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Recordings of our 2022 Summer Meeting in Nottingham

25 July 202216 September 2022 Andy Wilson 0 Comments

The recordings of the BAA Summer Meeting held in Nottingham on Saturday 25th June 2022 are available to watch on

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Geological Moon by Mark Radice
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Backyard lunar mineral prospecting – Webinar Recording

17 July 202214 September 2022 Andy Wilson 0 Comments

This Wednesday 20th July, the 53rd anniversary of the first moonwalk, Dr Mark Kidger of the European Space Agency European

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Figure 1. WinJupos predicted position of Iapetus in transit at 2022 July 18 at 02:00 UT. (North upwards).
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Observer’s Challenge – The Transit of Saturn’s Satellite Iapetus on 2022 July 17/18

11 July 202225 July 2022 Emily Bick 0 Comments

On 2022 July 17/18, Saturn’s third largest satellite Iapetus, will transit across Saturn’s northern hemisphere and its rings. This will

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Jupiter rising for northerly observers

Jupiter is now 2 degrees north of the equator, and rising around midnight, and as we are past midsummer it

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Jovian Vortex Hunter: a Zooniverse project to classify Jupiter’s vortices

A new Citizen Science project has been launched to identify vortices on Jupiter in images from the Juno orbiter.  Everyone

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The sodium tail of Mercury, imaged by Nick James.

‘Messenger’ No. 10 published

The June issue (No. 10) of Messenger, the Mercury and Venus section newsletter is available online for members to download.

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Deep Sky Update – June 2022

Section Meeting 2023 I have started making arrangements for our annual meeting in 2023. It will be held on Sunday

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Hubble IC563 564
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Booking for the Summer meeting extended until Friday

22 June 202226 June 2022 Andy Wilson 0 Comments

Bookings will close at 23:30 on Friday 24th for our Summer meeting, taking place this Saturday 25th June at the

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Napoleon's Hat asterism image

Deep Sky Update – May 2022

Just a short update this month – as some of you know I have retired and we are planning on

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Saturn by Martin Lewis
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George Alcock Memorial Lecture and Special General Meeting 25th May 2022

25 May 20227 June 2022 Andy Wilson 0 Comments

We intend to broadcast the George Alcock Memorial Lecture and Special General Meeting from the Institute of Physics on 25th

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