We all had a great time this year observing the Perseid Meteor Shower. A few were seen overhead through increasingly thickening clouds. This did not put off our 50 or so visitors who stayed until late.

With varying amounts of cloud, the Sun did peek through occasionally, giving our visitors a glimpse of a sunspot and several prominences.

Here we see member Simon Howard shaking the hand of Apollo 14 astronaut Ed Mitchell during his visit to Yorkshire.  A great evening was provided by Ed, talking about the Apollo 14 mission to the Moon.

The Sun shone on our solar telescopes at Walkley Festival and many people got to see a small sunspot and a few prominences.  Our talks in the bowling green clubhouse went down well and a great afternoon was had by all.

While attending the "Space and the City"  YESnet event in Centenary Square in Bradford, Galileo popped in to show us his 2 canonballs.  Here we see member Paul Tracey about to witness that 2 lumps of iron of different weights fall at the same speed.  Mind your toes !

The first Solday of the summer observing season brought many visitors to see .... a completely blank Sun !  Despite being one of only a few sunspot-less days this year, the day was not lost as there were some prominences to be seen through our Hydrogen Alpha Solarscope and many people discovered quite suddenly how large the Sun is.

With a clear and contrail-free sky this lovely picture of the crescent Moon was taken by Steve Adams using a Canon 450D and an adapter attached to a society owned Meade LX200 telescope.  Mare Crisium is seen on the right-hand side in this view.

Here are Venus and Mercury seen in the sky over the lights of Fulwood.  Luckily there were few clouds to hide this rare event.  Taken by Steve Adams with a Canon 450D.

Here is one of the many fun activities on hand at our recent Astroday - remotely controlling some Mars Rovers.  A sunny day gave us a chance to show the amazing Sun (including a huge prominence) to all of our visitors and allowed the kids to launch stomp rockets as far as their stomp would blast them.

Two superb talks from our invited speakers (Prof. Roger New and Prof. Don Kurtz) plus a popular planetarium show meant the day was a great success.  Over 250 visitors came and enjoyed the various attractions at Tapton Secondary School in Sheffield.