TONIGHT Lickey Hills - 11th March 2011

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TONIGHT

Lickey Hills - 11th March 2011

Come and join Birmingham Astronomical Society for our biannual SkyWatch on Friday 11th March 2011 at 7.30 pm at the Lickey Hills Visitor Centre. We hope to turn telescopes onto a quarter Moon, and the constellations, weather permitting. There will be talks and demonstrations indoors and a planetarium.

The visitor centre is on Warren Lane, off the B4096, Old Birmingham Road.

Telephone 0121 447 7106. Google Map Link.

We will be showing how to set up telescopes with an opportunity to talk with experienced users and get some hands-on practice. There will also be a picture show to celebrate the spaceflight milestones of Gagarin (1961), the space shuttle program (1981), and Helen Sharman (1991).

[RogerTheDodger]

Bah, with a couple of days notice I'd have come along only just up the road from me too.

[spaceboy]

Dam!!! What time? I bet it's all over with now isn't it?? I would have come aswell

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Good news, there is an other event in a few months time and the licky hills again.

I will give more notice next time. We had a great turnout, with about 150-200 people.

The planetarium was fully booked on all 4 showings.

If you did go to the event let me know what you enjoyed the most.

The events are on the Club Website Birmingham Astronomical Society |

The Club meet every Wednesday at 7:15pm at Aston University inside the main entrance.

P.S. Play the games on the web site for a bit of fun. I designed the site and games so if any needs and help with websites let me know.

[spaceboy]

Do you ever do observation nights at the observatory in Wast hills or is that just for students?

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Hi,

We allways take about telescopes in the chance of clear skys. It normaly clears to wards the end of the evening. Normaly when we pack away....lol

As it was cloudy we used the telescopes for demo's and use the telescopes to view images on the walls to show them working.

The club now has an observatory for members on wednesday nights at Aston University .... The links on the other messages.

We used Wast Hills a few years ago with Birmingham Students and its a great for dark skys. The club are talking about going there again. Not sure yet.

Paul :-)

[AstroGnome]

I broke the cryogenic system at Wast hills once, it was whilst I was a student at Birmingahm Uni'. Forgot to reposition it as the scope tracked around and it pulled the liquid nitrogen flask over and filled the control room with it.

Happy days...

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Hi,

LOL, your barred....lol

They had a few problem when i visited but not with the coffee.

How old is the system? You could replace most of that equipment with usb controllers.

We can't use the place yet but we are talking about it.

Ill get you a baby bottle with coffee to be on the safe side....lol