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A Society History - Orpington Astronomical Society

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An active local society. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. List of Past Meetings. Dwarf and Minor Planets. A Globe of Pluto. Rarr; A Society History. A selection of early Society events. Two of our initial aims when founding the Society resulted in one of each: to visit some of the major observatories in the USA, and to build and equip our own observatory. The US. Tour. On the way to one of the US’s big telescopes. Some maps from the tour. We travelled for many miles along the southern ...

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Find Events - Orpington Astronomical Society

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An active local society. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. List of Past Meetings. Dwarf and Minor Planets. A Globe of Pluto. Rarr; Find Events. You need to log in as an O.A.S. member to view this. Thu 22nd Sep 2016. Fri 2nd Sep - Sun 4th Sep 2016. Tue 20th Sep 2016. Change of Horses (and High Elms). Fri 30th Sep - Sun 2nd Oct 2016. OAS August 2016 Observing Report. OAS July 2016 Observing report. OAS May 2016 Observing report. 2016 - Orpington Astronomical Society. Weaver II by WP Weaver.

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Regular Meetings - Orpington Astronomical Society

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An active local society. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. List of Past Meetings. Dwarf and Minor Planets. A Globe of Pluto. Rarr; Regular Meetings. We meet every month, usually on the fourth Thursday of the month, (the December meeting will generally be on the third Thursday). Meetings start no earlier than 7:30pm and end before 10:00pm. They are usually held at Bromley Environmental Education Centre at High Elms ( BEECHE. On Shire Lane. ( Here is a map. And those bringing equipment.

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Brightness, Size, Distance, and What You Can See - Orpington Astronomical Society

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An active local society. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. List of Past Meetings. Dwarf and Minor Planets. A Globe of Pluto. Rarr; Observing Activities. Rarr; Brightness, Size, Distance, and What You Can See. Brightness, Size, Distance, and What You Can See. Sense of scale, scope and movement. Our Milky Way Galaxy is more than 100,000 light-years across. It contains billions of stars, but the most adept skywatchers can see no more than 6,000 of them without a telescope. There’s so...

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Gilbert Satterthwaite - Orpington Astronomical Society

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An active local society. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. List of Past Meetings. Dwarf and Minor Planets. A Globe of Pluto. Rarr; Gilbert Satterthwaite. Gilbert on the O.A.S. visit to the Paris Observatory in 2007. Gilbert Satterthwaite, the Society’s President, died at his home in Hayes on 20th July 2013. Gilbert was also Chairman of the Society for the History of Astronomy, and well known for his work at Greenwich with Airy’s Transit Circle. Gilbert joined the Meridian Department whe...

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Meeting Reports - Orpington Astronomical Society

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An active local society. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. List of Past Meetings. Dwarf and Minor Planets. A Globe of Pluto. Rarr;Categories Meetings Reports. It’s about time – 13th Nov 2014. Don’s opening question was “What is time? Is there a past and a future or just a continuously moving instantaneous time? 8221; Rather than enter into a theological or scientific debate about this question, he presented a very interesting, entertaining and, occasionally historically provocative, tal...

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Dwarf and Minor Planets - Orpington Astronomical Society

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An active local society. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. List of Past Meetings. Dwarf and Minor Planets. A Globe of Pluto. Rarr; Observing Activities. Rarr; Dwarf and Minor Planets. Dwarf and Minor Planets. Courtesy Minor Planet Ephemeris Service at: http:/ cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/MPEph/MPEph.html. OAS August 2016 Observing Report. OAS July 2016 Observing report. OAS May 2016 Observing report. Fri 2nd Sep - Sun 4th Sep 2016. Tue 20th Sep 2016. Change of Horses (and High Elms).

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Instruments owned by the Society

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An active local society. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. List of Past Meetings. Dwarf and Minor Planets. A Globe of Pluto. Rarr;Categories Society Instruments. The usual reasons for wanting to borrow astronomy equipment are:. To get experience with a particular type of telescope before purchase,. To fill a need for observing while a first scope is on order,. To replace a member’s item of equipment which is being repaired,. Bresser 5 Refractor Telescope. Meade 10×50 Binoculars. Meade E...

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O.A.S. Outreach Group - Orpington Astronomical Society

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An active local society. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. List of Past Meetings. Dwarf and Minor Planets. A Globe of Pluto. Rarr; O.A.S. Outreach Group. Comprised mainly of Society members who are retired, the Outreach Group has been operating since 2009 and has an excellent record in community liaison with over 9,000 children and adults having had the opportunity to look through a telescope and learn about the Solar System, stars, our Milky Way galaxy and the Universe. Fri 30th Sep - ...

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Observing Activities - Orpington Astronomical Society

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An active local society. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. List of Past Meetings. Dwarf and Minor Planets. A Globe of Pluto. Rarr; Observing Activities. We hold observing evenings once or twice a month, less often in summer, more often in winter when the nights start early. New dates are announced at monthly meetings, on the bulletin board and on the News Page if there’s something special going on in the sky. If you wish to come to an observing evening but do not wish to come to the Cha...