2024 March 8

‘Messenger’ No. 14 published

The March 2024 issue of Messenger (No. 14), the newsletter of the Mercury and Venus section, is now published online and available to BAA members. This issue’s contents include a paper by Martin Lewis chronicling his work imaging the night side of Venus during the morning elongations of 2023, and advice from Chris Hooker about observing Mercury during the upcoming April elongation.

If you are not a member, you can access this issue and all issues of Messenger by joining the BAA.

Teaser image: The night side of Venus by Anthony Wesley and Phil Miles, with 508mm Newtonian on 12th September showing brighter spot (arrowed) at same location as the bright spot seen in 2017 and 2022.