Welcome to the Eastbourne Astronomical Society
View the programmes for our Lectures and our Public and Society Observing Meetings – and any Special Events. See you all at the next meeting. Good seeing. Registered Educational Charity No. 1105267
ISS Solar Transit – 12th June 2025
The International Space Station (ISS) orbits the Earth every 90mins – it travels at about 17,000 mph and about 250 miles altitude. You can quite often catch a glimpse of it crossing the sky at morning or evening twilight when it reflects the Sun’s light. Occasionally it transits (crosses) the […]
Sombrero Galaxy
As the weather seems to be getting sunnier … it seems to be time to wear a hat! So here is an image of the Sombrero Galaxy – Messier 104 in the Constellation of Virgo. It is a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on approx. 29 million lightyears distant, and is […]
Partial Solar Eclipse – 29th Mar 2025
Hope you all saw the partial solar eclipse on Sat 29th March. Here is a time lapse taken with a ZWO Seestar S30.
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) – 17 October 2024
Taken with an iPhone 15 Pro – hand held – at Beachy Head on 17th Oct 2024.
Aurora – 10 Oct 2024
Aurora from Willingdon on 10th Oct 2024. This is the second time this year we have seen some great views of the aurora from as far south as Eastbourne. Why? It is solar maximum (an 11 year cycle) – so there are more sunspots and hence more chance of solar […]
Aurora – 10 May 2024
Hope you managed to spot the aurora on the night of Fri 10th May 2024 … think we should call it The Great Aurora of 2024! Here are a couple of Smartphone photos from Uckfield by one of our committee members. Credit: Roy Marriott
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks
This looks more like the green comet than The Green Comet! Image: Alan Tidey – 10 minutes of 20 sec subs from Beachy Head – 24 Mar 2024
Orbits
All our Society Newsletters, Orbits, from the initial formation of EAS in October 1960 have now been scanned, and made available on the website. The page is password protected so that only members can access the page, in accordance with some of our presenters. Contact the membership secretary or webmaster […]
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) – The Green Comet
This has been in the news a lot – however it hasn’t brightened quite as much as was forecast – so hasn’t really been a naked-eye object. Maybe next time it comes to visit … in 50,000 years! This image shows it with star trails – so you get some […]
