Calendar of Events

Meetings are held each month on Tuesday evenings, commencing at 7:30pm and concluding around 9pm.
Our main meeting programme runs from September to May, on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. These include talks from Members and Guest Speakers, and more informal interactive "Activity Nights".
Admission is free to members, and visitors are welcome at £2 per visit.
And over the summer we also get together on the first Tuesdays of June, July and August.

The programme of our future meetings is shown below, but may occasionally be subject to late changes, so if you're travelling from some distance, please contact the BAS Committee by email to boltonastro@gmail.com to confirm before making your journey.


Date Subject Presented by
7th Feb 2012 Members' talk: "Attending a star-party"
How far will you go to get some good clear skies?		 BAS Committee
21st Feb 2012 Members' talk: "Starting out in observing & imaging"
Two of our newer members share what they've learned over the last year		 Dean Kos & Mike Schaffel
Bolton AS
6th Mar 2012 Workshop: "Buiding a home observatory"
See how some of our Members are set up to observe and image in comfort!		 Chaired by Carl Stone
Bolton AS
20th Mar 2012 Guest speaker:- "Advances in astronomy through technology" Prof. Ian Robson
Royal Observatory Edinburgh
3rd Apr 2012 Members' talk: "Remote imaging"
how to image under clearer skies using on-line observatories		 Len Adam
Bolton AS
17th Apr 2012 Activity night: "Observing & imaging Mars"
getting the most out of this year's opposition		 Ross Wilkinson & Joe Grant
Bolton AS
1st May 2012 Guest speaker: "Songs of the Stars"
An intriguing title?		 Prof. Don Kurtz
University of Central Lancs
15th May 2012 Members' talk: "The Constellations, Part 2"
concluding our tour of the constellations and their treasures		 Dave Ratledge
Bolton AS
5th Jun 2012 Activity night either observing the Sun in Hydrogen-Alpha
orimaging and image-processing clinic		 BAS Committee
3rd July 2012 Guest speaker: "Extra-Solar Planets"
Presenting research into exoplanet detection using the microlensing effect as well as time-domain surveys of our Galaxy and its neighbours.		 Eamonn Kerins
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
7th Aug 2012 Activity night either observing the Sun in Hydrogen-Alpha
or imaging and image-processing clinic		 BAS Committee

See also our activities page for details of other forthcoming events.
Last updated 25-Jan-2012