Notes and News – Page 63 – British Astronomical Association

From the Archives

Lost comet 72P Denning – Fujikawa recovered

This periodic comet was discovered by William F. Denning of Bristol, the BAA’s first Comet Section Director, on 1881 Oct 4.13 but was then lost until its accidental recovery by Shigehisa Fujikawa (Onohara, Kagawa, Japan) on 1978 Oct 9.81, but was missed at the next three returns despite careful searches. It has now been recovered again by Hidetaka Sato (Japan).

It’s darker down south

The night sky is getting darker in the south of England, where astronomers, environmentalists and others who care about the night-time environment are working on dark-sky initiatives.

The NLC season begins

Since the extensive auroral display of February 27/28 there has only been a handful of reports of auroral activity. The

Observing alert: mutual phenomena of Jupiter’s satellites

From the President: Celebrating Patrick

Remembering the legendary BAA astronomer and broadcaster, Sir Patrick Moore

Two new observing programmes for the Deep Sky Section

Vacancy arising on the BAA Council

Two comets in the summer sky

Uranus 2014: a call for observations

The distant planet Uranus has emerged from its conjunction with the Sun and is slowly becoming well placed for observation.