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Looks like an excellent workshop, Michael, with a great line up of speakers. I wish you an enjoyable day!
Many thanks for your replies, Denis and Jack.
Denis, I’ll will send the researcher the link to the photo.
Kind regards,
Jeremy
That’s a very nice commemoration, Robin. Let’s hope we get an equally bright nova before long. And thanks to Bill Barton for highligting the centenary.
Felix de Roy, one time VSS director, produced a series of articles in Ciel et Terre, Volume 36 of the Bulletin of the Société Belge d’Astronomie in 1920, covering the early course (and lightcurve) of the nova. In one of the papers he considers observations made before June 8. It’s in French, but makes an interesting read, especially the names of the great observers of the time.
Jeremy
Sad news indeed – the passing of a giant.
It was Maurice’s pioneering CCD work in the 90s that encouraged me to start CCD imaging.
Jeremy
Excellent Sky Notes Nick – well worth watching. Sorry I missed the live version of your talk in London yesterday.
Your Sony A7 camera is certainly yielding wonderful results!
Jeremy
Gosh, was it as long ago as that Robin?
Good to see you are still following it even though it’s so faint.
Jeremy
Thanks Alex – certainly looks like the same event.
Sorry to hear about your travel woes, Bill. I had some delay too, but at least it was a splendid day at the Newcastle meeting. Excellent talks and good to meet up with folks, including you and Alex.
Jeremy
>>It turns out the whole fleet has appropriate names for our community
I hope you are not referring to “Monsoon”, James?!
But, yes, indeed there are some most appropriate names.
All the best,
Jeremy
I’ve just uploaded an image of a nice double-peaker to my Members Page
Thanks for sharing the link to Steve Shore’s explanation – it’s a really interesting read.
And congrats on getting the timely spectrum!
Go well!
JeremyThat’s a great animation, Dave! And you were so lucky to have it passing close to the AR.
Are you able to make a composite image showing the ISS in transit?
All the best,
Jeremy
Great image, Gary. Nice to see some activity on the Sun!!
I was looking to see if you had any more images on the BAA Members’ Pages, but couldn’t find them – it would be great of you could start your own members page.
All the best,
Jeremy
Hello Edward,
if you type “hyperstar” into the Search box towards the top right of the page you will find some images taken with the hyperstar.
All the best,
Jeremy
Hello Ian and welcome to the BAA!
There are quite a few members who enjoy observing double stars. The Deep Sky Section’s John McCue is the DSS Double Star Adviser. He has written a tutorial on the measurement of double stars on the website. John has written another article on double stars here.
Nick White has written and article on the technique with which he observes double stars in the 2017 April edition of the Journal which you can read here (to read the whole article you need to be logged into the BAA website).
There are also some members who use lunar occultations to detect very close double stars (there are two dips in brightness as each component is occulted). An example by Alex Pratt is shown on his Members Page.
These are only a few examples of double star activity within the BAA. You mention there is quite a bit on our website, so do enjoy looking around. You might be interested in this article by Callum Potter about colourful double stars of the summer (which I hope will soon be here!).
All the best,
Jeremy
This article in today’s Independent talks about the impact of white LEDs on human health.
Dr Mario Motta, amateur astronomer and member of the American Medical Association, will be talking about this emerging problem during the BAA summer meeting (during the Sunday session).
Jeremy
