P.A.D.A.S.
PRESTON AND DISTRICT ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
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PADAS CALENDAR
2nd Thursday every month Guest Speaker at 19.30
At Penwortham Golf Club, Blundell Lane, Penwortham, PR1 0AX.
3rd Thursday September to March Public Open evening at 19.30
At Jeremiah Horrocks Observatory on Moor Park PR1 1NN.
4th Thursday every month Members night at 19.30
At Jeremiah Horrocks Observatory on Moor Park PR1 1NN.
Annual Membership £20.00 or £15.00 Concessions or £3.00 per session
New members are always welcome to come along and be assured of a warm welcome.
The Members nights are particularly useful to those who are new to astronomy for information and advice on equipment etc.
Whatever your question you will be able to talk to someone who knows the answer.
Please check on Facebook as events can be subject to change.
For outreach requests contact
John Hooper – Chairman –
Dermot Gethings – Vice Chairman – dermot.gethings@btinternet.com
Graham McLoughlin – Secretary –
Astronomical Trivia.
Light from the Sun takes eight minutes to reach the Earth.
Light travels at 186,000 miles per second.
A light year is the distance light travels in a year which is 6 million, million miles.
Our nearest Galaxy is Andromeda and is 2.537 million light years away.
Venus spins so slowly that a day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
There are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on every beach on planet Earth.
One of the smaller planets in the solar system has the largest Volcano. Olympus Mons on Mars is 15 miles high.
Neptune takes 165 years to orbit the Sun.
The Moon appears to be spherical in shape but in fact it is lemon shaped with flattened poles and bulges on near and far sides.
Footprints left on the Moon surface will still be there in 100 million years.
The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy will collide in 5 billion years.