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Prof Sarah Matthews, Dr Nicholas Heavens, Prof Sanjeev Gupta, Dr David Arditti and Dorrie Giles, with the plaque remembering Walter and Annie Maunder.

From the President

A plaque for the Maunders It gave me great pleasure to represent the Association at the unveiling of an English

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Figure 2: Diagonal streaks visible in the cloud markings. Note the cloud markings change depending on which filter is used to study the planet. The observation was made on 2020 Sep 1

The 2020–’21 western elongation of Venus

A report of the Mercury & Venus Section. Director: P. G. Abel This paper covers observations of Venus made during

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Portrait of Lord Warriston

British Isles aurorae, 1560–1715, Part II: 1645–1715

This is the second of two papers in which, together, 28 previously unrecognised cases of probable aurorae seen in the

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Rohini Devasher, amateur astronomer and Artist in Residence at the Open Data Institute,

One Hundred Thousand Suns: a new artwork

The Open Data Institute (ODI) in London has unveiled a four-channel film installation by Artist in Residence Rohini Devasher, entitled

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The sodium tail of Mercury, imaged by Nick James.

Photographing the sodium tail of Mercury

Mercury’s very thin atmosphere was first detected by the Mariner 10 spacecraft back in 1974. It consists of atoms captured

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The 2022 Joy Griffiths awards in Herschel’s Garden, Bath. A statue of William and Caroline is in the background.

CfDS awards in 2022 April

April was a busy month for the BAA’s Commission for Dark Skies, which presented a series of awards recognising exceptional

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Aurora and noctilucent cloud in a single 20-second exposure, captured on 2013 Aug 5 at 01:38 UT.

Joint meeting of the Radio Astronomy Section and Aurora & Noctilucent Cloud Section, 2022 March 4

This joint meeting was held over Zoom on Friday, 2022 Mar 4. Commencing at 7.30 p.m., it featured presentations by

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Aristarchus and Herodotus, again on 2021 April 24, but with a Wratten 21 filter.

Observing banded lunar craters with optical filters

Here Paul outlines an observing project that does not require elaborate equipment, so is well suited to BAA members who

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Sky notes for 2022 June & July

With the summer solstice occurring on Jun 21, this time of year can be regarded as the ‘silly season’ for

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HR Lyrae: the restless slumbers of an old nova

A report of the Variable Star Section. Director: J. Shears.   We present the light curve of the old nova

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