2010 MKDAS

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2010
Programme
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Thursday 14th January 2010 – 7pm
Understanding the Sky Atlas Map and
how to target the celestial objects.
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Friday 5th February 2010 (10am – 5pm)
Running trip to AstroFest at Kensington Town Hall, Kensington, London W8 7NX.
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Thursday 18th February 2010 – 7pm
Observing the orange planet – Mars.
Using some various the colour filters to spot the ice-caps. (See the photo on the right.)
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Thursday 15th March 2010 – 7pm
Hunting the deep-sky objects in the
constellation of Leo – The Lion.
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Thursday 15th April 2010 – 7pm
Observing the Virgo which is particular interest because it contains the nearest large cluster of galaxies as it’s called “The Virgo Cluster”.
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Friday 9th May 2010 – 7pm
Observing the colour, binary and various stars.
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June, July and August – Closed
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Wed 8th Sept till Wed 15th Sept 2010
Running Trip to the Sky Camp
at Norfolk for one week, organised by
British Deaf Astronomical Association.
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Thursday 7th October 2010 – 7pm
Visiting to Midlands Deaf Astronomical Society for sharing our experiences and Quiz.
(Meet us & leave here at 5.30pm)
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Thursday 4th November 2010 – 7pm
To find the challenge for
Open Clusters and Globular Clusters.
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Sunday 5thth December 2010 – 7pm
BDAA’s Christmas Season’s Festive Meals at Cotswold Deaf Astronomical.

Mars
The fourth major planet from the Sun to appear orange-red to the naked eye, and is known as the Red Planet, because it is covered by red deserts.

Mars is rocky planet that in some ways is similar to the Earth, that it has a 24-hour day with a changing of seasons that resembles our own, and polar ice-caps.

However that important because of differences the temperature on Mars sometimes rise above freezing, also the atmosphere is so thin to contain almost no oxygen!

To view through the telescope it appears as a small orange-red disk with lighter and darker markings – the white patches often visible at one pole or other pole.

From 35 to 63 million miles away from
Earth, when it’s at opposition. (See the
opposition photo above.) Mars shows some variation in phase like our Moon but appearing slightly gibbous at quadrature.

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MKDAS Observatory
Public Open Evenings
Everyone is welcome!

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The MKDAS Observatory is
located at Emberton County
Park, Emberton, near Olney,
Milton Keynes, Bucks.

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Find us on the A509
and meet us at the
reception – 7pm.

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Please text us if you are
coming on 07845319228.