Questions about meetings

  • Where can I find a list of your meetings?

  • Are your meetings for LAS Members only, or can members of the public come too?

    • We often hold public open-days/nights, Star Parties, Sidewalk Astronomy events and BBC Stargazing Live events. Please see our Public Events category.
    • Although many of our meetings are for LAS Members, we do open our observatory in Cronton to the public every Wednesday evening at 7pm.  Please see the link for details.
    • Regular attendance of weekly and/or monthly meetings by non-Members:
      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 3 times, or a Monthly meeting more than twice, you might consider joining the LAS (the cost is minimal and there are a lot of benefits).
  • I’m not an LAS Member – can I come to your monthly lectures and talks?

    • While we don’t mind this once or twice, and we encourage people to come and see what we do, we do ask that people bear in mind that these events are paid for by all LAS Members and organised in people’s own time, and that to maintain fairness to our paid-up Membership, it would not be fair to allow this to happen more than a few times.
    • Regular attendance of weekly and/or monthly meetings by non-Members:
      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 3 times, or a Monthly meeting more than twice, you might consider joining the LAS (the cost is minimal and there are a lot of benefits).
  • I’m having trouble with my telescope – can I bring it along?