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Solar Animations

Some animations created by members of various types of solar activity are too large to be added to the Solar

Return to the Saturn, Uranus and Neptune Section home page The first observation of Uranus during this apparition was made

The first director of the Comet Section, William Frederick Denning, discovered his fifth and final comet from Bristol on the

The first observation of the 2024 apparition was made by Luigi Morrone on July 19 as shown below followed by

The SPC continues to shrink, and is too tiny upon the sub-6 arcsecond diameter disk to offer any interior details.

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