Sic Itur Ad Astra – Thus The Way To The Stars : 144 years of astronomy
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The Leighton Observatory at Pex Hill
Pex Hill, Cronton, Widnes, Cheshire, United Kingdom
This event has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus situation When and Where? Weekly public meetings are held every Wednesday evening (except at Christmas week), between 19:00 (7 PM) and 21:00 (9 PM) local time (e.g. 7pm BST in summer, 7pm UTC in winter) in the Liverpool Astronomical Society’s Leighton Observatory. Children who wish to visit must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Regular Attendance While we do welcome members of the public, we do ask you to consider that, since everything is paid for from our Membership subscriptions, if you find yourself attending a Weekly meeting more than […]
The Quaker Meeting House in Liverpool City Centre
The Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
The April 2022 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2019 - 2022 (138th) session will be held on Friday, April 22nd from 19:00 to 21:00. Our guest speaker this month is Mr. Steve Warbis of Macclesfield Astronomical Society. In addition to speaking for them and other organisations, Steve is an active member of Macclesfield AS as their Field Trip Co-ordinator and former Chairman, as well as a keen urban astrophotographer. Steve's lecture is entitled: OUR PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE – How Lucky Do You Feel Today? An explanation and illustration of the incredible and fortunate sequence of astronomical […]
The Leighton Observatory at Pex Hill
Pex Hill, Cronton, Widnes, Cheshire, United Kingdom
This event has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus situation When and Where? Weekly public meetings are held every Wednesday evening (except at Christmas week), between 19:00 (7 PM) and 21:00 (9 PM) local time (e.g. 7pm BST in summer, 7pm UTC in winter) in the Liverpool Astronomical Society’s Leighton Observatory. Children who wish to visit must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Regular Attendance While we do welcome members of the public, we do ask you to consider that, since everything is paid for from our Membership subscriptions, if you find yourself attending a Weekly meeting more than […]
The Leighton Observatory at Pex Hill
Pex Hill, Cronton, Widnes, Cheshire, United Kingdom
When and Where? Weekly public meetings are held every Wednesday evening (except if it falls too close to Christmas), between 19:00 (7 PM) and 21:00 (9 PM) local time (e.g. 7pm BST in summer, 7pm UTC in winter) in the Liverpool Astronomical Society’s Leighton Observatory. Can My Children Attend on a Wednesday Evening? We do not recommend that under-14s attend on Wednesday evenings as it can get extremely busy, and some may find it a little overwhelming. We do run a monthly Young Astronomers' club from autumn to spring, which you can find details of here. That said, we understand […]
The Quaker Meeting House in Liverpool City Centre
The Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
This event was rescheduled from 15th May 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic The May 2022 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2019 - 2022 (138th) session is our Annual General Meeting and will be held on Friday, May 20th from 19:00 to 21:00. Please note that this event is not open to the general public without prior arrangement with the LAS Secretary. Those of you wishing to join the Society are welcome to come along and officially become members, however please note that you will not be allowed to vote at this meeting. Ordinarily, the AGM would […]
The Quaker Meeting House in Liverpool City Centre
The Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
The first Monthly Meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2022 - 2023 (139th) session will be held on Friday, September 16th from 19:00 to 21:00. Those of you wishing to become members may do so at this meeting (see below for more information.) This meeting is our Presidential Address, and as such our speaker is LAS President Mr. Steve Southern, whose lecture is entitled: Focus on Zeiss Slides from the Gemini/Apollo Era Zeiss produced slides in the early days of the NASA Gemini and Apollo missions. The Society has obtained a set of these. My talk describes the slides […]
The Quaker Meeting House in Liverpool City Centre
The Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
The October 2022 (William Lassell Memorial Lecture) monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2022-2023 session will be held on Friday, October 21st from 19:00 to 21:00. Our guest speaker this month is Mr. Steve Warbis of Macclesfield Astronomical Society, who you may remember joined us before our summer break for a different lecture. In addition to speaking for his own Society and other organisations, Steve is an active member of Macclesfield AS as their Field Trip Co-ordinator and former Chairman, as well as a keen urban astrophotographer. Steve's lecture this month is entitled: Completely Over (and Under) the […]
The Leighton Observatory at Pex Hill
Pex Hill, Cronton, Widnes, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Our extremely popular Young Astronomers' Club returns for the autumn. For more information, please see our Young Astronomers' information page, or contact our Junior Representatives at juniorrep@liverpoolas.org
The Quaker Meeting House in Liverpool City Centre
The Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
The November 2022 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2022-2023 session will be held on Friday, November 18th from 19:00 to 21:00. Members of the public are welcome to attend (for free), but please consider joining our Society if you attend more than two monthly meetings. Our guest speaker this month is Dr. Steve Barrett, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of Liverpool. The title of the lecture is: The Beginning of Everything A brief description of the origin and the very early history of the Universe. After the Big Bang it took […]
The Leighton Observatory at Pex Hill
Pex Hill, Cronton, Widnes, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Our extremely popular Young Astronomers' Club continues throughout winter. Please note that this is the second Friday of the month, not the third. For more information, please see our Young Astronomers' information page, or contact our Junior Representatives at juniorrep@liverpoolas.org
