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Comet of the month: C/2023 E1 (ATLAS)

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

Sorry for another late update, but we are just past Full Moon so there won’t have been much in the

Deep Sky Note #4 When I read Callum’s Deep Sky Update for February, I totally missed the mention of the

JUICE, the next great Jupiter-bound spacecraft, is scheduled to be launched this Thursday April 13, at 12:15 UT, from the

March was not terribly good for observing for me – though I did see aurorae on two nights, one of

Observations are continuing, although the disk diameter is now only some 6 arcseconds. It is a challenging planet visually, requiring