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Sky Notes : 2022 October & November

The nights lengthen, British Summer Time ends, the centre of our Milky Way galaxy dips into the south-west, and

Rob was a lunar and planetary observer who contributed many observations to the BAA Sections in the 1980s and ’90s.

Uranus (Yew-ran-us – no smirking at the back…) has endured a 200-year-old PR problem; its name, which (in English) has

Very often, the visual variable star observer will find that in the crowded Milky Way areas of the night sky,

More than 25 years and $10 billion in the making, the release of the first images from the James Webb

The Parker Solar Probe is a NASA mission designed to investigate the Sun’s outer corona. Launched in 2018, it will

The lure of the variables is strong. Variable star observers go out whenever the sky is clear to observe ‘their’

This report describes and analyses observations of the brighter or more interesting comets at perihelion during 2018, concentrating on those

During late 2020 and 2021, six relatively bright novae appeared in the northern celestial hemisphere. The light curves of V1391

Two slightly novel methods of visual observation in small telescopes of close, very unequal double stars are presented here and