Click on any photo below to see all images in a slideshow. All photos unless otherwise noted are copyright of Msg-Meteorites
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- The main entrance to the North West Astronomy Festival
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- The Knowledge Observatory’s fantastic Astro Van
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- The festival flyer
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- The talks given throughout the weekend by invited speakers
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- From bare tables to meteorite display in around an hour 🙂
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- All set up and ready for the doors to open
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- A good selection of different meteorites on display
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- The first outing for our BIMS meteorites banner
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- A cast of the amazing oriented Middlesbrough meteorite with a cast of the impact that it made in 1881 when it fell
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- Some Beni M’Hira specimens along with the book describing the fall
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- Specimens of the Chelyabinsk meteorite. This event still held a lot of interest with visitors due to it being recent and so well documented.
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- An assortment of specimens on display
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- Examples of Stone, Iron and Stony-Iron meteorites in both indiividuals and slices.
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- And a little green alien holding my Camel Donga!
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- 275 gram slice of Allende
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- My 93.5 gram specimen of Barwell with photo of original finder
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- A lovely slice of Zag showing nice brecciation
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- Some of my collection of UK meteorites
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- A selection of impactites
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- Our competition to win a nice NWA stone meteorite by guessing it’s weight
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- I gave away 85 small Campo Del Cielo specimens to interested visitors, they went down a storm! 🙂
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- Copies of Russell Parry’s Appley Bridge meteorite book for sale on our stand
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- Lisa Mather, a new astro firiendwho took plenty of video footage of our meteorite display
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- Nick Howes anjd Will Gater enjoying the meteorites on display
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- Visitors of all ages were eager to have a go at the guess the weight of the meteorite competition
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- Caught in full flow :- -) (copyright Nicolette Wells for the Knowledge Observatory)
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- The Tring Astro stand – (copyright Nicolette Wells for the Knowledge Observatory)
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- Nick Howes, David Galvin and Hayley Parr holding a circuit board from an Apollo Saturn V rocket
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- Nick was rather pleased with his latest acquisition 🙂
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- The Astronomy Q & A session – (copyright Nicolette Wells for the Knowledge Observatory)
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- A full house 🙂 (copyright Nicolette Wells for the Knowledge Observatory)
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- Jon Culshaw recited a poem as Patrick Moore – (copyright Nicolette Wells for the Knowledge Observatory)
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- Thomas, who was a repeat visitor throughout the day 🙂
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- The meteorite freebies were kept for those who showed a lot of interest, i still gave away 85 in total 🙂
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- Someone was happy with their meteorite freebie 🙂
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- Many of the recipients told me they would take their meteorites to school to ‘show and tell’
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- Another happy visitor to our stand 🙂
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- The freebies often generated more conversation and queations from recipients.
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- Helen Keen’s talk was the only one i could get to and it was very funny indeed 🙂
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- Paul Abel and Jon Culshaw enjoying Helen’s talk.
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- The finale to Helen’s talk 🙂
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- Sue’s son Joe Woolf entertaining the guests.
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- The hardworking Knowledge Observatory volunteers, receiving a well earned thank you.
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- The guest speakers being presented with their thank you gifts. Hand made…… One of a kind….. 🙂
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- Paul Abel and Jon Culshaw put on an astronomy themed performance with numerous impressions from Jon.
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- There were tears flowing during their performance! (copyright Nicolette Wells for the Knowledge Observatory)
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- Competition winner Dr. Stacey Habergham with her prize, an NWA crusted fragment weighing 160.g grams