AstroThoughts

AstroThoughts Simon bringing space and astronomy down to Earth with talks, workshops, guided stargazing, and planetarium shows.

Based in the city of Bath, travelling to schools, young peoples' organisations, and community groups across the South West of England.

29/08/2026

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25/07/2026

A great morning for AstroThoughts entertaining dozens of families camping at Mendip Basecamp .

We packed in learning about the Solar System, recreating a scaled Solar System across the campsite and created fun planet masks.

The next activity was making sundials and solargazing. We even talked about the upcoming partial solar eclipse on Wed 12th Aug and everyone learned how to use eclipse glasses safely.

We closed the morning's activities with demonstrations of different types of rockets and then everyone got busy making and launching paper rockets high into the skies above

Thanks to Mendip Basecamp for capturing the morning on a reel.

Thanks to Oldfield Park Junior School for inviting me to talk in an Assembly today for Years 5 and 6.It was all about th...
08/07/2026

Thanks to Oldfield Park Junior School for inviting me to talk in an Assembly today for Years 5 and 6.

It was all about the safe use of the eclipse glasses Bath Astronomers and AstroThoughts have donated to the school. Everyone now is ready for the Partial Solar Eclipse on Wednesday 12th August.

It was amazing to be invited to supported Hayesfield Girls' School Enrichment Week with an astronomy workshop on our nea...
08/07/2026

It was amazing to be invited to supported Hayesfield Girls' School Enrichment Week with an astronomy workshop on our nearest star., the Sun.

The girls got to see the Sun in Hydrogen Alpha light through specialist telescopes and sketch the surface features including sunspots, filaments, and prominences.

We had two Coronado Personal Solar Telescopes and a Daystar Quark set up on the grounds of the school as well as a DWARF3 from DWARF LAB to show live images whilst still in the classroom.

It can be really fun to ask students to sketch the Sun at the eyepiece as part of Astro Thoughts solar workshops.Tomorro...
07/07/2026

It can be really fun to ask students to sketch the Sun at the eyepiece as part of Astro Thoughts solar workshops.

Tomorrow the students at Hayesfield Girls' School will have an opportunity to draw the photosphere and chromosphere of the Sun 150,00,000 kilometres away.

Find out more at https://astrothoughts.uk/workshops

To help busy teachers let their classes know about the upcoming partial solar eclipse on 12th August, we created a page ...
24/06/2026

To help busy teachers let their classes know about the upcoming partial solar eclipse on 12th August, we created a page of resources at https://astrothoughts.uk/eclipse2026

By creating some new resources and collating those from the European Space Agency and elsewhere, this should get classes all ready for the event at the end of a busy summer term.

22/06/2026

65 miles in the car this morning for AstroThoughts delivering eclipse glasses to 16 schools in and around Bath, Somerset.

That means about 7,000 pairs of eclipse glasses have now been provided by Bath Astronomers via Go Stargazing and First Light Optics.

Each pack not only includes the requested number of glasses but information for each child on how to use them safely.

Getting prepared for on 12th August - from the UK, it'll be a good partial solar eclipse.

In September, it'll be the 2026 Jane Austen Festival and Bath will be again celebrating the Regency period.As a fan of A...
08/06/2026

In September, it'll be the 2026 Jane Austen Festival and Bath will be again celebrating the Regency period.

As a fan of Alexander, Caroline and William Herschel, I'll be firmly two decades earlier in the earlier Georgian fashions of the late 1770's when welcoming Regency visitors to the Herschel Museum of Astronomy on the evenings of 14th, 16th and 18th September.

Well dressed astronomers thanks to Bath Theatrical Costume Hire who have a fetching aladin's cave of costume at their warehouse in Frome.

An early class on Thursday in Mrs Champion's History Room with Year 7 and 8 students talking about eclipses at Monkton P...
05/06/2026

An early class on Thursday in Mrs Champion's History Room with Year 7 and 8 students talking about eclipses at Monkton Prep.

Lots of great questions and the demonstration of intense light on the back of the eye using lasers and latex balloons made everyone jump out of their skins.

It was great to visit the children and staff at Victoria Park Primary School earlier this week to talk at assembly about...
05/06/2026

It was great to visit the children and staff at Victoria Park Primary School earlier this week to talk at assembly about the history of our understanding of eclipses and how asking questions can lead to rewarding STEM careers.

Helping to kick off the STEM week with workshops for Year 5 on telescopes too - from spectacles to the extremely large telescope.

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Bath
BA22PD

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 5:30pm
Thursday 9am - 5:30pm
Friday 9am - 5:30pm

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+447508070283

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