[BAA Comets] Istimirant Stella

[Nick James]

Between 1973 February and 1987 February the Comet Section produced 26 
issues of a Newsletter called Istimirant Stella. These were edited by 
Mike Henrie, Andy Stephens and Stan Milbourn. I have now taken posession 
of most of the Comet Section archive from Jonathan Shanklin and have 
been slowly working through the boxes. I've now scanned these and 16 of 
the first 17 issues of this publication are now online here:

https://britastro.org/node/10769

I am currently missing No. 2. This may be lurking elsewhere in the 
archive but if anyone has a copy I'd appricate notification. I hope to 
post the remaining issues soon once they have been scanned.

It is an interesting read and shows how different things were 40 years 
ago. Look our for John Bortle's guide to comet hunting and descriptions 
of Comet West from 1975 along with many other interesting notes and 
observations. There are quite a few famililar names in these issues, 
some of whom are still active.

Nick.