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About the Derby and
District Astronomical Society…
The DDAS
meets on the first Friday of the month at the
Friends Meeting House, St Helen's Street, Derby.
At these meetings, we have a variety of speakers
who give talks to suit all levels and interests.
From time to time, our own members give short (or
longer if given the opportunity) talks. These
meetings begin at 7:30 p.m. In between these, we
have regular observing meetings scheduled. These
are usually at members houses, with the middle
one scheduled for our observatory. The latter is
named the Flamsteed Observatory in honour of
"local boy come good" John Flamsteed.
It houses a 10" Newtonian Reflector that is
motor driven. There is also a simple CCD camera
that can be used for guiding the telescope or
observing brighter objects in real time. We put
on public observing sessions from time to time,
in Markeaton Park - OK so we suffer from a lot of
light pollution but at least we are achieving one
of our aims - that is to bring astronomy the
general public.
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