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From the President / Meteor Section: the season's grand finale / Comet prospects for 2000 / Aurora Section / Venus: the twilight zone, 1999 / A TLP in Langrenus crater / A double Good Lighting Award in Alloa / A colourful Saturn / The two faces of August's eclipse
(Copies of any of these articles may be ordered from the BAA office.)
The International Workshop on Cometary Astronomy, Cambridge, 1999 August 14-16
An introduction to modern cosmology by Andrew Liddle. John Wiley & Sons, 1999. ISBN 0-471-98757-3 (hbk), 0-471-98758-1 (pbk). Pp xiii + 129, £14.99 (pbk). reviewed by Arunas Kucinskas
CCD images of Jupiter and Saturn
Jupiter and Saturn imaged by Martin Mobberley in August this year with his 0.36m f/25 Cassegrain and Starlight Xpress SXL8 CCD. Left: Jupiter on August 28 at 00.57 UT, exposure 0.2 sec. The satellite with shadow visible on the disk is Io. Right: Saturn on August 2 at 02.00 UT, exposure 0.8 sec. M. P. Mobberley
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