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Deep Sky Update – May 2023

It’s amazing how light the ‘night’ sky is up here at 59 degrees north currently. And also how quickly the

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Deep Sky Update – April 2023

Sorry for another late update, but we are just past Full Moon so there won’t have been much in the

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Cosmic Horseshoe

Deep Sky Note #4 When I read Callum’s Deep Sky Update for February, I totally missed the mention of the

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Deep Sky Update – March 2023

March was not terribly good for observing for me – though I did see aurorae on two nights, one of

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Deep Sky Update – February 2023

February has been a strange month up here in Orkney – we went from 80 mph winds to windless conditions,

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Deep Sky Update – January 2023

Well, the first few weeks of January have not been the best weather in Orkney. Although there have been a

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Deep Sky Update – December 2022

Well I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Good New Year. The weather here was not particularly kind

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Albireo Unbound

Deep Sky Note #3 It has long been a matter of heated contention whether this gorgeous double star is a

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Deep Sky Update – November 2022

Here on Orkney, November has been an excellent month for aurorae, so I’ve not had much of a chance to

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Deep Sky Section Annual Meeting

The 2023 Deep Sky Section meeting will be held at Bedford School, Bedford. You can book your place here on

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