Sky Notes: April & May 2020
Nick reminds us that Spring is the time to enjoy the ‘Realm of the Nebulae’, as Edwin Hubble described the great swathe of galaxies that constitute our local supercluster
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Archives
Dr David Myles Gavine (1937–2020)
(Compiled from notes by the deceased.) Local and national astronomical groups lost a widely known and respected speaker and friend
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Dr Ronald Charles Maddison (1935–2019)
With the death of Ron Maddison on 2019 Dec 29, at the age of 84, the Association has lost not
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A visual treat in the dragon’s den
Spring, when our view into deep space is at right angles to the plane of the Milky Way and away
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Noctilucent cloud over Britain & Western Europe, 2018
A report of the Aurora & Noctilucent Cloud Section (Director: Sandra Brantingham). A summary, by the Assistant Director of the Section, of noctilucent cloud (NLC) activity observed during the 2018 season.
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