• 101 Things – a Stellar Nova, the New Nova in Cassiopeia

    101 Things – a Stellar Nova, the New Nova in Cassiopeia

    Discovered on the 18th of March, nova Cas 2021 was shining at approx magnitude +9.6, but it

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  • 101 Things – The Northumberland Dark Sky Festival

    A new virtual festival is being organised this February to celebrate Northumberland as one of the best

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  • 101 Things – COMETS!

    Comets are (essentially) massive dirty, icy snowballs thought to mostly originate from the “Oort Cloud” at the

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  • 101 Things – Noctilucent CLouds

    The 2020 Noctilucent Cloud (NLC) season is almost here – NLCs are they the highest clouds on

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  • 101 Things – Satellites – Starlink

    Satellite spotting is definitely a fun astronomical thing to do and because commercial launches are now happening

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  • 101 things – The Night Sky

    One of the best things about being involved in Battlesteads Observatory is stargazing under the wonderful dark

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  • 101 Things – The Quadrantid Meteor Shower

    This meteor show is one of the high points of the “Shooting Star” year and can produce

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  • Happy New Year – 101 things to See in The Sky Before You die

    Its New Years Eve 2019 and we’ve got a whole lot of stargazing in store for you

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    101 Things to See in the Sky Before you Die!

    I’ve had this idea for a book for a while now – a bucket list of objects

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