Papers – Page 27 – British Astronomical Association

Noctilucent cloud over Britain and Western Europe, 2011−2012

A report of the Aurora Section.

The Isle of Lewis fireball of 2013 October 14

An analysis of the bright fireball seen from the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, on 2013 October 14

Superoutbursts and grazing eclipses in the dwarf nova V1227 Herculis

Profiles of the superoutbursts of the dwarf nova V1227 Herculis observed by the authors in 2012 May and September.

Timed satellite observation for CCD imagers

By the use of a mechanical shutter in combination with the clear/expose/readout cycle of a CCD camera, multiple images of an artificial satellite or a closely passing Near Earth Object can be obtained, enabling improved astrometric positions and orbital parameters of such objects to be determined.

Thomas Hinsley Astbury: from an English market town schoolroom to the internal constitution of the stars

Who was Thomas Hinsley Astbury, and why was a plaque in his honour erected in a junior school in Wallingford, England? Jeremy Shears examines the life of this English schoolteacher – and important variable star observer.

The total solar eclipse of 2015 March 20

Details are given of the visibility of the 2015 total eclipse in Svalbard and the Faroe Islands, and the very large partial eclipse which will be seen from the British Isles,

The amateur astronomer, then and now

Bill Leatherbarrow’s second Presidential Address explores the changes in amateur astronomy during the past 50 years, coinciding with his own membership of and activity within the British Astronomical Association.

Changing characteristics of an anticyclone in Jupiter’s South South South Temperate Current

The longitude and latitude of a white oval (A1) on Jupiter was measured on 83 different visible light images.

Central and non-central total lunar eclipses

A study of the extremes of eclipse behaviours between 2000 BC and 3000 AD.

The Comets of 2001: Part 2

This is the author’s second report of the comets of 2001.