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The next SAGAS meeting takes place on Saturday 28th January 2012 . The meeting will be held in the Bunker Room at the South Downs Planetarium, Chichester. Time: 2.15pm – 5pm. A copy of the Agenda can be downloaded here (PDF format). Agenda 1. Welcome and Apologies 2. Societies Present 3. Minutes of Last Meeting [...]
Stargazing LIVE returns to BBC Two between the 16th-18th of January 2012. In 2011 the series, presented by Professor Brian Cox, was a huge success and inspired over 300 Stargazing events run by amateur societies up and down the country and included sidewalk astronomy, star parties and talks and presentations. In 2012 the BBC is [...]
Congratulations to Guildford AS which is one of the first UK societies to have detected the light signature of an exoplanet orbiting a star. This is a fantastic achievement. The following repot was provided by Tony Marsh. An exoplanet is a planet going round another star rather than the Sun. Nobody including the Hubble Space [...]
Welcome to a brand new SAGAS website. It is hard to beat the thrill of launching a brand new web site – it is almost as exciting as your first sight of the rings of Saturn or capturing your CCD image of a first spiral galaxy. So here it is! We are not only changing [...]
The next SAGAS meeting takes place on Saturday 28th January 2012 . The meeting will be held in the Bunker Room at the South Downs Planetarium, Chichester. Time: 2.15pm – 5pm. A copy of the Agenda can be downloaded here (PDF format). Agenda 1. Welcome and Apologies 2. Societies Present 3. Minutes of Last Meeting [...]
Hampshire Astronomical Group and the the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation are collaborating to provide displays and observing with the forthcoming BBC Stargazing Live event. Both the Institute and the Group will be jointly providing display material and observing opportunities from Portsmouth’s Iconic Spinnaker Tower at the entrance of Portsmouth [...]
Stargazing LIVE returns to BBC Two between the 16th-18th of January 2012. In 2011 the series, presented by Professor Brian Cox, was a huge success and inspired over 300 Stargazing events run by amateur societies up and down the country and included sidewalk astronomy, star parties and talks and presentations. In 2012 the BBC is [...]
Congratulations to Guildford AS which is one of the first UK societies to have detected the light signature of an exoplanet orbiting a star. This is a fantastic achievement. The following repot was provided by Tony Marsh. An exoplanet is a planet going round another star rather than the Sun. Nobody including the Hubble Space [...]
Welcome to a brand new SAGAS website. It is hard to beat the thrill of launching a brand new web site – it is almost as exciting as your first sight of the rings of Saturn or capturing your CCD image of a first spiral galaxy. So here it is! We are not only changing [...]
South Downs Planetarium, Chichester A PDF version of these minutes can be downloaded here. Attendees astronomy4everyone Guildford AS Cody AS Newbury AS Crawley AS Hampshire AG Eastbourne AS Hantsastro Croydon AS Wessex AS Eastbourne AS Newbury AS Farnham AS Wessex AS Foredown Tower Astronomers Worthing Astronomers Welcome & apologies Apologies: Vectis AS; Horsham AS; Wadhurst [...]
SAGAS maintains a central calendar of meetings and events organised by member societies as well as interesting astronomical events.
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