Bootham School Observatory

Welcome to the Observatory!

This site is intended for anyone interested in astronomy, and particularly anyone who would like to be a member of the Bootham School Astronomy Society. This membership is available to all members of the Bootham community, and students from other York schools who have attended the ISSP course on astronomy at Bootham. If you choose to subscribe by email, you will receive an email of any new post within about twenty four hours. There will also be twitter updates before an observatory session, and you are recommended to follow me on twitter using the button on the right of this screen.

Friday, 10 June 2011

Looking Good for Saturday Evening.

Weather

The weather forecast from the BBC is giving clear skies over York in the evening, so everything looks set for a nice event at the observatory tomorrow. Twilight will end at about 10:28pm, so don't feel you have to rush to get here early!

International Space Station

If the weather stays clear, there will be a low pass of the International Space Station at 11:23 so that may be worth staying for, but it will be low in the sky and will only last for about fifty seconds.

Saturn

The moon Titan will be well off to one side of Saturn on Saturday, so it should be possible to see both clearly through the telescope.

The Moon

Moonset will be at 10:50pm, so the Moon will be our first observing target.

Monday, 6 June 2011

ISSP Saturday 11th June

When you come for this event, please use the entrance on Portland Street to get into the school campus. You can park up on the playground, and then make your way to the entrance of the labs where I ran the ISSP sessions in March. I'll meet you all there. It will still be quite light at 10pm, but we can run the session until it gets dark enough to see something useful.

Please assume that it will be cold, and bring something warm to wear - you'll be out in the open!

Thursday, 26 May 2011

RSVP ISSP

The students who took part in the astronomy ISSP earlier this year are invited to respond to Annette Aylett's invitation to come for an observing session on the 11th June. If the weather is fine, we should be able to target Saturn's rings, the M13 globular cluster in Hercules and one or two other interesting objects. Detailed timings will be given out in Annette's invitation...