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Nick James
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The PDF version of the 2025 Handbook has just been released.

I am very pleased to see so much information about exoplanets, asteroids, minor planets and KBOs. It’s only quite recently that BAA members have wanted to make (and able to, for that matter) detailed observations of objects fifteenth magnitude or fainter, or which vary in brightness by less than 0.02 magnitudes, and it is good to see them treated in detail.

If there was one category in which I would wish to see more, it is the non-traditional (for want of a better term) planetary satellites. Saturn has been well treated for decades, but how about adding Deimos, Himalia, Oberon, and Triton to give just one bright satellite of the other planets? That is not a reason to neglect Pasiphae, Phoebe, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Nereid and their cohorts — though I noticed that the first of these gained an honourable mention in the occultations data.

My congratulations to the team who produced these sections.

Paul

If you need ephemerides for planetary satellites the MPC is a good source: https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/NatSats/NaturalSatellites.html