On Saturday, 18th January 2020, we gathered on Blackheath Common looking thoughtfully up at what the night sky was offering. Members with...

The start of our observing session, with the added backdrop of the Blackheath funfair! An excellent session started off rather dubiously...

Friday 11th saw us returning to Blackheath for an observing session. After what seemed like a never ending spell of bad weather which had...

Blackheath Observing Evening – 1 August 2015 Our August observing event took place on Saturday August 1st under clear skies. This was a...

Blackheath Observing Our scheduled observing session on the 19th coincided with a spell of clear skies that offered good seeing and a...

Herschel’s Garnet Star Weather forecasting skills are almost as important as knowledge of the night sky when trying to practise astronomy...

Setting up the telescopes on Blackheath Well, you’ve got to love astronomy in the UK… don’t you?!… don’t you?!?!?!? A very frustrating...

Under the Plough Our first observing session of 2014 and our first for many weeks, due to weather, proved to be an enormous success. The...

Attendees trying to view Jupiter, Venus and Mercury after Sunset Torrential rain for most of Friday 24 May put paid to any plans that we...

The crowd gathers on Blackheath (Pic by Mike Dryland) Grey makes final adjustments to the 90mm Coronado (Pic by Mike Dryland) Around 140...