The Liverpool Astronomical Society

Hello there,

I have never really been interested in astronomy since my childhood days but after attending a star gazing trip during a holiday to Egypt at the beginning of the month my interest has expolded. The star gazing trip was unbeleivable and totally blew me away. I just cannot say what emotions I experienced there but it has fired up my interest.

We had the benifit of a guide and access to 2 telescopes, 1 on Jupiter and 1 on the milky way. Just unbeliveable. So many stars, shooting stars, satalites, WOW. I was able to take a picture of Jupiter, not vey good as just a white shinney circle but you can make out one of jupiters moons and I took it. So exciting, its now my computer screen wallpaper.

I hope that joining the society will help me get started. I have  no optics, no books etc and hope somebody out there can point me in the right direction (as there is just so much info on the internet) so I can continue to be amazed. I see there is a thing called a star party in the wirrel tonight and I hope to get there.

I live in Mold, North Wales but I am from Huyton and still have family there so hope to get to the meetings at Pex Hill.