Royal Netherlands Astronomical Society / Koninklijke Nederlandse Astronomenclub

🇬🇧​ Welcome! This is the website of the Royal Netherlands Astronomical Society, RNAS. The RNAS is the professional organization of Dutch and Flemish astronomers and space researchers. The Society was founded on October 5, 1918. At the occasion of its centenary in 2018, the Society received Royal status.

The goals of the RNAS, as written in its statues are to: "promote astronomy in The Netherlands and in Belgium, including in elementary and secondary education, and maintain and stimulate contacts with, and between, astronomers, both inside and outside of the profession."

Members, please log in above for the full site content! (If you have trouble please contact@kna-rnas.nl)

For the purposes of membership (you can apply with the Join link above) our members have some connection to the Netherlands or Flanders and meet any of the below criteria:

• Student Membership: a BSc student at the end of the 2nd year or beyond, an MSc student, or a PhD student, who is Dutch or Flemish or in the Netherlands or Belgium. (the study may be in a  related field with an astronomy concentration, e.g. Physics and Astrophysics, Astrochemistry, Astrobiology, and related fields of Engineering, Technology and Mathematics)
• Full Membership: (1) A PhD in astronomy from one of the above from a Dutch or Flemish Astronomical Institute or who works in one of those; (2) any other scientists, engineers, technologists, or others who's professional work contributes to the advancement of Dutch and Flemish Astronomy; (3) Anyone who would have qualified for student membership, but is no longer otherwise qualified; (4) Anyone who previously qualified for categories 1-3 and was a member during the time that they would have qualified.
• Emeritus Membership: Anyone who is officially retired from work, and either was previously a full or student member, or who now resides in the Netherlands or Flanders and could, in their past, have qualified as a student or full member.
• Life Membership is available for Full Members or Student Members at 20 times the annual fee. Emeritus Life Membership is available to Emeritus Members, or on the occasion of ones' retirement for ten times the annual fee.

The logo of the Society was designed in 1991 by Vincent Icke.

🇳🇱​ Welkom op de website van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Astronomenclub, KNA. De KNA is de vakvereniging van Nederlandse en Vlaamse astronomen en ruimte-onderzoekers. De vereniging is op 5 oktober 1918 opgericht. Bij Koninklijk Besluit van 26 november 2018 heeft zij in het jaar van het eeuwfeest het predicaat Koninklijk gekregen.

In de KNA statuten staan de doelen van de vakvereniging als volgt gedefinieerd: "het bevorderen van de sterrenkunde in Nederland en in België, waaronder in het (basis- en voortgezet) onderwijs, en het onderhouden en stimuleren van contacten met en tussen astronomen binnen en buiten het vak."

Het logo van de vakvereniging is in 1991 ontworpen door Vincent Icke.