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Astronomy Fun Day at the Priory Centre Dartford

 27th August 2018 27th August 2018
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The Society took part in an Astronomy Fun Day on Saturday 25th August 2018 at the Priory Shopping Centre to promote Astronomy, and encourage locals to visit the shopping centre, the day was well attended and along with CMHASD was an inflatable planetarium. During the day we were promoting the BAA Back to basics workshop  we are supporting in October.

 

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Solar Observing at Hall Place – August 2018

 20th August 2018 20th August 2018
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The Society were at Hall Place on Sunday 19 August 2018 showing members of the public the Sun using safe observing techniques and talking to people about Astronomy in general. Whilst there was a fair amount of cloud about and the Sun was playing 'hide-and-seek'  the day was a massive success.

 

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2018 Summer BBQ

 24th July 2018 24th July 2018
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The summer BBQ was a great hit again. About 25 members attended and we had food for about 100! The day was very relaxed. We had a few glimpses of the Sun through our Dobsonian telescope, Anita using Baader Solar Safety Film, unfortunately there were no Sun spots visible.

 

 

 

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Welcome to our new website!

 11th July 2018 11th July 2018
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Our new website is live, come back regularly to see new updates.

This post lists the progress of migrating data from the old website to the new one.

Our old site cmhas.wikispaces.com remains operational for a short period as sections from it are migrated more and more of the old site will point to this new site, however please be patient at we have 560 pages and 2.5Gb of images to migrate!

2018-09-09

Added Making dew heater controller and dew bands to equipment section

2018-08-07

Added Automatic Photometric Telescope post to Papers  and Equipment sections

2018-08-06

Added new post for BAA Exhibition meeting in 2010
Added new post for BAA Summer Exhibition Meeting 2012
Added Paper
Added Paper
Added Paper

2018-08-05

Added book review posts

Updated Aurora page

Added news posts

Updated Atmospheric Optics Page and added some posts

2018-07-25

Added Frankenscope to equipment section

Added Observatory Section

2018-07-24

Added post on summer BBQ

Fixed Event section which wasn't displaying event posts

2018-07-23

Updated space Junk section and added post

2018-07-22

Added Equipment Section and added to Activities menu

  • CEM post
  • Drift scan post
  • Battery Free electric focuser
  • DIY Finderscope
  • Variable Barlow
  • Large Telescopes

Added Variable star page and 3 posts showing observations

2018-07-21

Updated Mars Page

2018-07-20

Added Spectroscopy page

2018-07-18

Added post for 2015 Lunar Eclipse - all Lunar Eclipse reports from old website are now covered.
Modified the Programme- you can now import our programme into your own Calendar!

2018-07-17

Added page on Detecting meteors with Radio
Updated Lunar Eclipse Page added posts for 2001 and 2007 Lunar Eclipses

2018-07-15

Complete upload of member solar images
Papers section added and 2 papers published
Meteor Page updated with posts for previous society reports of meteor showers
Radio Section Added, added SID page
Double Stars Section Added

2018-07-14

Comet page updated, including all the previous comet reports by the society.
Venus page updated with members images plus a paper on the dichotomy of Venus 
Sun pages updated with members images

 

Changes to Membership

 6th May 2018 6th May 2018
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New Membership Fees: 

Our society is booming, as a rsult our income has become a little high so we have made the decission to reduce membership fees .

The new membership structure is as follows...

Full Membership

  • £95 per annum
  • All meetings including lectures

Basic Membership

  • £35 per annum
  • All meetings except lectures (lectures can be attended at £7 per lecture)

Student Membership

Only availble to full time students 

  • £35 per annum
  • All meetings including lectures

John Wall 1932 – 2018:

 27th January 2018 27th January 2018
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On Saturday the 27th of January 2018, the Society learnt of the death of Mr John Wall, an inspirational inventor who make telescopes out of household items and inventor of the Crayford Eyepiece Mount (referred to now as the Crayford Focuser), John was a member of the Society for many years and will be remembered for his laugh, inventive genius and great character. An obituary was posted in 'The Times' and the 'BAA Journal'

Below is a copy of the obituary for the BAA Journal 

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Solar Eclipse 2012 November 13, Australia

 13th November 2012 13th November 2012
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Members Mike, Rita, Jean and Brian travelled to Northern Australia to see this eclipse.

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Dismantling the 24 inch Telescope built by John Wall

 28th September 2012 28th September 2012
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When the Manor house closed in December 2011 we lost our 50 year old observatory so we had to find a new home for our 24" telescope built by John Wall :-(

York Astronomical Society agreed to rehouse the telescope. Below are a selection of photos showing what happened that day.

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BAA Summer Meeting 2012

 6th August 2012 6th August 2012
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This meeting was hosted by Crayford Manor House Astronomical Society, the weather wasn't great but we did manage to get the Solar scopes out for a short while. The lectures were great.

Europe goes to Jupiter

Dr Chris Arridge
All about project JUICE an ESA mission to Jupiter

Rosetta

Dr Dan Andrews
All about missions to comets with some insight into the Beagle 2 mission

Application of penetrators for the Exploration of planets & the Moon

Dr Rob Gowen
Title says it all really

Differentiating between dead comets and Asteroids

Prof. Iwan Williams
All about categorisation of asteroids and coments and how/ if they can/should be classified differently

Working on Mars

Dr Craig Leff
All about how to manage robotic missions on Mars.

 

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