NEWS

In our meeting on 7th March the skies cleared and most of the 40 members went into the car park...

This video and text about re-inventing space flight comes from SpaceRip. Lots more of their interesting video content on YouTube.

In the late 1960s, Jane & I and Tony & Edith became neighbours in Timperley near to Navigation Road Station. 

I was looking for some information on the design and manufacture of observatories. I came across some plans to build this observatory.

On Saturday 16th November several members of the Society attended the Jodrell Bank Astronomy Event.

What’s six miles wide and can end civilisation in an instant? An asteroid — and there are lots of them out there.

Sadly, Tony, a long time member of ADAS died suddenly on Friday 25th October 2013 following a massive aneurism.

NASA has announced a study to explore the impact of the conditions that astronauts might experience while travelling in space.

There are some very favourable passes over the next few days which you might want to check out...

A short description of the joys and challenges of astronomy from Colin Henshaw in Saudi Arabia.

Interesting short film on the objectives of the Hubble Telescope Is time travel possible?

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer.

Here is a link to a great article on the Voyager mission by NASA, as Voyager 1 has left, with Voyager 2 hot on its tail

A video that logs some of the great discoveries that have been made by the Hubble telescope.

In astronomy we often focus on the cosmos and observing the cosmos from here on Earth or by using unmanned space craft.

This is a full length documentary (45 minutes) about black holes made and televised by National Geographic Channel.

Ever noticed that orange haze you get when looking at the sky at night?

ADAS had a display promoting the Society at the BAA Exhibition held at Manchester Metropolitan University on Saturday 22 June2013.

ADAS had a Tombola Stall at the Country Fair.

Last night saw the final event of the 2007 "50th Anniversary" celebrations of the Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank.