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Report no.3 (Satellite transits)

Around the date of opposition, there are always some fine opportunities to see some of Jupiter’s moons transiting in front

2025 January 8 Opposition (January 16) is now just days away. As of today, the Mars Section has 64 active

Here is our report on Juno’s Perijove-68, which occurred on 2024 Dec.27. The highlight was the unexpected discovery of a

From 13 to 15 June, the Belgian (Flemish) Society for Astronomy (Vereniging Voor Sterrenkunde or VVS) together with the Institute

I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas and a good New Year. Maybe Santa brought an astro-goodie to keep

A VSS meeting will take place on Saturday October 25 in Northampton. Doors open 10.00 am. Meeting starts 10.30 and

The 6.5-m James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the pre-eminent space observatory of our times, and just 7 months into

C/2024 G3 was discovered by the ATLAS survey on 2024 April 5 using a 0.5-m, f/2 Schmidt at Rio Hurtado,

December 10 The weather has not been very cooperative lately, but we have still managed to get observations on nearly

Juno’s Perijove-67 was on 2024 Nov.24, and the usual series of images was returned. Here is our very brief report