From the President: Celebrating Patrick
Remembering the legendary BAA astronomer and broadcaster, Sir Patrick Moore
Read moreRemembering the legendary BAA astronomer and broadcaster, Sir Patrick Moore
Read moreSN 2014J was discovered on 2014 January 21, but prediscovery images suggest the supernova may have exploded several days earlier.
Read moreThe Ashen Light, a feeble glowing or colouration of the night-side of Venus, has been discussed ever since Riccioli reported it in 1643.
Read moreThis paper describes a series of ‘sprites’ serendipitusly recorded by video cameras operated by members of the BAA meteor section
Read moreIn 1851 Jean Leon Foucault demonstrated a proof that the Earth turns on its axis, by swinging a long (67m) free pendulum from the roof of the Pantheon in Paris. This paper describes attempts started in 2009 in a rural Cheshire church to repeat that experiment, and what those attempts revealed.
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