Observer’s challenge: The Ice Giants
Damian Peach encourages us to get out there and observe Uranus and Neptune
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Mars / Venus conjunction in the morning sky
See Mars and Venus less than half a degree apart
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chi Cygni makes an appearance
chi Cygni will reach maximum brightness during October
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Britastra occultation!
On Friday Sept 22nd at 21:27 UT (22:27 BST) [observe from 21:25 – 21:29 UT], the asteroid (4522) Britastra is
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Cassini at Saturn: Three commemorative galleries
“Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn…” –Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 107. As Cassini’s glorious mission in Saturnian
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The end of the Cassini mission
Review of the Cassini Mission to Saturn which ended on 15th September 2017
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A spectacular planetary display in the morning sky
See Mars, Mercury, Venus and the Moon line-up on Sept 18
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How Astronomers Can Save The Geostationary Orbit
Help needed to characterise the rotation rates of problematic geostationary orbit objects.
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