E&T News Issue 4 published
The latest edition of the Newsletter of the Equipment & Techniques Section is out. Logged-in members may download the PDF
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Deep Sky Update – August 2022
Sorry for a very brief update this month, and apologies to anyone that might have been in touch but I
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Jupiter viewed by JWST
While we are all awestruck by the first “deep sky” images from the James Webb Space Telescope, it has also
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Perseids Making A Showing As Moonlight Interferes
In spite of increasing interference from moonlight, observers have been taking advantage of the run of clear if somewhat hazy
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Deep Sky Update – July 2022
It’s nice to see the darker nights returning, though I can’t say I have had any particularly good nights here
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Recordings of our 2022 Summer Meeting in Nottingham
The recordings of the BAA Summer Meeting held in Nottingham on Saturday 25th June 2022 are available to watch on
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Backyard lunar mineral prospecting – Webinar Recording
This Wednesday 20th July, the 53rd anniversary of the first moonwalk, Dr Mark Kidger of the European Space Agency European
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Observer’s Challenge – The Transit of Saturn’s Satellite Iapetus on 2022 July 17/18
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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