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, 20th November 2018.
Dr. Lee Sproats, will be speaking on ’All about Eclipses’
- Tuesday, 18th December 2018.
Prof. Tim O'Brien, (University of Manchester) will be speaking on ’The Transient Universe’
- Saturday, 5th January 2018.
Dr Allan Chapman(Wadham College, Oxford) will be speaking on ’Edmond Halley, Geophysicist, Royal Navy Explorer Sea Captain and Astronomer Royal’
20:00 at Calvary Church Hall, Macclesfield. (details)
- Saturday, 26th January 2019.
Winter Exhibition at Goostrey Village Hall
- Tuesday, 19th February 2019.
Dr Peter Fawdon (Open University) will be speaking on 'Water, Volcanoes and Robots on Mars. '
- Tuesday, 19th March 2019.
Dr Megan Argo (University of Central Lancashire) will be speaking on 'When Galaxies Collide!'
- Tuesday, 16th April 2019.
Mathieu Isidro (SKA Organisation, Jodrell Bank) will be speaking on 'The challenges of the SKA project'
- Tuesday, 21st May 2019.
Dr Rhian Jones (University of Manchester) will be speaking on 'Asteroids '
- Tuesday, 18th June 2019.
Professor Ian Robson (STFC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh) will be speaking on 'TBC'
- Tuesday, 16th July 2019.
Dr Mark Hadley (Macclesfield Astronomical Society) will be speaking on 'TBC '
- Tuesday, 20th August 2019.
Annual Summer Exhibition
- Tuesday, 17th September 2019.
Professor Isobel Hook (University of Lancaster) will be speaking on 'The Extremely Large Telescope Project. '
- Tuesday, 22nd October 2019.
AGM, Red Lion, Goostrey
- 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. '
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.