Events
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AGM then Steve Wootton: The Constellations of Canis Major & Minor
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomThe society's 2026 Annual General Meeting, followed with short talks presented by the society's current Vice President, Steve Wootton, on the constellations of Canis Major and Canis Minor.
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WOW 13 – Observing Week
WolvAS Observing Week 13 (WOW)The Autumn 2025 WOW event is being held from Friday the 17th to Sunday the 26th of October, with the New Moon on Monday the 20th […]
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Linda Manas – Trigonometry in Astronomy: Measuring the Earth and the Moon
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomSociety member Linda Manas presents a talk on Trigonometry in Astronomy: Measuring the Earth and the Moon. Linda will discuss early trigonometrical methods of finding the Earth’s tilt, latitude and […]
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The International Astronomy Show
A trade show with talks/lectures The Event, Lectures and Parking are all free
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Robin Scagell – City Astronomy
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom (Speaker remote via Zoom) Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomMost of the UK population live either in a city or town, or near enough to one, that light pollution is a problem for both observers and imagers. Robin Scagell, […]
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Mike Frost – Who’s Who in the Moon
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomI am the ninth director of the British Astronomical Association's Historical Section. The first director was a solar astronomer called Mary Evershed (nee Orr). She was the editor of the […]
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Duncan Willis – The Space Shuttle; Past, Present & Future
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomThis talk will explore the Space Shuttle, from its origins, its missions, how it contributed to astronomy and on to current and future Shuttles.
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Dr Steve Barrett – The ABC of Stellar Evolution
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom (Speaker remote via Zoom) Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomA look at the birth, life and death of stars. What are the three factors (the ABC) that determine why stars are the way they are and why they evolve […]
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Andrew Thornett – Getting Started in Radio Astronomy
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomHave you ever looked at the clouds and wanted to throw your expensive equipment in the bin? Here in the UK, much of the time, a cardboard tube would be […]
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Gary Poyner – ‘T Corona Borealis – The Jewel in the Crown
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom'Nova Corona Borealis 1866 was the first Nova to have its spectrum examined. Eighty years later in 1946 the Nova erupted again, causing great excitement. Now, after a further eighty years of […]
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European Astrofest
Kensington Conference and Events Centre Hornton Street,, LondonConference and Exhibition'Join us at the European AstroFest 2026 conference and hear 16 fascinating talks from experts in the fields of astronomy and space science.' Listen to top speakers spanning […]
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Kieron Nixon – Understanding Special Relativity (without the maths).
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomSpecial Relativity Without the Maths (or How to Fit a Metre Stick into a Matchbox)You might think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s. You might even […]
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Fran Bagenal- NASA’s Juno Mission to Jupiter
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom (Speaker remote via Zoom) Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomNASA’s JUNO mission was launched in August 2011 and has been in orbit over Jupiter’s poles since 4th July 2016, its mission to understand the origin and evolution of the […]
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Practical Astronomy Show
Stoneleigh Park Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, United KingdomPractical Astronomy Show – The largest astronomy show in the UK A FREE astronomy show with many exhibitors representing a wide range of brands and products.
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WoW 14 – Spring 2026
WolvAS Observing Week 14 (WOW)The Spring 2026 WOW event is being held from Friday the 13th to Sunday the 22nd of March, with the New Moon on Thursday the 19th […]
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Simon Banton – The Astronomy of Stonehenge
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomThis talk will investigate the astronomical alignments at Stonehenge - both those that are academically accepted and also some others not generally known about. Do they all exist? Are they […]
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Simon Holbeche: The Women who discovered what stars are made of.
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom (Speaker remote via Zoom) Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom101 years ago, a 24-year-old English woman had her astrophysics PhD published based on her work at Harvard College Observatory. It bought together 50 years of effort by Harvard’s computers […]
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Jacco van Loon: Mysterious matter in interstellar space
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomThe light from stars is intercepted by molecules in deep space but we do not know what the majority of these particles are. They appear as absorption features in the […]
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Paul Fellows – Once around the moons of Pluto
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomPluto was recognised as a planet in 1930 but appeared to be alone until 1978. The discovery of a large moon, Charon, changed our perspective. With the flyby of the […]
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Wolverhampton University SciFest
University of Wolverhampton, Rosalind Franklin Building Stafford Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomSciFest is an annual festival held at the University of Wolverhampton with the aim of increasing aspiration through fun interactive means in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) Friday 26th […]