomy and Geophysics’ publication and forum of the Royal Astronomical Society. Dr Sue Bowler started her presentation by stating that mankind is going back to the...
Read MoreOn February evenings, our sky is filed with more brilliant stars than we can see in any other month. The first signs of spring are now on the way, well as far as the night sky in concerned. The winter star patterns, Orion, Taurus and Gemini, are drifting westward as a result of our annual orbit around the Sun. Leo and Bootes are rising higher in the...
Read MoreThe December meeting of Keighley Astronomical Society was held on Thursday 12th. As is now the custom at this time of year a large selection of freshly made sandwiches, mice pies and Christmas cake were on offer to temp the society members who attended to meeting. In return donations to be directed to the ‘Sue Ryder charity’ were requested. Well as...
Read MoreThere was a large gathering of society members at the November meeting of Keighley Astronomical Society. They were all going to be taken on ‘a magnetic journey through the Solar System’ by the guest speaker from Canada, Professor Jonathan Mound; who is currently at the school of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds. Before Professor Mound...
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