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Observing a grazing occultation by the Moon is always exciting and well worth the organisational effort. On 2017 February 5,

Ophiuchus is a rather large constellation on the celestial equator, but it would seem to be somewhat under-observed. This is

2016 December saw a flurry of interest in amateur imaging of the rings of Uranus. This feat was actually first

2017 is the 200th anniversary of the death of Charles Messier, whose catalogue of nebulous patches which are not comets

These predictions focus on comets that are likely to be within range of visual observers, though comets often do not

held at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK on 2016  August 19-21 Amateur astronomers travelled from the Czech Republic, Germany,

Auriga, the Charioteer, is an excellent constellation riding high in the December sky. A nice easy asterism, a pentagon, with