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Our June Plumtree meeting was a talk on Noctilucent Clouds by James Dawson & Sandra Brantingham. With an update of the Nova in Hercules with Jeremy Shears

Our May Plumtree meeting, Treasurer Mike Provost reviews his eVscope by Unistellar

Our Practical meeting for April was on Aberrations, artefacts & optical issues in Astronomy. Watch a recording of the talk on YouTube

Mike Provost has captured this image of the recent nova V1405 Cas.

The nova is in Cassiopeia very close to the Bubble Nebula – NGC 7635. Here’s an image from Leigh Blake taken a few years prior.

Julian and James provide a talk on Double Stars. + Live views of Mars through C11 Telescope

Tonight we welcome Damian Peach to give the 2020 NAS Prestigious Lecture on High Resolution Astrophotography

Julian and James look the autumn constellations and the physics of them. Richard looks ahead to the Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter on 21st December 2020

Dr Steve Barrett of the University of Liverpool delivers an excellent talk on the Hubble Space Telescope.

A live stream of telescope views of the Moon and Mars from a C11 Telescope

Live stream from the NAS observatory with views from a Celestron C14 and C11 telescopes