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[25585]

After finding and reading some magazines I had kept from my earlier membership, I decided to rejoin. Looking forward to my bi-monthly mags and 2025 Handbook. Good stuff!

[LunarObserver]

The BAA is a really good organization. I have been a member 8 years or so. 
David

[Phil Cowell]

You’ll not regret it. The journal has excellent informative articles and not spoon fed like many documents. 
They have great sections as well.

Edited by Phil Cowell, 03 February 2025 - 12:00 AM.

[12BH7]

I have friends on the other side of the pond. From what they tell me the weather there is a real problem. Best of luck.

[mikeDnight]

I have friends on the other side of the pond. From what they tell me the weather there is a real problem. Best of luck.

 We suffer from a lot of cloud and it rains a lot, but on the bright side its very green over here. Much depends on where the observer lives, for example where I live in East Lancashire, the transparency can be poor due to mist and high haze, plus the modern plague of perpetual contrails doesn't help. From my home site I can only say that the seeing conditions are generally good to very good, so lunar and planetary can be awesome. The lack of transparency makes deep sky challenging, but when seeing and transparency play along the skies are dark and the views spectacular. I count myself lucky that I can see the milkyway from my doorstep on nearly every clear night, so things aren't so bad. I'm visual only, but if I were an imager things may be far more challenging and stressful. 

[Phil Cowell]

When you think about it England is about the size of NY state but look at how many dark sky sites they have in that area. The word seems to get out better there. Even with a country of 57 million people in that space and NY has 20 million.

This is for the full UK. But the skies in Cornwall and the moors are pretty good. That was where I grew up.

 

https://gostargazing...ites-across-uk/

 

I have friends on the other side of the pond. From what they tell me the weather there is a real problem. Best of luck.

Edited by Phil Cowell, 03 February 2025 - 11:51 PM.

[jcj380]

After finding and reading some magazines I had kept from my earlier membership, I decided to rejoin. Looking forward to my bi-monthly mags and 2025 Handbook. Good stuff!

I ordered a copy of the handbook just to see what it was all about.  Lots of good content, but obviously, the RASC version would be better suited to my location.

[happylimpet]

After finding and reading some magazines I had kept from my earlier membership, I decided to rejoin. Looking forward to my bi-monthly mags and 2025 Handbook. Good stuff!

Good plan!

 

The articles can certainly be quite heavyweight!

 

I was shocked to see two of my images in the most recent magazine. One of Mars, one of C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS with anti-tail.