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2019 June Meeting & Newsletter

Summer Skies …

For our final meeting of this season, scheduled for Tuesday 4th June 2019, we welcome Owen Brazell who will ably guide through how to observe the amateur astronomer’s favourite, planetary nebulae. Please see our meetings page for further details.

Accompanying the monthly meeting is this month’s newsletter kindly put together by Andy Burns, featuring the latest news and events for Wiltshire AS and the other local astronomy societies, get the newsletter here (link).

As a reminder, the society now enters it’s summer recess for the monthly meetings. The new season for 2019/2020 will restart on Tuesday 3rd September 2019. During the summer months, please keep an eye on the club’s public Facebook page (link) where we will continue to post news and society info. If you are a society member, then keep up to date with other members on the members facebook group here (link).

2019 May Meeting & Newsletter


For our May meeting on Tuesday 7th May 2019, we welcome our friend from over the border, Mark Radice who will be giving us some practical observing tips for our own Solar System. Please see our meetings page for further details.

Accompanying the monthly meeting, is this month’s newsletter kindly put together by Andy Burns, featuring the latest news and events for Wiltshire AS and the other local astronomy societies (Download link).

2019 April Meeting & Newsletter

For our April meeting on Tuesday 2nd April 2019, we welcome back the long-time friend of the society and accomplished author, Martin Griffiths. Martin will delight us with his hopefully upbeat talk on “Universal Death, or How the Universe is trying to kill us”. Please see our meetings page for further details.

Accompanying the monthly meeting, is this month’s newsletter kindly put together by Andy Burns, featuring the latest news and events for Wiltshire AS and the other local astronomy societies (Download link).

Credit: Andy Burns
Andy’s image this month comes from his successful trip to Iceland in March to see the Northern Lights.

2019 March Meeting

We’re excited that we have got Chris Starr giving us a talk on “A Most beautiful Moon – A History of Lunar Exploration” for our March meeting on Tuesday 5th March.

Please see (link) to this month’s newsletter for further details of the meeting and this month’s activities.