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

So after being away for almost two years… Slingshot around the sun, charge the flux capacitor or use the force – whatever your favourite...

A short review of what to see in the night sky in May 2020: Light phases at sunrise and sunset Sky conditions during lockdown Starlink...

Agnes Mary Clerke Agnes Mary Clerke was born in Skibbereen in Co Cork in and grew up in the midst of the horrific Irish Famine. Her...

Martin trained his Meade 14” SCT (Schmitt Cassegrain Telescope) on a fascinating variety of deep sky objects and planets. With such a...

The planet Uranus on the evening of 24th Jan 2017, captured using the Great Equatorial Telescope at the Royal Observatory by Tom Kerss...

A workshop meeting of the Radio Astronomy special interest group took place at Mycenae House on the 7th December 2016. Owing to the usual...

However, on this evening, no such backup program was needed! The skies partly opened up for us and our ROG Astronomer, Brendan Owens,...

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

Professor Lewis Dartnell Astrobiology, said Professor Lewis Dartnell, is “the science of hunting for aliens”! That may conjure up images...

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

Bobby Manoo treated the Flamsteed audience to another highly entertaining review of what to see in the night sky in the month of March...

At our Christmas lecture, on Monday 14 December 2015, the Flamsteed celebrated its “sweet-16th” birthday. We had over a hundred Flamsteed...

Solar Viewing on the Summer Solstice at the ROG Report by Mike Meynell We had decided to go ahead with our involvement in the Summer...

Comet 2014/Q2 Lovejoy by Rupert Smith Saturday the 10th was the date for our inaugural observing and imaging event under Chris Mann’s...

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

Tony Sizer We were a month late for Halloween but Tony Sizer nevertheless gave us a good scare with “Ghosts, poltergeists, and the Law of...

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

Heather Couper and Dr Nigel Henbest “We have one hour to cover thousands of years of astronomy,” said Heather Couper. She and Nigel...

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...