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Outburst of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks – Preliminary report

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is a Halley-type comet with a period of 71 years which returns to perihelion next April. On its

With the August Full Sturgeon Moon behind us, the Moon is now rising slightly later each night providing observers with

On reaching the end of July the night skies are getting very noticeably darker here at 59N. We’ve had few

Jupiter in 2022/23, Report no.7: Summary of visual observations. Despite the great advances in planetary imaging, amateur astronomers still

If you have any suggestions for future events, please let me know. Our meetings are open to all. Once you

Jupiter in 2022/23, Report no.6: Final report on the high northern latitudes by John Rogers, Gianluigi Adamoli, & Rob Bullen

An on-line meeting of the Deep Sky Section will be held on September 28th from 19:30 BST. You can watch

Here is our regular perijove report, for PJ52. Now that the close pass is on the night side, the most informative

103P/Hartley is a Jupiter family periodic comet which was discovered on 1986 March 15.59 by Malcolm Hartley using the 1.2-m

The Comet Section’s annual journal has just been published online. Comet’s Tale 42 can be found here. It contains 60