Welcome to the WDAS monthly newsletter for July 2015: a digest of the month's latest contributions to our website.  Below you'll find Society News, Sky Notes and In-Focus articles printed in full.  There's also future events, and trailers for other articles which appear in full on the website - just a click away!

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Society News

 Did anyone else notice a bright light flash outside - presumably in the sky, around 10:45pm -11pm on Wed 10th June. The light persisted for around 3 or 4 seconds and was roughly south in orientation, reasonbly high, but it was not directly visible.  No sound was heard, so a bolide can be ruled out. It could have been a brilliant meteor. Anyone else notice anything?

In the News

The Philae Lander on the usrface of comet P67, which went into battery-save hibernation in November, has woken up.  That's according to this BBC report of the European Space Agency (ESA).

Events

A Public Star Party, weather permitting, near the Captain Cook monument on West Cliff  (setting-up from 21:00hrs).  Planetary & night sky Observations.

Planetary & night sky Observations.

Date:
23 August, 2025 - 21:00 to 23:00
Address:
Captain Cook Headland
West Cliff
near YO21 3HA Whitby
United Kingdom
GB

One of the observing highlights on the WDAS calendar.

Hook’s House is an excellent dark site location situated on the B1447 overlooking Robin Hood’s Bay. If the weather is fine the campsite should be full and as long as skies are clear, or clear enough, we should have a cracking evening.

We shall be setting up scopes around 20:00h - weather permitting. A map of the location can be found on the web site.

Date:
30 August, 2025 - 20:15 to 22:30
Address:
Hooks House Farm
Whitby Road
YO22 4PE Robin Hood's Bay
United Kingdom
GB