Previous Events

2 May 2020

SPA ‘Starting from Scratch’ astrophotography workshop – Postponed

This SPA workshop covers all aspects of astrophotography at a beginner’s level, whether with DSLR/mi

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1 May 2020

Mercury and Venus Section Meeting – York – Postponed

This meeting has now been postponed until 2021 This year’s Mercury and Venus Section meeting will be

BAA Meeting

29 April 2020

Twilight Tour of the Moon – Webinar

Weather permitting, this week’s Wednesday webinar will be a live Twilight Tour of the Moon from Davi

BAA Meeting

25 April 2020

Spring Webinar

We are pleased to announce a Spring Webinar, with two speakers or were due to present at the postpon

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24 April 2020

A Special Image for the 30th Anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope – Webinar

With kind permission of the ESA/Hubble Public Information Office we are pleased to present this

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22 April 2020

Two Variable Stars in the Northern Crown – Webinar

The subject of this week’s webinar will be Two Variable Stars in the Northern Crown given

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15 April 2020

Sir Patrick Moore – Early Life, Mentors and Notebooks (Part I) – Webinar

This week’s webinar will be the first of two on Sir Patrick Moore – Early Life, Mentors and Not

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8 April 2020

Venus Live – Webinar

Weather permitting, this week’s Wednesday webinar will be a live viewing of Venus from David Arditti

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3 April 2020

BAA Winchester Weekend – CANCELLED

Friday-Sunday April 3-5 – BAA Winchester Weekend Sparsholt College, Winchester, SO21 2NF Main m

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1 April 2020

Prospects for C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) – Webinar

Our first weekly webinar will be on the Prospects for C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) given by Nick James, th

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25 March 2020

Special General Meeting and BAA Meeting – Cancelled

This meeting has now been cancelled PLEASE NOTE THIS MEETING WILL BE IN OUR NEW MEETINGS VENUE IN TH

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21 March 2020

Practical Astronomy Show – Postponed to 2020 September 26

We have been advised that the organisers have postponed this meeting to 2020 September 26. The Pract

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14 March 2020

Deep Sky Section Annual Meeting – Now Postponed

M27 – David FinneganPlease note that due to Coronavirus we have reluctantly taken the decision to po

BAA Meeting

25 January 2020

BAA Meeting

PLEASE NOTE THIS MEETING WILL BE IN OUR NEW MEETINGS VENUE IN THE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS, 37 Caledonia

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7 December 2019

BAA Christmas Meeting

WE ARE SORRY BUT THIS MEETING IS NOW FULL. If you have booked a place and now cannot come please let

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17 November 2019

Equipment & Techniques Section Meeting

This will be a day-long meeting at Bedford School, De Parys Avenue, Bedford. A hot lunch, tea or cof

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30 October 2019

BAA Annual General Meeting and BAA Meeting

BAA Annual General Meeting and Ordinary Meeting Please note – This is the last Meeting at Burli

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25 October 2019

Back to Basics Workshop, Rickmansworth

Are you new to Astronomy? Then the BAA “Back to Basics” Workshop is for YOU!   The British Astr

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12 October 2019

Observers’ Workshop – Solar, Aurora & NLC, and Deep Sky

Organisers: Lyn Smith, Sandra Brantingham and Callum PotterCo-Host Inverclyde SkywatchersFeaturing B

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28 September 2019

Asteroids & Remote Planets Section Meeting

The Asteroids & Remote Planets Section meeting for 2019 will be held at Clanfield Memorial Hall,

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6 September 2019

BAA weekend Meeting, Armagh, Northern Ireland

     Our autumn meeting this year will be held in the historic town of Armagh in Nort

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24 August 2019

Spectroscopy Software Training Workshop

Videos from this event ISIS Tutorial by David Boyd:  https://britastro.org/videos/isis-tutorial BASS

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22 June 2019

BAA Summer Meeting ‘Astronomy and Space today’

The BAA Summer Meeting is being held on Saturday 22nd June Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, O

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14 June 2019

Webb Deep-Sky Society Annual Meeting, Cambridge

The Webb Deep-Sky Society hold their AGM and Annual meeting with an excellent line-up of speakers. F

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8 June 2019

Historical Section Meeting

Our Historical Section meeting this year takes place on Saturday 8th June 2019, at the Mencap Centre

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29 May 2019

BAA Special General Meeting, Ordinary Meeting & George Alcock Memorial Lecture

Doors will open at 17:00 with refreshments in the lobby. The meeting will start at 17:30 in the lect

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18 May 2019

Comet Section Meeting

This year’s Comet Section meeting will be held in York on Saturday, May 18. A lot has happened in th

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27 April 2019

One Day Spring Meeting

The British Astronomical Association One Day Meeting Saturday 27th April 2019 Doors Open at 10:00 an

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12 April 2019

‘The Astronomer’ magazine Annual General Meeting

All BAA members as well as TA subscribers are welcome to this annual meeting of our sister organisat

External event

5 April 2019

BAA Winchester Weekend

The Alfred Curtis Lecture, Exploring the atmosphere of Mars with the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter missi

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27 March 2019

Special General Meeting and Ordinary Meeting

Doors open at 17:00 with refreshments outside the lecture room on the ground floor. The meeting will

BAA Meeting

23 March 2019

Deep Sky Section Annual Meeting

The 2019 section meeting will be hosted by the Cotswold Astronomical Society, and will be held at Sh

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9 March 2019

Practical Astronomy Show

The Practical Astronomy Show is a free one-day event at the Kettering Conference and Exhibition Cent

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26 January 2019

BAA Ordinary Meeting

Doors will open at 14:00 with refreshments served outside the lecture room on the ground floor. The

BAA Meeting

8 December 2018

Ordinary Meeting and BAA Christmas Lecture

THIS MEETING IS NOW FULL – WE DO HAVE A WAITING LIST, PLEASE CONTACT THE OFFICE IF YOU WISH TO BE AD

BAA Meeting

12 November 2018

Royal Institution – How we’ll live on Mars

A Royal Institution lecture by astronomy author Colin Stuart discusses the first human trip to Mars,

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31 October 2018

BAA Annual General Meeting and Ordinary Meeting

BAA Annual General Meeting and Ordinary Meeting This meeting is being held at the Royal Astronomical

BAA Meeting

29 September 2018

Observers’ Workshop – Variable Stars, Photometry and Spectroscopy.

A workshop to help you get the best from observing the stars, be it visually, with a CCD or DSLR or

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19 September 2018

New Scientist Live

Over the four days of the festival there will be 140+ speakers including talks by leading astronomer

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