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AAS
Meetings
Upcoming Meetings & Talks
Tuesday
26th August 2025
7:00 - 9:30 pm
"Informal Meeting"
In person at Bettridge Centre, Newtonhill,
from 7 pm for informal chat and tea/coffee etc
in the Bettridge
Centre kitchen,
or via Zoom (from 7:30 pm)
(Directions to
Bettridge Centre)
Important note
Meetings/Talks
on the 2nd Tuesday of Month at RGC have been suspended
for the 2025/26 season.
"Regrettably it’s become clear the effort required to run our current
programme including two meetings each month is relying on too few
people and is not sustainable. The Commitee have therefore made the decision not to
hold any meetings at RGC in the coming season and move a cut down
speaker programme to online only.
We hope to be able to organise 2 or 3 speakers including the John Reid
Memorial Lecture. A possible topic would be the newly commissioned Vera
Rubin telescope. Hopefully one other external speaker can be organised and we’d also welcome a talk from a society
member. We will continue to try and organise for the 2nd Tuesday of the
month to maintain consistency. These talks will be online via Zoom."
Any future resumption of regular 2nd Tuesday of Month meetings will be dependant on fresh people coming
forward on to the Committee to organize speakers / meetings etc.
(meetings at Bettridge Centre will
still continue on the 4th Tuesday of Month)
( Anyone is welcome to become a member,
please see our contact page for details )
>> 2024/25 Meetings & Events
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Dark Sky Observing
Knockburn Loch
Look out for future notices from Neal Weston
AAS Members Only
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Informal Monthly Meetings
Informal Meetings at Bettridge are again being held in person
Meetings will also be available via Zoom to members
(look out for
additional notices on
aberdeenastro.groups.io )
>> More Events
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Photo
of Aberdeen Astronomical
Society members at the society's Deep Sky Site, 13th October 2015
Click on Picture for larger view
(including sky & stars)
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Requesting a
talk from AAS or obtaining guidance about setting up and using
your astronomical equipment One
of our aims at AAS is to help people understand astronomy. This
might be through talks to local clubs and societies, talks to
schools, or help with astronomy badges to scout and guide
groups. Talks can be at any level; routinely we help local
groups understand the night sky and what they can see, as well
as helping individuals or groups to set up and get the best use
out of astronomy equipment.
For more details please click here
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Welcome to the website of Aberdeen Astronomical
Society (AAS).
AAS is an organisation for astronomy enthusiasts that meet on a regular basis
for astronomical observing, talks by guest speakers and visits to observatories
and planetaria (AAS Flyer, pdf). AAS has members of all ages and experience levels.
Meetings from Sept 2014 onwards will normally be held at RGC (Robert
Gordon's College), SchoolHill Aberdeen and at the
Bettridge Centre, Newtonhill. (Previously the society held meeting at the historic Cromwell Tower Observatory (CTO) in Old Aberdeen)
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| Within these pages you can find out what events
AAS has coming up, details of where and when we meet and how to join us. |
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Follow AAS on twitter.com/AberdeenAstro
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Feel free to come
along to one of our meetings to find out more about AAS. AAS members are
happy to give advice on telescope purchase and any other astronomical
queries (AAS Meetings).
Come along to one of our Bettridge Centre meetings if you'd like to
try out a few telescopes or learn your way around the night sky.
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AAS
is grateful to Forest Enterprise for access to a dark sky site
in the Midmar area. In the future, we may wish to build an
observatory somewhere as well. AAS members wanting to get
involved in this project should join the aberdeenastro
Yahoo! Group specially set up for the purpose. The
Yahoo! site also contains an active message board for members,
giving details of impromptu observing sessions and astronomical
chat.
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"Stars
from the NE"
Astronomers from North East Scotland
An article about NE Astronomers
from a talk given to the
Robert Cormack Bequest Astronomical Meeting
in Aberdeen, 31st March 2003, by Dr John S.
Reid,
History
of the Telescope - Part 1
History
of the Telescope - Part 2
Article based on a talk given to
the AAS
(and the Moray Astronomical Society) by Dr John Reid,
2009
Histelesc.pdf
Historic Telescopes
at the University of Aberdeen
(Some notes by Dr John S. Reid, Jan 2006 )
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What can you see from Aberdeen tonight?
Is an aurora display likely? Will the International Space
Station be visible? Find out in the Aberdeen's Night
Sky section. This section includes an interactive star chart
for Aberdeen. This website also has a
Sky Notes page with details of forthcoming astronomical events
visible from Aberdeen. AAS organises regular public observing
sessions.
See our AAS Events page for details.
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