This Friday 10th February, NewburyAstro are pleased to welcome Dr Aprajita Verma of Oxford University who will be speaking on A Tale of Two Telescopes: The EELT and the Vera Rubin Observatory. The meeting starts at 7.30pm, all welcome. For details, head to

Got a new telescope for Christmas but no idea what to do with it? If so, the NewburyAstro beginners meeting this Wednesday 15th Jan could be for you. Amongst the usual fascinating topics is a session on How to Set Up and Use your Scope. More details at

For our first meeting of 2025, NewburyAstro will be welcoming Dr David Rothery of the Open University who will be speaking on the fascinating topic of Mercury and the BepiColumbo Mission. The meeting starts at 7.30pm this Friday 10th, for more details:

We'll be holding the last NAS meeting before Christmas this Weds 18th Dec, when after a What's Up of sights in the sky over the festive season, there will be a talk on the prospects for Alien Life in the cosmos and two observing focussed sessions. Details:

For our last Main Meeting of the year, this Friday 6th December we will be holding our annual Members Meeting featuring short talks from a number of members on a fascinating variety of topics. The meeting starts at 7.30pm at our usual venue - details on

Christmas is coming, so if you're thinking of getting a telescope for Christmas, this Wednesday 20th November at our Beginners Meeting we will have a session on buying a first telescope, one on what you can see with it, plus observing if clear. All welcome

This Friday 1/11 sees the latest NAS meeting, and this month our speaker is award-winning writer and broadcaster Marcus Chown who will be talking about his new book on black holes "A Crack in Everything". All welcome, details at

NAS's next Beginners Meeting is this Wednesday 16th October. Topics include “What’s Up” in the skies currently, The Moon and how it affects the earth’s seas, and some recent images taken with small Smart scopes. Plus observing if skies clear! Details at

This Friday 4th October brings our latest speaker meeting. We'll be welcoming Sarah Watson who will be talking about "Using a Solar Wind Model to Predict Comet Tail Disconnections." Very topical given all the comet talk currently! All welcome, details at

This Wednesday 18th Sept brings the first Beginners meeting of the 2024-25 NAS season. The meeting will include What's Up this month, The Birth and Early Life of a Star, and observing Saturn - done under the stars, clouds permitting! All welcome, details:

The nights are drawing in, and it's time for NAS's new season! This Friday we are welcoming Dr Chris Pattison of the University of Portsmouth who will be speaking about The Next Generation of Space Telescopes: Revealing the Universe in New Ways. Details at

Midsummer is almost upon us and so is the last meeting of NAS's 2023-2024 calendar. This Friday we are welcoming Prof Geraint Jones of UCL who will tell us about "Comet Interceptor: Mission to an Ancient World." After the break is our 43rd AGM. Details at

Summer's almost here, and this Wednesday 15th May brings the last Beginners meeting of the 2023-24 season. Topics include The Birth of a Star and The Size of the Moon, and if the clouds oblige we may even manage some observing! All welcome, details at

This Friday 3rd May brings the latest NAS Speaker meeting where the Director of UCL Observatory, Dr Steve Fossey, will be talking about "Exoplanetary Ramblings: Detection and Characterisation of Extrasolar Planets". All welcome - details as always on

This Wednesday 17th brings our latest Beginners Meeting, with topics including last week's Eclipse of the Sun, Seasons, Polaris, Galaxies as well as What's Up. If skies clear we may also get some observing in! Meeting starts at 7pm - details as always on

Double the usual astronomical activity this week at Newbury Astro. This Wednesday 20th at 7pm we have our latest Beginners Meeting, and Friday 22nd at 7.30pm brings our latest Speaker Meeting. All welcome as always - for more details head to our website

It's that time again! This Friday 1st March brings our latest speaker meeting, when Dr Tim Haymes will be talking about "In the Shadow of Asteroids". The meeting will be at its usual time and location. For more details, as always check out our website

This Wednesday 21st brings our latest Beginners Meeting, with topics covering Observing the Moon and Star Clusters, as well as the usual What's Up. Weather permitting, we may also do some hands-on observing. The meeting starts at 7pm - details as always on

This Friday beings our latest speaker meeting, and we're thrilled to have Dr Ashley King talking about "Return of the Asteroids: Beginnings with Bennu and Results from Ryugu". The meeting starts at 7.30pm at the Fair Close Centre - for more details:

Don't forget this week's Beginners Meeting - topics will be an Introduction to Telescopes, the constellation Orion, and What's Up in the skies this month. The meeting starts at 7pm at the usual venue - details as always on