Set in the Sussex countryside Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) a world-leading space science laboratory and home to Guilford AS held an open day and we were invited along.

15 members attended the Mullard Space Labs open day hosted by UCL. It was a good day with a nice meal in a local pub afterwards. Displays included making a comet, rocket launches and a Mars rover. There were also solar telescopes from Gillford AS and a tour of their observatory which houses a 20.5" telescope for visual work and a couple of refractors for imaging.

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Dartford 2009

2nd September 2009

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CMHAS at Dartford Festival 2009

Located at Dartford Park on the weekend of the 18th & 19th July 2009.

We had a stand to promote Astronomy Courses at Adult Education College Bexley. The stand was the same as it was at the Danson Show 2009. A talk was also given by members Martin Crow & Honor Wheeler on getting to know your way around the night sky.

The slideshow below shows photos of the day taken by member Jim Burchell - Thank you Jim.

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Danson 2009

30th August 2009

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CMHAS at Danson Park, Bexleyheath 2009

This was a great event with thousands of people in attendance. We met lots of people with telescopes who didn’t know how to use them and people with an interest in Astronomy but unaware of the Astronomy courses Bexley college had.

The display consisted of 7 telescopes, including…

• Two PST’s
• 127mm Refractor with a Thousand Oaks solar filter
• 80mm APO with a solar filter
• 80mm APO with a Hα filter
• ETX with a Baader solar filter
• TAL 100mm reflector
• Meade 150mm Dobsonian
• Binoculars on a tripod

The Stand included......

• 8 panels of observations by Crayford members
• Lots of 6x4 images by Crayford Members in a hanging display
• Handouts on starting in Astronomy
• Handouts about the advanced astronomy course
• BAA handouts
• Posters about the college and the Astronomy courses
• A few commercially available posters and posters on the international year of astronomy

Below are 2 photos taken by member Honor Wheeler - Thank you Honor. The 1st of a Circumzenithal Arc and the 2nd is of a Solar Halo.

A slideshow then follows of photos taken by member Jim Burchell of the day - Thank you Jim.