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Treasure House Exhibition
Please explore our website, get in touch and come and see us at a meeting sometime soon.
We meet on the first Monday of each month at Woodmansey Village Hall.
You can have your first meeting as a guest for free if you bring along your partly completed "12 challenges list" - we can help you complete some of the challenges.
download this pdf copy of the leaflet.
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Our History
From left to right.
The Three Dobs: The Club's 20" Dobsonian, Lee's 12" Dobs and Sue's 8" Dobs.
History of ERA
by Lorraine Scaife and Helen Marshal - in prep.
Market Stalls
Last year's stall was a success as was our 2nd on Saturday 30th July. We'll have a market stall each year in the summer.
We also had a public stargazing event at the Treasure House in Beverley on the 1st December which was well attended.
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What we do
Wide Field photography
Observing the Moon
and the Planets
Deep Sky - Galaxies, nebulae etc
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One family's story
One family's cautionary tale and how they navigated their way to success.
Read this unabridged story.
This is a useful guide to getting started
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Start Right
Three steps to getting the right start in stargazing.
see this handy online guide.
Youtube is a great source of inspiration, here are some of our favourite "gurus".
Astrobiscuit
Ed Ting
Astronomy & Nature
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What's Up?
During July to December, as the nights get darker, there are so many things to see in the night sky that you will need a plan.
Let us help guide you around East Yorkshire's night sky.
Here is the National Schools Observatory Website
Here is our ERA Guide - download pdf here.
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Astrophotography
A number of our members are quite good at this. Check out our members gallery.
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Fun facts for all the family. Just a few to get you started as we have an entire universe of facts to explore.
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If we shrunk the universe down so that our sun was the size of a small garden pea then the solar
system would just fit into the Treasure House Tower. Come and explore the solar system and imagine as you walk up the Tower
steps that your spaceship is blasting its way out of the sun's gravity well, gradually spiralling out to the darker outer edge of
our solar system.
York Solar System Cycle Route.
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If you want to get into astrophotography then be aware that it is a significant learning journey and it will require time, patience and some financial investment.
There are many fine astrophotographers out there and it's never been easier to get involved, but it's not for everyone though.
Come along to a club meeting and chat with some of our members to see if it's for you.
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Equipment on display at the Treasure House:
We have a tabletop dobsonian reflector telescope that despite its small size and relative low cost is actually a good telescope.
We also have on display a larger refractor telescope,
a solar filter, eyepieces, binoculars and some items that can be found in the basic toolkit for every astronomer.
The most basic starting kit is made up of a simple guide to the night sky, your eyes, and someone to share the experience with.
Everything else is optional.