You will be made welcome whatever your level of ability or experience

 

Our new 25-26 season is now well underway (see under programme tab for full details).  Some information on the next few talks is below and if you want to learn more about what we do just look around this site, visit our social media pages or contact us directly.  We meet on Wednesday evenings with a varied programme of events which includes talks, activity evenings, and competitions.  We also run occasional technical workshops.  Guests are always welcome to any of our events so if you are interested in photography come along and try us out.

 

8th April – Easter break no meeting

We wish all members and supporters a very happy Easter

15th April – Annual projected image competition judged by Graham Walton

The penultimate competition of the season.  Images can be entered into three categories Colour, Mono and Scapes.

22nd April- Member’s themed techniques evening

Following on from our successful member’s project evening, this is a chance to see what particular techniques members have been exploring

29th  April- “Weather and lightning”  by Mary McIntyre

Mary is an astronomy speaker, writer, astrophotographer and astronomy/space artist based in Oxfordshire, UK. She is a co-author of the Collins Stargazing Bible book that was published in October 2024, has contributed chapters to several other books and regularly writes for and reviews equipment for Sky at Night magazine.  In 2021 Mary was awarded the 2021 Sir Patrick Moore Prize by the British Astronomical Association for her outreach activities. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and in 2026 she joined the team of Go Stargazing on-board cruise astronomers working with Fred Olsen Cruises.  She showed us some of her stunning work last year and this year she returns with her amazing images of weather in its extremes

6th May- Annual print competition judged by Louise Hill

Our last competition of this season.  Louise is an experienced judge who has visited us many time before and will give her constructive assessment of all the submitted prints.