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With the BBC Stargazing live clouding over this year. The team at Go Stargazing are coming to our rescue. Over the 16th & 17th February various Societies across the UK will be hosting events. Check out their website for more information. http://gostargazing.co.uk/2018Read More →

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On October 16, 2017, the the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, and its partners announced the first observation of gravitational-waves from a pair of inspiraling neutron stars. Electromagnetic emission from the resulting collision was also observed in multiple wavelength bands. This occured on August 17, 2017 and represents the first time a cosmic event was observed with both gravitational waves and light.   First Optical Photons from Gravitational-Wave Source. Swope and Magellan telescope optical and near-infrared images of the first optical counterpart to a gravitational-wave source, SSS17a, in its galaxy, NGC 4993. The left image is from August 17, 2017, 11 hours after the LIGO-Virgo detectionRead More →

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Hi all, I have been informed by the Council that the 01 September meeting will be in the education room at the Museum.  The Education room is just beside the main reception desk, some of us will remember using it in the past. We will enter in the normal way through the side door and if we get lost I am sure Museum staff will point us in the right direction.     Quote from Museum  I know your meetings start back on 1 September 2017.   For the above date, we are having a museums at night event.  We’re giving it a Halloween theme andRead More →

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  Dear members, Please circulate this message to your society committee and members. As I mentioned in my May email update to All FAS Societies there will be a number of positions vacant at the AGM. There have been no expressions of interest and at our last Council Meeting, we discussed what we should do. I myself am standing down as I was invited to stand for BAA President in its next session. Shaun O’Dell is standing down from Secretary – Shaun has been a stalwart of the Federation for many, many years and will be sorly missed. Mike Pritchard (Membership Secretary) has been doingRead More →

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We are a friendly group of people with a common interest in stars, planets, galaxies, comets, nebula and other things in the night sky. Most of all we like sharing our knowledge with fellow amateur astronomers and learning about the latest astronomy news. Skill levels vary from absolute beginners to seasoned amateurs. Everyone is encouraged to come along to our informal gatherings. Our meetings are most Fridays nights between the months of September to May inclusive, and we meet in the main hall in the Paisley Museum and Art Galleries from 7:30pm till 9:30pm. Come into the hall via the side entrance from the museum carRead More →