- Information on the orbits of the Galileans -
- Transits, occultations and synchronised rotations!
- Pictures of the Galilean moons through a standard digital camera -
- Showing that it's possible to capture images of the four brightest moons without a telescope
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- Colour changes -
- Spring greets the northern hemisphere as the rings turn edge-on to the earth
- Opposition Surge -
- A sudden brightening of the rings near opposition
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- Pictures of Neptune during conjunctions with Venus and Jupiter -
- The dimmest planet gets together with the brightest and the largest
- Images of both Uranus and Neptune taken with the digital camera, September 2007 -
- Crystal-clear skies come to my aid with the outer planets
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- Total Lunar Eclipse, 21st February 2008 -
- Clouds do their best to spoil the show but don't quite succeed!
- Total Lunar Eclipse, 3rd March 2007 -
- Perfect viewing for this dramatic event
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- A favourable opposition of Juno, August/September 2009 -
- A chance to spot one of the more elusive asteroids
- A very close opposition of Ceres, February/March 2009 -
- The dwarf planet gives me some interesting theoretical problems!
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- Near occultation of Mars by the Moon, 24th December 2007 -
- Clouds conspire to spoil this remarkably close approach
- Occultation of Saturn by the Moon, 2nd March 2007 -
- I just about manage to capture this very unusual and spectacular sight
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- Comet Lulin, February 2009 -
- An exceptionally speedy visitor to the solar system
- Comet Holmes suddenly brightens, November 2007 -
- A very unusual event produces a naked-eye comet
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- Information on the International Space Station and Iridium flares, plus pictures
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