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We are a friendly, relaxed group of people sharing a common interest in all things astronomical. Our membership ranges from complete beginners to those experienced in observing and the more technical aspects such as astrophotography.

We meet at Summercourt New Memorial Hall, Cornwall on the third Thursdays of the month throughout the year. From October to March we also hold practical meetings on the first Thursday of each month at Trevarrian Holiday Park. All meetings start at 7:30pm.

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Our Next Meeting

19th, December – Summercourt

A Christmas jumper and mince pie meeting. Bring either of these along for our last meeting of 2024. There is no formal programme arranged, but it would be good to listen to members thoughts on how they thought their astronomy went during 2024. Where there any observing or imaging highlights of the year that you enjoyed. Did you read any good books or view a Youtube that you really liked and wish to share with everyone. If you want to bring along a little presentation of anything like this, we can fire up the projector. Basically anything goes.

Our Next Star Party: 7th December

The second Star party we had planned for the 7th December at National Trust Llanhydrock has been cancelled due to forecast of high winds. We hope to be able to organise further star parties during early 2025 and will announce those here when we have further details.

Latest Member Image

Image by Dean Ashton

NGC 6979 HOO. 4 hours total exposure through Ha and OIII narrowband filters. This is known as a HOO pallette where the Ha is assigned to the red channel and OIII data to both the Green and Blue channels.

Two Galaxies From Far, Far Away…. 

G’day! I write this from far, far away in the hot centre of Australia at the sacred Aboriginal site of Uluru. Low humidity and lack of light, make Uluru one of the best stargazing spots in the world. The night sky south of the equator is a different view of the universe than we have in Cornwall…..more