Derby and District Astronomical Society

A Visit to the Spaceguard Centre
12th October 2002

On the 12th October 2002 a number of Society members travelled to the Spaceguard Centre at the former Powys Observatory near Knighton in mid-Wales. They were shown around the facility by the Director, Jay Tate. The Spaceguard Centre is dominated by an environmentally sealed observatory building housing a fully automated 13" apochromatic refractor. A camera obscura, planetarium, seismograph, weather station and displays concerning the threat to Earth posed by asteroids and comets completed the tour.

Left to right: Dave Maynard, unknown, Arthur Tristram, Nick Cowling, Mike Dumelow, Graham Ensor.  Photo Credit: Mike Lancaster.

Left to right: Dave Maynard, unknown, Mike Lancaster, Nick Cowling, Mike Dumelow, Graham Ensor.  Photo Credit: Arthur Tristram.

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