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Welcome to 2010!

Well, weather has certainly not been conducive to astronomy over the last couple of weeks, and I sincerely hope everyone is coping with the weather.

Needless to say, observing will be suspended until it is a little safer to travel on roads and walk on pavements, so please check here, or contact one of the committee members before setting to the observatory


Our New Year talks programme starts again with Nick Howes on 24th Jan - we hope to see as many of you there as possible. Nick's talk will be on 80mm of Sky, which could mean all manner of things! Nick's talk on Solar astronomy was very popular last year, so I am really looking forward to this

Stay safe during the cold snap, and pray for some clear skies!!


Merry Christmas!

May I take this opportunity to wish everyone associated with BAS a very Merry Christmas! Speakers, Visitors, Members and Committee all play an important role in a successful Society such as ours, and I thank everyone for their support this year. We've had great success with some of our IYA events this year - and we shall be submitting a full account of those to the IYA organisers - and we hope to do more along the same lines next year

Please take extra care in the cold and snow, and let's hope we get some clear skies over the holidays to test out those Christmas pressies!!

Darren Jehan, Chairman, BAS

Bedford Gallery Exhibition Report - Talk on Admiral Smyth and Charles Piazzi Smyth

Continuing with the Bedford Gallery Exhibition, Dave Eagle and Linton Guise delivered an excellent talk on Tuesday 8th December. A report can be found, along with some more photo's of the exhibition, in the Events Report section

Bedford Gallery Exhibition Report - Update from Linton and Dave

Comments received from Linton and Dave, and they have been put into the Event Reports page, along with a picture from Linton

A reminder that Dave and Linton will be talking on Admiral Smyth tonight. Hope to see you there!

Bedford Gallery Exhibition Report

A report from the Bedford Gallery Star Gazing Exhibition from Darren can be found in the Event Reports page

Christmas Social Update

Dave Eagle will show the latest images he has been working on, and Annabelle Walker will be doing one of her legendary entertainment shows! We look forward to seeing you all on the 16th

More December events

Stockwood Discovery Centre (Luton) are holding a Space Age Exhibition, on until 8th Feb 2010. Andy Green and his StarDome planetarium will be there until this Sunday (6th Dec) and then the last 3 days of December. More information can be found at Stockwood Discovery Centre. Of course, if anybody from the society does make it to the event, please submit a report!

Also, we are hopeful that John Thatcher will be on hand at the February AGM for an update on the James Webb Space Telescope program. John has tried several times to get to see us but his hectic work schedule means he is often pulled away at the last minute. John says "I'll be home from travels the day before the AGM, so it's unlikely I'll be again on that day..... but you never know!"!! We very much look forward to seeing John again

Gallery Update

Some more pictures have been added into the Gallery.

December Events and Activities

December is a busy month for BAS, plenty of activities going on - many of which really do rely on support from as many members as possible. So, here is a run down of the events and dates:

More details on the Exhibition, and campaign to return Admiral Smyth's telescope to Bedford can be found at the Exhibition page

2010

The new year then kicks off with January's members evening receiving a talk from Nick Howes on "80mm of sky". February is the AGM of BAS and we will shortly issue the password for access to the Members Area where the minutes from the previous will be posted.

As always, if you are interested in becoming part of the Committee, either as an officer or as an Ordinary Member, please contact one of the Committee. We would be pleased to hear from anyone interested in joining.

Website

The web site has suffered of late due to Grant and Darren's availaibility, however, they are looking at new ways of keeping the web site updated and making use of the latest web technology to assist! They have been doing some catching up however, and have made some changes to site...