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A Great Year for the Perseid Meteor Shower!

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

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

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