Wycombe Astronomical Society

Practical Meetings

Monthly Practical Evenings

These are held in the Frankie Vaughan Studio at Woodrow High House (pictured left).The sketch map on the location page shows the position of the building in relation to the house.

Meetings are held on a Thursday (unless otherwise stated) and  start at 8 pm.

Watch the Forum for details of any changes.

All meetings are held on a Thursday unless otherwise stated
2013
January 3rd
Discussion & display of ideas for Astrofest purchases
February 7th
Basics of taking pictures with a webcam
March 7th
Binocular astronomy
April 4th
Getting the best out of Registax
May 2nd
Transporting your scope and getting started
June 6th
Balancing your scope, alignment stars and polar alignment
July 4th
Astronomer's Question Time
August 1st
Focusers (manual and electric), filters and eyepieces are expensive ones worth the cost
September 5th
WAS Binocular 25  and Telescope 20 / 50
October 3rd
Recognising constellations and key stars
November 7th
Building your own observatory
December 5th
Coping with dew, light pollution, seeing and picking observing sites and keeping warm
2014
January 2nd
What do I do with this scope I had for Christmas
February 6th
The Moon
March 6th
Stacking with Deep Sky Stacker
April 3rd
Software for beginners
May 1st
Basics of good astrophotography
June 5th
What you can see with different sized scopes and magnifications
July 3rd
Solar Observing
August 7th
Improving observing with collimation, finderscopes, focussing and auto –focussing
September 4th
Looking at planets messier objects galaxies etc with different scopes