The astrobasics section meets at...

Loddon Room
Dinton Pastures Country Park
Davis Street
Hurst
READING
RG10 0TH

There is parking available outside the room.

Nb. This is also the location used for the public events.

Next Meetings

Main Section
18th September 2010 at 7.00pm
Astronomy in Art
Barry Kellett
(Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
What the sky in, say a Van Gogh, painting tells us about the place and time when the painting was done.
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Astrobasics
4th September 2010 at 7.00pm
A General Overview of Amateur Astronomy
Astrobasics moves to the 1st Saturday evening of the month in 2010-11.
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This Month

Jupiter at Opposition
The largest planet has a favourable opposition in 2010 as it's close to perihelion in its orbit (closest point to the Sun) in March 2011.

Opposition (closest to Earth and opposite the Sun in the sky) is due on September 21st but you already cannot miss the planet shining very brightly in the south east after dark. It is in Pisces, below the great square of Pegasus.

Coincidentally Uranus is at opposition within a few hours of Jupiter and can be seen in binoculars less than a degree above Jupiter on the 21st.
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