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What To Do If You Think That You Have Seen A TLP?

This depends upon whether you have seen a coloured patch, a brightening, a flash or lightness in a shadow, as

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Detecting Changes in Spacecraft Images

The approach here is simply to compare imagery of the lunar surface taken many months, if not years apart, align

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Resolving Historical Observational Puzzles

As you can imagine, over the past few centuries there have, from time to time, been observations of the Moon

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2017Jan01

Observing Lunar Impact Flashes

Every astronomer is familiar with shooting stars in our night sky, and knows that these are the result of sand

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2001Nov19

Lunar Geological Change Detection

By Dr Anthony Cook Introduction Conventional geologic wisdom suggests that the Moon is pretty much dead and that the bulk

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Double Star “Step”

                            Example of a double star “step” occultation recorded with video converted to AVI for analysis. The Double Star “step”

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Lunar Occultations

Coordinator: Tim Haymes.                                        Thank you for your interest in Lunar Occultations.   Programme: 1) Total Occultations       a)  Visual

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Introduction to the Lunar Section

Welcome to the BAA Lunar Section website. The Lunar Section has been in existence since 1890, making it as old

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Bill Leatherbarrow

Prof. Bill Leatherbarrow, Director: (2009-)

A keen amateur astronomer since childhood, Bill Leatherbarrow first joined the BAA in 1965. During the 1960s and 1970s he

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Alan Wells

Alan Wells, Director: (1995 – 2009)

A college lecturer by profession, based in Birmingham, England. Alan Wells is an amateur railway aficionado and railway model engineer.

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