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The life and times of one of the BAA’s most extraordinary Presidents and eclipse chasers is described, including his fascination with the rings of Saturn, his remarkable physical and mental stamina, his complex home life and (in Part II) his tragic demise.
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The purpose of this paper is to bring to the attention of the amateur astronomical community the writer’s discovery of a previously unknown class of object, the significance of which does not appear to have been reported in amateur publications.
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Ole Rømer (1644−1710) is remembered today for establishing, from observations of eclipses of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter, that the velocity of light is finite. This paper describes the use of amateur timings of Galilean eclipses observed during 2012−’14 to recreate Rømer’s work, together with a theoretical investigation of the accuracy of such approaches for estimating the speed of light.
Read moreSDSS J082053.53+000843.4, for brevity here referred to as J08205, is a 15th magnitude short period, 0.0962404(1)d (~2h 18.6m), detached eclipsing
Read moreThis report describes and analyses the observations of the brighter or more interesting comets discovered or at perihelion during 2007, concentrating on those with visual observations.
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Richard McKim reports observations and images from the 1998 opposition of Saturn.
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John Toone looks back at the life of Albert Jones, the most prolific variable star observer in the history of observational astronomy.
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A simple method is presented to determine the times of contact of solar eclipses and planetary transits across the solar disk.
Read moreA report of the Saturn Section.
Read moreWe present the fourteen-year lightcurve of the SW Sextantis nova-like variable HS 0455+8315.
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