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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

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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!

2018-08-05

Added book review posts

Updated Aurora page

Added March 1999 Aurora Expedition post
Added March 2000 Aurora Expedition post

Added news posts

Updated Atmospheric Optics Page and added some posts

2018-07-25

Added Frankenscope to equipment section

Added Observatory Section

Added Brian Thompson's Observatory

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

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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

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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

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Members Mike, Rita, Jean and Brian travelled to Northern Australia to see this eclipse.

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Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA's GSFC

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Images by Mike Rushton

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Dismantling the 24 inch Telescope built by John Wall

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

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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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The Dartford festival 2012

1st August 2012

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We attended the Dartford show and were able to show members of the public the planet Venus as well as the Sun

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BAA Exhibition Meeting 2010

6th August 2010

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Location: Greenwich, London, UK.

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This meeting included a (Free) trip to the Planetarium organised by the SPA, and then the BAA exhibition meeting down the hill. At the meeting our founder, Gordon Taylor received an Award from the BAA.

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Solar Eclipse 2009 July 22, China

22nd July 2009

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There were no obvious prominences for this eclipse and cloud almost spoiled it, however we were lucky and the cloud cleared or thinned out for the duration of totality, Venus was clearly visible overhead.

Eclipse observed by half a dozen members.

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Images by Mike Rushton

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Our new website is live, come back regularly to see new updates.

2018-09-09

2018-08-07

2018-08-06

2018-08-05

2018-07-25

2018-07-24

2018-07-23

2018-07-22

2018-07-21

2018-07-20

2018-07-18

2018-07-17

2018-07-15

2018-07-14

New Membership Fees:

Full Membership

Basic Membership

Student Membership

Images by Mike Rushton

Europe goes to Jupiter

Rosetta

Application of penetrators for the Exploration of planets & the Moon

Differentiating between dead comets and Asteroids

Working on Mars

Location: Greenwich, London, UK.

Images by Mike Rushton

Images by Jean Felles