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Asterisms for the summer months

In the bright skies of the summer months, deep sky observing becomes rather limited with many of the favourite fainter

Having decided to relocate my telescope to the PixelSkies site at Castilléjar in Spain,1 I was looking for a project

(Compiled from notes by the deceased.) Local and national astronomical groups lost a widely known and respected speaker and friend

With the death of Ron Maddison on 2019 Dec 29, at the age of 84, the Association has lost not

Spring, when our view into deep space is at right angles to the plane of the Milky Way and away

One of the great joys of observing variable stars is the unpredictability in the way they behave. You can of

The 380-year-old story of a humble yeoman farmer’s son who, only just out of his teenage years, revolutionised our ideas

I attended a Royal Astronomical Society specialist discussion meeting on 2019 Dec 13 entitled ‘Cometary science with Rosetta: striking, timely

Puppis is an interesting constellation. Originally it was part of the huge southern constellation of Argo Navis (the ship in which

Warren De la Rue (1815–1889) was a British astronomer, chemist and inventor, famous for his pioneering work in astronomical photography.