NASTRO Northumberland Astronomical Society

Promoting astronomy education and encouraging people to look up since the year 2000

Nastro, Northumberland Astronomical Society was founded in January 2000 and has approximately 65 regular members. We are a friendly, active society of professional and amateur astronomers from the North East England. Our mission is to promote astronomy and science education and we regularly do outreach sessions for various groups.

Nastro secured funding for a 14 inch research grade telescope and a custom made observatory was built to house it at Hauxley Nature Reserve in 2008. Our regular meeting place at the Visitor Centre was destroyed by fire in 2010, and thankfully the observatory was unharmed. We now host our bi-monthly meetings in the Bee Hive function room at The Trap Inn, Broomhill until our new Education Centre is built.

We welcome new members to come and join us in our bi-monthly meetings and observing sessions where you can learn and experience new things email us if you are interested in finding out about our up and coming events or if you are interested in joining our society where you will have the chance to take our beginners course in astronomy and have access to our observatory and other equipment! We have also begun hosting observing sessions open to the public at our Hauxley Observatory so if you are interested in coming to see though a telescope contact us and we'd love to give you a tour of our part of the night sky.

www.nastro.org.uk
email: emma@nastro.org.uk

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• astronomy
• Astronomy
• Astronomy (magazine)
• space