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Observing Guide

Comets are wonderfully unpredictable objects. This is what makes them so much fun to observe. You never quite know what

After putting on a good display high in the sky for UK observers 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak and C/2015 V2 (Johnson) are now

There is currently much interest in the behaviour of features in the high northern latitudes, as these are shown in

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

Juno had another successful pass over Jupiter at its fifth perijove on 2017 March 27, coming closer than ever before; the

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

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

Jeremy Cook was born in South London on 16 August 1933. His interest in astronomy arose in the 1970s when

Peter Foley joined the BAA in 1973 and quickly became active in the Lunar Section. His main interest was

Geoff Amery’s leadership of the BAA Lunar Section is often remembered as a very effective and popular one — one