NEWS

The Newsletter of the Altrincham and District Astronomical Society. Society News January 2001. Tonight’s meeting (5th January) we hope to...

Well, finding an opportunity for observing between family, weather and the 'flu proved quite difficult.

Patrick Caldwell Moore has been knighted!!! (30th December 2000).

Society News Tonight (Friday Dec 1st) is the annual ADAS Christmas Quiz with a return to the open invitation to astronomical societies in...

Society News Tonight’s meeting will be Dave Timperley talking about globular clusters.  Saturday 11th November is the Leeds Astrofest...

Colin H and I saw ISS and the Shuttle on Saturday night in Colin's back garden...

Saturday 21st October, the forecast was for a clear and frosty night.  An opportunity to try and find some really dark sky. 

I wasn’t going to write up anything about this trip.  I’m sure people have heard enough from me by now however...

On Saturday, 30th September, Don Utton, Paul Clark, Paul Brierley and myself went to observe at Lamaload reservoir.

Thursday, 17th August, the IAU celebrity lecture at UMIST was again hosted by Patrick Moore and featured Prof.

Timperley Country Fair again at Larkhill Field

Since Peter Drew's talk to ADAS in April this year (1999) we at ADAS have been trying to organise an outing to visit the AAC

The society was again involved in Timperley Country Fair on Saturday 18th September to raise money for the society as a group having charity

Observed in the evening.  Suspected a super nova in the large magellanic cloud near 30 Doradus! 

One  evening  at  the  observatory  there  was  a  discussion  about  transits  of  Earth  from  Mars.