Volume 113, No.5: 2003 October
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This three-day exposure in visible light, known as the Andromeda Deep Field, was taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope during an investigation of the halo stars in our neighbouring galaxy M31. Although shorter in duration than the earlier multi-wavelength Hubble Deep Field, this is the deepest exposure in visible light ever taken. In addition to the halo stars which were the object of the search, and the fine example of one of Andromeda's globular clusters (at bottom), the image shows literally thousands of background galaxies in the distant universe, far beyond M31. T. M. Brown (STScI) et al./ESA/NASA
From the President (Guy Hurst) / 100 supernovae discovered from the UK (Guy Hurst) / Mars in 2003: third interim report (Richard McKim) / Solar Section (Geoff Elston) / The transit of Mercury on 2003 May 7 (Peter Macdonald et al.) / Aurora Section (R. J. Livesey)
A scale model of the solar system in an English village ... Barry Keenan
The BAA Observers Workshops: Workshop 1, 2003 February 15. Imaging comets ... Martin Mobberley
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Contents
On the cover: the Andromeda Deep Field
Notes and News
Main articles
This proposal was discussed at a Parish Council meeting. During this discussion I, as a Parish Councillor, commented on the proposal, pointing out certain irregularities in the positions of the planets, explaining that I was also an amateur astronomer. The Parish Council had never received a proposal of this nature and were intrigued as to its viability, but approved the idea providing the cost of construction was found elsewhere. (5 pp)
Jonathan Shanklin
Reviews
Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-521-77351-2. Pp ix + 331, £20.00 (hbk).
reviewed by Jonathan Reynolds
Springer-Praxis, 2003. ISBN 1-85233-657-9. Pp xv + 459. £24.50 (pbk).
reviewed by Nick James
Société Astronomique de France/Editions Vuibert, 2003. ISBN 2-7117-5335-2. Pp 290 (pbk), 30 euros.
Société Astronomique de France/Editions Vuibert 2003. ISBN 2-7117-5330-1. Pp 532 (hbk), 60 Euros.
reviewed by Richard McKim
Springer Verlag London, 2003 (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy series). ISBN 1-85233-465-7. Pp xvii + 236, £26.95 (pbk).
reviewed by Roger O'Brien
Observers' Forum
Meeting reports
Letters
Sky notes for 2003 October and November
  by Neil Bone