Category: Mercury

Members can now download the March / April Mercury from the Downloads page.

Contents include:

• The Coordinator’s Spot
• Four Moon photographs
• Baader Herschel Wedge
• Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy
• Dates For Your Diary
• Constitution Change
• The Seven Sisters and Orion’s Belt
• Jupiter and Three Moons
• The Bahtinov filter
• A School Visit
• Mercury and Venus
• Orion Nebula and Jupiter
• Astronomical tidal ranges
• Microsoft ICE review

The January/February Mercury is now available for download.

Visit the Members | Downloads page – you will need the password, which has been emailed to members.

Contents includes:

• The Coordinator’s Spot
• The Sun on 30th Sept
• A very large sunspot
• Sun and Moon photos
• A Movie Review
• Secrets of the Planets
• Sun Focus Group
• Messier Binocular Challenge
• Lunar Challenge
• Largest 1st Qu Moon
• Geminid Report
• Model of Asteroid Vespa
• Venus at last
• Image File Naming
• BAA Deep Sky Section Meeting 2015
• Comet 2014 Q2 Lovejoy
• Venus 29th December
• Dates for your Diary
• Two Moon Photos

The November/December Mercury is now available for download.

Visit the Members | Downloads page – you will need the password, which has been emailed to members.

Contents includes:

• Coordinator’s Spot
• Dates for Your Diary
• The Moon and Saturn
• Sketching video
• It’s still wonderful!
• Two Moon photos
• Observing the Sun
• The Eastern Veil nebula
• Useful books and links
• Polarscope illuminator
• Cheltenham The Planets.

The September/October Mercury is now available for download.

Visit the Members | Downloads page – you will need the password, which has been emailed to members.

Contents include:

• Co-ordinator’s Spot
• Dates for your Diary
• Moon photo
• Comet C/2014 E2 Jacques and Eddie’s Coaster
• August report by the Observing Director
• Supermoon
• Venus and Jupiter Conjunction
• Messier M8
• Cotswolds by Radar
• Crescent Nebula photograph
• An Ex(moor)cise in frustration
• Cygnus Rift photograph
• Moon book review
• Comet C/2014 E2 Jacques
• The largest Moon of 2014

The July/August Mercury is now available for download.

Visit the Members | Downloads page – you will need the password, which has been emailed to members. There is a new password for the page, following the start of the new session.

The May/June issue of the society magazine Mercury is now available for members to download from the Members | Downloads page.

This months contents includes:

• Coordinator’s Report
• Treasurer’s Report
• Accounts
• Dates for your diary
• The Cheltenham Science Festival
• Live From Space
• The Big Three
• A Life of Galileo
• My Observatory

The March/April issue of the society magazine Mercury is now available for members to download from the Members | Downloads page.

This months contents includes:

• Coordinator’s Spot
• A Deep Sky Object for March/April
• Dates For Your Diary
• Somerset Space Walk
• First Light 127 Maksutov
• Society dinner photos
• CAS talk at Tewkesbury Explorers
• New Telescope installation
• Girl’s Star Party

The January/February issue of the society magazine Mercury is now available for members to download from the Members | Downloads page.

This months contents includes:

• Coordinator’s Spot
• A Deep Sky Object for Jan/Feb
• Dates For Your Diary
• Christmas meeting photos
• All at sea and in the dark
• CAS Website – Forums
• Recollections of a Disappointment

The November/December issue of the society magazine Mercury is now available for members to download from the Members | Downloads page.

This months contents includes:

• Coordinator’s Report
• Dates For Your Diary
• Narrowband imaging
• October observing
• Comet ISON

Not as big as the originally proposed Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, downsized to 40m (from 100m) the E-ELT looks to be on track for building to commence next year.

At our October meeting, Professor Michael Merrifield of Nottingham University told us all about this planned instrument and some of the science that should be possible with it.

More information can be found on the ESO website.