Volume 116, No.1: 2006 February
Detailed contents: Notes and News / Articles / Observers' Forum / Reviews / Letters / Meetings / BAA Update
Dust in the 'Eye of Mars'. Mars Section Director Dr Richard McKim supplied this montage of images by Clay Sherrod and Damian Peach of the recent perihelic opposition and dust storm. See 'Notes and News' below.
From the President: the excitement and awe of astronomy (Richard Miles) / Calling all new members (Martin Morgan-Taylor ) / Solar Section (Mike Beales) / Newcastle and North Tyneside light the way (Bob Mizon ) / Mars in 2005: first interim report (Richard McKim) / Aurora Section (R. J. Livesey) / Tom Boles bags the first supernova of 2006 (Hazel McGee) / The Asteroids and Remote Planets Section (Roger Dymock) / Observing the planetary nebula NGC 1514 (Stewart Moore)
The Journal of the British Astronomical Association
On the cover: Dust in the 'Eye of Mars'
Notes and News
Refereed papers
Predicting astronomical seeing in the UK ... Damian Peach
A rapid roll-out Newtonian shelter for a dedicated planetary instrument ... Martin Mobberley
Solar chromospheric darkenings around active areas ... Eric Strach
The mean density of the Earth ... David Hughes
V973 Cygni - an overlooked semi-regular variable? ... J. J. Howarth
Observations of the recently discovered dwarf nova 1RXS J053234.9+624755 during the 2005 March superoutburst ... Gary Poyner & Jeremy Shears
The Zeeman effect observed with a spectrohelioscope ... Fredrick N. Veio & Leonard F. Higgins
Lunar domes: a generic classification of the dome near Valentine located at 10.26°E and 31.89°N ... Raffaelo Lena et al.
Index to Volume 115 (2005)
Reviews
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  by Neil Bone