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, 19th March 2019.
Dr Megan Argo (University of Central Lancashire) will be speaking on 'When Galaxies Collide!'
Goostrey Village Hall at 8:00 PM
- Tuesday, 16th April 2019.
Mathieu Isidro (SKA Organisation, Jodrell Bank) will be speaking on 'The challenges of the SKA project'
Goostrey Village Hall at 8:00 PM
- 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.
TBC () will be speaking on 'TBC'
Goostrey Village Hall 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.