Our next meeting will be on 01/02/2024. Professor Frazer Pearce will be Placing the Timelords on the Kardashev scale.

Due to school holidays our January meeting takes place on the second Thursday in January (Thursday 11th January 2024)

The speaker is Prof Phil Sutton from the University of Lincoln. The talk is titled Interstellar Interlopers. Visitors are most welcome to attend the meeting. Entry is £3 Adults, £1 Students.

The April Plumtree meeting saw members show an image and talk about it for a few minutes. The images could be an image they had captured themselves or an image taken by others.

Ten members volunteered and the ten images are show below.

Nottingham Astronomical Society Member
A selection of Bryan’s drawings and photographs

Lunar Occultation of Mars on 8th December 2022. High magnification view using a Celestron C14 and ZWO ASI224 FOV: 2.15′ x 1.61’Resolution: 0.10″/pixelArea: 3.46 sq’Focal length: 7820mmFocal ratio: f/22.0

Talks from the One Day Summer Meeting can be found on the BAA YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/britishastronomical

Join us on Thursday evening for a special meeting about the planet Mars. British Astronomical Association expert on Mars, Dr Richard McKim will be providing the evenings talk about the Red planet.
Visitors most welcome £3
Venue: The Nottingham Emmanuel School
Date: 7th July 7:45pm

On Sunday 26th June 2022 the President of the British Astronomical Association paid a visit to inspect the recent upgrades to the Observatory.

Nottingham 25th June 2022 Hosted by Nottingham Astronomical Society

University of Nottingham – Physics Department

Programme of events

10:00 Registration
10:30 David Arditti Welcome and Medal Award
10:40 Prof Frazer Pearce Adventures in the Goldilocks Zone: the search for other Earths
11:30 Refreshment Break
11:50 Prof Christopher Conselice “Origins: The universe to intelligent life and everything in between”
12:40 Lunch
14:00 James Dawson Nottingham Astronomical Society
14:30 Prof Ofer Lahav “AI for exploring the dark universe”
15:20 Refreshment Break
16:00 Julian Onions “Galaxies – One Gigayear at a time”
16:50 BAA Section Updates
17:30 David Arditti Closing remarks