Volume 118, No.1: 2008 February
Detailed contents: Notes and News / Articles / Observers' Forum / Reviews / Letters / Meetings / BAA Update
Galaxy images by members of the BAA Deep Sky Section. See Stewart Moore's article on page 43.
Comet 17P/Holmes surprises us all (Jonathan Shanklin ) / From the President (Roger Pickard ) / Solar Section (Lyn Smith) / Recent BAA studies of Mercury (Richard McKim) / Progress of Jupiter's global upheaval (John H. Rogers) / Skybeams and 'light art' defined as 'advertising' for planning purposes (Martin Morgan-Taylor) / Another Good Lighting Award presented (Bob Mizon) / The 2008 Deep Sky Section meeting (Stewart L. Moore )
[Right: Roger Pickard's 300mm Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope (with dew shield) prepared for a night of remote observing.]
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Cover images
Top: M81 imaged from Wales by Bob Winter. Takahashi 102 refractor and SXVH9 CCD camera. 20min L + 6 min each RGB.
Bottom: M82 by Gordon Rogers from Long Crendon, Bucks. 16-inch RCOS and ST10ME CCD camera with AO7.
Notes and News
Refereed papers
The accelerating circulation of Jupiter's Great Red Spot... John H. Rogers
Edward Walter Maunder FRAS (1851-1928): his life and times... Anthony J. Kinder
Index to volume 117 (2007) ... R. A. Marriott
Meetings
Letters
Reviews
Cassell, 2006. ISBN 1-84403-536-0. Pp 239, £14.99 (pbk).
Reviewed by Ron Johnson
Oy Raud Publishing (Helsinki, Finland), 2006. ISBN 952-9689-18-7. Pp 168, hbk.
Reviewed by Richard McKim
Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-521-85893-3. Pp x + 370, £35.00 (hbk).
Reviewed by Lee Macdonald
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Observers' Forum
BAA Update
Sky notes for 2008 February & March by Neil Bone
[Right: Comet 17P/Holmes on 2007 December 7. Image: Alex Pratt.]