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HR Lyrae: the restless slumbers of an old nova

A report of the Variable Star Section. Director: J. Shears.   We present the light curve of the old nova

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Celebrating Mary Somerville (1780–1872)

In the Journal’s Christmas Quiz, Marie-Louise Archer featured a question about the contributions to astronomy made by Mary Somerville. With

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Figure 3. Different observations arranged according to the decreasing position angle of the location along the lunar limb that is maximally tilted towards Earth. Details of the equipment used are given in the text. The peaks of Montes d’Alembert are subdivided into a northern group (red brackets) and a southern group (white brackets). North is up.

Identifying the peaks of Montes d’Alembert

The Montes d’Alembert are a chain of mountain peaks found along the western lunar limb. The individual mountains were grouped

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Figure 2. WAC image of the examined region. Note the dome Lavoisier 4, which is not prominent as in the telescopic image (Figure 1). The image is shown in cylindrical projection, removing the foreshortening.

Lunar domes near Lavoisier K

In this study, we examine four lunar domes located near the crater Lavoisier K. The large domes, termed Lavoisier 1–3,

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British Isles aurorae, 1560–1715, Part I: 1560–1644

This is the first of two papers in which, together, 28 previously unrecognised cases of probable aurorae seen in the

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Double star unexpectedly detected during occultation by asteroid – a first from the UK

These results are a very dramatic demonstration of the effectiveness of the occultation method at measuring the intrinsic properties of

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Awards at the 2021 Christmas Meeting

At this meeting, I presented both the 2020 and 2021 Steavenson Awards, as well as certificates to two winners of

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Imaging the James Webb Space Telescope on its way to L2

Finally, at 12:20 UTC on Christmas Day, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) left the Earth atop an Ariane 5

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Light pollution, biodiversity & climate change

In 2002 February, during the Lighting and Landscapes Conference at Kew Gardens, landscape architect and planner Ian Phillips, now a

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Microlensing search for exoplanets – a new pro-am project

The microlensing programme of the Asteroids & Remote Planets Section’s Exoplanet Division is in its early stages and is still

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