Articles for beginners
General articles
Asteroids & Remote Planets Section
Aurora and Noctilucent Cloud Section
- Aurora – a beginners guide
- Noctilucent clouds – a beginners guide
- Some members’ observations of aurora
- Some members’ observations of noctilucent clouds
- Visual observations of comets
- Comet related resources
- History of the BAA Comet Section
- Some members’ observations of comets
- Winter observing for all
- Spring globular clusters
- Summer supernova remnants
- The Messier challenge
- Some members’ observations of nebula
- Some members’ observations of planetary nebula
- Some members’ observations of galaxies
- Some members’ observations of open clusters
- Some members’ observations of globular clusters
- Historical Section Newsletters
- Useful resources on the web
- A brief history of the section
- Some members’ observations relevant to the history of astronomy
- A short introduction to some common types of telescope
- Binoculars for astronomy
- Mounting your telescope
- BAA instrument no. 93
- Some members’ observations of observatories and equipment
- Jupiter and the amateur astronomer
- Guide to activity on Jupiter
- Some members’ observations of Jupiter
- Observing the Moon
- The Phases of the Moon
- Lunar photography
- QUICKMAP for the lunar observer
- Drawing the Moon
- Earthshine
- Some members’ observations of the Moon
- The phases of Venus
- Imaging Mercury and Venus
- Some members’ observations of Mercury
- Some members’ observations of Venus
- Robotic telescope astronomy – what’s it all about?
- A beginner’s guide to using the iTelescope robotic telescope network
Saturn, Uranus and Neptune Section
- Saturn as a planet
- Observing Saturn
- Observing Neptune
- Amateur detection of Uranus’ rings
- Some members’ observations of Saturn
- Some members’ observations of Uranus
- Some members’ observations of Neptune
- Six stars that vary
- Why observe variable stars?
- Observing eclipsing variables: a beginner’s guide
- Eclipsing binary observing guide
- Observing double stars
- Some useful links for Variable Star Section
- Some colour double stars for the summer months
- The colour of stars
- Some members’ observations of variable stars
- Some members’ observations of double stars
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