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Three views of totality on 1999 August 11. Top: St Michael's Mount, Marazion, Cornwall (Mary Chibnall); left: Prominences at third contact through cloud at Goonhavern, Perranporth, Cornwall (Glyn Marsh & Denis Buczynski); right: Full corona at Kaliakara, Bulgaria (Grant Privett).
Eclipse observations from Truro School - a preliminary report / 'Everyone was walking around with a permanent smile': Notes from the path of totality, 1999 August 11 / From the President / Rosetta: a scientific keystone / Be ready for the Leonids this November / Officers and Council, 1998-1999
(Copies of any of these articles may be ordered from the BAA office.)
Measuring the Universe: The Cosmological Distance Ladder. by Stephen Webb Springer-Praxis, 1999. ISBN 1-85233-106-2. Pp xvi + 342, £24.50 (pbk).
reviewed by Roger O'Brien
Michael Finney assembles and demonstrates his home-made 'cooking stove telescope'. Photo: Maurice Gavin.
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