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Deep Sky Update – July 2023

On reaching the end of July the night skies are getting very noticeably darker here at 59N. We’ve had few

103P/Hartley is a Jupiter family periodic comet which was discovered on 1986 March 15.59 by Malcolm Hartley using the 1.2-m

The Comet Section’s annual journal has just been published online. Comet’s Tale 42 can be found here. It contains 60

Now that we are past the summer solstice, the nights are noticeably getting darker. Although we did not have a

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There aren’t any bright comets around at the moment and the skies don’t really get dark at UK latitudes at

It’s amazing how light the ‘night’ sky is up here at 59 degrees north currently. And also how quickly the

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Look west after sunset on the evenings of 23rd and 24th May, and you may be able to catch the

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On 19th May, Koichi Itagaki discovered a supernova in the nearby face on spiral galaxy M101, given the designation SN

The new European Jupiter mission, JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer), was launched successfully on 2023 April 14, after a 24-hour