DASH - Events Details for  August 2024 to May 2025

 

DASH ASTRO SUNDAY EVENING OBSERVING AND GENERAL MEETINGS.

Unless stated otherwise, all group meetings will take place at DARSHAM VILLAGE HALL from 7:00 pm

All DASH Astro Social/Observing sessions will take place at Darsham Village Hall Playing Field. If the weather is unsuitable for observing, we will hold a drop in social evening in the Darsham Village Hall.

Ad-hoc observing sessions and locations may be arranged at short notice for serious observing.

Note * Guest Speaker Evenings - Admission Fees:- Members Free, Non Members £ 3:00

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2024 Events

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10-08-2024  Solar Observing Darsham Village Hall Annual Fete from 2:00pm

11-08-2024  Solar Observing - National Trust, Dunwich Heath from 11:00am

08-09-2024  DASH Social/Observing Session ( Sunset 19:28  Moonset 20:51    25.9% Moon  ) Note: From 6:00pm

15-09-2024  Meeting:- Calvin Preston - “The Hubble tension: The story of cosmology in the last century”

06-10-2024  DASH Social/Observing Session ( Sunset 18:24  Moonset 19:16   12.7% Moon  )

20-10-2024  Meeting:- Paul Fellows - "Where are the Sun’s Sisters"

03-11-2024  DASH Social/Observing Session ( Sunset 16:27  Moonset 16:46    3.9% Moon  )

17-11-2024  Meeting:-  Clive Goldsmith - "The Very Early Universe and the Theory of Inflation"

08-12-2024  DASH Social/Observing and DASH Christmas Social ( Members and Guests only )

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2025 Events

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05-01-2025 DASH Social/Observing Session ( Sunset 15:56  Moonset 23:03   35.6% Moon  )

19-01-2025 Meeting:- Frits Sweijen - "Tuning in to an invisible universe: a radio telescope view on the night sky"

02-02-2025 DASH Social/Observing Session ( Sunset 16:43  Moonset 22:15  21.1% Moon  )

16-02-2025 Meeting:- Tatyana Reid - "Planetary Nebulae. When Imagination Enriches Observation"

02-03-2025 DASH Social/Observing Session ( Sunset 17:35  Moonset 21:22   9.2% Moon  )

16-03-2025 Meeting:- Dr George Seabroke - " The Gaia Revolution"

30-03-2025 DASH Social/Observing Session ( Sunset 19:24  Moonset 21:22   1.8% Moon  )

13-04-2025 Meeting:- Details to be confirmed

27-04-2025 DASH Social/Observing Session ( Sunset 20:13  Moonset 20:19   0.2% Moon  )

11-05-2025 Meeting:- AGM

 

Additional Dates for your diary.

                                                

                                                15th November  Fire and Feast, Cratfield (Ticket only)

                                                22nd and 23rd November, National Trust Dunwich Heath (Ticket only via National Trust)