Welcome to the WDAS monthly newsletter for July 2019: a digest of the month's latest contributions to our website. Below you'll find Society News; past and coming events; Mark celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing; and, of course, Sky Notes including details of the partial lunar eclipse with Saturn watching on.
Events
A Public Star Party, weather permitting, near the Captain Cook monument on West Cliff (setting-up from 20:00hrs). Planetary & night sky Observations.
Planetary & night sky Observations.
A Public Star Party, weather permitting, near the Captain Cook monument on West Cliff (setting-up from 20:00hrs). Planetary & night sky Observations.
Planetary & night sky Observations.
We shall once again be travelling over to Westerdale to host a star party on Friday Oct 2nd.
The venue will be the village hall / car park area within the village. Start time is 19:30hrs for the public.
Directions: The Village Hall is located in the centre of the village to the west of the main street. Turn past the Phone and Post boxes and after 20 metres proceed up the gravelled track on the left. Point your SatNav to post code: YO21 2DT. All welcome.
Whitby School - Room H1.
In Members' monthly meetings we usually take a tour of the night sky for the coming month using the Planetarium program. Have talks and presentations on various topics of astronomy/space etc, and discuss future events etc. New members welcome.
