BAA Journal – Volume 129 Number 1 – February 2019

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  • Refereed Papers

  • 13Jupiter’s North Equatorial Belt & Jet Part 1: Cyclic expansions & planetary waves - John H. Rogers
  • 27Short Paper: The mean distance from the Earth to the Moon - Jean Meeus
  • 29Alice Grace Cook: An East Anglian meteor observer William Barton
  • 38lunar crytomare dome near Cavalerius A & Hevelius A - Raffaello Lena & K. C. Pau
  • Notes and News

  • 3From the President - Callum Potter
  • 3The nebula vanishes: a disappearance of McNeil’s Nebula - Nick Hewitt
  • 4Comet 46P/Wirtanen’s December close approach - Nick James
  • 5Loughton Astronomical Society celebrates 50th anniversary with Astro Festival - Brian Morton
  • 6(156) Xanthippe occultation Tim Haymes
  • 7Activity 2018 September 1–November 30 - Sandra Brantingham
  • 7Observations of Mercury: 2016–’18 - Richard McKim
  • 8Venus, eastern elongation 2018 June–October - Paul Abel
  • 9Solar Section - Lyn Smith
  • 11‘Through which end do I look?’ – the absolute basics of using a telescope - David Arditti
  • 12From the Journal archive - John Chuter
  • Review

  • 54Mercury (William Sheehan)
  • Letters

  • 54BAA Weekend Meeting, Christchurch, Dorset: 2018 September 7–9
  • BAA Updates

  • 54New members
  • Observers' Forum

  • 45A new comet: C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto) - Nick James
  • 45Amateur discovery of nova in the Andromeda Galaxy - George Carey
  • 46Eridanus: winter nights on the river - Nick Hewitt
  • 48Highlights from the 2018 Observer’s Challenges - Andy Wilson
  • 51Discovery of first resolved triple white dwarf Jeremy Shears & Martin Mobberley
  • Etc.

  • 30Photograph: BAA Council, 2018 May
  • 49Letter: the Origin of Crux - Ian Ridpath
  • 51Nominations for the Ballot for the BAA Council and Board of Trustees Bill Tarver
  • 56Sky notes for 2019 February & March - Brian Mills
  • 58Meetings diary & notices
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