Earlsdon Methodist Church Hall, Earlsdon Avenue South, CV5 6DN Friday 9th October 2026 7:00pm – 9:00pm For this months guest speaker presentation, we welcome Prof. Boris Gaensicke who will provide a talk on the fate...
This edition of “From the Archives” features Rob Moseley’s account of a night when the skies opened up and revealed a host of astronomical wonders. This account is a perhaps a timely reminder that...
Karen provides a superb account of the history of Messier 102. This detailed account of historical debate on the naming of this object warrants its own edition of MIRA
There’s no doubt that the recent eclipse caught everybody’s attention as hundreds of people descended on Broadgate in Coventry to witness the near total eclipse of the sun on the 12th of August. Poor...
Congratulations to Karen S for her amazing photograph of the Omega Nebula that featured on the front cover of the August edition of the Journal of the BAA! It can be easy to underestimate...
With all the excitement about the recent eclipse continuing to dominate our club’s What’s App Channel, it seems like a good time to dip into the archives and revisit an article by Mike Frost...
This is the first posting that delves into the MIRA archives for interesting contributions from members past and present. Hopefully, this will become a regular feature of the site. In this post, we revisit...
Earlsdon Methodist Church Hall, Earlsdon Avenue South, CV5 6DN Friday 8th May 2026 7:00-9:00pm For this month’s talk, we welcome Gary Poyner to the society where he will be talking about much anticipated outburst...
Earlsdon Methodist Church Hall, Earlsdon Avenue South, CV5 6DN Friday 10th April 2026 For this month’s meeting, we welcome back our intrepid explorer Mike Frost whose wanderings have taken him down under to the...
The Messier Marathon challenges amateur astronomers to view the entire Messier catalogue of 110 deep sky objects in one evening. This is quite a challenge and the ability to achieve this depends on the...
