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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.

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Stargazey Pie.  January's edition of Stargazey Pie (written by Pauline Macrae and Pat Williams) is now available to read here. It includes a summary of Maarten's talk on "Celestial Oddballs". Welcome to 2012 everyone!

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Gallery Update.  Click the thumbnail to left to see the latest addition to our Gallery pages: Ian Drysdale's evocative picture of the Dec 2010 lunar eclipse. The Moon is one of our most photographed targets and this has meant the addition of a second Lunar Gallery page! Oh, to be so popular... 

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Reviews.  Fancy a "small" scope that thinks it's bigger than it is? Want it with a posh dual-speed Crayford focuser and a triplet ED lens assembly? Ok? Want it with a carbon-fibre tube? Well, alright then: here's the TS TLAPO906T ED Triplet refractor. Read the review of it by Antony McEwan 

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Space News.  Pat Williams has taken over the reigns of the popular Space News updates, initiated by John Gilmour last year. October 2010's update, and all the previous ones, can be accessed HERE! 

 

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