Past BBC Stargazing Events

BBC Stargazing Live! Evening - 5.30-9pm - Physics Building- Wed 13th January 2016


Please note the official BBC Stargazing Live TV programs will be broadcast 18th -20th March 2015(not January as with previous years). This is so the TV broadcasts will be able to talk about the solar eclipse which is happening on the 20th March 2015.

To learn more about the BBC Stargazing Live programs click here

Please note we will not be able to see a total solar eclipse from here in the UK, only a partial eclipse. It will look like THIS!

BBC Stargazing Live Evening event, 5-9pm - Physics Building- Thur 19th March 2015

Eventbrite - Stargazing Live 2015 - Thur 19th March

Please note that free tickets will go live on eventbrite on Tue 24th February 2015 at 10am !

For more info on how you can get free tickets to this campus event, please keep checking this page and/or follow our tweets from @SotonAstrodome.



pic We intend to run an evening event much like last years campus event on

Wed 7th Jan 2015.

For more info on our campus events keep checking this page and follow our tweets from @SotonAstrodome.

We are also running a Stargazing Study Day on Sat 17th Jan 2015.

For more info on this click here

BBC Stargazing Live Evening Event - Wed 8th January 2014, 5.30-9pm
For more info on this previous event click here



BBC Stargazing Evening Events- on campus January 8th 2013 and at Newbury Racecourse on Jan 9th 2013

On the 9th January 2013 we were at Newbury racecourse for the BBC South event doing 5- 45 minute planetarium shows for the general public. Look out for us on BBC South Today on the 9th :)

Information about the BBC South Stargazing event on 9th Jan at Newbury racecourse can be found here

Video from Stargazing Campus Event March 2013



The first campus event - January 2012
We held 2 events this year for BBC Stargazing Live. The first was on Monday 16th January, and was an evening event at the University Campus. The Mobile Planetarium did 6-30 min shows throughout the evening and members of the general public signed up on the night to see a show.

At this evening event there was also access to the observatories on the roof, and astrosoc's telescopes. There was also Astrophotography Tutorials,' Ask an Astronomer', Lectures on 'Black holes' and 'The extinction of the dinosaurs' from Astronomy Professors. There was also a TV showing the BBC live show, Word Wide Telescope tutorials and various Stargazing Live activities for small children.

This event was a great success and over 280 people attended on campus.



Video of Sadie introducing the campus evening event Jan 2012 pre-Stargazing.



Stargazing in the City - January 2012

The second event was held at the Southampton City Art Gallery on Saturday 21st January. The mobile planetarium did 9-30 min shows and again there was stargazing activities on a table outside the dome for budding young physcists such as colouring in planets and making constellations.

This event was also a great success and over 290 members of the general public got to see a planetarium show and learn about the stars and constellations.

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Because in the end...We are all astronomers :)