Next Meetings
JUNE AGM and Monthly Main Meeting.
June 21 2025 7 pm
St Peter’s Church HallThis will be a physical meeting in the hall with remote access via ZOOM. Non-members, having enjoyed the talk, donate £5 via online banking:
Reading Astronomical Society: Sort code: 60-17-21: Account No: 54137268June’s Main Meeting will start with our yearly Society AGM followed by a talk by Kenelm England (FRAS)
Society Speaker Kenelm England (FRAS)
Subject:- Anniversaries in “2025”
Kenelm England (Reading AS and historian). Kenelm’s annual look at notable astronomical and scientific anniversaries in years ending “25”
June 22nd – East Reading Festival – Palmer Park
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Join us on Sunday 22nd June for The East Reading Festival 2025.
The festival is a free community-focused event, with a music stage, spoken word/poetry stage, a funfair, a small food court with a variety of different cuisines and a wide range of community, charity and commercial stalls.
We will be attending this annual local event with our telescopes suitably filtered for safe observing of sunspots and other activity on our local star. It would be great to see you there.
ZoomFridays
Friday 4th July 2025 at 8pm
Chat with us on ZOOM on the 1st Friday of the month at 8pm.
Once a month at 8 pm on the first Friday each month we will be chatting with members about any astronomical topics and keeping up with the latest in academic and space industry news. At the same time the content of the chats will be written up in .pdf form and released as a monthly round up for members. They will contain a lot of links to professional and academic content and form a part of the story of astronomy and space industry activity as we go forward. A great way to keep up to date with ‘WHAT’S NEW IN ASTRONOMY’
Check out the ZOOMFridays page for more details:- ZOOMFridays
FridayCLUB
—————-Summer Break——————–
We are taking a Summer Break with our FridayCLUB outreach meetings. There are no FridayCLUB outreach meetings in May, June or July. The Sky is very bright during the summer months (May,June,July) making observing with telescopes highly challenging in the early evening. We will restart the meetings on 22nd August 2025. Please put this date in your diary’s as we would love to see you there.
When we restart we will have short talks about astronomy and weather permitting a view of the sky through a telescope what could be better – All Free just come along on the evening. See our FridayCLUB page for details of location and start times.
Enquiries to info@readingastro.org.ukLocation : 1st Wokingham Scout Hut in Evendons Lane, Wokingham. RG41 4DX.
Astronomy chat by experts and beginners with members of local astronomy societies.
Request login details from Gerry by text on 07510 444 630 or email us at info@readingastro.org.ukWe also keep in touch through a Google Group, email news list, and Zoom.
By invitation – send an email to info@readingastro.org.uk
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February Meeting – Sat 21st 7pm.
Space Robotics Hilde Schroeven-Deceuninck (European Space Agency) Robotic Exploration Development Coordinator. ESA’s UK centre ECSAT is based at Harwell and Hilde’s talk will be on robotic exploration of space and the earth’s environment. Manned exploration of space is exciting, dangerous … Continue reading
Santa’s Grotto
Sat Dec 14th 7.00pm Santa’s Grotto This is the night of our Christmas Social. Bring your treasured possessions to meet the other members and talk about telescopes, books, software and get ideas for Christmas Presents or just wonder how much … Continue reading
Imaging School 16th August 2014
An afternoon session at St Peters hall on Saturday was attended by the keen imagers to compare notes and share constructive suggestions. The four hours enabled the popular software for astro-imaging to get a thorough examination from the experts and … Continue reading
East Reading Festival 2014
We had a successful and busy time in the sunshine. Thanks to the weather, and the solar max period, many visitors had safe views of the sun’s face covered in spots. Here is a gallery of images from Marc Charron…. … Continue reading
Reading Science Week 2014
Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd March were busy evenings with about 100 visitors each evening. This year our venue was the Museum of English Rural Life. Thanks to the British Science Association for providing the exhibition, logistics and refreshments. The … Continue reading
Friday Group – 20th Dec – 7.30pm
Winter Solstice Meeting. Everyone knows the earth’s tilt causes deep rooted cultural and agricultural effects on human society, as well as dominating wild nature. For example, it has caused some species to suspend animation by hibernation. In former days there … Continue reading
Bracknell Astronomy Evening
We have a change of venue for this year’s effort. Click on the poster for programme of park’s events this month. Please come along, either to help or as a visitor. The society will provide some short talks indoors, and … Continue reading
Introductory Meeting 13th Sept. 2013
This meeting is the first of this year’s Friday meetings and if you attend we hope you will enjoy the talk on general amateur astronomy. The talk can be described as looking at the world through the eyes of an … Continue reading
astroBASICS Friday 21st June 2013
astroBASICS is free and open to the public This month we look at the problems of summer astronomy and an in-depth look at The Pole Star The Pole Star is well known by all and often misunderstood by the public … Continue reading
East Reading Festival 2013
On Sunday 16th June 2013 Reading Astronomical Society had a stand at the East Reading Festival in Palmer Park. Continue reading