6th February 2026 – Public Stargazing Night at Dalby Forest

Posted on 23 January 2026 by Neil Graham

LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE
BOOKING IS REQUIRED VIA TICKET TAILOR: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/scarboroughryedaleastronomicalsociety/1815599

Join us for our 6th February public stargazing event at the John Harper Observatories in Dalby Forest.
Come and see the stars, planets, nebulae and galaxies under one of the darkest skies in the country.

LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE
BOOKING IS REQUIRED VIA TICKET TAILOR: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/scarboroughryedaleastronomicalsociety/1815599

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16th Jan 2026 – Ayton Meeting – Workshop Evening – ZWO Seestar Smart Scopes: Setup, Basics, Tips and Tricks.

Posted on 10 January 2026 by Neil Graham

Friday 16th Jan 2026 7.30pm, East Ayton Village Hall, Scarborough

Workshop Evening – ZWO Seestar Smart Scopes: Setup, Basics, Tips and Tricks.

SARAS Members will present a workshop session on a subject: ZWO Seestar Smart Scopes – Setup, Basic Operations, Tips and Tricks.
If the weather is clear, there may be the opportunity to do some observing/imaging outside the hall.

Free entry for members of the society.
£3 on the door for non-members.

Doors open 7:15pm

Free refreshments.






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Reminder: No Ayton Meeting in December

Posted on 10 December 2025 by Neil Graham

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to all

Just a reminder that SARAS do not have an Ayton Village Hall Meeting scheduled in December, our next meeting will be a workshop event on Friday 16th January 2026.

‘Christmas Tree Cluster’ – NASA

This composite image shows the Christmas Tree Cluster. The blue and white lights (which blink in the animated version of this image) are young stars that give off X-rays detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Optical data from the National Science Foundation’s WIYN 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak shows gas in the nebula in green, corresponding to the “pine needles” of the tree, and infrared data from the Two Micron All Sky Survey shows foreground and background stars in white. This image has been rotated clockwise by about 160 degrees from the astronomer’s standard of North pointing upward, so that it appears like the top of the tree is toward the top of the image.

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: T.A. Rector (NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) and B.A. Wolpa (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA); Infrared: NASA/NSF/IPAC/CalTech/Univ. of Massachusetts; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare & J.Major






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21st November 2025 – Ayton Meeting – Guest Speaker – Mark Laughton “The physics of stars from birth to death”

Posted on 9 November 2025 by Neil Graham

Friday 21st Nov 2025 7.30pm, East Ayton Village Hall, Scarborough

Guest Speaker Mark Laughton will be presenting “The physics of stars from birth to death”

Free entry for members of the society.
£3 on the door for non-members.

Doors open 7:15pm
Free refreshments.

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