News
All the latest from the Society, astronomy and space
Project SMARTIE
Project Smartie was a collaborative astrophotography project involving members of Norwich Astronomical Society, using a mixture of smart telescopes to image the same deep-sky target. [...]
Partial Solar Eclipse August 12th 2026
We had a large gathering of members for the partial Solar Eclipse on Wednesday August 12th 2026, which was lovely and just what our facilites [...]
The DWARF 3 Smart Telescope as a Scientific Instrument
The advent of smart telescopes has revolutionised astronomy and astrophotography. Even dedicated visual observers are purchasing smart telescopes, owing to their ease of setup along [...]
NAS on Hospital Radio (courtesy of Steve Chambers)
On the 4th April, our member Steve Chambers represented the society for an interview on Hospital Radio. In the episode, Steve joined interviewer Jules and [...]
Private Live-Streamed Holly Lerski concert
On Sunday 7th September Holly Lerski performed live in the Genesis Dome. This was to celebrate the launch of her new songs which refer to [...]
Federation of Astronomical Societies Newsletter – June 2025
The latest edition of the FAS newsletter can be found at the following link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_FLCJwKuoekyRQeP8nRC01j2-kxho6FL/view?usp=sharing
80 Years of the Norwich Astronomical Society, a brief History for Sale
As part of our celebrations of our 80th year, our chairman, Andrew Sutkowski, has compiled and written an excellent history of the Society. Formed at [...]
Saturday 8th Feb Working party
On Saturday 8th February a groups of 5 of us, David Provan, Andrew Gardiner, David Davies, Will Adcock and Andrew Sutkowski made a start on [...]
FireBall Camera Live Site View
We are now part of the FRIPON and SCAMP Fireball monitoring network which aims to locate and recover meteorites that reach the earth. As part [...]
Keeping your eye out for Aurora
The following article is by one of our newer and younger members of the Noriwch Astronomical Society - Oscar Lawrence You can stand in awe [...]
We did a roaring trade at ROARR!
Saturday 24th August was the annual 'Dino's in the Dark' event at ROARR from 6 to 10 pm. Depsite the weather, the event was a [...]
A taste of ‘Whats to Come’
Friday 16th August was a nice clear night at the Seething Observatory and we were testing out the 16" telescope after several weeks of maintenance [...]