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The old Moon and Venus buzz the Beehive at dawn on 14 September

12 September 202015 March 2022 Adrian Ashford 0 Comments

Start the week with a beautiful dawn conjunction of the old crescent Moon, Venus and the Beehive Cluster, M44.

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Observer’s Challenge – Hunting the moons of Mars

1 September 20203 March 2022 John Chuter 0 Comments

Challenge for October : Hunting for Phobos and Deimos

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Deep Sky Update – August 2020

Strangely August seems to have flown by for me. Observing wise, although it has been getting darker earlier, the weather

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How to find Triton, Neptune’s largest moon

21 August 202015 March 2022 Adrian Ashford 0 Comments

Neptune reaches opposition on 11 September 2020. Our Track Triton web app shows you where to find the outermost planet’s largest moon.

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A bright new outbreak on Jupiter

An exciting new outbreak on Jupiter has been reported today by Isao Miyazaki in Japan.  He imaged a new, very

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New colour map and reports from seventy years ago

Observations of Jupiter from 1949 and 1950 have been analysed more thoroughly than ever before, and images from exactly seventy

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Which side of Mars will I see tonight?

14 August 202022 November 2022 Adrian Ashford 0 Comments

Our interactive Mars Mapper web app helps you identify the Red Planet’s surface features for the 2020-2021 apparition.

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Perseid maximum is here

The weather has been rather variable over the past few days, with very hot and humid days and warm nights

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Sky Notes – August & September

Plenty to see as Nick explains: The Summer Triangle, Small Summer Constellations, Spectacular Planets

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