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Outbreak of activity in Jupiter’s South Equatorial Belt

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

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Deep Sky Update – October 2024

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

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Deep Sky Update – September 2024

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

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Interesting new sungrazing comet discovered

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

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100 Hours of Astronomy – 2nd to 5th October 2024

The International Astronomical Union’s 100 Hours of Astronomy global event will be held 2-5 October this year with the aim

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Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS looking good for October

It is always dangerous to count cometary chickens before they are hatched but it really does look as if we

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NASA Lucy mission to 617 Patroclus-Menoetius

In the Minor Planet Bulletin 51-3 p.212, Richard Binzel sent out a call for observations to assist with the targetting

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Asteroid 2024 RW1 discovered hours before Earth Impact

At 06:39 UT on 4 September, the Catalina Sky Survey detected an asteroid on a possible collision course with the

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‘Messenger’ No. 15 published

The August 2024 issue of Messenger (No. 15), the newsletter of the Mercury and Venus Section, is now published online

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Deep Sky Update – August 2024

August has finally brought dark skies again – and even a few clear nights. Last night of the month (31

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