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Articles from the BAA

Targets of the three current space missions, and similar objects, to scale.

John Rogers, 2015 Jul 14

Spacecraft are closing in on two dwarf planets

John Rogers, 2015 Jul 14

Ron takes his tally to 34 supernova discoveries

Callum Potter, 2015 Jul 06

The Moon points the way to Uranus

Stewart Moore, 2015 Jul 05

A fine conjunction of Venus and Jupiter

Nick Hewitt, 2015 Jun 21

The Moon points the way to Neptune

Stewart Moore, 2015 Jun 05

How deep this time?

Roger Pickard, 2015 Jun 05

The instrument maker John Brashear, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was among the first Members of the Association when it was founded in 1890.

Bob Marriott, 2015 Jun 01

Messier 4: an easy to find globular cluster

Stewart Moore, 2015 May 28

M4: an easy to find globular cluster

Stewart Moore, 2015 May 28

A glorious globular in Serpens Caput

Stewart Moore, 2015 May 20

The BAA Jupiter Section tries some predictions for weather patterns on Jupiter.

John Rogers, 2015 May 17