Welcome to the WDAS monthly newsletter for July 2019: a digest of the month's latest contributions to our website.  Below you'll find Society News; past and coming events; Mark celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing; and, of course, Sky Notes including details of the partial lunar eclipse with Saturn watching on.

Society News

Society News/Events

Unsurprisingly, our star party events in June all fell victim to the poor weather conditions, either cloud or rain ...or both.  It’s a quite a few years since we last endured a soggy June, but it was bound to happen sooner or later.  Let’s be philosophical; better June than late July, August or September, when we need fine evenings.  Hope things buck up during July.

Events

Hooks House Farm Star Party - Rescheduled

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:
13 September, 2025 - 20:00 to 22:00
Address:
Hooks House Farm
Whitby Road
YO22 4PE Robin Hood's Bay
United Kingdom
See map: Google Maps
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