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Out on the good ship Albireo. More pictures from the Auckley Show on 15. Pictures by Tiger Booker, not easy with paws! The occas.
Hayfield School runs a GCSE course on Astronomy, which started in the September of 2013. This Event was the second one run by the Class teacher Jane Walls, supported by the Doncaster Astronomical Society, on the school premises. The day was forecast to be cloudy, but turned out to be clear with occasional summer clouds. The plan was to set up the equipment behind the physics lab. powered by a mains connection to the lab. During the time the telescopes were set up, sever.
Mayflower Day, to celebrate the departure of local boy William Bradford and friends to the New World to avoid persecution in the1690s. But this is now, and it was held on the 5th of May 2014. A sort of garden party with stalls and side shows. We were there with both domes open for solar observations and photographs on show.
This was a good year for a change. We found the Monday to be clear too so some of us came down then too, and saw many more meteors. There were even two members hopefully taking photographs on both nights, though only two photos emerged with a meteor from at least a couple of hundreds. Photographs by Bill Hughes, Dave Hardware and Paul Booker.
A Starry Night at Potteric Carr - March 2014. We finished off after packing up at the Woodfield Farm pub.