Volume 117, No.3: 2007 June
Detailed contents: Notes and News / Articles / Observers' Forum / Reviews / Letters / Meetings / BAA Update
The new face of Jupiter in 2007, revealed by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft earlier this year and by ground-based images from Australian amateurs Stefan Buda (top left) and Zac Pujic. The main image shows the Great Red Spot area on February 27, imaged by New Horizons in the infrared. See article by John Rogers and full caption details on page 113. New Horizons images courtesy NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab/Southwest Research Institute.
The Christmas and New Year Orion Star Count (Richard Miles & David Lloyd) ) / From the President (Richard Miles) / Jupiter embarks on a 'global upheaval' (John H. Rogers) / Two supernova discoveries for Ron Arbour (Stewart L. Moore) / Solar Section (Lyn Smith)
Photo: The central region of the globular cluster M13, imaged by the 2.0 metre Faulkes Telescope North through a V filter using an exposure time of 5 seconds. The image was obtained remotely at the BAA Winchester Weekend meeting on 2007 March 31.
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Composite image showing the southern regions of the Moon and Saturn at maximum occultation on March 2 as seen from Selsey, Sussex. Pete Lawrence
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The Journal of the British Astronomical Association
On the cover: New Horizons at Jupiter
Notes and News
Refereed articles
James Wigglesworth and the Great Scarborough Telescope ... Raymond Emery & David Hawkridge
It may come as something of a surprise to many readers of this Journal to learn that there was once - albeit briefly - a major astronomical establishment in the town of Scarborough, queen of Yorkshire's many fine seaside resorts. Moreover, the legacy of this brief flowering of astronomy in the bracing North Sea air (or German Ocean, at it would have been at the time) is set in perpetuity in the form of contributions made to the famous New General Catalogue of deep sky objects.
The Geminid meteor shower in 2001 ... Neil Bone
Mare Orientale: the Eastern Sea in the West: Discovery and nomenclature ... Richard Baum & Ewen A. Whitaker
HR Lyrae (Nova Lyr 1919): from outburst to active quiescence ... Jeremy Shears & Gary Poyner
Observers' Forum
Meetings
Reviews
Springer/Praxis, 2007. ISBN 0-387-34178-1. Pp xiii + 187, £15.50 (hbk).
Reviewed by Jacqueline Mitton
Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-521-81803-6. Pp ix + 324, £35.00 (hbk).
Reviewed by Roger Pickard
Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-521-78242-2. Pp v + 767, £50.00 (hbk)..
Reviewed by Richard Miles