June 2025 – Art and its influence on our understanding of the Cosmos
A report on the talk given by Greg Smye-Rumsby at the OAS meeting on 25 June 2025 Throughout history, speculation about the heavens has encouraged …
We meet every month, usually on the fourth Thursday of the month, (the December meeting will generally be on the third Thursday). Meetings start no earlier than 7:30pm and end before 10:00pm. Here you’ll find brief reports of many of our meetings. In these we try to include any web links or other pointers to further information that were provided by the speaker at the meeting. If you were at one of our meetings and would like to correct or expand the report relating to it then please email our webmaster.
A report on the talk given by Greg Smye-Rumsby at the OAS meeting on 25 June 2025 Throughout history, speculation about the heavens has encouraged …
A report on the May 2025 Society Meeting talk prepared by Dave Allen. It was around 70,000 years ago that Homo Sapiens began to venture …
The March 2025 Society Meeting talk saw a change of plan, following the late cancellation of the planned event, with our own society member and …
The topic for the talk at our meeting on 22 January 2025 was Choosing a Telescope. Different types of telescopes were described and each was on display at the front of the hall.
This was presented by 5 of the members who went on the trip. 3 Members of the Flamsteed Astronomical Society were invited as guests for …
The talk to members at our October 2024 meeting of the Orpington Astronomical Society was given by Tony Sizer our Programme Secretary who has been …
Report on the meeting of 25 September 2024 If Venus had a moon We all know that Venus doesn’t have a moon. Don’t we? OAS …