Meade have very generously donated another telescope to raffle at the Astronomy Festival. This year ...
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The Centre will open from 8pm on the 12th August for a chance to spot the Perseids Meteor Shower as ...
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A new gallery has been launched on the web site to showcase some of the amazing photos taken during ...
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The Observatory Science Centre
Herstmonceux
Hailsham
East Sussex
BN27 1RN
Herstmonceux
Hailsham
East Sussex
BN27 1RN
Tel: 01323 832731
Fax: 01323 832741
Fax: 01323 832741
Exclusive Books
Science Projects Publishing presents these exclusive publications.
Please note that although other distributors may offer these books, they will in turn then order them from us here at Herstmonceux.
Please note that although other distributors may offer these books, they will in turn then order them from us here at Herstmonceux.
The Isaac Newton Telescope - at Herstmonceux and on La Palma
This book is a history of the Isaac Newton Telescope, from the casting in 1936 of what would eventually become its main mirror in Sussex, to its continuing exploration of Canarian skies in the twenty-first century. It is a book about large telescopes and how they work, about the political realities of a 'big science' project, and about the remarkable progress of astronomy over forty years, in which the Isaac Newton telescope has played, and is still playing, a part.
148 pages, paperback, 104 colour and black/white illustrations.
By Anthony Wilson.
Science Projects Publishing 2010. ISBN 978 0 9512394 2 1
Exclusively available from The Observatory Science Centre shop or via mail order.
Cost £12 (including p & p)
Please make cheques payable to 'Science Projects Ltd' and send to
The Observatory Science Centre
Herstmonceux
East Sussex
BN27 1RN
Astronomers at Herstmonceux
'In their own words' this book recaptures the flavour of life at The Observatory, recorded in the personal recollections of people who spent much of their working lives there. It tells of freezing nights at the telescopes of the Equatorial Group, of days spent compiling essential tables for the Nautical Almanac before computers were available, and many other aspects of the astronomers' everyday life and work.
It is a lively and engaging record of a unique - and now vanished- way of life and abounds in anecdotes:
Why did one astonomer's trousers catch fire?
Whose observations were interrupted by blood-chilling screams?
68 pages, paperback. Editor Anthony Wilson.
Science Projects Publishing. ISBN 978 0 9512394 1 4
Exclusively available from The Observatory Science Centre shop or via mail order.
Cost £6 (including p & p)
Please make cheques payable to 'Science Projects Ltd' and send to
The Observatory Science Centre
Herstmonceux
East Sussex
BN27 1RN
Guidebook
INT Book Review No 1
"An enjoyable read. This book comes warmly recommended."
Sir Patrick Moore.
Featured in BBC Sky at Night Magazine.
INT Book Review No 2
"Well written, nicely illustrated and a real bargain at under £11"
David Stickland
The Observatory magazine August 2010.
