See Mars and Uranus half-a-degree apart
Mars and Uranus sidle up to each other in the evening sky
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Bright outburst of Comet 73P fragment
Fragment shining 10x brighter than main comet
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Observer’s Challenge: penumbral lunar eclipse on February 10/11
Why not try your hand at observing this rare event?
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Introducing QUICKMAP – an invaluable resource for the lunar observer
“An up to date tutorial on the latest Quickmap has subsequently been published and can be found here.” There are
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Latest Near-Earth Asteroid zips past the Earth
Asteroid 2017 BH30 passes to within 45,480 km of us
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ISS visible again in the evening sky
Show your neighbours the space station
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Young Astronomer Awarded the 2016 Sir Patrick Moore Prize
Young Astronomer Awarded the 2016 Sir Patrick Moore Prize A young astronomer from Coventry received the 2016 Patrick Moore Prize
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Binoculars for the travelling astronomer
Stewart Moore looks at the parameters that should be considered when choosing binoculars for astronomy.
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A new astronomy publication: Nature Astronomy
The prestigious natural science journal, Nature has just started a new publication entitled Nature Astronomy.
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Mars gets close to Neptune on December 31
A close conjunction between Mars and Neptune
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