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BASIL January 2023

The front cover of BASIL shows the BAS Chair, Fiona Lambert, cutting the BAS 80th anniversary cake at our anniversary celebration on 8th December 2022. Predicted solar activity, solar cycle progression, lunar phases and events, solar system finder charts and rise / set times are reported for January. Also included is the monthly observing calendar, […]

BASIL December 2022

The front cover of BASIL celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Bristol Astronomical Society, showing the announcement in the Bristol Evening Post of 2 December 1942.  Our first meeting was held in Cotham on 8 December 1942. Predicted solar activity, solar cycle progression, lunar phases and events, solar system finder charts and rise / set […]

BASIL December 2021

The front cover of BASIL illustrates the dark skies encountered in the mid-Atlantic (see page 28). Solar activity continues to be slightly higher than predicted values for this stage of the solar cycle – see pages 4 to 5. December provides good opportunities for observing Jupiter, Uranus and the Ursid meteor shower (see page 13). […]

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