Sky Notes 2021 August & September
Nick reminds us the Milky Way and its riches are at their best for UK observers in the longer nights of the Summer
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Sky Notes 2021 : June & July
Nick suggests looking for several objects of historical interest including a controversial Messier Object, a planetary nebula and a naked green star!
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Sky Notes : 2021 April & May
As Nick reminds us, nights for observing are now shortening but Spring is the season of ‘the Bear’
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Sky Notes : 2021 February & March
Nick reminds us that Orion dominates the southern aspect in mid-evening during early February and remains our best guide to the late winter sky
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Sky Notes : 2020 December & 2021 January
Nick reminds us that in the deep midwinter, we have the longest nights so if skies are clear, this is the astronomers’ dream season
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Sky Notes : 2020 October & November
Nick suggests looking to the ‘watery constellations’ using Pegasus as a guide after the excitement of the Mars Opposition
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Sky Notes – August & September
Plenty to see as Nick explains: The Summer Triangle, Small Summer Constellations, Spectacular Planets
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Sky Notes: June & July 2020
Even though there are very few hours of darkness Nick shows that there is much still to see in the Sky
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Sky Notes: April & May 2020
Nick reminds us that Spring is the time to enjoy the ‘Realm of the Nebulae’, as Edwin Hubble described the great swathe of galaxies that constitute our local supercluster
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Sky Notes for February and March 2020
Nick’s 1st Sky Notes: Orion still visible but giving way to the early Spring galaxies
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