Category: Mercury

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

Contents of this issue are:

• • Co-ordinator’s Spot
  • Minutes of club meeting 14th July 2018
  • Minutes of club meeting 11th August 2018
  • Radio Astronomy Group
  • Astronomy: our unique hobby
  • Cheltenham Science Festival
  • Jack Newton, CAS president
  • Jupiter, Saturn & M42
  • The History Spot: Dorrit Hoffleit
  • Observing Spot
  • Moon & Jupiter
  • Saturn & Moons
  • Venus
  • Remote viewing
  • Moon
  • Dates For Your Diary 2018

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

Contents of this issue are:

• • Co-ordinator’s Spot
  • How to Photograph Mars
  • Radio Astronomy Group
  • Minutes of club meeting 10th March 2018
  • The History Spot: Maria Cunitz
  • Cheltenham Science Festival
  • Observing Spot
  • CAS Awards
  • President’s Report
  • M82 Cigar Galaxy
  • Minutes of Club meeting 12th May 2018
  • The Weak Interaction
  • How We get Our Names of the Days of the Week
  • Dates For Your Diary 2018

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

Contents of this issue are:

• • Co-ordinator’s Spot
  • Zooniverse project
  • Minutes of AGM
  • Radio Astronomy Group
  • Treasurer’s report, accounts and renewals
  • The History Spot – Elizabeth Brown update and Annie Maunder
  • How long is the longest day?
  • Recent crescent moon
  • The 3 P’s of total solar eclipse photography
  • Dates For Your Diary 2018

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

Contents of this issue are:

• • Co-ordinator’s Spot
  • Minutes of meetings
  • Super Blue Blood Moon 2018
  • The History Spot – Elizabeth Brown
  • Observing Spot
  • James Bradley final resting place
  • December 2017 Super Moon
  • Valerii Korotaev
  • Dates For Your Diary 2018

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

Contents of this issue are:

• • Astrobiology Questionnaire results
  • Co-ordinator’s Spot
  • Geminid Meteor Shower
  • So You Want to Become an Astronaut…?
  • Extra Terrestrial 3
  • Man the Microcosm, Universe the Macrocosm
  • Moon Mosaic
  • Moon single photo
  • The History Spot – Henrietta Swan Leavitt
  • Observations of Sunspot Group AR2671
  • Summary for the coming year – Dates For Your Diary
  • Dates For Your Diary 2018

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Nov / Dec 2017 issue from the Downloads page.

Contents of this issue are:

• • Photographing Double Stars
  • A Gloomy Sun
  • “Hidden Figures” Film Review
  • Minutes of CAS meeting on 14th October 2017
  • Aligning an Equatorial Telescope Basics
  • Observing Jupiter
  • A Visit to the Paris Observatory
  • The Perihelion of Mercury
  • Sun spot AR2665
  • The Moon & Jupiter moons
  • Occultations in November & December
  • Dates For Your Diary Sept – Nov 2017

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Sept / Oct 2017 issue from the Downloads page.

Contents of this issue are:

• • Front Page Image
  • The Cassini Mission
  • The Coordinator’s Spot
  • USA Solar Eclipse
    Jack & Alice Newton
    Callum Potter
    Susan Snow
  • UK Eclipse – Ian Smith & James Weightman
  • Solar Eclipse viewing – John Fletcher
  • Cygnus by Ian Smith
  • Minutes of club meeting 20th July 2017
  • Minutes of club meeting 12th August 2017
  • Officers of the Club
  • Dates For Your Diary Sept – Nov 2017

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Jul / Aug 2017 issue from the Downloads page.

Contents of this issue are:

• • Front Page Image
  • Bio of our New Co-ordinator
  • The Coordinator’s Spot
  • CAS Award photos
  • Conjunction of the Moon & Jupiter
  • Patrick Moore Birthday Gathering
  • Aligning an optical telescope
  • Astronomical Ephemera collecting
  • History of the CAS logo
  • A Report from Jack & Alice Newton (CAS Patron)
  • Uranus & Neptune
  • Take the NASA survey
  • Antipodean Moon
  • Officers of the Club

The History Spot – James Bradley Part 2

• Dates For Your Diary Jul – Sept 2017

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the May / Jun 2017 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights in this issue are:

• • New Coordinator at CAS
  • The Coordinator’s Spot
  • Tributes to Dick Warden
  • Tributes to Martin Sinton
  • Treasurer’s Report
  • Occultations and Conjunctions of Jupiter’s Moons in 2017
  • Free magazine access via Gloucester Library

The History Spot – James Bradley, Gloucestershire’s Astronomer Royal

• Dates For Your Diary May – Jul 2017

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Mar / Apr 2017 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights in this issue are:

• Earth Rise over the Moon
• The Coordinator’s Spot
• Stargazing reminder
• Extra-Terrestrial Life-2
• Moon and Jupiter
• Photograph of NGC891
• Photograph of the Full Moon
• Photograph of a Supernova
• Moon and Venus Conjunction
• Observation of Kemble’s Cascade

The Sun Spot

• Solar Scope Report (not)
• Solar Transit of the ISS
• Radio Astronomy

The History Spot

• Discovery of the Speed of Light
• Dates For Your Diary Mar – May 2017