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2023 Historical Section Meeting

Twenty-seven BAA members and guests attended the 2023 Historical Section Meeting, held in the Lyttelton Theatre at the Birmingham

Schmidt–Cassegrain telescopes (SCTs) are versatile, compact and effective instruments for visual observing of all kinds, and for imaging of smaller

The cool hypergiant RW Cep has been keeping observers busy this year due to its unusual fade, which some have

Professor David W. Hughes – academic, inspiring astronomer, and past Vice-President of the BAA – died in 2022 June.

Letter to the Editor, from Mr Steve Wyn-Harris I am a sheep and beef farmer in New Zealand, but

A new short survey asks for your help in planning the direction of your Journal. It takes just five

It is common knowledge that the prototype Cepheid variable star, delta Cephei, was discovered by John Goodricke in 1784 from

On 2023 Jun 30, there is the 50th anniversary of a total solar eclipse which has become dubbed as the

Jenny was first hooked into astronomy education while working in a small, travelling planetarium. Following further roles in science centres

Four BAA members (David Pulley, John Mallett, Sebastian von Harrach and myself), have recently had our research published in the