MEETING CANCELLED
Friday 15 May 2020 7.45pm, East Ayton Village Hall
Guest Speaker – David Benoit will be presenting “Chemistry on a comet”
Free entry for members of the society.
£3 on the door for non-members.
Doors open 7:15pm
Free refreshments.
MEETING CANCELLED
Friday 19 June 2020 7.45pm, East Ayton Village Hall
Topic TBC:
It is traditional that the last meeting of the year before the AGM is member focused, if anyone has any suggestions for a theme for the meeting or an activity, pleas let me know at saras.secretary@gmail.com
Free for members of the society.
£3 on the door for non-members.
Doors open 7:15pm
Free refreshments.
CANCELLED by organisers due to COVID-19 – we will be back next year
S&RAS members will be at the Dalby Explorer Day on Sunday 5th July 2020, 10:30 – 16:00.
The theme this year is “Communication”.
Weather permitting we will have Solar scopes set up for safe solar viewing as well as opening the observatories to have a look at our night sky telescopes.
Dalby Forest Explorer Day Event Webpage
The event is free, however the Dalby entry fee still applies: Details HERE
CANCELLED
19th Annual StarFest
Thursday 20th August – Mon 24th August 2020
Adderstone Field, Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire
ONLINE AGM – THIS AGM WILL BE CONDUCTED VIA ZOOM (https://zoom.us/)
Review of the 2019/20 year, elections of the committee and voting on any other business.
The meeting takes place virtually via the free app ZOOM.
There will be no guest speaker or astronomy presentation at this meeting.
If anyone would like to stand for a role on the committee or do not wish to stand for re-election, please let the Secretary know before the meeting: saras.secretary@gmail.com
Membership fees for 2020/2021 season for existing members are not due until July 2021
ONLINE MEETING – THIS WILL BE CONDUCTED VIA ZOOM (https://zoom.us/)
Friday 18th September 2020 7.30pm, via Zoom
Guest Speaker – Neil Haggath will be presenting “How Big Is Space”
The meeting can be joined by following this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/
Zoom can be used on Windows, Mac, Android and iOS.
The link can be used prior to the 18th in order to download the Zoom software.
The talk is free and is open to members and non-members
ONLINE MEETING – THIS WILL BE CONDUCTED VIA ZOOM (https://zoom.us/)
Friday 16th October 2020 7.30pm, via Zoom
Member Speaker – Jim Cornmell will be presenting “Parallax”
The meeting can be joined by following this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89384021210
Meeting ID: 893 8402 1210
Zoom can be used on Windows, Mac, Android and iOS.
The link can be used prior to the 16th in order to download the Zoom software.
The talk is free and is open to members and non-members
ONLINE MEETING – THIS WILL BE CONDUCTED VIA ZOOM (https://zoom.us/)
Friday 20th November 2020 7.30pm, via Zoom
Guest Speaker – Paul Money will be presenting “Why are there no Green Stars?”
Paul Money, reviews editor for the BBC Sky at Night magazine, has spoken to the society on a number of occasions and joins us once again, this time via Zoom.
The meeting can be joined by following this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85277434456
Meeting ID: 852 7743 4456
Zoom can be used on Windows, Mac, Android and iOS.
The link can be used prior to the 20th in order to download the Zoom software.
The talk is free and is open to members and non-members
CANCELLED
Friday 18th December 2020 7.30pm,
A rare conjunction of Jupiter & Saturn is visible from 15:40 until approx 18:30 on Monday 21st December 2020.
The planets will be very low in the South-West when dusk falls so an observing site with a low SW horizon is a must.