Eastbourne Astronomical Society

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

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 […]

Lectures

Society Observing

Public Observing