Practical Astronomy Show (UK) March 11th 2023

Making its comeback after another successful one-day event last year (its first run after the break due to COVID), the Practical Astronomy Show will take place on Saturday March 11th between 9am to 5pm at the Kettering Conference and Exhibition Centre near Kettering in Northamptonshire UK. The event brings together a good selection of leading…

European AstroFest 2023 in London

This year marks the first European AstroFest event since 2020. The pandemic meant that the event could not take place until now. AstroFest 2023 will take place on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th February at the Kensington Conference and Events Centre London and will feature 16 talks from leading astronomers and scientists and 3 floors…

Practical Astronomy Show 2022

The first Practical Astronomy Show (PAS) was held in 2019 and was a great success with lots of attendees as well as exhibitors. Due to Covid, the 2020 and 2021 events were postponed…but the good news is that PAS 2022 is going ahead. Baader Planetarium will have their UK representative at the show with a…

The June 10th 2021 Solar Eclipse

In just over a week, an annular Solar eclipse will take place on the morning of Thursday June 10th. An annular eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun but the Moon’s apparent diameter is smaller than that of the Sun’s due to the Moon’s orbit being elliptical and it being…

Here comes Venus….

Its hard to believe that a year has gone by since Venus seemed to be around for ages and was riding high in our evening sky during the late winter and spring months. This year, after its superior conjunction on March 25th 2021, Venus will once again start to become part of our evening sky…

Practical Astronomy Show (PAS) 2020

Its not long now – under a month – before we attend the next exhibition in our astronomy event calendar. This time it is the Practical Astronomy Show (PAS) that is held at the Kettering Conference Centre near (by the name you will have guessed already)….Kettering! The event takes place on Saturday 21st March, but…

Post AstroFest 2020 Report

We’re now back from last weekend’s AstroFest 2020 event which was a great event. There was lot of interest and good discussions about all the telescopes, mounts and accessories we had brought to exhibit on our booth. You can read a report on our time at AstroFest and what we brought to display, along with…

The International Astronomy Show 2019

We’re currently busy getting a range of Baader products together for the International Astronomy Show (IAS) at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire which takes place on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th November (this weekend). The event is in a different location in the Stoneleigh Park grounds than previous years. This time the main trade stands will…