29th March 2025 PUBLIC EVENT – PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE This is an event open to the public Main Event will be held at the Rollright Stones - Partial eclipse starts at 9.56am and finishes 12.14pm Secondary event will be held at Witney Library
21st April 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm CLUB NIGHT Methodist Hall, Chipping Norton; - Subjects expected to include: Images of Partial Solar Eclipse; Narrowband Imaging/Filters; Olbers' Paradox
19th May 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm TALK – ‘REVEALING THE UNSEEN COSMOS – PETER GOODHEW Methodist Hall, Chipping Norton
21st July 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm A Talk by Mary McIntyre – Astronomical and Atmospheric Events Depicted in the Augsburg Wunderzeichenbuch (The Book of Miracles) Methodist Hall Chipping Norton Doors Open 7pm
18th August 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm CLUB NIGHT Methodist Hall Chipping Norton 7.30 to 9pm (Doors Open 7pm): Topics include: Gravity, a monthly update on whats in view and a look at the latest Astro images
15th September 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE WITH LARGE SURVEYS – DR IMOGEN WHITTAM Methodist Hall / Zoom Dr Imogen Whittam is a Hintze Fellow at the University of Oxford and Christ Church, researching galaxy evolution. She is particularly interested in radio galaxies - galaxies which spew powerful jets of very energetic particles from their centre - and the role they play in galaxy evolution. She has a PhD in Astrophysics from the […]
20th October 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm CLUB NIGHT Methodist Hall Chipping Norton / Zoom Methodist Hall Chipping Norton 7pm for 7.30 Start Topics include: Living with a large SCT, Radio Astronomy, An update on Recent Imaging and Observing Session
17th November 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm OBSERVING THE BRIGHTEST OBJECTS IN THE UNIVERSE – DR VICKY FAWCETT Methodist Hall Chipping Norton / Zoom Methodist Hall, Chipping Norton - 7pm for 7.30pm start Summary: Almost every known galaxy contains a supermassive black hole at its heart, including our own Milky Way, which have masses millions to billions that of our Sun. Understanding how these monster black holes shape their surroundings is crucial to our understanding of how galaxies evolve. […]
8th December 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm CHRISTMAS TALK – MERCURY, METEORITES AND THE BEPICOLUMBO MISSION – DR JULIA CARTWRIGHT Long Compton Village Hall The talk explains why meteorites remain some of the most important materials for understanding the where, what and why of our Solar System, as they preserve information about key events and processes. For Mercury, as one of the least explored planets, we still don’t exactly know how it formed or what is going on at […]