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

Public Stargazing Helen Garden – Jan 2026

Well – another great evening for observing at Helen Garden on Sat 24th January. We had around 200 eager observers young and old, who saw the Moon close-up and the majority saw Jupiter, and its cloud bands and Galilean moons before it eventually clouded over. Lots of warming coffees and […]

Helen Garden Public Stargazing – Nov 2025

Another really good evening for public stargazing. The first hour was clear but then some cloud and haze came in, but everyone still managed to view the Moon in all its glory and then Saturn with its (currently) edge-on rings. We had a couple of smart scopes, an 80mm APO […]

TV Stars!

Well not quite ‘time variable’ stars like Cepheids … but Television stars … we made it onto the local Brighton TV Channel “Latest TV”.

2025/26 Season – Public Stargazing – Helen Garden

Our new season has commenced – and our first public stargazing event at Helen Garden has been held and we had lots of attendees … and clear skies! Here are a couple of quick images from the evening – Comet Lemmon and the Seven Sisters Star Cluster. Everyone also viewed […]

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 […]

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