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In JBAA Dec. 2023, the president writes as a reason for canceling honorary memberships
The BAA currently has most of its membership in the Senior (over 65s) category
This is unfortunately clear when we see pictures from the various events. Apparently very few younger people participate.
I myself have had the honor of being named an honorary member. Over the years, I have benefited greatly from the membership, and both I and the membership would survive, even if this distinction did not exist. And I would think that only very few would give up membership if they had no prospect of this honour.
So a scrapping of honorary memberships is unlikely to reduce the membership significantly.
However, this does not solve the age problem.
The question is whether BAA has become an old-fashioned institution that fails to attract the new generations.
The competition is of course tough today with all kinds of offers on-line, and I could fear that the situation is the same for the local clubs.
Instead of deleting the associations from the membership list, perhaps BAA should create advantageous membership offers for club members, so that we could get more younger people into the organization that way.
Can you tell anything about the costs? There must be a monhtly rent or something? and what is your price for the equipment?
Each of the planetary sections has templates on their websites on which you can draw the features and record other important details. The Saturn section has a series of templates depending on the angle of the rings (which you can look up in the Handbook). See: https://britastro.org/section_information_/saturn-uranus-and-neptune-section-overview/observing-programme/saturn-uranus-and-neptune-visual-report-forms
Regarding phases,in the case of Venus the observed phase generally differs slightly from the calculated one, a phenomenon called the phase effect: https://britastro.org/2016/the-phases-of-venus. So the phase should be drawn in at the eyepiece. The time of dichotomy can be determined from your observations and compared to the predicted time.
It seems that the links to Uranus and Neptune observing forms are dead.
The negative Saturn tilt forms link to the positive forms, but I suppose they are identical?
Alas, only for the chosen few
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Here is an image from Denmark, taken 19. Apr. 13:55 UT with a Canon DSLR through my Lunt 60 mm Ha
Not the best, but I hope to learn…
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It seems that your observatory is (very?) close to the active volcano-area?
Do you expect problems with that?
The nova is still about mag 11.
Here is a picture taken tonight about midnight here (UT + 2) 14″ sct + Canon 77d 10 sek.
You might find help here
