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Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner will brighten through the summer

This comet was discovered by Giacobini in 1900 and recovered by Zinner in 1913 and it has an orbital period

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Ken Kennedy

Ken Kennedy, BAA Aurora Section Director 2011 – 2016 Ken became interested in the aurora after joining the Dundee Astronomical

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Juno finds that Jupiter’s jets run deep

Whether Jupiter’s jet streams are shallow or deep has long been a major puzzle. In the March 8 edition of

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Spectral

Spectral Lines in the Sun

To return to the Solar Section home page. Please select Here

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How to Construct a Solar Projection Box

I possess a Vixen GP102 refractor, which uses the Vixen Great Polaris equatorial mount and whilst I’d used a Baader

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Spiders Web Graticule

 I like to make daily drawings of the sun, using the projection method and a screen with a circle the

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Prominence Latitude

“I was interested in Brian Mitchell’s method of determining Prominence latitudes.  I would like to add an alternative which I

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Nick Howes set up

Nick Howes – Telescope set-up

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Solar Section Tutorials

Our Star – The Sun Determining the Quality Number of a Sunspot Group Solar Observing Spectral Lines in the Sun

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Example – NLC Observation Reporting Form

   Here is an example of a completed NLC Report form. To make your own reports, download a copy of

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