The Shropshire Astronomical Society (SAS) is a county-wide group, run by volunteers for anyone interested in astronomy, star-gazing or space exploration. We meet once a month for observing sessions at Rodington and Little Ness Village Hall's.  We also meet periodically at various venues for special events and outreach work thoughout Shropshire

With a little creative jiggling we managed to arrange our monthly meeting to coincide with the Perseid Meteor Shower. With so many...

Youngsters at Southfields Special School were given the unique opportunity to actually touch a piece of space rock, as they were allowed...

The SAS annual ‘summer social’ took place at RVH with all the usual enjoyable entertainment. As a special treat this year we acquired the...

Salopians of all ages got their hands-on rare samples of moon rocks and meteorites recently, which were truly out of this world. ...

One of the benefits of being a member of the SAS is to be able to borrow from the wide variety of instruments available from its...

Needless to say we jumped at the opportunity to offer our services to help make the village jubilee celebrations go down well. As...

Telescopes show only a small area of the night sky. Binoculars, with their wider field of view, let you scan the sky for targets. Also...

Saturday March 12th saw the final scheduled observing session at Little Ness. During the day there were some broken clouds but by the...

A mixture of SAS members, guests and passing public were treated to a range of talks and activities including topics on the Moon, JWST,...

At the invitation of the National Trust the Shropshire AS paid a return visit to Comer Woods, part of the Dudmaston Estate. In a...

As the season develops and we open up more, members, guests and interested residents of Shropshire were invited to our February meeting...

Our April Zoom meeting is now available on our Youtube channel where you can watch great presentations including Heroes of Astronomy by...