The latest news from Sunderland Astronomical Society

SAS Memberships – New Season 2022-2023

September is the start of our new season. SAS Memberships will be due from 1st September 2022 (payable throughout September) for this season 2022/2023 Joining/Renewing helps support your local astronomical society & community. So come on down to the Cygnus Observatory (based at the Washington Wetlands Centre) to  join or renew your SAS membership. The SAS is the largest…

3rd September: SAS Starbeque

SAS Starbeque event at Derwent Reservoir Car Park. Date:  Saturday 3trd September 2022 Time: From 7 pm until very late, observing afterwards if weather is favorable. Venue: Will take place at at Derwent Reservoir located at our Millshield dark sky site. This is our traditional celebration of the return of darker nights and, as in previous years…

28th August: SAS Astro boot Sale

Astro Boot.  Come down to the Wetlands Centre and sell your unwanted astro gear. You can post you items for sale on our related FB pages. We have accumulated a lot of astro gear over the over the last few years and we’re running out of space. We’re therefore holding an Astroboot sale on Sunday…

20th February Zoom Lecture: Robotics in Space

In this fascinating and wide scoping  talk Graham Edwards will talk about robotics from early day automatons from past, their use in science fiction to their current use through to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. The scope of this talk is quite wide so the areas will be covered briefly and Graham hopes light…