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Juno at Perijove-6: The major belts from Perijove-1 to -6.

In the four main belts, Juno’s perijove-6 (PJ6) images did not target known major features, but it is now interesting

When Juno flew low over Jupiter’s clouds on its sixth orbit on 2017 May 19 (Perijove-6), its camera JunoCam took

The first batch of scientific papers from Juno is being released on-line, and the main results were summarised in a

Jupiter in 2016/17, Report no.10: Interim report (2017 May) John Rogers (British Astronomical Association), using data from the JUPOS team:

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