Flamsteed Observatory

What it’s like

Peer through the society telescopes on a public observing night - check the date before you set off.

Peer through the society's 10-inch Meade and piggybacked Altair ED80 on a public observing night. Sessions are usually the second Saturday of the month; start times change with the seasons, and booking is no longer required - just turn up no earlier than the printed start.

Admittance is free. Weather can cancel at short notice, so check the Derby & District Astronomical Society website before you leave. Parking on site is limited; overflow is at the Rose & Crown in Brailsford with a lift offered, and there is no parking on the lane during sessions.

Anyone attending does so entirely at their own risk. Smoking is not permitted anywhere on site. The observatory sits a couple of miles north of Brailsford near Ashbourne - a rural dark site, not a walk-up planetarium show.

What’s on here

• SAT10

  Monthly observing session

  Free · 16 more dates

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Also on site

• 10-inch Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope

  indoors

  Mounted on an EQ6-Pro computerised GOTO mount and pier under a rotating dome, used for visual observations of the moon, planets and deep sky objects.

• Altair ED refractor with GPCAM

  indoors

  80mm Altair ED refractor piggybacked on the main telescope, connected to an Altair GPCAM camera providing a live viewing experience on-screen.

• Rotating dome

  Aluminium dome housing the observatory's telescope, assembled from separate segments in 1990.

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