Measurement of double stars
This short paper reports measurements of double stars made by BAA members, and aims to encourage double star observing by briefly describing the main observational ways of carrying out these measurements.
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Henry Beighton and astronomy in the Ladies’ Diary
Henry Beighton, FRS (1687−1743) was a polymath who played an important role in the early days of the Industrial Revolution.
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Noctilucent cloud over Britain and Western Europe, 2011−2012
A report of the Aurora Section.
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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
Read moreSuperoutbursts 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.
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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.
Read moreThomas 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.
Read moreThe 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,
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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.
Read moreChanging 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.
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