This year’s official ‘Dark Sky’ week falls during the end of February – coinciding with the half term break. The society is delighted to be involved in a number of events, hopefully actually managing some observing outside this time. Our first event is a return to the Fox and Hounds, Ainthorpe, on Friday February 21st for a stargazing evening. The event held here last October fell foul to some diabolical weather (low cloud and rain) so it was purely an indoor affair lasting all evening!.. [Read more about Forthcoming Society Involvement: Fox and Hounds – Stargazing Night]
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If you have not already acquired a copy of ‘Night Scenes 2020’ by Paul Money, there are some copies remaining. 
Hardly seems like twelve months have slipped by, but once again society members found themselves in the Hare and Hounds, passing out Christmas cards, pulling crackers, donning paper hats, pondering the nature of the plastic toys inside, groaning at the terrible Christmas jokes, but most of all looking forward to the Christmas fayre... 
The Hare & Hounds at Hawsker will again be the venue for the Society Christmas meal. The date is December 14th at 19:00h. Click to see the menu, and if you are interested in a festive feast, please let Mark know your course choices at the December meeting... 
After working the thickest end of four decades at Fylingdales, society stalwart Andy Lawrence has finally vacated the work treadmill and retired. After starting at Fylingdales in a cleaning capacity before moving to the stores, Andy eventually finished as a materials controller... 
Well, it wasn’t a total cloud out for the transit of Mercury on Nov 11th after all, that said, the window of observing opportunity was limited to an hour or so during the early afternoon (at least from the Whitby and district area). Several members did manage to get out and view the transit during this period, taking a few nice images of the event... 
The final star party in October, requested and organized by Chloe Barker and tied into ‘The Unblinking Eye: 55 years of space operations on Fylingdales Moor’ exhibition at the museum, looked most unlikely to go ahead less than six hours before it was due to start. Rain was still failing during Saturday afternoon 24 hours after it had started! However the forecast (and crucially the timing of it) was right for once, with colder, clearer conditions spreading down by late afternoon, just in time for the event to get a green light... 