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A Great Year for the Perseid Meteor Shower!

With the August Full Sturgeon Moon behind us, the Moon is now rising slightly later each night providing observers with

The VSS meeting on Saturday September 2, at Northampton, is fast approaching. The meeting is kindly hosted by the Northamptonshire

On reaching the end of July the night skies are getting very noticeably darker here at 59N. We’ve had few

103P/Hartley is a Jupiter family periodic comet which was discovered on 1986 March 15.59 by Malcolm Hartley using the 1.2-m

The Comet Section’s annual journal has just been published online. Comet’s Tale 42 can be found here. It contains 60

Now that we are past the summer solstice, the nights are noticeably getting darker. Although we did not have a

A new short survey asks for your help in planning the direction of your Journal. It takes just five minutes

There aren’t any bright comets around at the moment and the skies don’t really get dark at UK latitudes at

It’s amazing how light the ‘night’ sky is up here at 59 degrees north currently. And also how quickly the

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Look west after sunset on the evenings of 23rd and 24th May, and you may be able to catch the