News – British Astronomical Association

Deep Sky Update – December 2024

I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas and a good New Year. Maybe Santa brought an astro-goodie to keep

The 6.5-m James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the pre-eminent space observatory of our times, and just 7 months into

Roy Panther famously discovered a comet on Christmas Day in 1980 (C/1980 Y2 or 1980u) his observing log merely noted

C/2024 G3 was discovered by the ATLAS survey on 2024 April 5 using a 0.5-m, f/2 Schmidt at Rio Hurtado,

I suppose November has been an average observing month for me this year, with just the one night clear enough

Variable Star Section Circular 202 is available for download here. Contents From the Director CV & E News. Gary Poyner

With Jupiter’s opposition coming up soon on Dec.7, at its highest declination for 11 years, observers may be pleased to

October has been another windy month with not many opportunities for good observing. I did manage a couple of hours

September has been a busy month for me with the Orkney International Science Festival at the start, for a week.

Update 2024-10-01. The comet has been designated C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) on MPEC 2024-T22 and the section image gallery is here.