24.05.18 -- Thu -- Prof Mike Merrifield -- Galaxies in Many Dimensions
10.05.18 -- Thu -- Dr. Simon Lindsay -- Mission to Mercury
28.04.18 -- Stargazing scout camp cancelled
26.04.18 -- Thu-- Peter Dawson -- Getting Pictures from Pluto
12.04.18 -- Thu-- Annual General Meeting (Members only please)
23.03.18 -- Fri -- Stargazing for scouts 163
22.03.18 -- Thu-- Prof. Milton Wainwright -- Evidence that Life is Continually Arriving to Earth from Space
08.03.18 -- Thu-- Dr. Katherine Inskip -- Exploration of Mars
22.03.18 -- Thu-- Prof. Milton Wainwright -- Evidence that Life is Continually Arriving to Earth from Space
08.03.18 -- Thu-- Dr. Katherine Inskip -- Exploration of Mars
23.02.18 -- Fri -- An Astronomy Evening for Potteric Carr
22.02.18 -- Thu-- Prof. Clive Tadhunter -- The History of Radio Astronomy
08.02.18 -- Thu-- Dr. Ed Daw -- Gravitational Waves
11.01.18 -- Thu -- Prof. Clive Dickinson -- The Microwave Universe
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14.12.17 -- Thu -- Christmas Dinner -- 7:00pm for 7:30pm -- The Mayflower, Austerfield23.11.17 -- Thu -- Dr Sven Loo -- Monster Magnets, Stellar Birth Control
18.11.17 -- Sat -- Stargazing session Austerfield 7.00pm 303
10.11.17 -- Fri -- Show group around observatories Morning 10.30 F.O.C
9.11.17 -- Thu -- Bill Hughes -- The 2017 Total Eclipse of the Sun
26.10.17 -- Thu -- Dr. Justyn Maund -- Supernovae Part 2
19.10.17.-- Thu -- Committee Meeting -- Strawberry Island -- 8:15pm
12.10.17 -- Thu -- Dr Nick Hewitt -- Presidential Address -- Edge of Darkness -- an introduction to Dark Nebulae
6.10.17 -- Fri -- Stargazing session Austerfield time 7.30pm 523
30.09.17 -- Sat -- Stargazing session Austerfield time 7.30pm 143
28.09.17 -- Thu -- Brian Joynes -- Stargazing Sessions and early works
14.09.17 -- Thu -- Katie Tehrani -- The life cycle of a massive star
24.08.17 -- Thu -- Colin Maskill -- Colin's Annual Astronomy Quiz
19.08.17 -- Sat -- Auckley Show -- Auckley -- 10.30am to 5:00pm -- be there for 9:30am
12.08.17 -- Sat -- Perseid Meteor Watch -- Austerfield -- About 9:30pm -- 3/4 Moon follows in Cetus at Midnight
10.08.17 -- Thu -- Heloise Stevance -- Supernovae, Part 1
27.07.17 -- Thu -- Dr. James Mullaney -- The Future of the Universe
13.07.17 -- Thu --- Dr. Michael Martin-Smith -- The Life and Times of Charles Messier
09.07.17 -- Sun -- Town Field Gala -- Town Field -- Noon to 5:00pm. Setting up from 10:00am
01.07.17 -- Sat -- Misterton Gala -- Misterton -- Noon to 5.00pm. Setting up from 10:00am
22.06.17 -- Thu -- Martin Lunn MBE FRAS -- Anglo-Saxon Astronomy
15.06.17 -- Thu -- Committee Meeting -- Strawberry Island -- 8:15pm
08.06.17 -- Thu -- Bill Hughes -- Urban Astronomy
25.05.17 -- Thu -- Prof. Davide Costanzo -- Search for the dark side of matter at the Large Hadron Collider
11.05.17 -- Thu -- Prof. Simon Goodwin -- Terraforming Mars
01.05.17 -- Mon -- Mayflower Day -- 11:00am to 4:00pm -- An Open Day at Austerfield for Solar observing
27.04.17 -- Thu -- Prof. Brad Gibson -- Build a Universe inside a Computer
13.04.17 -- Thu -- Annual General Meeting (Members only please)
23.03.17 -- Thu -- Dr Gareth Few -- What Atoms tell us about Galaxies
22.03.17 -- Wed --Stargazing Austerfield Guides 7.30 - 9.00 -- 143
16.03.17 -- Thu -- Committee Meeting -- Strawberry Island -- 8:15pm
14.03.17 -- Tues -- Stargazing session Austerfield 7.30 - 9.00pm--223
9.03.17 -- Thu -- Bill Leatherbarrow -- The Practical side of observing the Moon
24.02.17 -- Fri -- Stargazing Austerfield cubs 6.30-8.00-- 123
23.02.17-- Thu -- Prof. Edward Hanna -- The Climatic fate of the Sun as a Variable Star
14.02.17 -- Tues -- Stargazing Austerfield Scouts. 6.00-8.00 -- 253
13.02.17 -- Mon -- Stargazing Austerfield Scouts. 6.00-8.00 -- 283
9.02.17 -- Thu -- Robin Hodges and Max Freier on Cloud Watching and Astrophotography
08.02.17 -- Wed -- Stargazing Austerfield scouts 7.15-9.00pm --143
06.02.17 -- Mon -- Stargazing Austerfield Guides 6.15-8.15. --113
31.01.17 -- Tues --Stargazing Austerfield Brownies 6.00-7.30 -- 203
26.01.17 -- Thu -- John Baruch -- Creationism -- A Challenge to Science
18.01.17 --Wed--Stargazing Austerfield cubs 6.30--8.00 -- 233
12.01.17 -- Thu -- Phil Snowden -- Robert Hooke -- Physicist and Microbiologist
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15.12.16 -- Thu -- Committee Meeting -- Strawberry Island -- 8:15pm
8.12.16 -- Thu -- Christmas Dinner -- 7:00pm for 7:30pm -- The Mayflower
1.12.16 - Thur -- Star gazing for a Doncaster school 6.30-8.30-- 213
24.11.16 -- Thu -- Clive Tadhunter -- Looking back in time with the Hubble Space Telescope
24.11.16 -- Thu -- Stargazing Austerfield cubs 6.30-8.00 123
22.11.16 -- Tues --Stargazing Austerfield cubs 6.00-8.00 193
14.11.16 -- Mon-- Stargazing Austerfield Brownies 6,30-7,30 213
10.11.16 -- Thu -- Colin Steele -- A Day on Each Planet
28.10.16 -- Fri -- Stargazing -- Scout group 7.00pm Austerfield--233
27.10.16 -- Thu -- Rod Hine -- Exploring Mars
20.10.16 -- Thu -- Committee Meeting -- Strawberry Island -- 8:15pm
13.10.16 -- Thu -- Peter Lloyd -- A study of the Moon
22.09.16 -- Thu -- Brian Joynes -- Autumn Skies
8.09.16 -- Thu -- David Sellers -- William Gascoigne (1612-44) & the Renaissance of Astronomy
25.08.16 -- Thu -- Colin Maskill -- Presents an Astronomical Quiz
20.08.16 -- Sat -- Auckley Show -- Auckley -- we must be on site by 9:30am
12.08.16 -- Fri -- Perseid Meteor Watch -- Austerfield
11.08.16 -- Thu -- James Lees (York University) -- The Fringes of our Current Understanding of Space
4.08.16 -- Thu -- Committee Meeting -- Strawberry Island -- 8:15pm
28.07.16 -- Thu -- Dave Hardware -- Solar Observing and Sun Dials
17.07.16 -- Sun -- Town Field Gala -- Town Field --Noon to 5:00pm. Setting up from 10:00am
14.07.16 -- Thu -- Tony Morris -- Astrophotography
9.07.16 -- Sat -- Wroot Feast -- Wroot, DN9 2BT -- Starts at Noon but we need to be there for 10:00am
6.07.16 -- Wed -- Stargazing for St. Francis Xavier school -- Austerfield -- 273
5.07.16 -- Tue -- Stargazing for St. Francis Xavier school -- Austerfield -- 273
30.06.16 -- Thur -- Dore school -Class 3 - Stargazing -- Austerfield -- 313
29.06.16 -- Wed -- Dore school - Class 2 - Stargazing -- Austerfield -- 113
28.06.16 -- Tues -- Dore school - Class 1 - Stargazing -- Austerfield -- 323
23.06.16 -- Thu -- Mike Frost -- Jeremiah Horrocks - a very curious astronomer
16.06.16 -- Thur -- Hill House stargazing -- Austerfield -- 513
13.06.16 -- Mon -- Windhill Primary, Year 4 stargazing -- Austerfield -- 253
10.06.16 -- Fri -- Toll Bar stargazing--Austerfield -- 193
09.06.16 -- Thur -- Haxey School, Year 5 stargazing -- Austerfield 283
9.06.16 -- Thu -- Brian Joynes -- Building the Observatory and what we show school visitors to Austerfield
07.06.06 --Tues -- Stargazing for Our Lady Of Perpetual Help school -- Austerfield -- 153
04.06.16 -- Sat -- Yorkshire's Nature Festival -- With Solar Observing -- we need to be there for a 10:30am start -- Potteric Carr
2.06.16 -- Thu -- Committee Meeting -- Strawberry Island Boat Club -- 8:15pm
26.05.16 -- Thu -- Dr Susan Cartwright (Sheffield Uni.) -- One Hundred Years of Relativity
25.05.16 -- Wed -- Bentley High St school Stargazing -- Austerfield -- 223
24.05.16 -- Tues -- Bentley High St school Stargazing -- Austerfield -- 253
17.05.16 -- Tues -- Stargazing for Bessacarr Primary -- Austerfield -- 583
12.05.16 -- Thu -- John Timmins FRAS -- How to improve your telescope
9.05.16 -- Mon -- The planet Mercury transits the face of the Sun today from noon to 7:30pm. We will be photographing it in Ha and white light.
30.04.16 -- Sat -- Tour de Yorkshire Cycle Race -- passing Observatory, Women's Race - 11:37am, Men's - 5:05pm, to finish in Doncaster
And Austerfield Field Study Centre Open Day -- We start at 10:00am
28.04.16 -- Thu -- Chris Arridge(Lancaster Uni.) -- Plumes of Enceladus
21.04.16 -- Thu -- Committee Meeting -- Strawberry Island Boat Club -- 8:15pm
14.04.16 -- Thu -- Annual General Meeting -- All members are welcome, but only members please
24.03.16 -- Thu -- Kevin Kilburn (Manchester AS) -- Forgotten Star Atlas
17.03.16 -- Thu -- DAS Committee Meeting -- Strawberry Island -- 8:15pm
10.03.16 -- Thu -- Stuart Littlefair (Sheffield Uni.) -- Aurorae of Jupiter
25.02.16 -- Thu -- Prof. Chris Done -- (Durham Uni) -- God in the Universe
18.02.16 -- Thu -- Hayfield Moon Night -- Austerfield -- 7:30pm -- This is a backup in case it's cloudy the night before -- ---
17.02.16 -- Wed -- Hayfield Moon Night -- Austerfield -- 7:30pm -- We need some members' telescopes too please on tables in the field -- rain all day and night, so the evening was cancelled
11.02 16 -- Thu -- Roger Eccleston (Vice Chancellor Sheffield Hallam Uni.) -- Big, Little and all .....
28.01.16 -- Thu -- Stuart Muldrew (Leicester Uni) -- How to build a Universe
19.01.16 -- Tues -- DAS Committee Meeting -- Strawberry Island -- 8:15pm
14.01.16 -- Thu -- Julian Onions(Nottingham Uni.) -- Aperture Fever
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