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A chronology of some lunar drawings by Galileo Galilei

By taking into consideration the morphological features along the terminator in some of Galileo’s watercolour portraits of the Moon, found

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Noctilucent cloud over Thurso in Scotland, with silhouetted house in foreground

Noctilucent cloud over Britain & Western Europe, 2022

Noctilucent cloud forms in the mesosphere at an altitude of about 83km and appears annually in northern latitudes between the

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A colour image of the variable reflection nebula NGC 6729, taken by Terry Evans. It appears blue-ish, with some black absorption nebulosity occluding also visible and occluding the background stars

Brightness variations in R CrA & NGC 6729 during 2021

An indicative luminance light curve for R CrA created from data collected during 2021 showed a brightness range between magnitudes

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Rippling clouds of electric blue set against a dark northern sky, tinged with light as if twilight.

Auroral & noctilucent cloud activity, 2023 June 19 – August 18

With coronal mass ejections and sunspot numbers regularly in triple figures, the odd X-class flare and several coronal holes, the

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A large black truss-tube telescope in a white room.

Observers team up to study the enigmatic dwarf nova CG Draconis

It has been said that variable-star observing is a team sport. Even though observations are made by individuals, it is

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The waxing crescent Moon, oriented with Mare Crisium roughly central.

A word from the Lunar Section Director

Marking one year since formally assuming the role of Director of the Lunar Section, Dr Tony Cook discusses his enthusiasm

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2023 Historical Section Meeting

  Twenty-seven BAA members and guests attended the 2023 Historical Section Meeting, held in the Lyttelton Theatre at the Birmingham

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Sky notes for 2023 October & November

Oct 29 sees the end of British Summer Time and we are deep into autumn. Nevertheless, the northern summer stars

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The y axis gives the signal to noise ratio (SNR) and the x axis gives the epoch numbers. Each SNR curve starts low and tends towards a flat higher number as the epoch number increases

Image denoising in astrophotography – an approach using recent network denoising models

Image denoising is an important consideration for improving the accuracy of acquired data. Given the morphological nature of astrophotography, with

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A star field containing the dwarf nova in outburst

The 2021 superoutburst of the dwarf nova LL Andromedae

We present photometry of the 2021 outburst of LL And, which was only the fourth confirmed on record, with a

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