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Nominations invited for the eighth Sir Patrick Moore Prize

The annual Sir Patrick Moore Prize of £500 plus a year’s membership of the BAA may be awarded to any

Ron Livesey CEng, FICE, FRAS, a former Director of the BAA Aurora & Noctilucent Cloud Section, passed away on 2021

The bright skies and short nights of the summer months make observing fainter, fuzzier targets rather more challenging, especially for

With no coronal mass ejections and sunspot numbers just in double figures or at zero, there are 17 aurora sightings

Compared to the prominent constellations surrounding it, Coma Berenices is certainly not a showpiece object. In fact with the naked

During the pandemic of 2020 I recalled Stephen Hawking’s words ‘Remember to look up at the stars and not down

The 40km crater Aristarchus, located on the Oceanus Procellarum, is a favourite target for lunar observers and is unmistakable because

On 2020 Dec 8 a new first-class lighting installation in Dorset received the BAA Commission for Dark Skies’ Good Lighting

With no coronal mass ejections and sunspot numbers in double figures or at zero, there are only six aurora sightings

Dwarf novae (DNe) are one of the most interesting groups of variable stars being observed by the amateur community today.