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Aries Astronomy Magazine is the Derby and District Astronomical Society's own magazine. The articles (e.g. forgotten spacemen, nebulae, the 1999 eclipse of the Sun, CCD cameras to name but a few) are mainly written by the members and the whole magazine is put together by me, Kevin Woodward. Aries Astronomy Magazine on line contains the main articles from the paper version, including some basic sky notes to assist with observing, missing out stuff like news (easily available elsewhere on line) the crossword/other puzzles and newspaper cuttings.

The Derby and District Astronomical Society 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 beginner to old hand. 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 Reflecting telescope 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 in Derby - 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 to the general public.