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BA News

February Night Sky

28 Jan 2016
February is a good month to see two very different nebulae, the Eskimo and the Rosette. The Eskimo Nebula, NGC 2392 is a planetary nebula in Gemini. It was discovered…
BA News

January Night Sky

31 Dec 2015
The strange winter we have been having this year so far has been hopeless for observing. There is so much moisture around that the rare gaps between spells of wind…
BA News

December Night Sky

30 Nov 2015
December is a time of transition for the night sky, with even Cygnus, that last element of the summer sky, disappearing in the West during the evening, as Orion, the…

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