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Category: Events

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Monthy meeting – Astrophotography with telescopes

26 Apr 201828 Apr 2018
Thursday 26th April from 7:30pm at Percy Community Centre, Bath. Monthly meeting of Bath Astronomers and talk by Pete Richardson on Astrophotography with telescopes. Pete is an award winning astrophotographer…
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World Heritage Day

22 Apr 201823 Apr 2018
A great afternoon supporting the Bath Preservation Trust bringing astronomy and in this case solar observing to the public at the World Heritage Day below the Royal Crescent on Sunday…
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Widefield astrophotography

29 Mar 201830 Mar 2018
Thank you to those that were able to come along to Andy Burns’ talk on widefield astrophotography last night (29th March 2018) at the Percy Community Centre. We had 20…

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