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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

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 !

This month’s comet of the month is C/2019 L3 (ATLAS). This is another comet that was discovered by a survey