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Start the week with a beautiful dawn conjunction of the old crescent Moon, Venus and the Beehive Cluster, M44.

Ade Ashford, 2020 Sep 12

Challenge for October : Hunting for Phobos and Deimos

Richard McKim, 2020 Sep 01

Neptune reaches opposition on 11 September 2020. Our Track Triton web app shows you where to find the outermost planet's largest moon.

Ade Ashford, 2020 Aug 21

Our interactive Mars Mapper web app helps you identify the Red Planet's surface features for the 2020-2021 apparition.

Ade Ashford, 2020 Aug 14

Can you find Pluto

Eliot Hall and Richard Miles, 2020 Aug 06

Can you see the opposition effect

Mike Foulkes, 2020 Jul 05

2020 Jul 03

Bob Mizon, 2020 Jun 12

The challenge is to make any form of observation of this daylight planetary event

David Arditti, 2020 Jun 06

Jeremy Shears, 2020 May 30

Three galaxies to observe in Virgo as the nights draw short

Callum Potter, 2020 May 18

John Mason, 2020 May 07