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BASIL November 2025

The front cover shows an image of the Orion Nebula, taken by BAS member Darren Brown. The image shows the intricate structure, colours and amazing dust clouds of the nebula.

Key topics for the month include:

• The Orionid meteor shower in November.
• Imaging opportunity: Comet 24P/Schaumasse crosses the Beehive Cluster (M44) on 8-11 November.
• Observe the 'Beaver Moon' in October and craters Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus and Arzachel.
• 21 DSO observing targets are listed for the month.
• Observe the Blue Snowball Nebula in Andromeda.
• Observe the Open Cluster M103 in Cassiopeia.
• Observe the Little Dumbbell Nebula in Perseus.
• Constellation of the month is Andromeda, which is well placed to observe, and see how to use the Andromeda constellation to locate the galaxies M31 and M33.

See pages 28-31 for members' images of the Moon and the Elephant's Trunk Nebula, taken by BAS members Andrew Grasemann and Chris Lee.

The BAS programme of meetings from November 2025 to June 2026 can be found on p32.