Tired of freezing while stargazing? Fed-up with missing those faint fuzzes? Then EAA is for you!   This is the message we came away with...

What a way to kick off our 2025 solar observing season. Saturday morning’s partial solar eclipse  event at the Royal Observatory...

Size Does Matter! Unfeasibly Large? Dr Ruben Sanchez-Janssen provided a fascinating exposition of the scale of the Extremely Large...

Cue the A-Team  music because the skies are clear, and we love it when a plan comes together! 😊 Tonight was our (get ready, big word...

The Blackheath observing season has had some busy nights over the years, but this one? This was something else. Over 250 visitors, more...

At our latest History of Astronomy meeting, we were delighted to welcome Flamsteed member Paul Wright, who gave a fascinating talk on the...

"To set up or not to set up - poor weather, we knew him so well." As the Bard might have said if he’d turned up tonight! Yep, you’ve...

After what felt like an eternity without a public observing session – our last successful Blackheath event was all the way back on 12th...

Choosing your first telescope can feel like a daunting task - almost a dark art. Yet, unlocking the cosmos is a journey every amateur...

Professor Sanjeev Gupta visited the Flamsteed Astronomy Society for a second time, leaving us with a thought-provoking statement about...

Who needs the stars and planets when you’ve got buildings? That seemed to be the theme of the day as the Flamsteed Astronomy Society took...

Frank began his talk with a fascinating observation: "Astronomy in China, Korea & Japan presents a total change to how we in the West...

We were really excited to join forces with the British Astronomical Association (BAA) and the Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA) to run...

Observing, by Simon Hurst We were here for the "great gig in the sky" - ok, enough of the song titles, let’s get on with it. From...

Lost in the dark: where’d all that pesky matter go??? The challenge: To find something in the dark, that you cannot see, whose...

The evening started off with quite the excitement as we prepared for the much-hyped appearance of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-Atlas) ....

Last night’s Blackheath observing session was another great success, with around 80 visitors joining us under mostly clear skies. Despite...

Blackheath observing events in September have always been popular. Although the skies don’t get particularly dark until quite late, the...

After three successful solar viewing sessions in a row this August, we were clearly due for a weather-disrupted one - and, naturally, the...

Ah, the Flamsteed Summer Social, or as I like to call it, “Four-ish Pints of Lager and a Not-So-Secret Garden of Snacks.” Before you...