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Deep Sky Update – 2021 November

The Hubble Space Telescope is slowly being recovered back to operation, with two of the main instruments now being science

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Jupiter in 2021, Report no.4: Two impact flashes!

During the 2021 apparition, two impact flashes have been recorded on Jupiter by amateur observers; these were the 7th and

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Dance of the moons on 2021 August 15

A specially remarkable series of events occurred on 2021 Aug.15, as Ganymede eclipsed and occulted Europa while both were in

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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

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JunoCam at PJ37

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

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Comet of the month – C/2021 A1 (Leonard)

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

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Deep Sky Update – 2021 October

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

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BAA RA 21 Day Conference – Saturday, 2021, October 16 – 10:00 to 17:00

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

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JunoCam at PJ36

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

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Arid meteors, 2021 October

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

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