BAA Tutorials

Starting Out

Richard McKim shares tips and anecdotes on sketching the planets

Richard McKim, 2020 Jun 14

Starting Out

Mike writes about how to start research into the history of astronomy

Mike Frost, 2020 May 26

Intermediate

Lyn explains how to categorise sunspot groups according to their quality

Lyn Smith, 2020 May 02

Starting Out

A brief guide to the apparent motions of the planets

David Basey, 2020 Apr 09

Intermediate

John Cook, the Radio Astronomy section director, writes about how to detect the effect of the sun on the Earth's ionosphere

John Cook, 2020 Mar 15

Advanced

How to observe an exoplanet transit in support of the ARIEL Space Mission

Roger Dymock, 2020 Jan 18

Starting Out

An introductory guide to what's in the sky for the absolute beginner.

David Basey, 2019 Dec 08

Starting Out

How to observe the November 2019 Mercury transit

Peter Meadows, Chris Hooker, Paul Abel and Steve Harvey, 2019 Oct 16

Starting Out

A brief history of comet imaging and some of the fundamentals of current imaging technology

Nick James, Jonathan Shanklin, Peter Carson and others, 2019 Sep 15

Intermediate

Roger Pickard writes about why and how you should observe variable stars

Roger Pickard, 2019 Aug 11

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