Observers’ Forum – Page 10 – British Astronomical Association

Charles Messier’s deep sky challenge

2017 is the 200th anniversary of the death of Charles Messier, whose catalogue of nebulous patches which are not comets

Despite the difficulties of an Underground tube strike in London that happened to coincide with the day, 27 keen participants

Brian Mills takes a look at the winter sky

These predictions focus on comets that are likely to be within range of visual observers, though comets often do not

held at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK on 2016 August 19-21 Amateur astronomers travelled from the Czech Republic, Germany,

Auriga, the Charioteer, is an excellent constellation riding high in the December sky. A nice easy asterism, a pentagon, with

Brian Mills takes a look at the autumn sky

Generally speaking, variable star observers get excited when a star becomes unusually bright. However, that’s not always the case. Cataclysmic

Many constellations don’t rise very high above the southern horizon in the UK, and in the autumn months Aquarius is