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Deep Sky Update – June 2024

We had a nice display of noctilucent clouds on June 25-26 but this was I think the only night that

Juno’s Perijove-62 was on 2024 June 13, preceded by medium-range imaging of Io. Jupiter was not in JunoCam’s field of

JunoCam images at PJ61 –John Rogers (BAA) Perijove-61 was on 2024 May 12. Perijove was at 51.3ºN and equator

UNDER CONSTRUCTIN The 2010-2011 apparition was noteworthy as a great storm occurred in the planet’s northern hemisphere. This was the

Neptune apparition reports are published in the BAA Journal. The report on Neptune during the 2016-17 Apparitions can be found in

Uranus apparition reports are published in the BAA Journal. The report on Uranus during the 2015 Apparition can be found in

More observers have now joined in. Highlights since the last post are: (1) During April 21-25 Clyde Foster caught a

Just a quick update this month. Really light nights are here in Orkney now, but hopefully those further south might

Cosmic radiation detection by muon counting opens up an interesting avenue for the amateur observer. Muons are fundamental charged particles