Posted by KeighleyAstro on Aug 28, 2018 in Constellation Of the Month |

The summer’s brilliant pageant of planets is now tarnishing, as Venus exits the stage and Mars continues to fade. This month the nights become longer and we move towards unsettled weather. The autumn constellations are starting to show. Ursa Major, or the Plough, can be found low in the North. The ‘W’ of Cassiopeia is not far from the overhead...

Posted by KeighleyAstro on May 25, 2018 in Constellation Of the Month |

Society secretary, Dominic Curran welcomes Mr Rod Hine to deliver his presentation at the May society meeting The guest speaker at the May monthly society meeting was our good friend Mr Rod Hine from Bradford astronomical society. The subject of his presentation was the American astronomer and astronomical photographer Edward Emerson Barnard (1857-1923)....

Posted by KeighleyAstro on Apr 24, 2018 in Constellation Of the Month |

May is the first month when the constellation of Orion is absent from the night sky altogether, and of the prominent winter stars only Capella in Auriga the Charioteer and Castor and Pollux in Gemini remain above the western horizon. The Plough or Ursa Major (the Great Bear) is still more or less overhead with the pointers pointing to the North Star. The...

Posted by admin on Sep 29, 2015 in Constellation Of the Month |

In the early hours of Monday 28th September, people around the world have observed a rare celestial event, as a lunar eclipse coincided with a so-called “supermoon”. A supermoon occurs when the Moon is in the closest part of its orbit to Earth, meaning it appears larger in the sky. The eclipse – which made the Moon appear red , was...