2016 Diary

Meetings and Events in 2016

January

  • Meeting 19.00 Monday 4th at Kendal Museum: “Looking forward to 2016”
  • Observing Evening Monthly guided observing, date subject to weather conditions

February

  • Meeting 19.00 Monday 1st at Kendal Museum: AGM
  • Observing Evening Monthly guided observing, 10th February see report here
  • MoonWatch 6pm Saturday 13th at Brewery Arts Centre

March

  • Meeting 19.00 Monday 7th at Kendal Museum: David Glass (EAS) “SAAO and SALT”
  • Observing Evening Monthly guided observing, 9th March see report here

April

  • Meeting 19.00 Monday 4th at Kendal Museum: “Solar Observing / Mercury Transit”
  • Observing Evening Now suspended until Autumn

May

  • Observing 11.30-19.45 Monday 9th at Abbot Hall Park: Mercury Transit
  • Meeting 19.00 Monday 16th at Kendal Museum:”Members Short Talks”

June

  • Meeting 19.00 Monday 6th at Kendal Museum: Keith Robinson (LMAS) “Building and Using the Bier Himmel Observatory”

July

  • Meeting 19.00 Monday 4th at Kendal Museum: “Telescope Night”

August

  • Meeting 19.00 Monday 1st at Kendal Museum: “Astro-photography”
  • Observing 21.00 Thursday 18th at Helsington Church:SaturnWatch / Astrophotography Workshop (EAS members only) NOTE: Members have already been emailed about this – the original date for this event was Friday 19th, but as the weather forecast for that evening is appalling it has been moved to the night before. Please bring your camera and tripod if you want to know how to get started in basic astrophotography. Note: limited parking at the church, might be a bit of a squeeze.

September

  • Meeting 19.00 Monday 5th at Kendal Museum: Note: our scheduled speaker Gemma Lavender, the Editor of  “All About Space” magazine has had to cancel her visit. Jeremy Hunt from Cockermouth has kindly agreed to give us a talk about astrophotography.
  • Observing Evening Monthly guided observing, 1st October see report here
  • Special Meeting: 19.00 Wednesday September 14th at Kendal Museum: special guest speaker night, “Thomas Ormston” from the European Space Agency. As this is an out-of-programme meeting there will probably be a £2 charge – to be confirmed.

October

November

December

  • Meeting 19.00 Monday 5th at Kendal Museum: Christmas Social
  • Observing Evening Monthly guided observing – clouded out this month