Bath Astronomers
@bathastronomers.org.uk
Lovely bunch of amateur astronomers in and around the historic city of Bath, Somerset, UK. Rescuing telescopes from dusty cupboards, sharing how-tos, and inspiring minds with outreach are our things. Registered Charity Number 1215572.
Joe, Jonathan and Simon had great fun this evening at the Herschel Museum of Astronomy welcoming guests to an evening under the clouds and chatting about Dark Skies, Elon Musk, and the Herschel family.
Bath Astronomers are delighted to support the Museum and continue to be the resident astronomers.
Bath Astronomers are delighted to support the Museum and continue to be the resident astronomers.
February 14, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Joe, Jonathan and Simon had great fun this evening at the Herschel Museum of Astronomy welcoming guests to an evening under the clouds and chatting about Dark Skies, Elon Musk, and the Herschel family.
Bath Astronomers are delighted to support the Museum and continue to be the resident astronomers.
Bath Astronomers are delighted to support the Museum and continue to be the resident astronomers.
Our fifth decade will be acheived on Tuesday 24th March 2026.
Bath Astronomical Society was born at 8pm in a room at Percy Boys Club on the third Wednesday of March, 1976.
We'll celebrate with Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell at the Old Theatre Royal Bath. Tickets via bathastronomers.org.uk/50anniversary
Bath Astronomical Society was born at 8pm in a room at Percy Boys Club on the third Wednesday of March, 1976.
We'll celebrate with Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell at the Old Theatre Royal Bath. Tickets via bathastronomers.org.uk/50anniversary
February 14, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Our fifth decade will be acheived on Tuesday 24th March 2026.
Bath Astronomical Society was born at 8pm in a room at Percy Boys Club on the third Wednesday of March, 1976.
We'll celebrate with Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell at the Old Theatre Royal Bath. Tickets via bathastronomers.org.uk/50anniversary
Bath Astronomical Society was born at 8pm in a room at Percy Boys Club on the third Wednesday of March, 1976.
We'll celebrate with Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell at the Old Theatre Royal Bath. Tickets via bathastronomers.org.uk/50anniversary
Less than 3 weeks until Wales & West Spacefest at Aerospace Bristol.
Saturday 7th March from 9:30am to 5pm. Astro talks, stands, kids activities, mobile planetarium and virtual reality headsets.
If you don't go home dizzy, we've done something wrong.
Tickets @ aerospacebristol.org/wales-west-s...
Saturday 7th March from 9:30am to 5pm. Astro talks, stands, kids activities, mobile planetarium and virtual reality headsets.
If you don't go home dizzy, we've done something wrong.
Tickets @ aerospacebristol.org/wales-west-s...
February 14, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Less than 3 weeks until Wales & West Spacefest at Aerospace Bristol.
Saturday 7th March from 9:30am to 5pm. Astro talks, stands, kids activities, mobile planetarium and virtual reality headsets.
If you don't go home dizzy, we've done something wrong.
Tickets @ aerospacebristol.org/wales-west-s...
Saturday 7th March from 9:30am to 5pm. Astro talks, stands, kids activities, mobile planetarium and virtual reality headsets.
If you don't go home dizzy, we've done something wrong.
Tickets @ aerospacebristol.org/wales-west-s...
Schools have been amazing and invited us in our the last few weeks to support the National Curriculum and Yr5s doing Space or simply to bring science to life in the classroom.
Busy days but so much fun. Never gets boring with questions on black holes, alien life, and when the Sun will explode.
Busy days but so much fun. Never gets boring with questions on black holes, alien life, and when the Sun will explode.
February 14, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Schools have been amazing and invited us in our the last few weeks to support the National Curriculum and Yr5s doing Space or simply to bring science to life in the classroom.
Busy days but so much fun. Never gets boring with questions on black holes, alien life, and when the Sun will explode.
Busy days but so much fun. Never gets boring with questions on black holes, alien life, and when the Sun will explode.
Getting out and about to talk about astronomy in the local community and how it can help from stress management and relaxing to inspiring people to think beyond their iPhone and Traitors.
Welcomed by Toni Green at Radio Bath to chat on air about outreach and Bath Astronomers.
Welcomed by Toni Green at Radio Bath to chat on air about outreach and Bath Astronomers.
February 14, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Getting out and about to talk about astronomy in the local community and how it can help from stress management and relaxing to inspiring people to think beyond their iPhone and Traitors.
Welcomed by Toni Green at Radio Bath to chat on air about outreach and Bath Astronomers.
Welcomed by Toni Green at Radio Bath to chat on air about outreach and Bath Astronomers.
Between 14 – 21 February 2026, you are invited to take part in the Somerset Star Count. Just 3% of people in the UK experience ‘truly dark skies’.
Everyone can take part.
Find out more at:
www.cpresomerset.org.uk/news/somerse...
Submit your star counts to
bathastronomers.org.uk/starcount2026
Everyone can take part.
Find out more at:
www.cpresomerset.org.uk/news/somerse...
Submit your star counts to
bathastronomers.org.uk/starcount2026
Somerset Star Count - help us to map local light pollution this February
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February 14, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Between 14 – 21 February 2026, you are invited to take part in the Somerset Star Count. Just 3% of people in the UK experience ‘truly dark skies’.
Everyone can take part.
Find out more at:
www.cpresomerset.org.uk/news/somerse...
Submit your star counts to
bathastronomers.org.uk/starcount2026
Everyone can take part.
Find out more at:
www.cpresomerset.org.uk/news/somerse...
Submit your star counts to
bathastronomers.org.uk/starcount2026
Are you ready for the inaugural Wales & West Spacefest?
Family friendly and amateur astro friendly simultaneously. Get a ticket for Saturday 7th March at Aerospace Bristol.
Brought to you by Bath Astronomers, Bristol Astronomical Society(AS) and Cardiff AS.
aerospacebristol.org/wales-west-s...
Family friendly and amateur astro friendly simultaneously. Get a ticket for Saturday 7th March at Aerospace Bristol.
Brought to you by Bath Astronomers, Bristol Astronomical Society(AS) and Cardiff AS.
aerospacebristol.org/wales-west-s...
January 17, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Are you ready for the inaugural Wales & West Spacefest?
Family friendly and amateur astro friendly simultaneously. Get a ticket for Saturday 7th March at Aerospace Bristol.
Brought to you by Bath Astronomers, Bristol Astronomical Society(AS) and Cardiff AS.
aerospacebristol.org/wales-west-s...
Family friendly and amateur astro friendly simultaneously. Get a ticket for Saturday 7th March at Aerospace Bristol.
Brought to you by Bath Astronomers, Bristol Astronomical Society(AS) and Cardiff AS.
aerospacebristol.org/wales-west-s...
Wow. What a start to 2026!!
Every single one of our next 6 stargazing outreach sessions are SOLD OUT. We'd better plan some more!!!
Every single one of our next 6 stargazing outreach sessions are SOLD OUT. We'd better plan some more!!!
January 4, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Wow. What a start to 2026!!
Every single one of our next 6 stargazing outreach sessions are SOLD OUT. We'd better plan some more!!!
Every single one of our next 6 stargazing outreach sessions are SOLD OUT. We'd better plan some more!!!
Perhaps gravity was affected by the conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter last night? Glowing balls were going in crazy directions
January 4, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Perhaps gravity was affected by the conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter last night? Glowing balls were going in crazy directions
Best New Year's Resolution - Join your local Astronomical Society in 2026.
Keep fit carrying telescopes around.
Burn calories keeping warm at night.
See the Universe in all its glory.
Keep fit carrying telescopes around.
Burn calories keeping warm at night.
See the Universe in all its glory.
December 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Best New Year's Resolution - Join your local Astronomical Society in 2026.
Keep fit carrying telescopes around.
Burn calories keeping warm at night.
See the Universe in all its glory.
Keep fit carrying telescopes around.
Burn calories keeping warm at night.
See the Universe in all its glory.
Come to a great talk by Dr Anne Inkenhaag and discover how she finds out where our atoms originally came from in "Finding metals using Gamma-ray Burst Galaxies".
Get your tickets for the talk in Elwin BRLSI using the link:
bathastronomers.org.uk/anne_inkenha...
7:30pm on Wednesday 21st January '26.
Get your tickets for the talk in Elwin BRLSI using the link:
bathastronomers.org.uk/anne_inkenha...
7:30pm on Wednesday 21st January '26.
December 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Come to a great talk by Dr Anne Inkenhaag and discover how she finds out where our atoms originally came from in "Finding metals using Gamma-ray Burst Galaxies".
Get your tickets for the talk in Elwin BRLSI using the link:
bathastronomers.org.uk/anne_inkenha...
7:30pm on Wednesday 21st January '26.
Get your tickets for the talk in Elwin BRLSI using the link:
bathastronomers.org.uk/anne_inkenha...
7:30pm on Wednesday 21st January '26.
Explored the roof space of Bath Abbey before stargazing with 50 people up on the Abbey's Tower roof.
Tough to start with as the rain was horizontal and blowing a hooley, but with patience, the rain stopped, the clouds broke and the heavens laid bare.
#AbbeyStargazing #BeatTheWeatherForecast
Tough to start with as the rain was horizontal and blowing a hooley, but with patience, the rain stopped, the clouds broke and the heavens laid bare.
#AbbeyStargazing #BeatTheWeatherForecast
December 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Explored the roof space of Bath Abbey before stargazing with 50 people up on the Abbey's Tower roof.
Tough to start with as the rain was horizontal and blowing a hooley, but with patience, the rain stopped, the clouds broke and the heavens laid bare.
#AbbeyStargazing #BeatTheWeatherForecast
Tough to start with as the rain was horizontal and blowing a hooley, but with patience, the rain stopped, the clouds broke and the heavens laid bare.
#AbbeyStargazing #BeatTheWeatherForecast
Outreach frenzy in Wiltshire today for Bath Astronomers. Visited Amesbury CofE Primary School and then travelled up to Kington St Michael CofE Primary School for an evening takeover with stargazing in the playground and the universe in the school hall.
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Outreach frenzy in Wiltshire today for Bath Astronomers. Visited Amesbury CofE Primary School and then travelled up to Kington St Michael CofE Primary School for an evening takeover with stargazing in the playground and the universe in the school hall.
Enjoying the new sunspots that are so huge. Grab your solar glasses and safely see if you can spot them
December 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Enjoying the new sunspots that are so huge. Grab your solar glasses and safely see if you can spot them
Delighted to pop over to BoA yesterday to meet 1st Bradford-on-Avon Brownies and their leaders. Such a fun and well behaved group of young people.
"Be Prepared" we certainly were. Despite the Met Office forecasting full cloud, everyone got to see the Moon craters and Saturn and its edge on rings.
"Be Prepared" we certainly were. Despite the Met Office forecasting full cloud, everyone got to see the Moon craters and Saturn and its edge on rings.
December 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Delighted to pop over to BoA yesterday to meet 1st Bradford-on-Avon Brownies and their leaders. Such a fun and well behaved group of young people.
"Be Prepared" we certainly were. Despite the Met Office forecasting full cloud, everyone got to see the Moon craters and Saturn and its edge on rings.
"Be Prepared" we certainly were. Despite the Met Office forecasting full cloud, everyone got to see the Moon craters and Saturn and its edge on rings.
The Friends of Box School delivered a 24hr miracle this evening organising a wonderful evening of astronomy, activities, hot chocolate and cake open to the whole school. Making planispheres and paper rockets, creating new constellations and looking through big telescopes at the Moon and Saturn.
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Friends of Box School delivered a 24hr miracle this evening organising a wonderful evening of astronomy, activities, hot chocolate and cake open to the whole school. Making planispheres and paper rockets, creating new constellations and looking through big telescopes at the Moon and Saturn.
"Make hay whilst the sun shines" should have an astro outreach equivalent " Get Scouts Space Activity badges whilst the skies are clear".
Met over 100 cubs and scouts across 4 groups this week to take them stargazing for their UK Space Agency approved Space Activity Badges.
#SpaceActivityBadge
Met over 100 cubs and scouts across 4 groups this week to take them stargazing for their UK Space Agency approved Space Activity Badges.
#SpaceActivityBadge
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"Make hay whilst the sun shines" should have an astro outreach equivalent " Get Scouts Space Activity badges whilst the skies are clear".
Met over 100 cubs and scouts across 4 groups this week to take them stargazing for their UK Space Agency approved Space Activity Badges.
#SpaceActivityBadge
Met over 100 cubs and scouts across 4 groups this week to take them stargazing for their UK Space Agency approved Space Activity Badges.
#SpaceActivityBadge
Delighted Dr Victoria Scowcroft will be Mapping the Universe for visitors to @brlsi.bsky.social on evening of Wednesday 26th Nov.
Following in the footsteps of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, the galactic tape measure is ever more precise.
Reserve seats via www.ticketsource.co.uk/bath-astrono...
Following in the footsteps of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, the galactic tape measure is ever more precise.
Reserve seats via www.ticketsource.co.uk/bath-astrono...
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Delighted Dr Victoria Scowcroft will be Mapping the Universe for visitors to @brlsi.bsky.social on evening of Wednesday 26th Nov.
Following in the footsteps of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, the galactic tape measure is ever more precise.
Reserve seats via www.ticketsource.co.uk/bath-astrono...
Following in the footsteps of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, the galactic tape measure is ever more precise.
Reserve seats via www.ticketsource.co.uk/bath-astrono...
The forgotten sibling, Alexander Herschel, was born this day in 1745.
Alexander, brother of Caroline and William, was the engineer that enabled his siblings to do such amazing work. He built the mechanisms and structures that made great discoveries possible.
Happy 280th birthday Alexander.
Alexander, brother of Caroline and William, was the engineer that enabled his siblings to do such amazing work. He built the mechanisms and structures that made great discoveries possible.
Happy 280th birthday Alexander.
Johann Alexander Herschel - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The forgotten sibling, Alexander Herschel, was born this day in 1745.
Alexander, brother of Caroline and William, was the engineer that enabled his siblings to do such amazing work. He built the mechanisms and structures that made great discoveries possible.
Happy 280th birthday Alexander.
Alexander, brother of Caroline and William, was the engineer that enabled his siblings to do such amazing work. He built the mechanisms and structures that made great discoveries possible.
Happy 280th birthday Alexander.
Hoping that New Glenn NG-2 booster makes it back to floaty boat Jacklyn and the heliophysics mission to Mars makes it to L2 without issue for its holiday.
www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2
www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2
NG-2 | Missions | Blue Origin
www.blueorigin.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Hoping that New Glenn NG-2 booster makes it back to floaty boat Jacklyn and the heliophysics mission to Mars makes it to L2 without issue for its holiday.
www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2
www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2
Popcorn ready to watch the second launch of a New Glenn. This time with twin ESCAPADE spacecraft aboard on their way to Mars.
Coverage starts at 7pm and the launch window opens at 7:45pm.
The first stage is going to attempt a return to Earth and landing on Jacklyn.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC50...
Coverage starts at 7pm and the launch window opens at 7:45pm.
The first stage is going to attempt a return to Earth and landing on Jacklyn.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC50...
November 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Popcorn ready to watch the second launch of a New Glenn. This time with twin ESCAPADE spacecraft aboard on their way to Mars.
Coverage starts at 7pm and the launch window opens at 7:45pm.
The first stage is going to attempt a return to Earth and landing on Jacklyn.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC50...
Coverage starts at 7pm and the launch window opens at 7:45pm.
The first stage is going to attempt a return to Earth and landing on Jacklyn.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC50...
Nice to have a public stargazing session last night at Lansdown Playing Fields South after a spell of weather cancellations.
The building clouds hampered having a good gander but there were satellites aplenty, a meteor or two, Saturn, Neptune, globular and open clusters, and a galaxy before pack up
The building clouds hampered having a good gander but there were satellites aplenty, a meteor or two, Saturn, Neptune, globular and open clusters, and a galaxy before pack up
November 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Nice to have a public stargazing session last night at Lansdown Playing Fields South after a spell of weather cancellations.
The building clouds hampered having a good gander but there were satellites aplenty, a meteor or two, Saturn, Neptune, globular and open clusters, and a galaxy before pack up
The building clouds hampered having a good gander but there were satellites aplenty, a meteor or two, Saturn, Neptune, globular and open clusters, and a galaxy before pack up
The problem with astronomy outreach is that you must be well behaved all the time... not tonight!!
October 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The problem with astronomy outreach is that you must be well behaved all the time... not tonight!!
A shout out to members of Bath Astronomers who used the one clear evening this week to all simultaneously go out and take a snap of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon).
Thanks Rachel R, Ben L, Jonathan H, Simon H, Steve K, and Roger H
Thanks Rachel R, Ben L, Jonathan H, Simon H, Steve K, and Roger H
October 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
A shout out to members of Bath Astronomers who used the one clear evening this week to all simultaneously go out and take a snap of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon).
Thanks Rachel R, Ben L, Jonathan H, Simon H, Steve K, and Roger H
Thanks Rachel R, Ben L, Jonathan H, Simon H, Steve K, and Roger H
Today, the great educational outreach work done by Bath Astronomers in Somerset and surrounding counties became official. We have just been granted charity status by the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Charity Number 1215572
Time to party 🎉🥳🔭
Time to party 🎉🥳🔭
October 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Today, the great educational outreach work done by Bath Astronomers in Somerset and surrounding counties became official. We have just been granted charity status by the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Charity Number 1215572
Time to party 🎉🥳🔭
Time to party 🎉🥳🔭