Welcome to Breckland Skies!

Breckland Astronomical Society is based in the dark skies of Great Ellingham in Norfolk, and has its own observatory housing a 20″ reflecting telescope. You’ll find more about the society, past and present, in these pages, so feel free to look around!

Next Meeting

***Virtual Talk on ZOOM***

12 June 2020: Ten ways the Universe tries to kill you (scary!) Steve Tonkin (Author)

Please contact chairman@brecklandastro.org.uk or treasurer@brecklandastro.org.uk or dickie.harmon@gmail.com for the meeting log in details, giving a reasonable time to reply.

Zoom (use 5.0 or onwards) is available as a free app, or we can send a web-link to click on to join. Zoom is interactive, so your cameras are optional, your mic will start muted, and you can type live comments so please leave your mic off during the lecture.

You join a virtual waiting room and the host will approve you. We may start a little later in case of any delays at this stage. We want some good questions and discussion at the end as usual. End 9:15.

Steve has written an amazing guide to a very satisfying style of astronomy. “Discover the Night Sky through Binoculars” and “Binocular Astronomy”. I thoroughly recommend them.

Small donations are welcome to cover our costs, via the website donate button or by contacting the treasurer (above). These can be deferred.

AGM

The usual AGM in May will be deferred to a future meeting at the hall, when we can get together. Members will get at least a month’s notice and relevant documents sent by email.

For further details please see the Meetings page

Public Observing Nights

We hold free public observing nights on the last Friday of the month. The next one is currently scheduled for 27th Mar 2020 at 6.30pm.

***Cancelled until further notice***

***The observatory will remain closed until the Coronavirus lock down restrictions are ended***

Star Parties

We hold spring and autumn star parties at Haw Wood Farm, near Saxmundham. You can find more details on the Star Parties page, or you can contact Andrew Robertson – see Contacts page.