The latest news from Sunderland Astronomical Society

SAS Meetings Thursdays via ZOOM.

VIRTUAL SOCIETY MEETING THURSDAYS ON ZOOM. START TIME:  7.00pm END TIME:  Usually around 9:00pm There is no formal subject just general astronomy chat. We get lots of questions on Facebook asking for advice and opinions on equipment and observing, so now is your chance to ask directly some of our senior members. We will give…

Membership Subscription Renewals for 2020-2021

SAS Memberships will be due from 1st September 2020 (payable throughout September) for this season 2020/2021. Joining/Renewing helps support your local astronomical society & community.   In this special year when we can’t meet as we would like, and haven’t been able to do our fundraising events your membership subscriptions are even more important to help keep…

SAS September Update

Sunderland Astro September UPDATE. Hi Everyone, The committee held a Zoom meeting yesterday to discuss the current society issues and the latest government statements on Coronavirus, in particular the new “Rule of 6″. After taking advice and considering the safety of our members and the reputation of the society we decided that we are still…

19th/26th September: SAS Starbeque (Postponed)

Update as of 14-09-20: The committee held a Zoom meeting yesterday to discuss the current society issues and the latest government statements on Coronavirus, in particular the new “Rule of 6”. After taking advice and considering the safety of our members and the reputation of the society we decided that we are still not able…

SAS August Update

Sunderland Astro AUGUST UPDATE. Hi everyone, I thought I would give a further update on where we are at restarting society events. We were hoping to start limited events this month but at the last minute the government changed they mind about some of the August rule changes and these do have a bearing on…