What's On

Past events

A record of the society's past talks, meetings, observing sessions and trips, most recent first.

2026

2025

  • Workshop

    Learning Astrophotography

    7:00pm Windmill Community Centre

    With AstroLee

    AstroLee on getting started in astrophotography, with a hands-on session if the weather allowed.

  • Meeting

    The Monster in the Crab

    7:00pm

    With Gary Poyner

    Gary Poyner on OJ287, the largest binary black hole yet detected.

2023

2022

  • Curry and Quiz Night

    7:00pm

    Our Christmas curry and quiz night (moved to the second Tuesday).

  • Inter-society Quiz Night

    7:30pm

    An inter-society quiz hosted by Bromsgrove Astronomical Society, with Redditch defending their title.

  • Meeting

    Open Evening: Telescopes

    7:00pm

    Help with setting up telescopes, star party tips and plans for British Space Week.

  • Observing

    Star Party

    5:30pm Morton Stanley Park café

    Sidewalk astronomy at the new café in Morton Stanley Park.

  • Meeting

    Building Galaxies One Star at a Time

    7:30pm

    With Elizabeth Stanway

    Elizabeth Stanway on how we observe and interpret distant galaxies. Our first in-person speaker since March 2020.

Some of our past speakers

Highlights from earlier years, before the programme above was recorded.

  • Professor Chris Lintott

    Special celebrity speaker.

  • Andrew Lound

    Lecture: Under Marmalade Skies.

  • Mike Frost

    Local astronomer and eclipse chaser.

  • Elizabeth Stanway

    Astronomer at the University of Warwick with a specific interest in observational cosmology. Building galaxies one star at a time (July 2022).