Posted by admin on Jan 19, 2017 in Main |

  On the evening of Wednesday 18th January 2017. Earby astronomical society held a star party at Cracoe village hall, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales national park.   Also invited to attend where neighbouring astronomy societies from Bradford and Keighley. The event was being recorded and broadcast live by local community broadcaster...

Posted by admin on Dec 28, 2016 in Main |

  If you want to see premier league stars strutting their stuff, then January is the month, with the brightest stars and most conspicuous constellations all in the sky.   Look north-west and the first group you will notice will be Ursa Major, or the Plough, with its tail pointing towards the Horizon. The ‘W’ shape of Cassiopeia is high up in...

Posted by admin on Dec 15, 2016 in Main |

On Wednesday 14th December 2016, 12 students completed the societies ever popular five week ‘Introduction to Astronomy course’, The course was based at Skipton’s Craven Collage. The students learnt much about the amazing night sky.   Week one was a general introduction to help the students to get started and make sense of the history of human...

Posted by admin on Dec 11, 2016 in Main |

  There was a good turnout of members at the December meeting of Keighley Astronomical Society. The guest speaker was Mr Richard Turner from neighboring Harrogate Astronomical Society.   Mr Turner started off with the prospect of microorganisms existing on Mars and probes of increasing complexity that will be going there in the years to come. The...

Posted by admin on Nov 30, 2016 in Main |

  This years successful students who enrolled on the societies ‘Elements of Astrophysics’ course received their certificates after completing the five week course on Monday 28th November.   The course coved the basics of Gravity, The power source of Stars, Quantum Physics and The electromagnetic spectrum.   So it’s a big well done...

Posted by admin on Nov 26, 2016 in Main |

  DECEMBER heralds the beginning of winter; the cold and dark months which might not be to everyone’s taste, but which astronomers like best. There is more time to go stargazing! If you ever wanted to see a star disappear then reappear, this is the month to be watching. The bright red star Aldebaran in the constellation of Taurus the Bull, which is...