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Jupiter in 2021, Report no.3: Mutual phenomena of the satellites

In 2021, the Jupiter system was edge-on to the Earth and Sun, so the Galilean satellites sometimes eclipsed and occulted

Here is a report on the PJ37 images. Highlights include: –An impact flash had been recorded by amateurs 28 hours

The first comet to be discovered in 2021 was found by Gregory Leonard on January 3. He was using the

We switched back from summer time to GMT at the weekend which marks for me the start of the winter

BAA RAG21 day conference was held – Saturday, 2021, October 16 – 10:00 to 17:00 The event was recorded and

Juno’s perijove 36 was on 2021 Sep.2. Although the track did not pass over any well-known local features, apart from

Comet 15P/Finlay is a short period comet which last came to perihelion on 2021 July 13. It is currently moving

This is a belated update for September – I recently got back from my holiday in Orkney, so a lot

BepiColombo was launched on 2018 October 20 and the mission is specifically designed to study the planet Mercury and its

Brightest for several decades !