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

It has been a busy year for Nottingham Astronomical Society. This video showcases some of the highlights of 2021. Membership is now open for 2022, do join us. https://nottinghamastro.org.uk/membership/

Please be aware that our meeting in November will be held at the Nottingham Emmanuel School. More information can be found in the Journal.

During Spring 2021 the Nottingham Astronomical Society Observatory was refit with new telescopes and mount. On Thursday 15th July our meeting was broadcast live from the observatory to official launch the new instruments inside the dome.

Our Treasurer Mike Provost looked back through the archives to document the history of the NAS Observatory located on the Cropwell Wolds between Cotgrave and Cropwell Bishop.

Vice Chairman Richard Severn provided a virtual tour of the observatory site and a look at the future plans to develop the facility.

Chairman Julian Onions and Observatory Director James Dawson demonstrated the new Telescopes installed inside the dome.

With clear skies live views of the moon and Venus were provided through the new C14 telescope.

The first image taken of Jupiter through the C14 at a low altitude of 17 degrees. on 18th July 2021 11:53 UTC.

Jupiter with shadow transit of Ganymede, Ganymede off the planet to bottom left. Great Red Spot at 3 O’clock

• Celestron C14
• ZWO ASI224MC
• Skywatcher EQ8
• X2 Powermate

Perseid meteor shower at the NAS Observatory

Below are images taken by NAS members of the Perseid meteor shower at our star party last night.

It was terrific to see so many members back at our first opening of the observatory, with such a family atmosphere.

Images by Mark Fairfax – eVscope Dumbbell Nebula and Whirlpool Galaxy

The new society C14 scope  was kept busy with Venus, Moon, Saturn and Jupiter all making an appearance during the evening. But the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules M13 stole the show.

What a special sight to look at, thanks to Barrie for bringing his eyepieces for us to use on the C14 to view it.

It was lovely to see our members once again.

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