Variable Star Section Meeting, Sept 2
The VSS meeting on Saturday September 2, at Northampton, is fast approaching. The meeting is kindly hosted by the Northamptonshire
Read moreThe VSS meeting on Saturday September 2, at Northampton, is fast approaching. The meeting is kindly hosted by the Northamptonshire
Read moreOn reaching the end of July the night skies are getting very noticeably darker here at 59N. We’ve had few
Read more103P/Hartley is a Jupiter family periodic comet which was discovered on 1986 March 15.59 by Malcolm Hartley using the 1.2-m
Read moreThe Comet Section’s annual journal has just been published online. Comet’s Tale 42 can be found here. It contains 60
Read moreNow that we are past the summer solstice, the nights are noticeably getting darker. Although we did not have a
Read moreA new short survey asks for your help in planning the direction of your Journal. It takes just five minutes
Read moreThere aren’t any bright comets around at the moment and the skies don’t really get dark at UK latitudes at
Read moreIt’s amazing how light the ‘night’ sky is up here at 59 degrees north currently. And also how quickly the
Read moreLook west after sunset on the evenings of 23rd and 24th May, and you may be able to catch the
Read moreOn 19th May, Koichi Itagaki discovered a supernova in the nearby face on spiral galaxy M101, given the designation SN
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