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BAA Journal – Volume 131 Number 6 – December 2021

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  • Refereed Papers

  • 350J. H. Schröter & the ghost mountains of Venus - Richard Baum
  • 351Observing exoplanets with the MicroObservatory: 43 new transit light curves of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-32b Martin J. F. Fowler et al.
  • 369Five thousand years of Jupiter–Saturn conjunctions - Mark Kidger
  • 375The five greatest sunspot groups - Peter Meadows

  • Notes and News

  • 335From the President - David Arditti
  • 335Photograph: Pickering’s Triangle - Neil Webster
  • 336The BAA at Burlington House: end of an era - David Arditti & Alan Lorrain
  • 337Equipment for sale - David Arditti
  • 337In brief - Philip Jennings
  • 338BAA Christmas Quiz - Marie-Louise Archer et al.
  • 340Microlensing search for exoplanets – a new pro-am project - Roger Dymock
  • 342Light pollution, biodiversity & climate change - Bob Mizon
  • 343Rare outburst of the dwarf nova LL Andromedae - Jeremy Shears
  • 344Solar Section - Lyn Smith
  • 347Auroral & NLC activity 2021 August 21 – October 15 - Sandra Brantingham
  • 348Atmospheric dispersion, Part II: Orientation & adjustment - Martin Lewis
  • 349From the Journal archive - John Chuter
  • 384Centenaries for 2022 Barry Hetherington
  • 385Letterstt Of plants & planets: speculating on the flora of Kepler-186f - Steve Holmes
  • 386Early history of the shadow bands in Aristarchus - Nigel Longshaw
  • 386Space travel & Richard Woolley - Mike King

  • Review

  • 387Solar Astronomy: Observing, imaging & studying the Sun - Andrew Devey
  • 387(Viladrich, ed.) Neptune: From grand discovery to a world revealed (Sheehan et al., ed.) John Chuter
  • 388The Archives From the BAA Archives - John Chuter

  • BAA Updates

  • 388Come to the BAA’s 2022 Winchester Weekend - Ann Davies
  • 389Obituary: Peta Ann Bosley (1954–2021) - Graham Bryant

  • Observers' Forum

  • 390Observing the bright symbiotic variable star Z Andromedae - Gary Poyner
  • 391NGC 2683 – a glorious galaxy in Lynx - Stewart Moore
  • 392Comet prospects for 2022 - Jonathan Shanklin

  • Meetings

  • 394BAA Spring Meeting, 2021 April 24 - Alan Dowdell
  • 395BAA Ordinary Meeting & George Alcock Memorial Lecture, 2021 May 26

  • Etc.

  • 368New members
  • 383Membership information
  • 396Sky notes for 2021 December & 2022 January - Nick Hewitt
  • 398Meetings diary, notices & small advertisements
  • 399Board of Trustees and Council, Session 2021–2022
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