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Siamese Twins, 4567 & 4568

Deep Sky Section Annual Meeting / Webinar

The 2022 Deep Sky Section annual meeting will be held as a webinar, via Zoom and YouTUbe. Guest speakers are Owen

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Deep Sky Update – 2021 December

I am sure everyone will have breathed a sigh of relief when the James Webb Space Telescope was launched successfully

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The First Meteor Shower of the Year

Much has been made in the popular astronomical press of the fact that many of the most important annual meteor

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JunoCam at PJ38

Juno’s Perijove-38 was on 2021 Nov.29. As the spacecraft was tilted to look directly downwards, JunoCam got its closest views

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30Jan19updateV2

Director’s Blog

30th June 2025 – Section WhatsApp Group The Section now has a WhatsApp group for members to post solar related

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Jupiter in 2021, Report no.6: Bright plume outbreaks in the narrow NEB(S)

This interim report deals with the small brilliant white spots in the narrow dark NEB(S) that captured observers’ attention in

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Jupiter in 2021, Report no.5: The South Temperate Domain in 2021

This domain has been of great interest in 2020-2021, with the cyclical birth and transformation of STB structured sectors, proceeding

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Christmas comes early for Comet Chasers

Welsh school children feature in a study of a mysterious hybrid comet/asteroid

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Get Ready for the 2021 Geminid Meteor Shower

When and How to Observe

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Howard Banich

Webinar – The history of silvering telescope mirrors

We are pleased to welcome back US astronomer, deep sky observer and contributing editor to Sky and Telescope magazine Howard

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