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Comet of the month – 19P/Borrelly

This comet has been around for a while but it has only recently moved north of the celestial equator. It

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Pro-am comet meeting, 2022 Jun 10-12

Europlanet, in conjunction with the BAA, Planetum Prague and the Czech cometary group SMPH is planning to hold a hybrid

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Newsletter

Solar Section Publications

The Solar Section has a monthly Newsletter containing observer’s observations such as daily number of groups and sunspots numbers or images

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Historical Section Webinar

(NOTE – NOT May 24 as advertised in the Journal Meetings Diary) This Webinar starts at 2:00 PM Link to join via

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Magnetic Observations

The plots below shows the magnetic field strength variations as recorded by Stuart Green in Preston, Lancashire, UK.  Stuart explains

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Deep Sky Update – 2022 January

[Teaser image of NGC 2022 by David Shepherd – full image] It is very interesting to see ‘rapid’ changes in

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Jupiter in 2021/22, Report no.8: GRS & SEB

The South Equatorial Belt (SEB) in 2021 was essentially the same as in the previous two years, so this report focuses

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Jupiter in 2021/22, Report no.7: Equatorial Region Update

This is an update on two unusual phenomena that we have been observing recently in the equatorial region.  We are

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Amateur contributions to planetary science (including our publications & EPSC abstracts & Juno abstracts, 2020 onwards)

This page continues our publications list from 2020 onwards.  We will endeavour to post PDFs of our own articles; if

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Close approaching asteroid (7482) on January 18-19

This 1-km object is due to approach the Earth to within about FIVE times the distance of the Moon attaining

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