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Events…

Great evening’s observing at Wellow

21 Sep 201722 Sep 2017
Thursday night's impromptu observing at Wellow, south of Bath was very successful. The cloud and rain from earlier in the day cleared up and as the high cloud cleared a…
Night Sky…

September Night Sky

29 Aug 201729 Aug 2017
The total solar eclipse hunters have now returned to the UK full of wonderful descriptions and plans to be in Chile in July 2019 for the next one; enough time…
BA News

Quick Start to Astrophotography

25 Aug 201710 Sep 2017
This article is a brief primer on how you might make your first attempts at astrophotography. It was written by Steve Kimmins in 2010 but remains a good starting point…

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Southern Taurids10 Oct5
Northern Taurids13 Nov5
Leonids18 Nov15

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Age:22.3d
Illum.48.6%
23:45R13:50S

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Venus06:04R15:58S
Mars08:54R16:58S
Mercury09:06R16:50S
Saturn14:47R02:07S
Neptune14:47R02:34S
Uranus16:41R08:19S
Jupiter20:34R12:28S

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S means Set time
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