Next year’s comets, the final resting place of Rosetta, a Europe-wide occultations symposium, a remarkable and ingenious historical telescope… this could be the most varied issue of the Journal yet..

A preliminary report on the 2016 Perseid meteor shower shows the predicted enhanced activity was seen by many observers in the UK on the night of August 11/12

Some good news from Antarctica, and how amateur observers can contribute to NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter

Two superb pieces of historical research, and some state-of-the-art amateur observations which are helping the professionals tease out the mysteries of some of the sky’s most enigmatic objects

The total eclipse of 2016 March 9, a detailed obituary of variable star observer Albert Jones, and details of how a Ridley Grant from the BAA could help you get started in spectroscopy.

Solar eclipse expeditions in 1936, a spectroscopy workshop in 2015, and how amateur and professional astronomers work together to study Jupiter and Saturn

The total lunar eclipse of September 28, an asteroidal occultation observed from the UK, and comet prospects for 2016..

The controversial correspondence of Edwin Holmes, daytime collimation of a Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, and details of the Mercury transit of 2016 May 9

See the Perseid meteors in a dark moonless sky, explore an erupting black hole, and follow Patrick Moore’s mentor at the Brockhurst Observatory in Sussex.

The total solar eclipse of 2015 March 20, John Brashear and the BAA, and four astronomical book reviews