Volume 118, No.4: 2008 August
Detailed contents: Notes and News / Articles / Observers' Forum / Reviews / Letters / Meetings / BAA Update
The Old Greenwich Observatory. A two-day old New Moon over the onion dome of the Old Royal Observatory, Greenwich. A 6-second exposure at f/3.0 taken by Chris Mann with a Panasonic DMC-FZ30 digital camera on 2007 December 7.
The opposition of Mars, 2007 - 2nd interim report (Richard McKim ) / From the President (Roger Pickard ) / Another good year for the Perseids (Neil Bone) / End of a modern Odyssey (Roger O'Brien) / OJ287 - the final word (for now...) (Gary Poyner) / Solar Section (Lyn Smith) / An image of a 'Moreton Wave' (Nick Howes) / 'Sky-friendly' street lighting in Newport (Bob Mizon) / 100-up for Peter's asteroid discoveries (Roger Dymock)
[Right: False-colour image of asteroid 243 Ida and companion Dactyl as imaged by the Galileo spacecraft. NASA]
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[Right: Members observing Comet 17P/Holmes with binoculars and the unaided eye from Piccadilly, Central London, after the BAA meeting. (Photo: Martin Crow)]
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[Right: An image of M41, 'Aristotle's Cluster', obtained remotely by Roger Dymock using SLOOH at Mt Teide, Canary Islands (28°17'N, 16°30'W).]
Attendees at the 2008 BAA Winchester Weekend. Photo by David Briggs
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The Journal of the British Astronomical Association
Cover image
Notes and News
The 2007 Presidential Address
Asteroids: past, present and future ... Richard Miles
Refereed papers
Superhump periods in the UGSU-type dwarf nova SDSSp J082409.73+493124.4 ... David Boyd, Jeremy Shears & Robert Koff
Jupiter in 2001/2002, Part II: Local features and drifts ... John H. Rogers, Hans-Jörg Mettig, Michael Foulkes, Damian Peach & Antonio Cidadão
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Reviews
Springer?Verlag, 2008. ISBN 978-0-387-34521-5. Pp xv + 235, £19 (pbk).
Reviewed by Maurice Gavin
Cassell Illustrated, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84403-570-0. Pp 288 (247 x 297mm), £30 (hbk).
Reviewed by Carole Stott
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Meetings
Letters
Observers' Forum
BAA Update
Sky notes for 2008 August & September by Neil Bone