Category: Mercury

The latest issue of the society magazine Mercury is now available to download from the Downloads area.

Contents include

• Editors Spot
• Coordinators Report
• Dates For Your Diary
• The Dark Skies of Orkney
• Milky Way Overhead
• Members Photos

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available, the March / April 2021 issue can be downloaded from the Digital media | Mercury page.

In this issue:

• Editors Spot
• Coordinators Report
• Dates for your diary
• Greek myths and the constellations – part 1
  The Gloucestershire Fireball
• Members Photos
• Annual Photo Competition – the Dan Turton Trophy

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Jan / Feb 2020 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights of this issue are:

• All about the Transit of Mercury, on Nov 11th 2019.
• Astronomers and the discovery of Gravity, Part 2 – Johannes Kepler

 

 

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Nov / Dec 2019 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights of this issue are:

• Committee meeting minutes
• The Antiques Road Trip
• The 8-Year Cycle of Venus and Earth
• Andromeda
• History: From Hipparchus to Newton
• Speaking at Gloucester Cathedral as part of the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing
• Bepi Columbo
• Capturing Meteors Easily

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Sept / Oct 2019 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights of this issue are:

• Committee meeting minutes
• Monthly meeting summary
• Measuring the size of stars
• P1000 Camera Review
• Cheltenham Science Festival

 

Paid-up members of the society can now download Mercury or read it online by accessing the Members Area. Please note that if you have not already done so you will first need to register.

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the May / Jun 2019 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights of this issue are:

• Stargazing in Naunton Park
• Trailed Star Colours
• The History Spot: Caroline Herschel Final, Part 4
• Mars Desert Research Station
• Entries and winner of the CAS Annual Astronomical Photography Competition
• Treasurer’s Report 2019

 

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Mar / Apr 2019 issue from the Downloads page.

Contents of this issue are:

• Co-ordinator’s Spot
• Minutes of a society meeting
• Blood Moon
• Apollo 11 Moon Landing
• The Glass Universe review
• Earthshine
• The History Spot: Caroline Herschel Part 3
• Radio Gloucestershire Interview
• Comet Iwamoto
• Andromeda remote imaging
• Dates For Your Diary 2019
• Committee Meeting Summary
• Venus 2018 apparition

 

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Jan / Feb 2019 issue from the Downloads page.

Contents of this issue are:

• Co-ordinator’s Spot
• Minutes of club meetings
• Radio Astronomy Group
• Comet 46P
• SETI
• Gretton Science Festival 2018
• Remote Observation
• The History Spot: Caroline Herschel Part 2
• 50th Anniversary of the first Moon Landing
• Dates For Your Diary 2019

 

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Nov / Dec 2018 issue from the Downloads page.

Contents of this issue are:

• • Co-ordinator’s Spot
  • Minutes of club meetings
  • Radio Astronomy Group
  • Comet 21P
  • Comet 46P
  • ESTEC Netherlands Visit
  • The History Spot: Caroline Herschel
  • Observing Spot
  • 50th Anniversary of the first Moon Landing
  • Dates For Your Diary 2019