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Welcome to the website of the Highlands Astronomical Society!

We hope you enjoy your visit. You can use  the buttons to the left hand side to visit the different sections on the site, including our popular reviews section, members-mods page, and wonderful gallery section.

The Society has members all over the Highlands, and even some who are further afield! We have a new observatory sited at Culloden Battlefield. The Jim Savage-Lowden observatory houses a computerised Meade LX200R 14 inch telescope, which gives outstanding views of galaxies, nebular, planets -  in fact anything we point it at! Details of public observing sessions can be found on our Programme and Events page. Please be sure to visit the Observing Etiquette page before joining us - it will help you to get the most out of your observatory visit!

To see what is on at the next meeting, please click on the button at the left hand side. Feel free to visit our new discussion forum too!

Seeing Stars.  In association with The Inverness Courier, members of HAS write a 'sky column' which is published on the first Friday of each month. After publication, the articles are also uploaded to our site, and they can be viewed here. August's article, 'A Teapot Full of Stars', is by Antony McEwan.

Gallery Update.  Click the thumbnail to left to see the latest addition to our Gallery pages: a fantastic image of The Pleiades taken by Alan Tough. The image is on Alan's own page and on the Deep Sky (Messier) gallery.  

Reviews.  The latest addition to our ever-expanding reviews section is a write-up on a specialist hydrogen alpha solar telescope that is taking the world by storm: the Lunt LS60THa. Read all about Antony McEwan's experiences with the 'scope here.

Space News.  A regular series of articles by John Gilmour, that give us all the latest information about the various space missions blasting off on their amazing adventures, or the latest scientific discoveries being made. You can read them all here.