Journal contents items – Page 7 – British Astronomical Association

Sky notes for 2024 April & May

As the days become longer and warmer, we approach the ‘silly season’ for UK amateur astronomers, with observing opportunities limited

A report of the Mercury & Venus Section (Director: P. G. Abel) Analysis of the observations made by Section

It is routinely thought that Brorsen discovered the Gegenschein and zodiacal band in 1854. Here, it is argued that priority

We report evidence from eclipse timing that two otherwise apparently normal cataclysmic variables have experienced abrupt changes in their orbital

No BAA report for Jupiter in 1953–’54 has previously appeared. The apparition of 1952–’53 had been one of great activity,

Since they were discovered in the early 1960s, quasars have posed many problems for astrophysics. It is now generally accepted

The Wow! List by Kevin Quinn & Alan Beech Independently published, 2023 ISBN: 979-8388644060 | Pp 124 | £16.50 (pbk)

February to April sees the winter Milky Way’s embedded glories transition into the depths of the universe. The days draw

Photometry of images of asteroid (1269) Rollandia taken by seven observers at its 2018–’19 apparition has been performed using Astrometrica

A report by the Uranus Coordinator of the BAA Saturn, Uranus & Neptune Section (Director: Mike Foulkes) This report describes