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Spurred on by @KathyNS and her post on the RSAC, I have joined the British Astronomical Society.

I’m sure are other members here.

I’m impressed by the information on the site, and avidly digging in to it. One of the great things about TSS is the cross fertilisation of ideas.

Without Kathy’s post I doubt I would ever have taken this step.

Hi Tony,

First off, congrats. Secondly, is it a society or an association? BAS vs BAA Just curious.

Cheers,
JT

Joining an association or club is a good idea. I am a member of EAS locally which has a few hundred members. Our club president has joined TSS as well, working on getting some more of the membership to join.

I'm member of URSA.
https://translate.google.fi/translate?h ... sasta.html

JayTee wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 10:12 am Secondly, is it a society or an association? BAS vs BAA Just curious.

https://britastro.org/

Their spectroscopy database is kinda cool. I plotted one of Delta Ceph and added a standard G2V spectrum to compare against. There's a right purty line around 7600A.

My bad I should have linked. It’s a 125 year old society the About page is below.

https://britastro.org/about

helicon wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 12:56 pm Joining an association or club is a good idea. I am a member of EAS locally which has a few hundred members. Our club president has joined TSS as well, working on getting some more of the membership to join.

I shall see what I can do in the BAA. I will put a link on my page.

Greenman wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 12:24 am Spurred on by @KathyNS and her post on the RSAC, I have joined the British Astronomical Society. ... Without Kathy’s post I doubt I would ever have taken this step.

Outstanding! Now you just have to step up and volunteer for something. I became an assistant editor with the American Astro Society.

mikemarotta wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 2:37 pm

Greenman wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 12:24 am Spurred on by @KathyNS and her post on the RSAC, I have joined the British Astronomical Society. ... Without Kathy’s post I doubt I would ever have taken this step.

Outstanding! Now you just have to step up and volunteer for something. I became an assistant editor with the American Astro Society.

Cheers, good idea.

Greenman wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 12:24 am. Spurred on by @KathyNS and her post on the RSAC, I have joined the British Astronomical Society.

I hope that we will not lose you. They have a pretty good discususion board of their own.
Ummm... just one thing, though, and it could be a REALLY REALLY REALLY good thing... but, their logo looks like an alien language. Can you read it?

Hi Mike, No chance of losing me, this is my natural home on the web for astronomy. Home is where you are most comfortable, I’ll continue to hang my hat here.

Greenman wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 12:24 am Spurred on by @KathyNS and her post on the RSAC,...

Spurred on by Greenman, I joined the BAA!

My motivation was to be fully vested as a reader and writer on their discussion board. As an officer in my local club, I have some input into our website which has a our discussion board; and it is not really very effective.

One thing about the BAA is that my "annual" membership expires in April 2021. I did not join the Society for Amateur Astronomy because the "annual" subscription expires in March. It's like something from the Middle Ages when New Year's Day was May 1 or the Vernal Equinox or something. Anyway, no sense in grousing. I joined the BAA.

mikemarotta wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 7:55 pm

Greenman wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 12:24 am Spurred on by @KathyNS and her post on the RSAC,...

Spurred on by Greenman, I joined the BAA!

One thing about the BAA is that my "annual" membership expires in April 2021. I did not join the Society for Amateur Astronomy because the "annual" subscription expires in March. It's like something from the Middle Ages when New Year's Day was May 1 or the Vernal Equinox or something. Anyway, no sense in grousing. I joined the BAA.

Good to have you as a fellow member Mike. The membership model revolves around our tax year, which starts for historic reasons (I assume) in April. Oddly it runs from April 6th to the April the 5th. I expect some one saw a problem with starting the tax year on all fools day.

Welcome to Britain the home of the archaic

Greenman wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:05 am Welcome to Britain the home of the archaic

I went ahead and joined the other group, Society for Popular Astronomy, "Stargazing for Everyone" (Keyworth, Nottingham, UK) at https://www.popastro.com/foru

My interest in those, as with here, is in part because of my role as an officer in my local club. We have a website, of course, and it is not my responsibilty (primarily). I have been a webmaster for another statewide hobby society. So, I have some interest and awareness. I like to see what other people are delivering to their membership.

I never joined the BAA but I do follow them on Twitter!

I'm in the Royal Astronomical Society and the Mid Kent Astronomical Society.

The MKAS has a 16" SCT at Canterbury through which I first saw Neptune! They host their talks on Zoom now. This week is "Spectroscopy for amateur observers." That sounds interesting!

The RAS has hosted some excellent talks, largely above my head! They're all Zoom talks now of course! This Friday is "Imaging solar coronal mass ejections in the heliosphere."

I miss the real meetings with real people!

Regards

Graeme