Visits

The society organises trips to visit places of interest, exhibitions and conferences. Members pay for shared transport and any entrance fees as appropriate - with the society obtaining group discounts wherever possible.

Upcoming Visits

25th-26th June 2025 - Bletchley Park

Our big trip this year is 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.

Trip outline:

Suggest staying somewhere near Bletchley Park e.g. DoubleTree by Hilton Milton Keynes (here) or Milton Keynes Campanile (here). Members to book their own room.
Members to organise cars (number of cars, location and drivers tbc) to suit starting location and preferred timings
Wednesday 25th June - drive to Milton Keynes. Optional en route stops: lunch/afternoon visit on the way
Meet up for meal in town somewhere tbc or just do your own thing
Thursday 26th June - early start next day to arrive at Bletchley Park for 9:30 opening - if more than 12 of us then will get Group entrance (discount) and book 1 hour walking tour with guide. Keith's been before and you need a minimum 4 hours to explore the site. (more info here)
Option to include Computer Science museum visit
Everyone to make their way home at whatever time suits as 3+ hour trip back

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

Past Visits

Visit - Jodrell Bank - June 2024:

HAS members and partners went on an overnight visit to see Jodrell bank in June. We also visited the National Trust site at Little Moreton Hall, a fabulous Tudor house and gardens on the way to the overnight hotel in Congleton

The beautiful weather continued for the visit to Jodrell, which has a number of immersive video shows on the history of the site as well as explaining that we are all made of stars 🙂

Wandering around the site to see the main radio telescope, a truly impressive piece of engineering, still in active use and part of e-Merlin linked telescopes, now stretching around the world.

Smiles all round with the HAS party and a wonderful mini-escape.

Now watch this space for possible future events 😉

Keith

28th - 29th February 2020 - Hanwell Observatory and Oxford

A Society trip to Hanwell and Oxford was made on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th February 2020 (just before COVID Lockdown!) This included a guided visit to the Hanwell Community Observatory (here) starting late afternoon on the Friday to view the 30 inch telescope. After an overnight stay, we enjoyed a guided visit to the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford (here) followed by an afternoon guided walking tour of "Astronomical Oxford".

For further details of this and other past visits, please visit our Archive pages under 'Home'.

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