Compiled by Tracie Heywood
The Astronomer has two annual awards: the ‘Alan Young’ award for the best contribution to the magazine cover and the ‘George Alcock’ award for best overall contribution to TA. Both awards are based on each magazine volume (May to April).
Compiled by Tracie Heywood
A complete index of the ‘The Astronomer’ magazine has been complied and is available for download.
Compiled by Tracie Heywood
The list below gives information on TA Meeting dating back to 1964.
The 2022 TA annual meeting took place on Saturday 29th October 2022 at at St Francis Sales Church Hall, Warren road, Newbury, RG14 6NH.
Edited by Tracie Heywood
This guide describes the prospects for the major meteor showers and for a number of minor meteor showers during the interval from 2021 April to 2022 March. It is compiled with visual observers in mind, but should also be useful for imagers and radio observers.
This supernova was discovered by Koichi Itagaki (Japan) on 2019 January 09. It is a Type Ia (z=0.00452) supernova in Leo Minor. The accompanying graph shows the lightcurve for this supernovae.
The re-scheduled 2018 TA annual meeting took place on Saturday 13th April 2019 at St Mary’s Church Hall, Goat Lane, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 7PZ.
Supernova AT 2017EAW in NGC 6946 was discovered by Patrick Wiggins,Tooele, UT, USA, at 12.8 mag on 2017 May 14 at 05:42:43 UT. This supernova is the 10th to be discovered in NGC 6946 in the last 100 years. The accompanying graph shows the lightcurve for this supernovae.
Back issues of magazines from 1964 to 2014 (volume 50) are available on the NASA Astrophysical Data System (ADS).
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