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Juno’s images show another significant change on Jupiter

While Jupiter was invisible from Earth behind the Sun, Juno’s images mapped the planet and revealed a new South Tropical Disturbance

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Juno at Perijove-9 (Part II): What the close-up images show

Summary:  At perijove-9 (PJ9) on 2017 Oct.24, JunoCam took the usual superb sets of images covering both polar regions, and

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Juno at Perijove-9 (Part I): Global maps

Summary:  This perijove on 2017 Oct.24 took place only 2 days before Jupiter’s solar conjunction, so there were no useful

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OBITUARY: Ewen Adair Whitaker

Before the advent of the Space Age the study of our Moon was largely in the hands of amateur astronomers

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The Opposition of Mars, 2007: Part1 and 2

Click on the link to download a pdf of the 2007 Section Report. The report is in two parts. 2007

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Observing Mars in 2018

  This will appear in the February 2018 issue of the BAA Journal Observing Mars in 2018 Mars will be

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Notes upon the 2013–14 apparition of Mars

Mars will be at opposition on 2014 April 8 (with a seasonal date defined by Ls = 114º, corresponding to

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Mars in 2007 – Second interim report

IntroductionA short note on the present apparition appeared in a previous Journal (118, 73–74 (2008)). Here we review some aspects

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Mars in 2007 – Interim report

IntroductionSince the early summer, the Director has been receiving a steady stream of images and drawings of the present opposition.

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BAA E-Circular 00296 – 2007 June 28

On 2007 June 25 Jim Melka (USA) informed me about a dust storm spreading west from the northern Hellas basin

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