What's New on
these pages
This page shows the major additions to the MAS web pages, but there are many minor mods and additions not included here.
Don't forget to visit the Members Section that is updated very regularly by Graham Hodson. The Members Section is the portal to observations, articles, images and what's happening in astronomy.
Added 31 May 2006
- High resolution Moon imaging with a simple digital camera. By Kevin Kilburn
Added 24 January 2006
- Moon Colour, Does the Moon have any colour? A Project in the Manchester Astronomical Society to investigate the subtle colours of the Moon's surface.
Added 13 Sept 2005
- As a trail, a few of the MAS web pages have been converted so that they can be viewed from your mobile phone or PDA. If you think this is a useful please let us know. The WAP home page url is: http://www.manastro.co.uk/wap/ from here, you can view the forthcoming meetings together with some contact information and where we are.
Added 21 July 2005
- The Small Collection of Important Selenographical Works Held by the Manchester Astronomical Society An article by Nigel Longshaw.
Added 22 Jan 2005
- Major changes to the site: The whole MAS site and other supporting pages maintained by Michael Oates have move to another server. We appologise if this has caused any problems finding the pages. We also hope that you will bear with us while all links are updated to point to the correct pages. If you find any broken links, please let me know so that I can mend them.
Added 14 June 2003
- New Book Review: Latitude: How American Astronomers Solved the Mystery of Variation, by Bill Carter and Merri Sue Carter. Review by Kevin Kilburn
Added 18 April 2003
- New Astronomy Forums - Astro Info The first in the UK!
- Updated Missions and Events page with some of this years events.
Added 11 April 2003
- New Elected Council for 2003-2004
Added 17 July 2002
- New Book Review: More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, by Jean Meeus. Review by Kevin Kilburn
Added 12 June 2002
- New Lecture list for for the 2002-2003 season.
Added 9 April 2002
- New Book Review: Gods in the Sky, by Allan Chapman. Review by Kevin Kilburn
Added 21 Oct 2001
- New Book Review: The Story of Light by Ben Bova. Review by Guy Duckworth
Added 4 Oct 2001
Added 13 May 2001
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Current Notes in full is now available online starting with the May 2001 edition
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Don't forget to visit the all new Members Section that's produced and maintained by Graham Hodson
Added 5 May 2001
- New Lecture list for for the 2001-2002 season.
Added 3 May 2001
- New Council for the 2001-2002 season.
Added 28 March 2001
- Second review: Software - RedShift 4 A desktop planetarium
Added 21 Jan 2001