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Space Shuttle Discovery has now completed its successful mission. We've been given permission to feature these images of Cranbrook Old-Boy, Piers Sellers.

"Astronomy By Internet" - Kevin Brown gave a talk on observing from the desktop!
Download the Resource List Kevin Brown - Internet Astronomy

"Beginners Guide To The Spring Night Sky" - Rod Smith gave an informative talk to a full observatory, on what to look for in the sky at this time of year. Then, miraculously, the rain had stopped and the sky had cleared! So we all pointed our telescopes and binoculars at the heavens, to observe the stars and planets we had just been learning about.

"Some Adventures With Parallax" - Martin Frey gave an excellent, entertaining and informative talk on how Parallax has been used throughout the history of Astronomy, to measure the Universe and shape our current understanding.

THIRD Beginners' Event - "The Big Bang and Black Holes" was held Feb 11th. Alistair Hamilton spoke to an enthralled, full lecture theatre about the Big Bang theory of how the universe was created. Afterwards, the sky was clear(!), so about 35 people went to the observatory for a tour of the Night Sky, plus observing the Orion nebula, Mars and Saturn.

Full house for our 2nd Beginners Astronomy Event on 28 Jan 2008 on "Galaxies and Nebulae". The fascinating event ended with the thought, that there are probably many, many worlds out in Space, supporting intelligent life! Great presentation. Thanks, Dr A Hills.

Lunar Images from Alan Young telescope added to gallery. See Latest Image Gallery

Deep Sky Images added to gallery. See Image Gallery 6

Lunar Occultation Of Saturn 22 May 2007. See Image Gallery

First Experiments With Mintron 12V6HC Video Camera. It should be very useful for education and demonstrations, as well as image capture.

CADSAS SUCCESS WITH PPARC BID
The Society has been successful in obtaining a substantial grant from PPARC. This grant, together with further funds from Cranbrook School, enables us to move onto the next stage in the renovation project of the Alan Young Telescope.

Latest Progress Report on the Alan Young Telescope Restoration has been added.

Brief history of Alan Young's Burwash observatory and telescope

New Image Gallery page added Click here..

Alan Young Telescope First Images

You can now read the fascinating book, "GREAT ASTRONOMERS", here online. This book was written in 1895. Great Astronomers - written in 1895.

There is now a regularly updated feed of World Science And Astronomy News.