Thank you for your interest in visting the Chesterfield Observatory.
Please complete the form below and we will get back to you shortly and normally within a day or two.
Unfortunately we normally cannot offer visits that start before 6.30pm.
We also have to reserve Friday nights for members and the first Tuesday of every month for our committee meetings so we'd be grateful if you could avoid these times and dates.
If you look at our diary, you will be able to see dates when we already have bookings.
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Please note we can only take bookings for 25 or less people. If you have more, you may need to consider booking more than one visit.
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![M31 The Andromeda Galaxy, taken by Dave Frost. The Andromeda Galaxy (/ænˈdrɒmɪdə/), also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 million light-years) from Earth, and the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way.[4] Its name stems from the area of the Earth's sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda. The 2006 observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope revealed that the Andromeda Galaxy contains approximately one trillion stars,[10] more than twice the number of the Milky Way's estimated 200 to 400 billion stars.[13] The Andromeda Galaxy's mass is estimated to be around 1.76 times that of the Milky Way Galaxy (~0.8-1.5×1012 solar masses [9][10] vs the Milky Way's 8.5×1011 solar masses), though a 2018 study found that the Andromeda Galaxy's mass is roughly the same as the Milky Way's.[9] The Andromeda Galaxy, spanning approximately 220,000 light-years, is the largest galaxy in the Local Group, which is also home to the Triangulum Galaxy and other minor galaxies.](http://www.chesterfield-as.org.uk//wp-content/gallery/galaxies/08-Aug-Andromeda.jpg "M31 The Andromeda Galaxy, taken by Dave Frost. The Andromeda Galaxy (/ænˈdrɒmɪdə/), also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 million light-years) from Earth, and the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way.[4] Its name stems from the area of the Earth's sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda. The 2006 observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope revealed that the Andromeda Galaxy contains approximately one trillion stars,[10] more than twice the number of the Milky Way's estimated 200 to 400 billion stars.[13] The Andromeda Galaxy's mass is estimated to be around 1.76 times that of the Milky Way Galaxy (~0.8-1.5×1012 solar masses [9][10] vs the Milky Way's 8.5×1011 solar masses), though a 2018 study found that the Andromeda Galaxy's mass is roughly the same as the Milky Way's.[9] The Andromeda Galaxy, spanning approximately 220,000 light-years, is the largest galaxy in the Local Group, which is also home to the Triangulum Galaxy and other minor galaxies.")
