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Next meeting Monday 14 October 2024, Christ Church, Uxbridge, 8 pm
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About us
We meet every month except August, alternately at two venues in Harrow and Hillingdon boroughs, so we cover a wide area of the west of London area.
You definitely don't need to be an advanced amateur to join, as we try to keep meetings at a level which anyone with a general interest in astronomy can follow. Probably the majority of our membership consists of people just like you – interested but not obsessed!
The society was founded in 1967 and has a membership mostly drawn from a wide area of the western side of London. As well as our monthly meetings, we have regular observing sessions at a site near High Wycombe, where skies are darker, and every year we organise an observing weekend to a truly dark sky site such as mid-Wales or the West Country.
We are affiliated to the Federation of Astronomical Societies.
If you are interested, take a look at our meeting programme and come along to one of the meetings and see if you like it. We have a wide range of meeting topics, from basic stargazing to cosmology, covering the wide range of interests among our members. The Society is not just for the advanced amateur astronomer we have members with all levels of experience and interests and welcome new members of all ages. There are subscription rates for those under 16 and for families, and our large membership allows us to keep our charges surprisingly low. You can join online or by post.
Our monthly meetings are held on the second Monday of the month at
Christ Church Chapel, Redford Way, Uxbridge
February, April, June, October and December
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Royal British Legion Harrow Club, 76 Northolt Road, Harrow, HA2 0DW
January, March, May, July, September and November.
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Members Only Pages
WOLAS members who have logged in with their unique user name and password can see a link to special pages of information below. You can also access this list from any page by clicking on your name at top right (after the word 'Welcome') when logged in.
If you have trouble logging in to this site as a WOLAS member, please contact our membership secretary, Martin Lewis, via the Contact Us page.
BAA President
WOLAS are pleased to announce that in October 2021 our own observations director, David Arditti, was elected president of the British Astronomical Association (BAA). WOLAS now has both the BAA president and the vice president of the Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA), Robin Scagell, included in its ranks.
WOLAS Bob Garner Trophy
The WOLAS observing trophy is now known as the Bob Garner Trophy, to honour our observing director for many years. Observations shown at meetings count towards this prize.
The 2023 winner was Lee Spencer and the 2024 winner was John Davies (below, right), who was presented with the trophy at our September 2024 meeting.
For more about the observing prize and observing trophy see here.
Astronomy Photographer of the year 2023
This award ceremony for this year's prestigious Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition was held online on Sept. 14th 2023. WOLAS Treasurer, Martin Lewis, was again in the final line-up, being Highly Commended for his image of Uranus and five moons. The image will be on display in the astrophotography winners' gallery at the National Maritime Museum until August 2024.
You can see Martin's image and view the other entries at www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-photographer-year/galleries/planets-comets-asteroids-2023
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| Veil Nebula by David Arditti See more great photos at the Members' Recent Observations and General WOLAS Images galleries |
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