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...

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...

Size Does Matter! Unfeasibly Large? Dr Ruben Sanchez-Janssen provided a fascinating exposition of the scale of the Extremely Large...

Cue the A-Team  music because the skies are clear, and we love it when a plan comes together! 😊 Tonight was our (get ready, big word...

The Blackheath observing season has had some busy nights over the years, but this one? This was something else. Over 250 visitors, more...

At our latest History of Astronomy meeting, we were delighted to welcome Flamsteed member Paul Wright, who gave a fascinating talk on the...

A big treat on Monday 10th February as we welcomed Professor Ofer Lahav (UCL) to talk about Einstein’s “biggest blunder” and the topic of...

Choosing your first telescope can feel like a daunting task - almost a dark art. Yet, unlocking the cosmos is a journey every amateur...

Professor Sanjeev Gupta visited the Flamsteed Astronomy Society for a second time, leaving us with a thought-provoking statement about...

Who needs the stars and planets when you’ve got buildings? That seemed to be the theme of the day as the Flamsteed Astronomy Society took...

The Search for Life on Mars "Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish,...

We were really excited to join forces with the British Astronomical Association (BAA) and the Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA) to run...

Tony and Tej gave us talks on two very different subjects, yet both managed to captivate us with history and artistry in fascinating...

Lost in the dark: where’d all that pesky matter go??? The challenge: To find something in the dark, that you cannot see, whose...

The evening started off with quite the excitement as we prepared for the much-hyped appearance of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-Atlas) ....

Last night’s Blackheath observing session was another great success, with around 80 visitors joining us under mostly clear skies. Despite...