Northamptonshire Natural History Society

STARGAZING EVENING at Delepre Abbey  7pm to 9pm Free entry. A chance to lookthrough a selection of our telescopes at celestial objects. Meeting isdependent on the weather.

INSTANT DIGITAL IMAGE BATTLE Our annual photo matching competition with Northampton Camera Club. An invited judge will join us for an entertaining evening, and to give an informative critique of each photo. Hosted by the NNHS in the Humfrey Rooms.

INSTANT DIGITAL IMAGE BATTLE Our annual photo matching competition with Northampton Camera Club. An invited judge will join us for an entertaining evening, and to give an informative critique of each photo. Hosted by the NNHS in the Humfrey Rooms.

A QUIRKY LITTLE VILLAGE IN NORTH WALES by Mike Walsh. Was it one man's dream or the rich people's playground?

Change to advertised programme - THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF GRANITE by Sue Barker From Land's End to Peterhead, granite is one of our most important igneous rocks. How is it formed, how is it categorised and what is its story? Sue Barker will lead us through an historical account of our understanding of this important rock as well as some of its present day uses.

In a change to the published program tonight's meeting will be a talk by Stephen Dean LRPS, APAGB.  “Themes and Journeys”, Stephen will discuss various themes across mainly landscape and urban photography both monochrome and colour images.  The presentation will be by zoom, but please join us in the Humfrey Rooms.

A RANDOM TOUR OF EUROPE The society holds a large number of old glass slides. This is a new selection featuring many historic and interesting images of Europe taken in or around 1905.

EXPLORING THE SOCIETY'S COLLECTIONS. The society has important collections including butterflies, shells, eggs, sands, microscope slides, rocks, minerals and Northamptonshire fossils. This is a great opportunity to look at our extensive collections, to draw, study them or just appreciate their beauty. Also, if you wish to assist us conserving or documenting you would be welcome.

RECENT COMETS by Nick James. Nick is comet section Director of the BAA. He will talk about recent comets including C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) and 3I (ATLAS). "Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want". David H. Levy. Guests and visitors welcome.

GALLS WORKSHOP by Seán Karley. “A gall is an abnormal growth produced by a plant or other host under the influence of another organism”. Seán presents this very informative, short, well illustrated course on these fascinating oddities of the plant world.