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Juno at PJ52

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

Now that we are past the summer solstice, the nights are noticeably getting darker. Although we did not have a

Juno’s Perijove-51 occurred on 2023 May 16. The highlight was Juno’s closest pass yet past Io, giving JunoCam its best

There aren’t any bright comets around at the moment and the skies don’t really get dark at UK latitudes at

It’s amazing how light the ‘night’ sky is up here at 59 degrees north currently. And also how quickly the

Two challenges were set during the Solar Section Meeting in 2023 February: – White light flares. With more complex sunspot

The new European Jupiter mission, JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer), was launched successfully on 2023 April 14, after a 24-hour

JunoCam at PJ50: What the pictures show –John Rogers (BAA) (2023 May 11) Juno’s Perijove-50 (PJ50) occurred on 2023