Articles By: pcburns

Astronomy Teaching Resources

The Farnham Astronomical Society has compiled a set of practical exercises to raise awareness and interest in Astronomy, the night sky and topical issues such as light pollution.   They are intended primarily for use by teachers, scout or cub leaders.  We hope, also, that these exercises will be of...
July 20th, 2010 | Teaching resources | Read More

Useful Links

Here is a comprehensive set of links to some of the most useful sites and astronomy resources that we know of.  If you know of any others then please send you suggestions to the webmaster.  If you find any broken links please let the webmaster know.  Use the following index to help find what you...
July 20th, 2010 | Internet resources | Read More

A series of astronomy talks presented by Maurice Kent

Commencing September Maurice Kent is presenting a series of illustrated astronomy talks at the Vestry Hall, Church Crookham.Thursday 9th Sept: The Solar System Thursday 23rd Sept: The Milky Way Galaxy  Thursday 30th Sept: 13.73 Billion Light Years and all about telescopes  Thursday 7th Oct: The Earth...
July 12th, 2010 | Featured Articles, Forthcoming events | Read More

Observing Calendar for July – August 2010

Observing Calendar July 13th to August 10th by Steve Woodbridge (all times BST)Date  July 16 Vega culminates at midnight. Vega (α Lyrae) is the 5th brightest star in the sky and sits majestically high in the sky in summer evenings. Just to its east lies the beautiful double-double ε....
July 7th, 2010 | Sky Diary | Read More

Measuring Distances – the “Distance Ladder” by Peter Campbell-Burns

A question we are often asked when we display the wonderful images taken by our members is ‘how far is away is that galaxy”. The answer is invariably a huge number in the order of hundreds of millions of light years away. Have you ever wondered how astronomers determine these distances?  In fact,...
July 6th, 2010 | Featured Articles, Resources | Read More

Spotting Iridium Flares by Peter Campbell-Burns

Anyone who spends even the smallest amount of time outside watching the night sky will have seen a satellite pass by – a dim pinpoint of light discernable from the background stars only by its movement across the sky – sometimes slow moving, sometimes moving very quickly. They can be a nuisance –...
July 5th, 2010 | Featured Articles, Resources | Read More

An Aldershot Connection With Astronomer Kenneth E Edgeworth

Try a search on Google for “the Aldershot Observatory” and you will find that a surprising number of hits are returned. Most of these are cloned articles but in one I made an interesting discovery that prompted me to dig a little deeper.  What follows is just a summary, but at the end of this...
June 24th, 2010 | Featured Articles | Read More

Frensham Fayre – June 2010

The Farnham Astronomical Society was pleased to be invited to put on a display at the Frensham Fayre again this year.   The fair was opened by Chris Thayer and his wife Rosie; Chris has been a member of our society for a few years and is a very active member of the Frensham community. We had...
June 20th, 2010 | Featured Articles, Past events | Read More

Committee Meeting – 7 June 2010

Minutes of FAS Committee Meeting 7th June 2010 AttendeesPeter Campbell-Burns Kevin Pretorius John Price Peter West John Rees Danny ThomasApologies were recieved fromEric Grieve Steve WoodbridgeMinutes of the last meeting: Closed actions:PCB to look at issue of printing pages from the website. EG...
June 18th, 2010 | Meeting minutes | Read More

Equipment Available For Loan To Members

The Farnham Astronomical Society has a small selection of telescopes that it is pleased to make available for loan to paid-up members.   If you are uncertain about whether or not to buy a telescope, or what sort of telescope to buy, our loan telescopes give you an excellent opportunity to try one out.Coronado...
June 11th, 2010 | Loan equipment | Read More