Volume 118, No.3: 2008 June
Detailed contents: Notes and News / Articles / Observers' Forum / Reviews / Letters / Meetings / BAA Update
Thirty years of auroral observing. Top: The auroral oval photographed from Greenland by Lars Poort, 2006 November 23/24. Bottom: Noctilucent cloud from Dundee, 2006 July 14/15 by Ken Kennedy. See Ron Livesey's article on page 125-130.
Carry on Cassini: NASA extends spacecraft's active life for two more years (Hazel McGee ) / Schools use Faulkes Telescope to investigate near-Earth asteroid (Richard Miles ) / Solar Section (Lyn Smith) / Three in one night again for Tom Boles (Stewart L. Moore) / Observing the Sun in VLF (John Cook)
[Right: A spectacular and unique natural colour mosaic acquired by Cassini on 2007 May 9 from a position 39° above the unilluminated side of Saturn's ring system, at a distance of approximately 1.1 million km from the planet. The view combines 45 red, green and blue images taken over the course of about two hours. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.]
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Right: Globular cluster M22 imaged from Sardinia by Andrea Tasselli
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Notes and News
Refereed papers
Some aspects of auroral observing, 1976-2005 ... R. J. Livesey
The eastern and western elongations of Venus, 1999-2006 ... Richard McKim
Photometry of the dwarf nova AW Sagittae during the 2006 November superoutburst ... Jeremy Shears, Roger Pickard, Tom Krajci & Gary Poyner
Superhumps and flickering in V1316 Cygni ... David Boyd, Christopher Lloyd, Robert Koff, Thomas Krajci, Bart Staels, Jerrold Foote, William Goff, Tonny Vanmunster, Lewis Cook, Joseph Patterson
Total penumbral lunar eclipses ... Darren Beard
Meetings
Observers' Forum
BAA Update
Sky notes for 2008 June & July by Neil Bone