SAGAS Meeting – 28 January 2012

M82 by John Moore, Farnham Astronomical Society

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 [...]

HAG and University of Portsmouth Collaborate in BBC Stargazing Live Event

Photo of Portsmouth Gunwharf Quays and the Spinnaker tower

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 [...]

Societies Prepare for BBC Stargazing Live

Picture of child at telescope

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 [...]

Guildford AS detects an exoplanet

Artists impression of an Exoplanet orbiting a star

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 [...]

BLAST OFF! New Web Site Launched by SAGAS

Picture of an Apollo launch

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 [...]

SAGAS Meeting, 8th October 2011

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 [...]

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