This was our second visit to the Kettleness Scout centre, which used to be the railway station back in the day. Sleights cubs were spending the Halloween weekend camping there and had asked for a star party for evening of the 28th. Conditions, although very in keeping with Halloween, were not very conducive for observations, being rather cloudy and very windy, too windy for the scopes. Use was therefore made of the activities room for an indoor show... [Read more about Kettleness – Scout /Cub Event]
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A reminder to anyone who didn’t see the news last month, this year’s Leeds Astromeet has been cancelled. The comment on the Leeds website reads as follows
This year’s event was early in the month in an effort to minimise the effect of moonlight. Conditions on the evening were encouraging with cloud forecast to clear away to the south. This turned out to be the case, but was painfully slow so that the moon and Saturn were initially obscured... 
Having finally made contact with Paul, we have pencilled in a date for his postponed talk. Unfortunately it will be 2018 before Paul can make it as he running a WEA course until March of 2018. 
Given that this event was organised for a bank holiday weekend, it was pleasantly surprising to plan for the evening with a high degree of confidence of clear skies. Mark, Andi and Keith made the journey over to Northcliffe holiday park at Hawsker, (Andi and Keith checking out Seaview park en-route), three scopes packed including the LX 200. Once we had negotiated the bollard and gate (don’t ask) leading to the football field, the instruments were set up and we prepared for a great evening’s observation. 
