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Sky Notes: 2017 April & May
Your Spring galaxies and planets described by Brian Mills
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Thirteen contacts observed during one lunar grazing occultation!
Observing a grazing occultation by the Moon is always exciting and well worth the organisational effort. On 2017 February 5,
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Ophiuchus – the ‘Serpent Bearer’
Ophiuchus is a rather large constellation on the celestial equator, but it would seem to be somewhat under-observed. This is
Read moreGeminids 2012 − 2015: multi-year meteor videography
NEMETODE, a network of low-light video cameras in and around the British Isles, operated in conjunction with the BAA Meteor Section and other groups, monitors the activity of meteors, enabling the precise measurement of radiant positions, of the altitudes and geocentric velocities of meteoroids and the determination of their former solar system orbits. The results from multi-year observations of the Geminid meteor shower are presented and discussed.
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