Members may be interested in this forthcoming event. Note that there
are a few places left for the talk on Hoyle's life, but prompt booking
is recommended.

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On the night of Tuesday September 29, 5.3 magnitude 29 Cap (ZC 3108,
HIP 104974) will be 'grazed' by the moon along a line from south west
Cornwall to the E Riding of Yorkshire, over fairly populated areas.
This is track 9 in the 2009 BAA Handbook (pp.35-36).  The track
crosses parts of S Cornwall, N Devon, SW Wales including Cardiff, the
central Midlands including Worcester and Birmingham, S Derbys, N Notts,
N Lincs, and the East Riding of Yorkshire.  The star will be grazed by
the dark southern limb of the 82% sunlit moon.  Observers north of the
line will see a total occultation, those south a miss.

Following the earlier e-bulletin announcing Tom Bole's record
supernovae discoveries a short note has appeared in the electronic
Telegraph and may be seen here:-

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6173407/Amateur-British-astrono
mer-takes-world-record-for-most-supernova.html
(Note this is all one line)

Mention is made in that article that he will also feature in an
exhibition at London's Royal Albert Hall from Thursday 24 September to
Monday 2 November 2009.  This is called "Explorers of the Universe",
and includes 25 of Britain's leading astronomers including BAA members
Sir Patrick, Peter Birtwistle, Damien Peach, Nik Szymanek as well as
Tom. (They are in extremely good company with such as Lord Rees,
Stephen Hawking and Sir Bernard Lovell).

Details can be found here:-

http://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/production.aspx?id=6884

It is also worth scrolling down to the following link:-

http://www.maxalexander.com/astronomy

and click "Portraits" for more information.

Roger Pickard, President

Following the recent changes at Burlington House, BAA Council have decided
to offer for sale selected items from our collection, which are of an
antiquarian nature and which are not directly related to the activities of
the Association or its aims and objectives.  Please be informed that the
main items will be part of a sale by auction to be held by Christie's on
Wednesday 8th April at their premises at 85 Old Brompton Road, South
Kensington, London SW7 3LD.  Details of the sale can be found on their
website at:

http://www.christies.com/
and at
http://www.christies.com/images/email/March09_AprSpec/travel.html

There are a total of thirty-nine lots (Lot Nos. 30-68) to be sold on behalf
of the BAA as part of Sale 5808 entitled "Travel, Science and Natural
History".  Details of the location can be found at:

http://www.christies.com/about/locations/south-kensington/

Viewing times are:

Saturday 4 April
10.00 am - 4.00 pm

Sunday 5 April
10.00 am - 4.00 pm

Monday 6 April
9.00 am - 7.30 pm

Tuesday 7 April
9.00 am - 5.00 pm

Sale 5808 is currently scheduled on their website diary to take place at
10.30 am on April 8th.  If you are interested and wish to attend then do
please confirm in advance with Christie's the exact timing for the auction.
We shall post an update of this notice on the BAA website.

Richard Miles
Chairman, Library Committee
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When I last prepared the Sky Notes for a general BAA Meeting I asked
several people for input and received some excellent material.  Since
then they've kept me on their mailing list and I regularly receive
some fantastic pictures of all sorts of objects.   I'm now thinking
that many of these deserve a wider audience, not just on the web where
many can be seen under "Picture of the Week" but also in the Journal.
These, together with short descriptive notes and any other points of
interest, particularly if there is some anecdote associated with them,
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Many thanks.

Roger Pickard

At the March Council meeting, Council will consider nominations for the
Association's Medals and Awards for 2009. If any members wish to nominate a
fellow member for some notable contribution, please send a suitably worded
citation to the Business Secretary no later than 2009 March 6th. All
nominations must be in writing and signed by two sponsors. Please try to
confine citations to one side of an A4 sheet of paper.
 
Conditions relating to each award are given below. Members are requested to
read the conditions carefully and to ensure that citations comply with the
conditions for the relevant award.

Instruments and Imaging Section

This year the Association is introducing an Internet-based system allowing Members access to robotic telescopes and imaging systems at attractive rates. Jeff Moreland has recently been appointed Robotic Telescope Coordinator, under the auspices of the Instruments and Imaging Section, and preliminary information is now on the Section website (URL below). Follow the link to Robotic Telescope Project. The website has also been updated with Tom Boles' latest supernova discoveries.

R.A. Marriott
Director

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http://www.britastro.org/iandi

The Centre for Astrophysics, University of Porto in Portugal are co-ordinating a one day global solar observation campaign as part of the IYA 2009 <http://www.astronomy2009.org/

Instruments and Imaging Section

The Section website has been updated with images and data acquired with the Bradford Robotic Telescope.

Instruments and Imaging Section

The Section website has been updated:

John Tipping's images of the recent lunar eclipse
Robin Leadbeater's observatory

R.A. Marriott
Director

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