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Asteroids & Remote Planets Section Meeting, 2019 September 29

Thanks to the support of the local Hampshire Astronomical Group (HAG), the Section was able to stage a most successful

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Sky Notes: June & July 2020

Even though there are very few hours of darkness Nick shows that there is much still to see in the Sky

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Dr Heather Couper (1949–2020)

Heather Anita Couper, astronomer who inspired countless television viewers to take up stargazing, died on 2020 Feb 19. Heather Couper

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Jim Hysom (1933–2017): An appreciation

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The BAA Awards & Medals for 2020

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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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BAA Weekend Meeting – ‘Comets & other small solar system objects’

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Melvyn Douglas Taylor – visual observer par excellence

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