We will be holding a special summer meeting in the Elwin Room, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution,
16-18 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN
Saturday June 24th 2017 at 2pm.
Talk on Caroline and William Herschel by Mona Evans which will last approximately one hour.
Travel to Bath will be under your own steam. Outside of the time of the talk you may obviously want to visit the Herschel Museum of Astronomy which is a short walk away. Or you are free to visit any other of the Georgian attractions in the city.
Details can be found by clicking on these various links on this page.
The meeting is free to members and their guests. Coffee and biscuits of course, and wheelchair accessible (email for details).
There is plenty of time before and after to visit the museum and the many other sites in the city.
This 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: 54137268
June’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”
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.uk
Location : 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.uk
We also keep in touch through a Google Group, email news list, and Zoom. By invitation – send an email to info@readingastro.org.uk
Riches of the Earth; the Beauty of Minerals
