The Baker Street Irregular Astronomers was organised and set up in the Summer of 2010 following a conversation between Simon Bennett of The Widescreen Centre and Carl Drake of the Metropolitan Police, based at Regent’s Park, and is an attempt to address Central London’s surprising lack of community astronomy societies and events. The society benefits from the help and support of the Royal Parks and the management at The Hub.

We converge upon The Hub one evening each month in the beautiful Regent's Park for a free and informal meeting of like-minded people ranging from the curious novice to the expert. While we always bring telescopes to the meetings we encourage anyone who has their own optical equipment to bring that along too.

Unlike most Astronomical Societies, we do not require membership or charge a fee for joining. Everyone is free to come along to our meetings, find out why we do what we do and ask for advice. We aren’t going to let a little light pollution stop us from bringing astronomy to central London, where millions of potential stargazers go about their lives unaware of the stunning natural beauty hanging above their heads, just beyond the sky.

The number of people attending has steadily grown and we are now as much of a social gathering as one for astronomy. Our core aim is to bring the wonders of astronomy to new people of all ages and levels of interest and astronomical knowledge.

Don’t forget to tell your friends, family and work colleagues about the Baker Street Irregular Astronomers and join us at one of our monthly meetings.

Keep up to date with the full details of our next meeting and  our activities by visiting our website here.

Did we mention that we're really friendly too?