Events
Get Ready for the Eclipse
Dynamic Earth Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, United KingdomDynamic Earth is running an event on 5 Aug to help people get ready for the partial eclipse of the Sun on 12 Aug. We will be there along with the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Catherine Heymans, to do some solar observing and help you observe the eclipse itself safely.
Partial Solar Eclipse Viewing on Calton Hill
City Observatory City Observatory, Calton Hill, EdinburghJoin us in the evening on 12 August to watch the amazing partial eclipse of the Sun. We'll have our solar telescopes with us plus lots of free eclipse glasses to give away.
Imaging & Observing Group
OnlineFor ASE members Image credit: IC 5146 Cocoon Nebula, M. Sansom / ASERO
Space exploration told through the medium of plastic model kits
Augustine United Church 41 George IV Bridge, EdinburghTalk by Dr John Davies. We will also have the Sky in Septemember. John will revisit his (and some of our) childhood memories of building spaceships made by Airfix, Revell, [...]
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Star Colours: From William Henry Smyth to Edward Iszatt Essam
OnlineOnline talk by Dr Mike Leggett Beginning with a brief introduction to colour science and colour vision as applied to astronomy, the talk then covers the Sidereal Chromatics and colour [...]
The Extremely Large Telescope: all coming together on top of Cerro Armazones!
Talk by Prof. Colin Cunningham, Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh and Heriot Watt University. We will also have the Sky in December. After many years of design and development, the [...]