Volume 116, No.4: 2006 August
Detailed contents: Notes and News / Articles / Observers' Forum / Reviews / Letters / Meetings / BAA Update
This magnificent image of spiral galaxy M82 and its glowing hydrogen filaments was made in March 2006 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys' Wide Field Channel on the Hubble Space Telescope. It is a composite mosaic of six images, combining exposures with four filters in the visible and the infrared. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin), M. Mountain (STScI), and P. Puxley (National Science Foundation).
From the President (Richard Miles ) / The 2005-2007 OJ287 observing campaign (Gary Poyner) / Solar Section (Mike Beales ) / From methane seas to sand seas: Titan's topography emerging (John H. Rogers) / Venus: Eastern elongation 2005 (Richard McKim)
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The Journal of the British Astronomical Association
On the cover: M82, the 'starburst' galaxy
Notes and News
Refereed papers
The opposition of Mars,1997 ... Richard McKim
Measurement of the orbital and superhump periods of the eclipsing cataclysmic variable SDSS J170213.26 +322954.1 ... David Boyd, Arto Oksanen & Arne Henden
The visibility of the dark side of Venus, 1921-1953; a series of observations by M. B. B. Heath ... Richard Baum
The Perseid meteor shower in 2002... Neil Bone
The lightcurve of (150) Nuwa... Fiona Vincent
BAA Update
Observers' Forum
Letters
Reviews
Springer-Verlag, 2005. ISBN 1-84628-190-3. Pp xi + 211, £22.00 (pbk).
Reviewed by Nick Hewitt
Springer/Praxis, 2005. ISBN 0-387-26130-3. Pp xiii + 246, £19.50 (pbk).
Reviewed by Roger O'Brien
Springer(Verlag, 2005. ISBN 1-85233-734-6. Pp viii + 177, £22.00 (pbk).
Reviewed by Nick James
Meetings
Sky notes for 2006 August & September
  by Neil Bone