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Astroday 2010

Saturday 13th March 2010

Tapton School, Darwin Lane, S10 5RG

drop in anytime between 12pm and 6pm

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Sat 13 March
Astroday 2010
Our annual astronomy & space event will be even more exciting this year! Many new activities and some great speakers to entertain you. Details to follow nearer the date.
Starting at 12:00
More information about the meeting can be found on this page

2009-12-31 Blue Moon Eclipse

A rare event - a "Blue Moon" on the last day of 2009 with a partial Lunar Eclipse. One of many pictures taken by our members.

2009-12-21 Solstice view of Moon, Jupiter and Neptune

A picture from our President. A very cold but clear solstice evening view of the beautiful crescent Moon showing Earthshine with Jupiter below. Closer inspection reveals the moons of Jupiter (see insert - from left to right: Europa, Jupiter, Io, Callisto and Ganymede) and inside the circle is Neptune (clearer in a higher resolution version). These fascinating objects are captured on the border of Aquarius and Capricorn at 17:00 UT on the day of the Winter Solstice.

Taken with a Canon EOS 450D, 3 seconds at f4.5.

2009-12-14 SAS member receives Science Award

Here is President Steve Adams with member Callum Bellhouse holding his trophy for being top of his year group in science at Hope Valley College, Hope. He also recently obtained an A+ in GCSE Astronomy so is well on his way to being a future SAS president.

2009-10-24 SAS at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

The society was invited to attend "Dark Skies", an event organised by YESnet, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park where we set up our solar telescopes for visitors to safely view the Sun. As is often the case with a Sun-based event, it rained most of the day but the Sun burst through for the last half an hour when we had a flurry of visitors viewing a substantially sunspot-free solar disc.

2009-10-10 Astromind

Darren was our candidate for Yorkshire Astromind this year which took place at the Bradford AS meeting place in Eccleshill library. Here he is in the "Hot Seat" for the Quickfire round facing Questionmaster Neil Haggath. He did us proud and did very well in two of the rounds but against awesome opposition was unable to come out on top. That accolade went to Marcus Armitage from Hudderfield AS. Better luck next year Darren...

2009-09-26 Jupiter shines down

An amazing evening at Mayfield where the sky was clear and the visitors were very enthusiastic. Many wonderful sights were seen including Jupiter with its four Galilean moons, the Earth's neighbour, the Moon, the Andromeda galaxy and globular cluster M13 along with several satellites and even some bright meteors. Around 50 visitors joined SAS members for the best night's observing so far this season.

Solday at Beauchief Hotel 2009-08-16

We had a great day at The Beauchief Hotel where we showed members of Matchventure, an over-50's social group, views of the Sun through our various Solar telescopes. Despite the cloudy forecast, the Sun shone for most of the time and much was learned about our nearest star.

Perseids 2009

Here is the only Perseid meteor recorded in Sheffield - taken by our president, Steve, on the 12th. You can just see it just above the bowl of the Plough. It was moving right to left and could be traced back to the Perseid radiant. After very cloudy skies on both the 12th and 13th August we were lucky to record even one! Around 30 people gathered at Mayfield on the evening of the 13th and 3 meteors were glimpsed but no more were recorded on film. Bring on the Geminids in December, and hopefully clearer skies!

2009-07-02 Walkley Festival

The society was invited to the Walkley Festival for the first time this year and we had a great evening with an enthusiastic crowd and a chance to see the Moon through our telescopes. We have been invited to next year's festival already!

2009-04-25 SolDay 75th Anniversay Event

We could not have had better weather for our 75th Anniversary SolDay event.
The Sun shone most of the afternoon and we had lots of visitors who enjoyed viewing the Sun.