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Twenty-eight issues of I&I News and sixteen issues of Technical Tips are available

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I&I News, New Series No. 1

 

26 September 2011

 

Editorial

Imaging from Spain

Imaging the Moon with a webcam

Seeing

Observing Sections

 

(6 pages)

 

Technical Tips No. 1

 

5 October 2011

 

Editorial

Webcam drivers

 

(8 pages)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 2

 

27 October 2011

 

Editorial

Lunar, planetary, and solar observing

Some home-made telescopes

Low-tech imaging

Seventy-five years of visual observing

An Anglo-Saxon dial in Northampton

On wiring astronomical instruments

A home-made 6-inch refractor

A Hilger eyepiece spectroscope

 

(10 pages)

 

 

 

 

 

Technical Tips No. 2

 

5 November 2011

 

Editorial

Joined-up astronomy: connecting all the hardware

 

(2 pages)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 3

 

26 November 2011

 

Editorial

A home-made solar telescope

A wooden Crayford focuser

A flat-field Schmidt camera for CCD imaging

Visual observation of double stars

Observing from an AONB

The 10-inch Cooke refractor of the Mills Observatory, Dundee

Imaging the Sun with Coronado PSTs

Noctilucent clouds

Visual observing, and mobility

The pouring of the 200-inch mirror disc (1935)

Photographing minor planets (1892)

 

(14 pages)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 4

 

24 December 2011

 

Editorial

Advertisements

How to run an astronomy meeting

 

(4 pages)

 

 

 

 

 

I&I News, New Series No. 5

 

9 February 2012

 

Editorial

Seventy years of observing

Reminiscences of Grubb Parsons

An observatory in the Pennines

A tri-axis counterbalanced accessory system

Deep-sky photographs

The twin equatorial

 

(18 pages)

 

Technical Tips No. 3

 

20 February 2012

 

Editorial

Dark-adapted software

 

(3 pages)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 6

 

28 April 2012

 

Editorial

Memories of Herstmonceux

Asteroidal imaging from Hampshire

Construction of a 16-inch f/4.4 reflector

Seeing and telescope design

A moveable solar observatory

A metal Crayford focuser made with hand tools

The Godlee Observatory twin equatorial

Making a 30-inch mirror

Delavan’s comets

 

(14 pages)

 

 

 

 

 

Technical Tips No. 4

 

29 April 2012

 

Editorial

Notes on the use of binoculars

 

(2 pages)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 7

 

10 July 2012

 

Editorial

Imaging the Sun with a 60-mm Coronado Hα telescope

Collimating a CCD camera: a practical solution

The Thompson 30-inch reflector at Herstmonceux

William Huggins’ twin equatorial

 

(17 pages)

 

Technical Tips No. 5

 

12 July 2012

 

Editorial

Hopper

 

(4 pages)

 

 

 

 

 

I&I News, New Series No. 8

 

21 September 2012

 

Editorial

A 10-inch f/7 Newtonian

A 16-inch f/4.4 reflector: further developments

The 1927 British eclipse: a colour cine-film

The Romsey observatory

 

(12 pages)

 

Technical Tips No. 6

 

29 September 2012

 

Editorial

Flat fields

 

(2 pages)

 

Technical Tips No. 7

 

24 October 2012

 

Editorial

Dewing in an SCT

 

(8 pages)

 

 

 

 

 

I&I News, New Series No. 9

 

24 November 2012

 

Editorial

Photographing aurorae

The ‘equestrian’ equatorial mount

Comparison of DSLR and CCD images

Report on the present state of celestial photography (1859)

The Duke of York’s parhelia

 

(16 pages)

 

Technical Tips No. 8

 

25 November 2012

 

Editorial

Notes on the use of the telescope

 

(3 pages)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 10

 

24 December 2012

 

Editorial

Cartoons

 

(2 pages)

 

 

 

 

 

I&I News, New Series No. 11

 

9 May 2013

 

Editorial

Horace Edward Stafford Dall, 1901–1986

The first Dall-Kirkham telescope

Over unknown Iceland on a Raleigh roadster

The camera obscura

A null test for paraboloids

Comments on the null test

FP3 Series II film

Atmospheric dispersion

Maksutov telescopes

Visual astronomy in the ultraviolet

Telescope eyepieces

Finding and guiding on dark skies

Photoelectric methods in amateur astronomy

Filter-type solar prominence telescope for amateurs

A Dollond–Wollaston telescope

Memories of Horace Dall

The genius of Horace Dall

Horace Dall’s observatory

The Horace Dall Medal and Gift

 

(33 pages)

 

Technical Tips No. 9

 

30 May 2013

 

Editorial

The use of filters in visual planetary observation

 

(2 pages)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 12

 

5 July 2013

 

Editorial

The artificial horizon

The spherometer

The dipleidoscope

The Barlow lens

Fluid lenses and dialytes

 

(10 pages)

 

 

 

 

 

Technical Tips No. 10

 

14 July 2013

 

Editorial

Digital cameras, CCDs, and webcams

 

(5 pages)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 13

 

20 November 2013

 

Editorial

Solar Section

Lunar Section

Mercury and Venus Section

Mars Section

Asteroids and Remote Planets Section

Jupiter Section

Saturn Section

Comet Section

Meteor Section

Aurora Section

Variable Star Section

Deep Sky Section

Historical Section

Computing Section

Radio Astronomy Group

Robotic Telescope Project

Campaign for Dark Skies

 

(10 pages)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 14

 

24 December 2013

 

Editorial

Archival photographs

 

(3 pages)

 

 

 

 

 

Technical Tips No. 11

 

7 January 2014

 

Editorial

Limiting magnitude

Visual limiting magnitudes

 

(2 pages)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 15

 

27 January 2014

 

Editorial

A With–Browning reflector

Meridian Observatory Louth

Remounting an old 10-inch Meade SCT

Grubb, Parsons, Dreyer, and the Royal Navy

In the Avu Observatory

 

(8 pages)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 16

 

27 February 2014

 

George Eric Deacon Alcock (1912–2000)

 

(6 pages)

 

 

 

 

 

I&I News, New Series No. 17

 

6 April 2014

 

Editorial

John Caister Bennett (1914–1990)

Mileaway Observatory

George Hole’s observatory

The construction of a cell for a 14-inch telescope mirror

William Gascoigne’s micrometer

As I Please

 

(10 pages)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 18

 

10 May 2014

 

Editorial

Instruments by Zeiss, Cooke, Hilger, and Brashear

Horace Dall’s notebooks

A modified Haig mount

A plant-pot solar projector

A ‘jamjar’ magnetometer

The ‘jamjar’ magnetometer, sixteen years on

Contents of previous issues

 

(12 pages)

 

Technical Tips No. 12

 

20 May 2014

 

Editorial

Observatory designs

 

(10 pages)

 

 

 

 

 

I&I News, New Series No. 19

 

16 June 2014

 

Editorial

An observatory in Bedfordshire

An observatory with a coelostat

A run-off roof observatory

An observatory in the west of Scotland

A demobbed veteran

An observatory in the Australian bush

A garden-friendly telescope cover

A modified ‘Romsey’ observatory

An observatory in Spain

An observatory for variable-star work

Kingstanding Observatory

A POD in Reading

A Cumbrian observatory

An observatory in Herefordshire

A pivoting observatory

A Pulsar in Cambridgeshire

A hinged-roof observatory

A mount without a telescope

A mechanical drive

 

(11 pages)

 

Technical Tips No. 13

 

28 June 2014

 

Editorial

Go to or not go to

 

(2 pages)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 20

 

23 July 2014

 

Editorial

A run-off roof observatory

Restoration of a 4-inch f/15 classic achromatic refractor

A home-made dome

An ‘undesirable’ observatory

An observatory for a small garden

An observatory in East Sussex

A cylindrical observatory

 

(10 pages)

 

 

 

 

 

Technical Tips No. 14

 

19 August 2014

 

Editorial

Dark adaption

 

(1 page)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 21

 

29 August 2014

 

Editorial

William Huggins and the Cat’s Eye nebula

 

(5 pages)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 22

 

31 October 2014

 

Editorial

Some memories

Memories of the Brintons

The Henry Brinton Telescope at Bayfordbury Observatory

The Henry Brinton Telescope and its twin

A run-off observatory

Telescope drives

Observatories and observatory equipment

 

(11 pages)

 

 

 

 

 

Technical Tips No. 15

 

29 November 2014

 

Editorial

SBIG cameras

 

(4 pages)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 23

 

24 December 2014

 

Editorial

Private lives

Historical hearsay

 

(2 pages)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 24

 

29 April 2015

 

Editorial

Optical Surfaces: the start of it all

Frank Knight: astronomer and war veteran

Construction of the Old Barn Observatory

Two observatories in Shropshire

A garden-shed observatory

An observatory at Farthings

A kennel observatory

A reconvertible observatory

A potential observatory

A modified roll-off-roof observatory

A low-cost observatory

 

(12 pages)

 

 

 

 

 

I&I News, New Series No. 25

 

8 December 2015

 

Editorial

The BAA Brashear

On the magnifying powers used by double star observers

An entertaining book review

A run-off shed observatory

Aesthetics and bias

Two Gregorian telescopes

 

(7 pages)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 26

 

24 December 2015

 

Hugh Jampton: Astronomer of the Future

Puzzles

 

(2 pages)

 

Technical Tips No. 16

 

20 January 2016

 

Editorial

Equatorial mounts and polar alignment

 

(6 pages)

 

 

 

 

 

I&I News, New Series No. 27

 

16 December 2016

 

Editorial: Telescope makers

Reminiscences of Howard Miles

John Armitage (1945–2015)

Roy Panther (1926–2016)

Popular science in the nineteenth century

Will Hay’s 12½-inch Calver reflector

Pharaoh Seti I and Nut

Vintage videos

BAA instruments: the case of F. W. Hyde

Nomination for the Horace Dall Award

Contents: 26 September 2011 to 16 December 2016

 

(11 pages)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 28

 

24 December 2016

 

Editorial

Fragments from the Diary of William Herschel

 

(4 pages)

 

I&I News, New Series No. 29

 

16 June 2017

 

Editorial

A 30-inch reflector in Norfolk

The Lilburn telescope in Northumberland

Finders for Schmidt–Cassegrains

A mobility mount for a tripod

Celestron air circulation vents

Imaging with an altazimuth mount

An orbit-sweeper

A precision home-made CCD camera rotator

The ladies participate

Restoration of an AE350 f/5–20 Newtonian–Cassegrain

A cautionary tale

BAA instrument no. 1

Reminiscences of Roy Panther

 

(16 pages)

 

 

 

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