Archives

Drawing solar features at the telescope has a noble history extending back to Galileo. It remains a valuable activity even

The Stargazers’ Almanac for 2016 is a wall calendar for astronomers whose main feature is a series of monthly charts

Robin Scagell will need little introduction for readers of this Journal. A long-serving Vice President of the Society for Popular

Authors Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest will need little introduction to readers of this Journal. Both have written scores of

In 1892 that great French populariser of astronomy, Camille Flammarion, published a complete summary of the current knowledge of the

This book has a tone that reminded me of the ‘war books’ and escape stories of my youth, but with

The first volume of Martin Mobberley’s life of Patrick Moore, It Came From Outer Space Wearing an RAF Blazer! (2013)

In the first decade of the twentieth century, the nature of our Milky Way galaxy became clearer. Numerous observers pioneered

Galactic Encounters might be more correctly subtitled ‘a history of our exploration of the galaxies’, for it tells the story

Accurately cut and polished thin sections of rocks viewed through the microscope under polarised light show a kaleidoscopic range of