Mercury says hello to the Pleiades
Mercury makes a close approach to M45 in the evening sky
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The 2015 March 20 total eclipse from the decks of MS Boudicca
Extract from my log book ‘Field Observations, Volume IV’ giving my own account of the total eclipse observed on board MS Boudicca
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The 2015 March 20 eclipse
Observations of this year’s total eclipse
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The spring sky
Brian Mills takes a look at the sky in April and May
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New evidence for deep subsurface oceans on Enceladus
Dust grains in Saturn’s E-ring suggest that large reservoirs of hot water must lie beneath Enceladus’s icy surface.
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Spectroscopy Workshop
A Spectroscopy Workshop to be held at the Norman Lockyer Observatory on 10th October 2015
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29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann in outburst again
29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann outbursts for the second time in February
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Don Parker
Planetary imager Don Parker dies
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Solar eclipse of Friday 2015 March 20
The first total eclipse of the Sun to be visible in Northern Europe since that of 11 August 1999 will take place on 20 March 2015
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BAA Solar Viewers for sale
The BAA is selling solar viewers which will enable safe viewing of the eclipse of 2015 March 20.
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