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Friday 21st July 2017 – Annual General Meeting

Our Annual General Meeting takes place on Friday 21st July 2017 at East Ayton Village Hall. A reminder that there will be no guest speaker or presentation at this meeting. Membership fees for 2017/18 are due from society members from … Continue reading






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Friday 19th May: Paul Money, Sky at Night Magazine

Friday 19th May, 7.45pm, Ayton Village Hall – – a talk by the inimitable Paul Money, Features Editor of The Sky at Night Magazine. Paul’s talks are always lively, entertaining and accessible for all levels of experience so we hope … Continue reading






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September East Ayton Meeting – Guest speaker – Stuart Atkinson: “Pluto Revealed”

Our first speaker of the new season is an established friend of SARAS who always treats us to an interesting and popular talk.   In his illustrated talk “Pluto Revealed” author and amateur astronomer Stuart Atkinson will tell the story … Continue reading






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Autumnal Equinox – 23rd September 2015

08:22 UTC (09:22 BST) sees the Southward equinox.  For ourselves in the Northern Hemisphere, it is known as the Autumnal equinox and the Vernal or Spring equinox for residents in the Southern Hemisphere. The Sun falls on the Celestial Equator … Continue reading






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February Ayton Village Hall Meeting

Unfortunately due to illness, society founder and honorary president John Harper was unable to give the second installment of his talk on the Moon at the February meeting at Ayton Village Hall.  Don’t worry though, we will reschedule John for … Continue reading






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Members group nights prove popular during a period of good conditions

Members of the society have been very busy in the recent couple of weeks with some great opportunities for group observing around the local area.  We were very fortunate to have the opportunity for observing from our Ravenscar site two … Continue reading






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Winter Solstice – 21st December 23:03 UT

This evening at 23:03 UT winter officially starts in the northern hemisphere with the winter solstice. The solstice occurs when the northern hemisphere of the Earth is inclined at a maximum angle (23° 26′) away from the Sun and results in … Continue reading






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Society Website Downtime – Wednesday 5th November

The company that hosts the society website and forums will be migrating servers throughout Wednesday 5th November.  During this move, the society website will be unavailable for a small amount of time at some point during the day.  The only … Continue reading






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