The Perfect Christmas Present

The Perfect Christmas Present

Looking for the perfect Christmas present for the astronomer in your family? Why not give them membership to North Essex Astronomical Society? Membership is just £25 for an indivudial or £35 for a family. We even do a junior membership at £10 Membership entitles you to: access to and full use of our observatory dark site and telescopes our monthly Pulsar e-magazine and other email updates about activities and events reduced door charge for public meetings observing sessions and workshops helping out at our many public and private outreach events members-only events, meetings, activities, informal trips to the pub and organised meals and curry nights affiliate membership of the Society for the History of Astronomy It's easy to join too. You can do it all online and pay via Paypal or BACs. Do it now and cross one thing off your to-do list. And if you want to drop a subtle hint to someone in your family that this would be a good present, why not...
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BBC Inside Out Films at Observatory

UPDATE - Here's the footage: On Wednesday afternoon we welcomed BBC presenter David Whiteley to the observatory in order to film some footage for the current affairs programme Inside Out.  The programme will feature a story segment about the radio astronomy pioneers of Cambridge and is also tied in with Stargazing Live.   The show will be broadcast on Monday 16th January at 7:30pm on BBC1, so look out for us. (Unfortunately most of us will be taking part in Stargazing Live events on that night, so we'll have to check it out on iPlayer!)    ...
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