Professor Tom Stallard (Northumbria University) will be giving a talk to the SAS in person on Grand Tour of Neptune then Uranus. In November 2025 and January 2026, we are undertaking a Grand Tour of Neptune then Uranus. Watching these planets for an entire month, we will see how the aurora of these worlds change…
Christmas Benker night. Traditionally between Christmas and New Year has been our night (if you attend we will enlighten you on what the Benker Night means?, nothing wrong with an incentive to try to get people to come along. Sunder 28th December 2025 at the Washington Wetlands Centre, from 7.00pm until late.
In this talk we shall examine humanity’s developing knowledge of science and the universe of which we are a part over the millennia. We shall do this by considering the staggering leap forward from using standing stones as calendars to launching telescopes into space.
September is the start of our new season. SAS Memberships will be due from 1st September 2025 (payable throughout September) for this season 2025/2026 Joining/Renewing helps support your local astronomical society & community. So come on down to the Cygnus Observatory (based at the Washington Wetlands Centre) to join or renew your SAS membership. The SAS is the largest…
Back by popular demand, Sunderland Astronomical Society are will be hosting a unique Moon Watch and Stargazing event at our base of operations (Cygnus Observatory and Washington Wetlands Centre). Join Sunderland Astronomical Society for this awesome public Moon Watch & Stargazing event. See the moon in stunning detail through many telescopes and enjoy a tour…
In this talk Dr Julian Onions (Nottingham University) will give an insightful introduction to particle physics, so that you know how to tell your proton from your quark, and your bosons from your hadrons and how we use them in astronomy.
The Sunderland Astronomical Society AGM will be taking place on Sunday 26th October 2025 from 7:00 pm at our base of operations Discovery Room at the Washington Wetlands Centre. SAS members are invited to attend, listen to chair’s reports and vote in the election of the committee and nominations are asked from the SAS members. The agenda is…
A supernova occurs when a star that is too massive to die quietly explodes at the end of its life. The energy released in this explosion is so large that the star becomes more than a hundred billion times as bright as the Sun for a period of six months to a year. The talk…
To kick of our 2025-2026 Astronomy Society season of talks with a bang, you are in for a real treat. As part of 3 parts of a 6 part Series in Exploring the Solar System we welcome a good friend to SAS Dr Steve Barrett. In these 3 short talks Dr Steve Barrett (Liverpool University)…
This year’s Starbeque will be held at our usual venue, the Millshields car Derwent Reservoir on Saturday 27th September 2025. We meet around 3pm for our picnic / barbeque and continue into the night for stargazing. If the weather forecast is for cloud or rain will not stop the event going ahead, but we…