Manchester Science Festival 28/10/16

Posted 28/10/2016 by Andrew Thornett

Our family visited Manchester on 28/10/2016 to see the science festival. Although the main events were around the science museum, exhibits were located throughout the city and the photos below show some of our favourites.

Andy & Rhys

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International Astronomy Show 14-15/10/2016

Posted 16/10/2016 by Andrew Thornett

The IAS this year was a great event. A number of members of RAG attended – the big thing this year was the UK launch of Daystar’s new sodium line filter and we had an opportunity to observe the Sun with it outside. Many talks on astrophotography. On the negative side, Brexit had clearly added 20% to all prices – yipes! – and there were few bargains to be had…..although I was very pleased when I picked up an excellent second hand Televue Ethos 6mm!!

Andy Thornett

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Rosliston Forestry Centre Science Day 8/10/2016

Posted 08/10/2016 by Andrew Thornett

RAG was present at this event – a great success with a lot of the public present! You will see Damian’s pictures of the planets on spikes in the photos below – the idea of these is that (on cloudy outreach days), observers can train the telescopes at the photos (which are placed at various distances from the scopes) – I used this to great effect personally today. Great idea from Damian!

Andy