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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

Generally speaking, variable star observers get excited when a star becomes unusually bright. However, that’s not always the case. Cataclysmic

Many constellations don’t rise very high above the southern horizon in the UK, and in the autumn months Aquarius is

As Solar Cycle 24 approaches solar minimum the sunspot number has progressively become smaller, and there have been very few

A quarter past three in the morning – not a promising time of day for a national news event to