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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The CPRE, the countryside charity have published the results of their 2022 Star Count. This includes a useful interactive map

A spectacular meteor fireball which occurred over England and Wales last week may have dropped a meteorite somewhere near the