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Asteroids & Remote Planets Section Meeting, 2019 September 29

Thanks to the support of the local Hampshire Astronomical Group (HAG), the Section was able to stage a most successful

Heather Anita Couper, astronomer who inspired countless television viewers to take up stargazing, died on 2020 Feb 19. Heather Couper

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