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Astronomy – a big draw?

Commission for Dark Skies In February this year the BAA Commission for Dark Skies (CfDS) ran its annual prize draw

Astronomers seem to be entering a golden age for occultation astronomy now that star positions and the orbits of small

The 2017 Sir Patrick Moore PrizeAt the Bristol Back to Basics meeting on March 10 I had the great pleasure

The close conjunction of Mars with Jupiter in the morning sky on January 07 was seen by many observers. After

The Sun is very quiet and the 11-year cycle seems to be coming to an end, with 101 ‘no sunspot

The Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has discovered that cyclones around the planet’s poles are tightly packed into remarkable polygonal patterns.

Following submission of his Obituary for publication in the December Journal [J. Brit. Astron. Assoc.,127(6), 371 (2017)], the author became

The recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a in M31, the Andromeda galaxy, has intrigued professional astronomers for some years. With a recurrence

Let us return for a moment to the London of 1942 April, in order to attend a meeting of the

Highlights of 2017Looking back at 2017 it was perhaps not the most outstanding year for astronomical phenomena, but the highlight