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  • BAA Journal – Volume 135 Number 02 – April 2025

    Spring is ‘Galaxy Season’ – let Stewart Moore and Nick Hewitt be your guide! Plus a simple solar pointer project, the music of space, and a possible ancient observation of nova T CrB.

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  • BAA Journal – Volume 135 Number 01 – February 2025

    Tips on forecasting the aurora, an expedition to capture the Ring of Fire from Easter Island, and how to observe the partial solar eclipse of March 29.

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  • BAA Journal – Volume 134 Number 06 – December 2024

    A bumper issue for Christmas and the New Year, with centenaries and observing highlights for 2025, the story of Alan Heath’s observatory, and predictions for eclipses elsewhere in the solar system.

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  • BAA Journal – Volume 134 Number 05 – October 2024

    Dr John Rogers explains how our knowledge of Io is being transformed. Plus, an investigation of mysterious lunar phenomena, reliving the 2024 USA total solar eclipse, and much more.

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  • BAA Journal – Volume 134 Number 04 – August 2024

    Articles on making a cloud chamber for under £50, the Amateur Telescope Makers of London, and detecting the sodium cloud of Jupiter’s moon Io provide plenty of ideas for exciting projects to try in August and September.

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  • BAA Journal – Volume 134 Number 03 – June 2024

    A collection of member images of the extraordinary auroral storm of May 10/11. Plus, a guide to the brightest stars, a thermal imaging project, new research on the size of the sunspot group responsible for the Carrington Event in 1859, and much more!

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  • BAA Journal – Volume 134 Number 02 – April 2024

    Our cover celebrates the arrival of galaxy-hunting season, to which Nick Hewitt is your expert guide. Also in this issue: a guide to the smart telescopes that are revolutionising amateur astronomy, and a paper on lunar domes near the crater Cleomedes.

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  • BAA Journal – Volume 134 Number 01 – February 2024

    The first issue of the Journal’s newly extended format, with even more articles and four pages of Sky Notes. Plus: flaring of an enigmatic blazar, a photo collection recording amateur astronomy around the world, and answers to the Christmas Quiz.

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  • BAA Journal – Volume 133 Number 06 – December 2023

    A landmark paper on amateur observations of asteroid (1269) Rollandia. Plus: the Christmas Quiz, female pioneers of the Association’s early history, and the return of strong aurora displays over the British Isles.

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  • BAA Journal – Volume 133 Number 05 – October 2023

    Beautiful drawings of the gas giants by Paul Abel introduce this issue, while David Arditti gives us a guide to imaging Jupiter, and Giancarlo Favero proposes revised dates for lunar drawings by Galileo.

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