Category: Mercury

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

Highlights in this issue are:

“I Want to Believe” by Chris Lintott

The Coordinator’s Spot

CAS Curry Night

Extra Terrestrial Life

The Drake Equation Revisited

Moon Above Venus

Super Moon at Perigee Syzygy

The Sun Spot

Lunt Solar Scope report

Radio Astronomy on a shoestring

Articles Continued:

Winter Skies

The History Spot

Hipparchus

Dates For Your Diary Jan – Feb 2017

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Nov / Dec 2016 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights in this issue are:

The Full Moon

The Coordinator’s Spot

The Christmas Star

Venus & Crescent Moon

A Near Miss!

Summary of CAS October Presentation

Chris Hadfield at the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2016

The Sun Spot

Lunt Solar Scope report

Articles Continued:

Product Review, Skywatcher Synguider Mk2

Museum of the History of Science Visit

Dates For Your Diary Nov – Dec 2016

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Sept / Oct 2016 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights in this issue are:

• Gamma Cassiopeiae
• What Shall I Look At Tonight?
• The Coordinator’s Spot
• Pluto & Charon
• The Magnificent Ten
• Star Trails

The Sun Spot

• Solarsphere 2016
• Using the CAS Solar Telescope
• Radio Astronomy on a Shoestring
• The Square Kilometre Array
• Dates For Your Diary Sept – Nov 2016

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Jul / Aug 2016 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights in this issue are:

• Transit of Mercury – Susan Snow
• Tim Peake photo
• Cheltenham Science Festival
• What Shall I Look At Tonight?
• The Coordinator’s Spot
• Fly Me to the Moon Part 2
• CAS Prize Giving
• Solar Telescope
• Saturn observation – Eddie Carpenter
• Saturn – Neil Havard
• Transit of Mercury – Peter Cadogan
• Transit of Mercury – William Jackson
• Dates For Your Diary July – Sept 2016
• In the next issue

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the May / June 2016 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights in this issue are:

• Lunt Solar Telescope
• CAS Observing Night of 7th Jan 2016
• What Shall I Look At Tonight?
• The Coordinator’s Spot
• “Gerhana Matahari” in the Makassar Straight
• A visit to the Royal Observatory Greenwich
• Atik Affinity Camera – First Light
• Fly Me to the Moon
• Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
• NT Outing to Dyrham Park March 2016
• The March 2015 Solar Eclipse
• Solarsphere 2016
• Dates For Your Diary May – June 2016

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Mar / Apr 2016 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights in this issue are:

• Aurora Over Bishps Cleeve
• The Moon Occulting Aldebaran
• Moon Rise Over Cleeve Hill
• Moon and Jupiter Conjunction
• What Shall I Look At Tonight?
• The Coordinator’s Spot
• The New Moon
• The Great Astronomical Clock of Prague
• CAS Curry Night
• Comet Catalina
• Cosmonauts and Other Worlds Exhibitions
• Occultations and Transits of Planets
• The UKube-1 mission
• What’s in Principium
• Viewing Reports of Comet Catalina
• Dates For Your Diary 2016

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Nov / Dec 2015 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights in this issue are:

• Eclipse of the Moon
• Tim Peake
• Co-ordinator’s Report
• CAS Curry Night
• Imaging Nebulae
• Cheltenham Literature Festival
• Lunar Eclipse Photos
• Cassini Visits Enceladus
• Halloween Flyby
• Mystery Object WTF Splashdown
• Comet Tabur
• Facts About Saturn
• Looking Ahead with DFYD
• Dates For Your Diary

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Sept / October 2015 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights in this issue are:

• The Tulip Nebula (cover image)
• The Coordinator’s Report
• The Perseids
• Stargazing Event Notice
• Venus / Mars Conjunction
• Society Curry Night
• Blue Moon
• New Horizons Jupiter Mission
• Rosetta Mission
• Solar Eclipse
• Initiative For Interstellar Studies Project Dragonfly
• Dates For Your Diary

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the July / August 2015 issue from the Downloads page.
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Highlights in this issue are:

• Astro Camp 2015
• The Coordinator’s Report
• Cheltenham Science Festival
• Mars Book Review
• Serendipitous Photos
• Society Curry Night
• New Moon
• Mount Tuffley Observatory
• Sunspots
• Saturn
• Dates For Your Diary

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

Highlights in this issue are:

• The Coordinators Spot
• Gretton Science Day 2014, report and photos
• AGM Treasurer’s Report
• AGM Minutes
• Financial Balance Sheet
• Subscription Notice renewal details
• Photo of Buzz Aldrin with Jack Newton
• Annual Dinner Photos
• The Sun in Jan & Feb, with photos showing flares
• Silhouette of Moon Mountains graphically illustrated
• Jupiter & Ganymede Shadow on Jupiter, plus M51 imaged
• Trapezium Observation, hand drawn report
• Lockyer Observatory visit with photos
• Lyrid Meteor Shower, observation from Coombe Hill
• Jupiter and the four Galilean Moons
• Partial Solar Eclipse, in public and private gatherings
• M51 imagery, a work in progress by Rik McRae
• Dates For Your Diary