Viewing the heart of a comet, the drawings of George Alcock, and 2014’s spectacular phenomena of Jupiter’s satellites

Commemorating the contribution of BAA members in the First World War, and 150 years of astronomical spectroscopy

Mars, glorious Mars! Observe the red planet in the summer sky

The Great Aurora of 2014 February 27/28, 2 new supernova discoveries from the UK, and fifty years of UK amateur astronomy

The death of comet ISON, the newly discovered asteroid which collided with the Earth, and McNeile’s wooden machine for simulating occultations.

Four autumn comets, a hybrid eclipse of the Sun, and how to make video observations of meteor showers.

Twenty years of aurora observations, the strange case of the disappearing nova, and the BAA dinners of the 1930s.

The dark skies of Wales, the Aristarchus events of 1963, and the 2007 apparition of Saturn…

New colour images from old planetary photographs, amateur observations of exoplanets, and multi-station observations of the 2012 Perseids.

The day of two asteroids, how to build a large Dobsonian telescope, and the Variable Star Section’s first five years of observing Polar variables.