The mid-August solar viewing session at the Royal Observatory Greenwich took place on one of the hottest days of the year. By 10.15am, we...

As part of the Royal Observatory’s 350th anniversary celebrations, we hosted another public solar viewing session on Saturday 9 August....

After the disappointment of last week’s cancelled session, we decided to take a chance and go ahead with our planned solar viewing on...

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

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...

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

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

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...

“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...

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

After what felt like an eternity without a public observing session – our last successful Blackheath event was all the way back on 12th...

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 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...

When the weekend forecast said "rain," we said "Friday it is!" Our volunteers adapted quickly, showing up with scopes in hand like it was...

You’ve heard of Oscar wrap parties - well, get ready to strap in and set your inertial compensators to full! To celebrate an amazing...

After three successful solar viewing sessions in a row this August, we were clearly due for a weather-disrupted one - and, naturally, the...

We had another hugely successful solar viewing session on Saturday 17th August, with around 650 visitors taking the opportunity to...

“Woke up in the morning, with the sun on my mind….” Whoa! That’s enough of that 😊. Now, to be fair, our resident weather guru had said...