Nominations for Chair, Treasurer, Secretary & Vice-Chair remain open! 🗳️ Forms will be available again at this Friday’s Richard Lambert Memorial Lecture with Dr Julian Onions. Details 👉 mkas.org.uk/mkas-programme Nominations close Fri 7 Nov at the end of the Astrodome meeting.

Our next meeting is one of our regular Astrodomes. Fri 7th Nov. at 8PM Rectory Cottages, Church Green Rd, Bletchley MK3 6BJ. All welcome

Our next meeting is our Annual General Meeting. Meet up with local astronomy enthusiasts: Friday 21st November at 8PM Rectory Cottages, Church Green Rd, Bletchley, Milton Keynes MK3 6BJ. All welcome

Our next meeting is the last of our regular Astrodome meetings of the year: Friday 5th December at 8PM Rectory Cottages, Church Green Rd, Bletchley, Milton Keynes MK3 6BJ. All welcome.

Its Time to Renew your 2026 Membership to MKAS Please visit mkas.org.uk/membership-form

Join us on 5th December for our next Astrodome meeting

Membership of MKAS for 2026 now available simple visit mkas.org.uk/membership-form and apply

Four of us from MKAS headed to a dark site and were greeted by the Plough, Jupiter and Orion. We’d barely sat down when three meteors flashed by. Over 90 minutes we saw ~20, from faint flickers to bright streaks. One was slow and red, another even crossed a telescope’s view

Our next meeting is on 16 January 2026. Visit mkas.org.uk/mkas-programme to see our 2026 programme. The MKAS Committee wishes everyone a very Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year. Please remember to renew your membership at mkas.org.uk/membership-form.

MKAS is delighted to announce the launch of its brand-new Facebook page, marking an exciting step forward in connecting with the local community and inspiring a new generation of amateur astronomers. The new page, available at facebook.com/MKastronomical

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At Friday’s meeting, Pierre shared news of the newly discovered sun grazing comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) a Kreutz comet which will soon pass close to the Sun, and outlined several possible outcomes . As always with comets, we will watch and wait. If it survives, we'll see it in April.

On Friday evening, MKAS member Theresa also gave a talk on where the chemical elements around us come from. It was a thought-provoking journey from the birth of the Universe to the gold in our jewellery. facebook.com/MKastronomical mkas.org.uk

Get ready for MK’ Ultimate Space Showdown! and this year we’re aiming for the stars. Whether you’re a seasoned stargazer or constellation spotter, Expect cosmic conundrums, astro teasers, questions that will stretch your knowledge to the edge of the observable universe.