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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

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

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

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T CrB is one of 10 known galactic recurrent novae and was observed in eruption in 1866 and 1946. The

(Image by Dave Tyler) A lunar occultation of any of the bright planets is an interesting event to watch even

A survey of British newspapers has uncovered 41 sightings of sunspots made by untrained people with no optical aid and

With New Moon occurring on 4th August this year, we have dark skies ahead for the run up to Perseid

Clear nights have been few and far between, but there were a couple of nice displays of noctilucent clouds. And

The first director of the Comet Section, William Frederick Denning, discovered his fifth and final comet from Bristol on the