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Break in Astronomy Centre, Todmorden |
One of our FAS Member Societies has suffered a break-in, and we would like you to alert your membership to watch out for any adverts offering the stolen items for sale. The details are in the note we have received, below. Clearly there will be other genuine similar articles for sale, but please check carefully the provenance of such items. If you have the slightest doubt, then you should refer this to the police.
There has been a break in at the Astronomy Centre Todmorden Unfortunately a lot of kit has been stolen. A full inventory will follow. This is a public outreach facility and is Peter Drew's life work. This is a big blow for the club.
Please be on the lookout for new ads for Coronado scopes and Solar scopes that have been modified. Large refracting binoculars and large reflecting binoculars in particular. Please pass the word and inform the police and the Astronomy Centre if you have your suspicions. If you can help by putting up warnings on any of the Astronomy forums, that will be appreciated. Thank you,
David Dench, Rochdale
So far, the list comprises:
Unique 6" F8 refracting Binocular telescope
Unique 6" F8 reflectng binocular telescope
12" Meade LX200 OTA
6" F8 black Helios refractor modded Ha scope
6" F8 blue Skywatcher refractor
3 Coronado PST bodies
2 black EQ6 mounts
1 white EQ6 Pro mount
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Want to know what astronomy events are on in your area? This May there are over 50
events run by FAS member societies across the whole of the UK. The FAS
events list are maintained by our societies and they have a great
selection of events for you to get involved in. These range from talks
on alien life to observing nights in dark skies. So if you fancy an
evening of astronomy, go to your local society. The full FAS events listings contains events for the rest of the year .
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Read Issue 1 of the FAS newsletter |
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The Federation of Astronomical Societies newsletter has been running since June 1984 and over the last few months we have been sorting and scanning in a bunch of older records. Previously we only had back to 1999 online. We now have an archive (minus a few issues) that goes back to the very first issue of the FAS newsletter. So why not go and take a read of the 1984 newsletter in our archive. Here is a preview, the first page of the first ever issue:
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Royal Treasure to see Kent Stars |
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The Royal Observatory Edinburgh has agreed to give one of its professional telescopes to FAS member society, Mid-Kent Astronomical Society . The 0.5m aperture telescope will be one of the largest in amateur hands; it was built to train students at Edinburgh University. However, the University are now upgrading their facilities and decided to give the scope away to the society that would make the best use of it. It will be sited at the Society’s James Irwin Observatory on the Canterbury Campus . For more information please see Mid-Kent's website
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Last Updated ( Monday, 26 March 2012 )
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Follow us on Facebook & Twitter |
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A while ago we created a twitter feed (follow us @fedastro). Today we are pleased to announce that we now have a facebook page - another way of getting the latest news from the FAS and our member societies. We can be found on Facebook as "fedastro" .
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