Welcome to the home of The Astronomical Society of Glasgow.

With 2009 being the International Year of Astronomy, the society has many events planned throughout the year. We hope you'll come and join us and enjoy the activites being run throughout 2009. We do have some special events for IYA, details can be found on the IYA 2009 Events page under the information menu.

Please note that the April Lecture will be part of the NAM Public Lectures on April 15th, so our meeting that month will be at the Kelvin Building, lecture theatre 257 and not at Strathclyde. The lecture will start at 7.30pm. These public lectures are part of the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting being held at Glasgow Uni from 12th to 16th April - the public lectures are 13th, 14th and 15th. The title of Jim's talk is the same - Here is the space weather.

There are other public lectures that week that will be of interest to members:

• The magic of the Sun and Stars ( & Lucie Green): Tuesday evening
• Galaxy Zoo (): Wednesday evening
• Here is the Weather from Space (Jim Wild): Thursday evening

The website is www.astro.gla.ac.uk/nam2010 and information can be found there as and when it is available.

We'd also like to welcome you to the new website. We've had a bit of an overhaul, and hopefully you'll like the new look. We now have a new webmaster who will be keeping the website up to date, and making sure that all the latest info about the society and astronomy in general is here where you can find it.
Not only that, but we've also launched our Members' Gallery. Here you can submit your photographs, for inclusion on the website. We have a lot of talented members out there getting great results in astrophotography, so be sure to have a look and see what they've been up to. Why not send us your latest pictures to show the world. And it doesn't have to be a photograph. Send us hand drawn pictures and we'll put those up too!
There's lots more exiting changes planned for the coming months so be sure to stop by and see what's happening.

You can also find us on Facebook and on Twitter. Log on to see what we're doing there!

A new addition to our online presence is that we are now blogging about our events. Head over to our blog at http://theasg.tumblr.com/ to see what's been happening in the ASG.

Have a look at the Information under Programme to find out all the things we'll be doing.

See you there,
The ASG.