Members' Page

Members' Discussion Group

We've set up an online community for HAS members where you can raise questions, share your experience and suggest topics for talks or visits. We've created a discussion group on the Groups.io platform. This is a "fremium" based platform and promotes itself as "We don't run advertising and your data is never submitted to any ad tracking networks.". There are a lot of other astronomy and expert groups using this platform - it looks like a safe place to be online.

We've set the permissions for the group to be listed publicly but content is private - only HAS members can see what you post. We are moderating new members joining the group to manage spam bots and spurious content. This means new member requests have to be approved by an Admin before being admitted to the group. 

Once admitted you can follow discussions and post entries. It's an email based platform by default - you'll receive new posts by email from other members. However, if you don't want individual emails you can go online and change your "Subscription" to turn off emails and receive digests etc.

Have fun!

Society Visits and Trips

• Next Event

 Bletchley Park (25th. - 26th. June 2025)

At our AGM, Keith outlined our plans for trips and visits this year.

Top of the list is a proposed trip to  Bletchley Park. Although not directly associated with astronomy, the place it holds in British history and the development of technology tickled the interest of HAS members. 

There's also The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) in Block H at Bletchley Park - home to the world's largest collection of working historic computers. 

There's so much to see that we plan a two day visit and will find somewhere to stay overnight nearby. 

If you haven't already signed up for this trip, please contact Keith (here) to find out more.

Latest Members' Photos 

Taken any astronomy photos over the last few months? Share them here with HAS members! 

Take a look at what HAS members have managed to do over the years on our Images pages: (Latest Images,  Further Images, More Images). 

HAS members have also risen to the challenge of imaging all 110 Messier objects! Check out how we're doing on our Messier Marathon page.