Moray’s Astronomy Club
We meet first Friday of the month (unless otherwise specified). Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start
All meeting will be online via ZOOM webinar until further notice.
Not a Member? Why not come along as the first meeting’s free so you can ‘try before you buy’. For a link to the next meeting contact us via Email
You can also follow SIGMA on Twitter and Facebook or YouTube to keep up to date with our latest news.
Forthcoming Meetings
Until further notice meetings will be online to members and affiliated clubs. New/potential members may access these meetings by contacting us in advance.
Friday, 7 January 2022
Echo-mapping of Supermassive Black Holes
Dr Juan Santisteban, University of St Andrews
[read more]
Friday, 4 February 2022
From Clouds to Crust – How can we investigate the surface of rocky exoplanets without seeing them directly?
Oliver Herbort, University of St Andrews
[read more]
Since April 2020 our meetings have been held online via Zoom.
This has enabled the Club to keep up our monthly meetings and for our members and affiliated clubs/societies to participate in each others meetings.
We plan to continue to hold our meetings like this with an anticpated return to in-person meetings from April 2022.
If you are not already a SIGMA member and would like to become one to enable you to join our online meetings please contact Mick at:
membership@sigma-astro.co.uk
Current membership costs £24 per year, payable each January.
Selected past webinar meetings can be found on the
Here’s a few screen grabs from past webinars.
John Davies (Live from Edinburgh)
One of John’s slides
Stuart giving us the Spacenews (From Elgin)
Chairman Pete Sherman introducing the speaker
Images of the Moment
Landsat 9 - Atlas V - Centaur Upper Stage Deorbit Burn
by Alan Tough
Aurora and Meteor
Taken from Hopeman. Meteor may be a Southern Taurid
by Alan Tough
Jupiter and its moons
by MickO’Donnell
1st July 2021
(Ganymede, Io, JUPITER, Europa, Calisto)
More images from club members can be seen on our Flickr pages.
Get Involved
Not a Member? Why not come along as the first meeting’s free so you can ‘try before you buy’.
Club members can also attend the meetings of the Highlands Astronomical Society (HAS). Details of forthcoming meetings of both can be found in the What’s On section of this website, or download a copy of our 2020 Leaflet (pdf).
You can also follow SIGMA on Twitter and Facebook to keep up to date with our latest news.
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