the meetings continued to be held around easter until 2012, except in 1999 when nam moved to august to coincide with the 1999 solar eclipse, visible from the venue. from 2013 onwards nam has been held in late june or early july, during universities' summer holidays. since 1994, each meeting has lasted four or five days. there was no nam in the year 2000 because the much larger general assembly of the international astronomical union was being held in manchester and thus was the major uk astronomy meeting of that year.