Sheffield Astronomical Society

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  • Stargazing in the Cemetery

    It’s been a while since we did an event at Sheffield General Cemetery. Saturday 1st February was unfortunately clouded out, so we had a variety of talks and some stellar musical interludes provided by SUSHI in the Samuel Worth Chapel. We ran two sessions and all our visitors left happy in spite of the weather…

  • Sungazing

    Despite some heavy cloud we managed to get some Sungazing in at The Sportsman on Redmires Road.

  • Jellyfish Galaxies

    Happy New Year! Here are the links from the excellent January 2023 Speakers Evening talk “Jellyfish Galaxies” by Dr Callum Bellhouse. Zooniverse project: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/cbellhouse/fishing-for-jellyfish-galaxies Blog: https://jellyfishgalaxies.wordpress.com/

  • Observing Evenings

    We are changing how we run observing evenings as both inclement weather and having enough committee members around to host these events is challenging. Observing events will now operate on an ad-hoc basis and details will be discussed on the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/sheffieldastro These could be quite short-notice dependant upon weather conditions and availability…

  • Observing Evening at the Sportsman Inn

    We had a clear night! After a healthy helping of the excellent food and drink in the Sportsman Inn on Redmires Road, we ventured outside to set up. An early ISS pass really kicked off the evening, with a 12″ Dobsonian being used for visual observations, and a 9.5″ SCT, small refractor and a DSLR…

  • Stargazing in the Cemetery

    We were invited to bring some of our telescopes along to the Stargazing in the Cemetery event held on the evening of Saturday 12th March 2022 at Sheffield General Cemetery. In spite of the patchy clouds, everybody had a good time, watching a number of presentations and taking pictures of the moon through the eyepiece…

  • New web site hosting

    Welcome to Sheffield Astronomical Society. We have moved the site to a nerw hosting provider – kualo

  • Coronavirus Update

    Firstly we hope you remain safe and well and are following the latest Government advice in these difficult times. Obviously all society activity has ceased for the foreseeable future – there will be no more meetings until the situation is over. Since we do not expect you to pay for something that is no longer available, we will extend…

  • COVID-19 Coronavirus Statement

    The Society will follow the Government’s advice with regard to public safety relating to COVID-19 (“Coronavirus”) precautions.  As such, we have taken the decision to cancel events until Government advice recommends otherwise. While our meetings in no way constitute a “mass public gathering”, we need to make every effort to ensure the safety of our members and visitors.…

  • The Observatory at Sheffield Cathedral

    Unfortunately this event was cancelled early by the organisers due to the Coronavirus situation. It’s a shame because it was quite spectacular, however under the circumstances the organisers were left with little choice in the interest of public safety. We were invited to give a few talks, set up some displays and maybe do some…

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