BA News May Night Sky 1 May 2014 All those lovely galaxies in Leo, Virgo and Coma are still well placed this month, but as the sun moves north the period of dark skies available to see them…
BA News April Night Sky 28 Mar 2014 Mars comes to opposition in Virgo on 8 April. Its angular diameter will be about 15" (less than half Jupiter's), and brightness -1.4. It is quite far south in the…
BA News Report to Herschel Society AGM 16 Mar 2014 I gave a report of our activities to the William Herschel Society AGM a week or so ago. The report, and the Observing Log which underlies it, are both below. …