Volume 114, No.5: 2004 October
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The Milky Way and the Sagittarius/Scutum star clouds imaged from the Egyptian Sinai Desert on 2004 June 9 by Nigel Evans, using a Canon 10D digital SLR camera with an 8mm f/4 lens. 6×5 minute exposures combined and dark frames subtracted by Nick James; the light pollution to the south (right side) is the resort of Sharm el Sheikh, some 40km distant. N. S. Evans & N. D. James.
From the President (Tom Boles) / Autumn meteor activity: Whither the Leonids? (Neil Bone) / Mercury and Venus Section (Richard McKim) / A new bright supernova (Stewart Moore) / New BAA Handbook Editor appointed (Gordon Taylor) / Solar Section (Geoff Elston & Mike Beales) / Aurora Section (Ron Livesey) / Near Earth Object discovered via the Internet (Hazel McGee)
Astrophysics and cosmology in the 21st century ... Malcolm S. Longair
Music from upstairs - a personal contribution ... David Forshaw
Observing the aurora ... Dave Gavine
Annual Report of Council and Accounts, 2003-2004
Main articles
The 2003 Presidential Address: Pro-Am collaborations in astronomy... Guy M. Hurst
One of the important lessons we have learned from past experience is that the Universe is full of surprises. It is interesting to compare the astronomy which we said we would carry out with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in 1977, when the project began, with what has actually been achieved. Everyone involved in the project would unhesitatingly state that the HST has far exceeded our most optimistic expectations. The actual science programme carried out has been much more exciting than what now seem our rather mundane proposals based on the astronomy of the 1970s. (4pp)
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