Astronomy Now - January 2021
I Roger Dymock The quest for ‘ET’ (Exoplanet Transits, not aliens!) f you thought that detecting exoplanets is the purview of pr ...
The January Night Sky Elusive Mercury in the evening sky and the chance of seeing some Quadrantid shooting stars gets the Solar ...
Highlights: Catch Mercury’s evening show When: early evenings in second half of January What’s special: Mercury, the closest pla ...
Highlights: Comet Atlas buzzes Capella When: evenings throughout January What’s special: Any comet is a good comet is a sentimen ...
Highlights: The Quadrantids. Observe a strong meteor shower When: peaks 2/3 January What’s special: Following hard on the heels ...
Highlights: Remote Uranus in the evening When: evenings throughout January What’s special: At the turn of the year, the remote i ...
Highlights: 145 CMa- winter albireo? When: late evenings throughout January What’s special: Perceiving any colour, let alone viv ...
Highlights: Observe Gemini’s outstanding MESSIER 35 When: all night throughout the month What’s special: Open clusters abound in ...
Highlights: Mountains on the Moon When: evenings of 20 and 21 January What’s special: Everybody loves mountains, whether as moun ...
I Bill Leatherbarrow Moonwatch: Noisy neighbour imagine that we all hope for considerate, quiet and non-intrusive neighbours, bu ...
The Sky in January How to use this map Face south, holding the star map with north at the top in front of you – the lower half o ...
The Solar System Mercury e elusive closest planet to the Sun puts in a decent appearance in the evening sky around the time it p ...
Mark Armstrong Deep Sky: In search of winter nebulae NGC 2359: The mighty Thor Let’s begin our tour in ne fashion by visiting NG ...
A Owen Brazell Deep sky challenge: NGC 1999 Orion Nebula’s peculiar nebulous neighbour lthough it is always tempting to focus on ...
S Bob Argyle Double star of the month: 88 Tauri ix-and-a-half degrees due south of Aldebaran (alpha [α] Tauri) lies the wide and ...
T Tracie Heywood Variable Star Scence: TV Geminorum V Geminorum (Gem) is one of a group of red giant and supergiant stars (the G ...
The southern sky How to use this map Face north, holding the star map with south at the top in front of you – the lower half rep ...
I Nik Szymanek The Sky Imaging Edition: Part 3 n the previous two issues, we assessed e Sky Imaging Edition’s (TSIE’s) capabilit ...
A Ade Ashford Futuristic astronomy: Vaonis Stellina ST 80 observation station s any student of telescope history will know, Fran ...
Steve Ringwood Astrogear Solar System chocolates Details: caithnesschocolate.co.uk Price: £16 It is often said that people are c ...
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