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Observer’s Challenge – view a partial solar eclipse on April 8

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.

January has been a poor month for observing in Orkney – I’ve not managed any deep sky observing sessions, and

December has been a poor month for observing here in Orkney. We did have three nights where aurorae were visible,

BAA member Maxim Usatov has developed a remote observatory, called Alnitak, in southern Spain and he has generously offered the

The Geminid meteor shower is expected to reach maximum activity sometime in the afternoon (UK time) of Thursday, December 14