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From the President

It is with considerable pride – and a degree of trepidation – that I take on the role of the

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Notes and News

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Improvements to our Member Services

28 November 20193 March 2022 Andy Wilson 0 Comments

Improvements to our Member Services

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Rosetta 67P observing campaign

As part of her PhD at the Open University, Helen Usher has asked if comet observers could fill in a

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Deep Sky Update – November 2019

Darker evenings have been appreciated over the past few weeks, but the weather has not been very kind to me,

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Why have we all heard of Einstein?

6 November 20193 March 2022 Dominic Ford 0 Comments

Debunking the myth of Eddington’s bias in the 1919 eclipse test of Einstein’s General relativity.

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Scanning old comet photos, films and plates

The Comet Section physical archive contains a very large number of photographic prints and slides dating back to the 1950s,

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Observing the transit of Mercury

1 November 201916 March 2022 Dawson 0 Comments

On 2019 November 11 the planet Mercury will pass in front of the sun as viewed from Earth. This event

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New publications about Jupiter from pro-am collaborations

  Three papers have been published recently in which amateur observers and/or the BAA Jupiter Section collaborated with professional planetary

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Observer’s Challenge – Colours of Double Stars

20 October 201916 March 2022 John Chuter 0 Comments

We are told there is no such thing as a green star. I’ve read papers, articles and heard talks on

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