Nine events planned so far this season – and nine successfully delivered. We’re beginning to wonder when our luck will run out. There was...

Thanks to everyone who came along to the summer social drinks on the evening of 10 July at The Old Brewery in Greenwich! It was a very...

A group of Flamsteed members met at Mycenae House to take part in a workshop given by Mark Jeffery and Paul May.   Citizen Science...

The forecast was a tricky one. Cloud cover looked stubborn for much of the morning, and deciding which day to run wasn’t easy. Saturday...

25 years later: from a group of enthusiasts and friends to the Flamsteed Astronomy Society It all started on 11th September 1999 with...

Our seventh successful solar session in a row – and it landed on Friday the 13th. Who said astronomers were superstitious? I arrived on...

On Saturday 7th June, 56 of us headed to the deep south of East Sussex to visit Herstmonceux for the day. This is the biggest group we’ve...

This was a very enjoyable evening, and we discovered some fascinating books, and we also heard the stories behind why they were chosen....

We had a fantastic solar viewing session at the Royal Observatory Greenwich on Saturday 31 May, rounding off the season’s meteorological...

A fascinating and enlightening evening with three very different talks. It’s always good to hear from our members - whether just in...

The Flamsteed Astronomy Society  hosted Astronomy Art Attack: A Beginners Workshop, an event designed to introduce participants to...

In Sky this Month, Mike Meynell provided some interesting observational challenges for the next month, including the well-positioned M51...

Clive, Mike, Tim R and I were in early, sunshine overhead – and the Coronado was quickly delivering a cracking view. Prominences,...

After a week of glorious weather, the forecast for Saturday 3 May  was less than ideal – but as it turned out, we couldn’t have asked for...

Graham Dolan introduced us to John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, who held the post from its creation in 1675. Flamsteed made...

Despite a less-than-promising forecast, we went ahead with our planned solar viewing session at the Royal Observatory Greenwich on Good...

Thank you Ingrid for a spellbounding talk full of technical wizardry, and presented with great enthusiasm. Please see the full video here...

“I’m waiting on a sunny day, gonna chase the clouds away…” – as the Boss once sang, and how true that felt for our second solar special...

Tired of freezing while stargazing? Fed-up with missing those faint fuzzes? Then EAA is for you!   This is the message we came away with...

What a way to kick off our 2025 solar observing season. Saturday morning’s partial solar eclipse  event at the Royal Observatory...