Volume 118, No.5: 2008 October
Detailed contents: Notes and News / Articles / Observers' Forum / Reviews / Letters / Meetings / BAA Update
The solar eclipse of 2008 August 1 was observed along a track that stretched from Canada through Greenland and northern Russia to northwestern China (see Notes & News below).
The 2008 August 1 total solar eclipse (Nick James et al. ) / From the President (Roger Pickard ) / A web-based 'Portal to the Universe' (Pamela Gay) / A bright Taurid year? (Neil Bone) / Jupiter in 2008: Aftermath of the global upheaval (John Rogers) / Dark Sky Discovery 2009 (Martin Male) / Mercury at eastern elongation, 2008 May (Richard McKim) / Another four supernova discoveries from Tom Boles (Stewart L. Moore) / Solar Section (Lyn Smith) / Venus near inferior conjunction, 2007 (Richard McKim)
Right: Bright Leonids in Orion. A composite of three 5-minute exposures on Kodak Gold ISO 800 print film with a 28mm f/2.8 lens, 2001 Nov 18, Palau, Micronesia. Hazel McGee
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Cover images
Top: Canon 10D, ISO 200, 28mm, f/3.5. Combination of two sequential frames with exposures of 1/2s and 1/8s. Gobi Desert near Jinta, China. Nick James.
Bottom: 1/50s, Canon 450D + Williams Optics 350mm FL f/6, ISO 800. Weizixia, near Hami, China. Sheridan Williams
Notes and News
Refereed papers
The Leonid meteor shower in 2001 ... Neil Bone
The eastern and western elongations of Venus, 1991-1998 ... Richard McKim, Keith Blaxall & Alan Heath
Jay Brausch and the North Dakotan aurora, 1981-2006 ... R. J. Livesey
The orbital and superhump periods of the deeply eclipsing dwarf nova SDSS J122740.83+513925.9 ... Jeremy Shears, Steve Brady, Jerry Foote, Donn Starkey & Tonny Vanmunster
Reviews
Cassell Illustrated, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84403-437-6. Pp 287, 27×34cm, £30 (hbk).
Reviewed by Ann Davies
Ashgate, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7546-3250-4. Pp xxiv + 533, £60 (hbk).
Reviewed by Lee Macdonald
Rough Guides Ltd, 2008. ISBN 9-781-84353-800-4. Pp vii+401, £10.99 (pbk).
Reviewed by Neil Bone
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Observers' Forum
Sky notes for 2008 October & November by Neil Bone