WADAS (Wakefield and District Astronomical Society)

[hazegood]

I will be popping along to the Green withc Birthday Bash, finally a date I can definitely make, see some of you there

Leigh

[crashtestdummy]

30gb isnt alot if we allow photos as the bandwidthrses quickly.willnit cpnfuse people having it as wakefieldastronomy when we have it elsewhere as astronomical??

[mapstar]

Could do crash so we'll have a think.Already discussed the photo bit's to keep The weight down

[Soupy]

Think you are right Rich we need to be consistent. Is it poss To have astronomical Kieran?

[stonemonkeylives]

Some upcoming events for WADAS:

2nd November: Green Witch shop 15th anniversary event. Free refreshments and special offers at Birstall. 10 am to 4 pm. All are welcome.

20th November - Society meeting, 7.30pm Horbury Academy. Guest Speaker - Dr Lee Sproats from GreenWitch will be delivering a talk on comets in prep for Comet Ison.

6th Dec - ‘Comet Ison watch’. Planned to start at 5pm, Horbury Academy

18th Dec - Xmas society meeting, 7.30pm Horbury Academy. Talk about Christmas themed astronomy and followed by observing session

6th Jan -Star Gazing Live! Public observing event at the Quad, Horbury academy 

15t Jan - AGM meeting, 7.30pm Horbury Academy.

February - Organised visit to Todmorden observatory - tbc

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[crashtestdummy]

Cant make the greenwich or the ison meet,fri-sun are always a no no for me.

[Soupy]

That's a shame Rich unless we rearrange it for the Thursday night? Be good to have as many of us there as possible if we are having the students there. What are the thoughts.

[crashtestdummy]

Its ok fella,to be honest comets dont really interest me and no one person is more valuable than the society as a whole

[stonemonkeylives]

Right the events for the next few months have been added to the Facebook page, please like the page so you can stay up to date with any changes or new information about the society.

I haven't added the February event yet as I wanted to wait until it had been confirmed and we could start garnering interest in it.

Jeremy

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[Astronomer69]

Sorry guys was limited to which domain could use so the website is www.wakefieldastronomysociety.co.uk but all info on the site is under astronomical. I've been working hard over the last 24hrs to get a basic site up and running and will publish it later this evening, I've added the main basics to it to make it look like a site and we will add to it over due course so please let me know what you think we can add when you see it all ideas would be great also if anybody what's to write some blogs etc would be good.

Give it an hour and it should be up.

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[Astronomer69]

The website is up an running Wakefieldastronmoysociety.co.uk

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[nicks90]

That's a proper job kieran, well done and thank you very very much!

Maybe worth grabbing the membership form off Google drive and linking the rest of the drive from it. Also put the wakefieldastronomy@Gmail.com address on there too.

[mapstar]

The website is up an running Wakefieldastronmoysociety.co.uk

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I can't seem to find it on my phone?

[stonemonkeylives]

Best thing to do is just type the full web address as google isnt bring it up straight away.

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[Soupy]

Looks great Kieran, well done mate.

I have sent it out to twitter land. Is there anyway we can get a hit counter on there to see how popular we get?

[hazegood]

wont show on google until googles spider bots index the site.

[Astronomer69]

Cheers guys I will keep adding to it as and when I can and keep the ideas coming as to what needs putting on.

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[Astronomer69]

I'm not sure about putting a hit drive on but will look into it, but I know that we can check how much traffic we get etc.

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[mapstar]

Cheers guys I will keep adding to it as and when I can and keep the ideas coming as to what needs putting on.

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Finally managed to get on and nice effort there Kieran.

[Astronomer69]

Cheers Damian it's a good start at least.

[Soupy]

Checking the traffic will be useful Kieran yes. Will it tell us where the traffic is coming from so we can see who is interested and from which areas?

[Astronomer69]

Not sure Paul I only had a quick look don't think it tells you where it coming from but tells you how many visits etc. Will go through it and get back to you.

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[crashtestdummy]

I still feel everything needs to be either astronomy or astronomical,it seems a bit silly to have both regardless of reason and we did discuss having either one or the other.

[Soupy]

In an ideal situation you are right Rich, but to get up and running after all this time should be priority, if needs be we can always look at changing the address when we get more established and are generating enough revenue through membership to justify it. Kieran has done a pretty good job of the site with what he had and we can't lose sight of that. :-)

[crashtestdummy]

Thats fair enough and it wasnt a dig just a personal opinion.i personally think a website could have waited for the right time to save cost and effort in the long run <shrugs>