Cotswold Astronomical Society

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Nov / Dec 2016 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights in this issue are:

The Full Moon

The Coordinator’s Spot

The Christmas Star

Venus & Crescent Moon

A Near Miss!

Summary of CAS October Presentation

Chris Hadfield at the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2016

The Sun Spot

Lunt Solar Scope report

Articles Continued:

Product Review, Skywatcher Synguider Mk2

Museum of the History of Science Visit

Dates For Your Diary Nov – Dec 2016

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Sept / Oct 2016 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights in this issue are:

• Gamma Cassiopeiae
• What Shall I Look At Tonight?
• The Coordinator’s Spot
• Pluto & Charon
• The Magnificent Ten
• Star Trails

The Sun Spot

• Solarsphere 2016
• Using the CAS Solar Telescope
• Radio Astronomy on a Shoestring
• The Square Kilometre Array
• Dates For Your Diary Sept – Nov 2016

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Jul / Aug 2016 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights in this issue are:

• Transit of Mercury – Susan Snow
• Tim Peake photo
• Cheltenham Science Festival
• What Shall I Look At Tonight?
• The Coordinator’s Spot
• Fly Me to the Moon Part 2
• CAS Prize Giving
• Solar Telescope
• Saturn observation – Eddie Carpenter
• Saturn – Neil Havard
• Transit of Mercury – Peter Cadogan
• Transit of Mercury – William Jackson
• Dates For Your Diary July – Sept 2016
• In the next issue

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the May / June 2016 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights in this issue are:

• Lunt Solar Telescope
• CAS Observing Night of 7th Jan 2016
• What Shall I Look At Tonight?
• The Coordinator’s Spot
• “Gerhana Matahari” in the Makassar Straight
• A visit to the Royal Observatory Greenwich
• Atik Affinity Camera – First Light
• Fly Me to the Moon
• Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
• NT Outing to Dyrham Park March 2016
• The March 2015 Solar Eclipse
• Solarsphere 2016
• Dates For Your Diary May – June 2016

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Mar / Apr 2016 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights in this issue are:

• Aurora Over Bishps Cleeve
• The Moon Occulting Aldebaran
• Moon Rise Over Cleeve Hill
• Moon and Jupiter Conjunction
• What Shall I Look At Tonight?
• The Coordinator’s Spot
• The New Moon
• The Great Astronomical Clock of Prague
• CAS Curry Night
• Comet Catalina
• Cosmonauts and Other Worlds Exhibitions
• Occultations and Transits of Planets
• The UKube-1 mission
• What’s in Principium
• Viewing Reports of Comet Catalina
• Dates For Your Diary 2016

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Nov / Dec 2015 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights in this issue are:

• Eclipse of the Moon
• Tim Peake
• Co-ordinator’s Report
• CAS Curry Night
• Imaging Nebulae
• Cheltenham Literature Festival
• Lunar Eclipse Photos
• Cassini Visits Enceladus
• Halloween Flyby
• Mystery Object WTF Splashdown
• Comet Tabur
• Facts About Saturn
• Looking Ahead with DFYD
• Dates For Your Diary

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Sept / October 2015 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights in this issue are:

• The Tulip Nebula (cover image)
• The Coordinator’s Report
• The Perseids
• Stargazing Event Notice
• Venus / Mars Conjunction
• Society Curry Night
• Blue Moon
• New Horizons Jupiter Mission
• Rosetta Mission
• Solar Eclipse
• Initiative For Interstellar Studies Project Dragonfly
• Dates For Your Diary

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the July / August 2015 issue from the Downloads page.
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Highlights in this issue are:

• Astro Camp 2015
• The Coordinator’s Report
• Cheltenham Science Festival
• Mars Book Review
• Serendipitous Photos
• Society Curry Night
• New Moon
• Mount Tuffley Observatory
• Sunspots
• Saturn
• Dates For Your Diary

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the May / June issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights in this issue are:

• The Coordinators Spot
• Gretton Science Day 2014, report and photos
• AGM Treasurer’s Report
• AGM Minutes
• Financial Balance Sheet
• Subscription Notice renewal details
• Photo of Buzz Aldrin with Jack Newton
• Annual Dinner Photos
• The Sun in Jan & Feb, with photos showing flares
• Silhouette of Moon Mountains graphically illustrated
• Jupiter & Ganymede Shadow on Jupiter, plus M51 imaged
• Trapezium Observation, hand drawn report
• Lockyer Observatory visit with photos
• Lyrid Meteor Shower, observation from Coombe Hill
• Jupiter and the four Galilean Moons
• Partial Solar Eclipse, in public and private gatherings
• M51 imagery, a work in progress by Rik McRae
• Dates For Your Diary