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Observer’s Challenge: Photograph Noctilucent Clouds

With the 2024 Noctilucent Cloud season now underway with the first observations of the year coming in, this challenge is

On the night of 2024 May 10/11 observers all over the UK and beyond marvelled at a glorious display of

Well, April was another poor month of observing opportunities again for me. Astronomical twilight now lasts all night in Orkney

C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was discovered at the start of 2023 when it was 7.5 au from the Sun. It has

WARNING – OBSERVING THE SUN CAN BE DANGEROUS – READ OUR GUIDE BELOW While some are travelling to central and

It would seem like observing weather in March has been poor for most. That was certainly the case up here.

Time is running out if you want to book one of the last few places on the 2024 BAA Winchester

The March 2024 issue of Messenger (No. 14), the newsletter of the Mercury and Venus section, is now published online

February has been another month of poor weather on Orkney – though I am not sure other parts of the

Denis Buczynski (Tarbatness) and Mark Phillips (Edinburgh) report another small outburst of this comet. First detection was 2024 Feb 29.82.