2018-2019 Lectures
We offer three
official meetings each month, on the 1st, 2nd & 3rd Tuesday of every month.
Workshop/Introduction, Social evening, &
Main Lecture(Guest Speaker)
All meetings start at 20:00 and last approximately 90 minutes.
- Tuesday, 21st May 2019.
Dr Rhian Jones (University of Manchester) will be speaking on 'Asteroids - Exploration and Exploitation'
Goostrey Village Hall at 8:00 PM
- Tuesday, 18th June 2019.
Professor Ian Robson (STFC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh) will be speaking on 'It’s a Hot Big Bang Universe: the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation'
Goostrey Village Hall at 8:00 PM
- Tuesday, 16th July 2019.
Dr Mark Hadley (Macclesfield Astronomical Society) will be speaking on 'Current Trends in Astrobiology'
Goostrey Village Hall at 8:00 PM
- Tuesday, 20th August 2019.
Annual Summer Exhibition () will be speaking on 'Annual Summer Exhibition'
Goostrey Village Hall at 8:00 PM
- Tuesday, 17th September 2019.
Professor Isobel Hook (University of Lancaster) will be speaking on 'The Extremely Large Telescope Project'
Goostrey Village Hall at 8:00 PM
- Tuesday, 22nd October 2019.
AGM () will be speaking on 'AGM'
Red Lion, Goostrey at 8:00 PM
- Tuesday, 19th November 2019.
Peter Williamson (FRAS, BBC Radio Shropshire Eye on the Sky) will be speaking on 'Using remote access observatories for public education and access to off world data'
Goostrey Village Hall at 8:00 PM
- Tuesday, 17th December 2019.
Dr Peter Fawdon (Open University) will be speaking on 'Water,Volcanoes and Robots on Mars'
Goostrey Village Hall at 8:00 PM
- Saturday, 4th January 2020.
Dr Allan Chapman (Wadham College, Oxford ) will be speaking on 'TBC'
Calvary Church, Macclesfield, SK11 8RH at 8:00 PM
- Tuesday, 18th February 2020.
Professor Jim Wild (University of Lancaster) will be speaking on 'Weathering Solar Storms: Living with Space Weather'
Goostrey Village Hall CW4 8PE at 8:00 PM
- Tuesday, 17th March 2020.
Dr Julian Onions (University of Nottingham) will be speaking on 'Galaxies - One Gigayear at a time'
Goostrey Village Hall CW4 8PE at 8:00 PM
- Tuesday, 16th June 2020.
Dr Geoffrey Evatt (University of Manchester) will be speaking on 'The Lost Meteorites of Antarctica'
Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE at 8:00 PM
- Tuesday, 21st July 2020.
Tom McNally (Imperial College, London) will be speaking on 'Extremophiles: Cold and Hungry'
Goostrey Village Hall CW4 8PE at 8:00 PM
- Tuesday, 17th November 2020.
Mr Stuart Atkinson (Eddington Astronomical Society) will be speaking on 'TBD'
Goostrey Village Hall, CW4 8PE at 8:00 PM
Observing
Local observing sessions
We hold regular observing and imaging sessions at
dark-sky sites across Macclesfield.
Weekend field trips
Learn more about our observing field trips where
we observe the night sky in all its glory.