The 2024 European AstroFest event takes place on Friday February 2nd Saturday February 3rd at Kensington Conference and Events Centre, London. This event is the UK’s premier astronomy conference and exhibition and it features 16 talks from some of the world’s leading astronomers and space scientists. In addition there are three floors of exhibitions from…
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…
The European AstroFest returned to its usual London home last weekend, the first since 2020 which took place just before the start of the global pandemic. This two day event was held at the Kensington Conference and Events Centre on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th February. The event featured 3 floors of exhibition space showing the latest…
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…
Baader Planetarium will be attending the UK Astro Show / International Astronomy Show that runs on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th October. We will have a stand and will have a 10Micron GM2000 on display alongside a range of Baader accessories such as ClickLock and UFC items. We look forward to seeing you there. More…
On Saturday 19th March at 9am prompt, the doors opened at the Kettering Conference Centre to welcome a long queue of eager visitors to attend the 2022 UK Practical Astronomy Show (PAS). This was the second time that this event has been run since its first outing 2019. Originally planned to be yearly, the event…
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…
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…
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…
We are continuing to operate ‘business as usual’ whilst implementing a number of precautionary practical and operational measures. Please be reassured that we will continue to offer our usual high level of service and next working day delivery to our customers, and to our dealers, as long as we are able to do so. We…
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…
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…
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…
There is not to go before the Solar System’s innermost planet, Mercury, will cross the face of our Sun around lunchtime on Monday 11th November. Mercury’s transit will begin around 12:35h GMT. The time of greatest transit, that is when Mercury “is near the middle of Sun” is around 15:19hGMT, and the transit event ends…
We will be attending the new Practical Astronomy Show on Saturday March 21st at the Kettering Conference Centre where we will have good range of telescopes and accessories on display. The show opens to the public at 9am till 5pm. There will also be a good set of talks too. What’s more is that the…