Volume 116, No.3: 2006 June
Detailed contents: Notes and News / Articles / Observers' Forum / Reviews / Letters / Meetings / BAA Update
The total solar eclipse of 2006 March 29 was the first for many years to be observed in cloudless weather conditions for almost the whole of its track. This composite image of the corona was taken by Mark Winpenny with the Explorers Tours group south of Jalu in Libya, using a Canon 1D Mk II digital SLR with a Canon 300mm f4 IS lens with x1.4 converter (effective focal length 546mm). 25 frames were used for the composite using a slightly modified Pellett method.
'The eclipse with everything' (Hazel McGee) / From the President (Richard Miles ) / Solar Section (Mike Beales) / 2006 BZ8 - a 'sword of Damocles' (Roger Dymock ) / Joy Griffiths, 1942-2006 (an appreciation) (Bob Mizon) / Aurora Section (David Gavine) / Mars in 2005: Second interim report (Richard McKim) / Mercury in colour: an observational challenge (Richard McKim)
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The Journal of the British Astronomical Association
On the cover: 2006-03-29: 'The eclipse with everything'
Notes and News
Refereed papers
The Rev. William Ludlam (1716-1788) and the Cockfield Tower Observatory ... Martin Mobberley
Planetary and lunar imaging with a webcam ... Martin Morgan-Taylor
Noctilucent cloud over Britain and Western Europe, 1998-2000... David Gavine
Analysis of Venus transit images obtained by long-distance, plane mirror, solar projection... David Airey
BAA Update
Reviews
University of Arizona Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8165-2450-5. Pp xvii + 745, $85.00 (hbk).
Reviewed by Jonathan Shanklin
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8018-8234-6. Pp 345, £20.00 (hbk).
Reviewed by Tom Boles
Springer-Verlag, 2006. ISBN 1-85233-887-3. Pp vii + 182, £19.50 (pbk).
Reviewed by David Graham
Letters
Meetings
Dominic Ford
Observers' Forum
Sky notes for 2006 June & July
  by Neil Bone