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PAGE TO PRESERVE SHORTCUTS TO MIRA ISSUES
1 + 2 + 3 - (1) Editorial. Astro Photography. Telescope Tests, (Using Ursa Major). Amateur Astronomy Centre, (Todmorden). Deep Sky Notes. The Astronomer AGM. News Roundup. - (2) Midland Sports Centre for Disabled. Home Built Slow Motion Drive. Observing Notes. Astronomical News. - (3) Fore-Runner of Space Shuttle, (X-15). Building Large Telescopes P1. Observing Notes. Astronomical News.
4 +5 + 6 - (4) Editorial. Number of Stars in Square of Pegasus. Building Large Telescopes P2. Observation Notes. Deep Sky Notes. Astronomical News. Historical Note, (1866 meteor shower). - (5) College Observatory Operational. Maria Mitchell Observatory. How Low can you See?. Observations from Dark Site, (Mid Wales). Deep Sky Notes. Astronomical News. - (6) First Point of Aries. Fore-runner of Space Shuttle (P2). Survey of Bright Galaxies (P1). Members Obs. Simple Focusing Aid. For the Beginner.
7 + 8 + 9 - (7) As Easy as PI. Survey of Bright Galaxies, P2. Planetary Notes. Beginners Notes. Deep Sky Notes. Lunar Obs. - (8)
Survey of Bright Galaxies, P3 Letters. The Catania 6" Cooke Reflector. Deep Sky Notes. Planet Obs. Lunar Obs. Astronomical News. - (9) Society News. Ansley Visit, (Star Party). Wonderful Star (Mira). Film Hypersensitization Using Hydrogen. DeepSky Notes. Lunar Notes. Astronomical News.
10 - Stars of the Plough (Order of Magnitude). RA Arculus (Tech Collage Principal). Planetary Notes (Venus) Cranes Venatici (Constellation Notes).
11 - Halley's Comet Edition. History. Comet Giacobini-Zinner (Obs). Watch Out! There's a Comet About. Planetary Notes, (Jupiter Obs).
12 - Meeting Review. Letter to the Editor. Halley's Comet Observing. The Other Comet (Giacobini-Zinner). Lunar & Solar Obs. Letter (Obs from South Cornwall).
13 - Drawing the Moon P1. Astronomical Seeing How Low Can You Go, P2 Star Obs. Lunar & Sun Obs.
14 - Comet Halley. M65, M66 & M59, M60, NGC 4647 & 4638. A Fireball Obs. Observing Double Stars. Moon Obs.
15 - Review of Year (1986). Drawing the Moon P2. How Low (Stars Obs). The Trapezium Obs. Observations of Sun, M41, M17. Moon Obs.
16 - Auriga Clusters. Southam StarParty Report. Airborne Observing. News. Mare Crisium Features. Lunar Obs.
17 - Lunar Obs. M2 & M52 Obs. Unknown Worlds P1 (Discovery of Neptune). Sun Obs.
18 - Lunar Obs. Deep Sky Notes M11. Unknown Worlds P2 (Discovery of Neptune). Double Stars.
19 - Lunar Obs. Mira Obs. Unknown Worlds 3 (Discovery of Neptune). Star Obs. Letter. Sun Obs. Comet Obs.
20 - M42 Obs. Jupiter Obs. Astronomical Interest, Star Party Report, Fra Mauro Obs and Notes.
21 - Venus Obs. Mars 1988. Herodotus. Jupiter Obs.
22 - Mars Obs. Moon Obs. Sun Obs.
23 - Mars Observations. Star Party.
24 - Jupiter Obs. Moon Obs. Mars Obs. Eye See. Astronomical Interest.
25 - Aurora Reports. Setting up Equatorial Head. Lunar & Mars Observations.
26 - 50th Anniversary Issue. History of C&WAS. Night to Remember (Aurora Obs.). Astronomy at University. Lunar & Sun Obs
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27 - Lunar Obs. JAS Aurora Section P1. Observing Venus P1.
28 - Petavious Obs. Letter. JAS Aurora Section P2. Observing Venus P2.
29 - Lyras Second Double. Flagstaff Arizona. Two Lunar Craters. Gravity Assist (Spaceflight). Hints & Tips.
30 - Hipparchus Obs. Historical note. Follow Short-Period Star. BAA's CfDS Campaign. Bode's Law. Poets Corner. Schiller Obs.
31
- Saturn Obs. Sun Obs. Astro Pop Quiz. Geology of Moon P1.
32
- Mare Imbrium Obs. Astro Pop Quiz Answers. Geology of Moon P2. Hipparcos Obs. Delta Clipper (Test vehicle),
33 -
Cassiopeia Obs. Astronomical Notes & Queries. Looking for LGM (Little Green Men). Eye on Sky.
34 - Burg Obs. Lunar names. Cameras Obscura Up-Date. Poets Corner.
35 - 1999 Solar Eclipse Track. Naked Eye Variable Star Observing. Stars of Old Stars of New (Astro History). Interplanetary Dangerous Sports Club (an IDSC Story), Understanding Binoculars. Astronomy GCE Exam 1972
36
- Mars Obs. Space Debris. Astro Music Quiz 2. Setting Circles on an Altazimuth Telescope. VZ Cancri. Help Darken Our Skies (CfDS). Meteor Observing.
37 -
Letters. History of Astronomy P1. Camera Obscura. Cooke Refractor Move (Societies Telescope). Eclipsing Variable B Lyra.
38 -
India Eclipse. The Space Shuttle. Astro Music Quiz 2 Answers. History of Astronomy P2. Astro Beginner's Year.
39 -
Astro Soap Opera. Powys County Observatory. A Green Moon? (Lunar Pollution). History of Astronomy P3. Space Exploration of the Solar System. Pam's Page.
40 -
Lunar Obs. Unusual Observing Techniques. Tides (Sun & Moon Effects). Quantum Particle Physics & Matter. Coathanger Obs.
41 - Tale of Two Towers (South Wales). Comets Comets Comets (Short & Long Period). Solar System Explorers (New Spacecraft). Editors Bit (30 years of Star Trek). Taurus Obs. Test Your Mag Limit.
42 - Hale-Bopp Obs. Carl Sagan 1935-1997. Pam's Page (Galaxies & Gravity). Change? What Change? (History of Tools). Stars By Daylight. Companion to Sun. Astronomical Myths. Turkish Delight (Solar Eclipse).
43 - Report from the Red Planet. Doesn't Time Fly (A IDSC Story). The Cassini/Huygens Mission. Rakh's Revenge (Mongolian Solar Eclipse). Molecular Clouds. Matter of Some Gravity.
44 - A Large Sunspot Group. Editors Bit (Observations). Tired Light Theory. Sir Norman Lockyer. Portable driven camera mount.
45 - Lunar Obs. Rima Hyginus. Rhythms of Life (Planetary Rhythms). Astronomy of Tidal Bores. Diamond Rings (Solar Eclipse). Fatal Attraction (A IDSC Story). The MIRA Star Catalogue.
46 - Interesting Sundial (Majorca). Cosmological Conundrum. Universe is a Dangerous Place (Astro Hazards). Best Friends (A IDSC Story). Moon & Apollo Missions. 1999 Eclipse Weather. Unwanted Menace (Street Lighting).
47 -
Cosmological Conundrum. The Answer.
48 - 1999 Eclipse Path Maps. Eclipse Photography. Formation of Rings Around Planets. Rainbows (Refraction).
49 - Under African Skies._To Our Children The Stars / BAA CfDS. Rollright Stone Circle. 2 Russian Cosmonauts talk.
50 - Solar Eclipse 1999 (Members Stories)
51 - Because it Isn't There (A IDSC Story). Accidental Death of an Anarchist (London 1894). Extra-Terrsetrial Dust. The RGB Debate
52 - Astro Observations in Anglo-Saxon England. Desert Storm (Leonid Meteors). Planetary Nomenclature. The RGB Debate2.
53 - Prisoner, Cell Block Hg (A IDSC Story). Star Sign Question. Quasars. X-Ray Astronomy P1.
54 - Solar Images. Sunsets on Mercury. Tying the Knot (A IDSC Story). X-Ray Astronomy P2 (Radiation). University Astronomy Course Questions.
55 - Lunar Obs. Telescopic Thoughts (Using Telescopes). Attraction of Gravity.
56 - Allegheny Observatory (Ontario, USA). Two Astro Notes. 20 Things About Camera Obscura. JPL News.
57 - Did They Go to the Moon? George Alcock Remembered. Northern Exposure (Aurora). Q&A with JPL. The Very Large Telescope.
58 - Sci-Fi v Reality. Q&A to Astro Probs. Heart of Darkness (African Eclipse). Sailing to Philadelphia (Mason Dixon Line).
59 - 2 Sun Obs, Solar Activity. Europan Single Current Sea (A IDSC Story). Near Earth Objects. The VLT, What we hope to see.
60 - Moon Landing Fraud? Editors Bit (Moon Illusion). Life in the Extreme (Life on Other Planets). Some Enchanted Evening (Leonid Meteors). The Very Large Telescope. Positions of Voyager & Pioneer.
61 - Cretian Holiday. 5 Planets Line Up. Hang On In There (A IDSC Story). "Anti-Gravity" Asteroids. Seeing in Gamma Rays. Full Circle (360 degrees).
62 - Jules Verne and the Green Flash. Q&A. Telescope Matters.
63 - Editors Bit (Last 10 Years). The Green Moon Revisited (Lunar Elevator). Why Don't X-rays Reflect off Mirrors? The Extra Mile (African Eclipse). Light Colour & Night Vision.
64 - Editors Bit (Lunar Ranging). End of the Line? (GPS at Greenwich). The Moon Illusion. Jeremiah Horrocks - "A Very Curious Astronomer". Lunar Obs. Astro Pop Quiz 3.
65 - Editors Bit (C&WAS Survey). Ring of Fire (Annular Eclipse). Saga of the Universe. Astro Pop Quiz 3 Answers.
66 - Jupiter Obs. Editors Bit (SOHO spacecraft). Going Grey (Orkney Eclipse). Transit St (Rhode Island). There's a Hole in My Pocket (A IDSC Story). Schwarzschild Radius. News & Notes & Letters.
67 - 2 London Blue Plaques. Six Bangs (Orion Project). Penguin Called Venus (Transit of Venus 1874). Letters & Emails.
68 - Gravitational Choreography. Vision or Vandalism (Holst's Planets Suite).
69 - Editors Bit (Transit of Venus). Transit Day. A Warwickshire Eclipse (18th century Eclipse).
70 - Comet Machholz. Editors Bit (Print Reproductions). NASA & SpaceShipOne Flight. Solar Observing, Eyepiece Graticule, Day Charlie came to Town (Meeting Astronauts). Book Review, Gods in the Sky. Astro Music Quiz 4.
71 - The Rector of South Kilworth (W. Pearson). Editors Bit (TV Programs). Tale of Two Lenes (Spectacle Problems). Astro Music Quiz 4 Ans.
72 - Galileo's Observations of Neptune, Editors Bit (Grand Canyon Star Party). Visit to Palomar Observatory.
73 - Lunar Obs (Kies). Editors Bit (Mind Games). It's All Dark up There (Cosmology). Da Vinci Code and the Venus Pentacle.
74 - Sun and Moon Obs, Letter from Jeremiah Horrocks to John Worthington. What Happened to Jupiter? (Missing off reproductions). Happy Holiviking - A Martian Calendar Eclipse Madrileno (Spanish Annular Eclipse). Physics Concerns.
75 - Solar Eclipse Obs. Editors Bit (Moon Ownership). The Neptune Conspiracy (Discovery of Neptune). The Fibonnaci Series and the Golden Ratio. Making Waves in Spacetime (Gravitational Waves).
76 - Picnic at Patrick's (visit to Patrick Moore's house). Editors Bit (Sky pollution). Gravity: More Than a Simple Attraction. A Quick Trot to Turkey (Eclipse chasing). Collision Course (Impact avoidance)
77 - Astronomy with a Satellite Dish (Radio Astronomy at Home).__Earth's Magnetism, Solar Radiation and Aurora (Earth's Magnetic Fields). Cosmic Rays.
78 - Astro Imaging. Capturing the Planets with a WebCam. Planet Stacking with Registax. Removing Light Pollution Using the Gimp.
79 - Samuel Foster and His Observations From "Distant Places" (Old Coventry Astronomers). A Rugby Sundial.
80 - Editors Bit (Visit to Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico) Nathaniel Nye (Birmingham Astronomer) Astronomy in Chicagoland (Visit to Chicago).
81 - Underground Observatories (Searching for neutrinos). Editors Bit (Anniversaries). The Scandal of Peer Review (Refereeing Science Papers) Mars 1895.
82 - John Twysden (1607 - 1688) and John Palmer (1612 - 1679). Two Northamptonshire Astronomers.
83 - Garden & Wife Friendly Telescope cover. Old Astronomy (Victorian Astronomy Book Ideas). Inflation (Cosmology). Underground Observatories: Why? (Suns Neutrinos).
84 - Moon Issue. Editors Bit (40 years after Apollo 11). Receding Moon (Last Eclipse). Measuring the Moon's Distance (Laser Ranging). The Earth and Moon System (Eclipses, Tides, Libration, Paths, Moon Mapping).
85 - Fifth Hubble Service Mission. View from 1969 (40 years from Apollo). Gravity Mapping (Accurate Gravity Maps of Earth). SIDs and Pings (Sun and Meteor Radio Astronomy).
86 - Smile Buzz (40th anniversary painting
of Apollo 11). Rue Cassini (Street in Nice). The End of a Controversy? (Halton Arp and NGC4319 & Markarian 205). Thomas Harriot & Syon Park (First lunar observer).
87 - Editors Bit (Global warming). Christopher Columbus's Eclipses (Historical Eclipses). The Maunder Minimum (Sunspot cycles). Gulliver and the Moons of Mars (Gulliver's Travels astronomy). The Pearson Papers (On-going Research).
88 - Libyan Geminids (2009 observing trip). Dropping a Clanger (Gravity & weightlessness). Into the Goldilocks Zone (Exo-Planets). Short Pieces.
89 - M51 Image. Observations of minor planet (4) Vesta. Modelling the Ionosphere (SID observations). Book Review, NASA Apollo 11 Workshop Manual. Notes on Observations of Rare Night Clouds (Noctilucent Clouds).
90 - M66 Image. Meteorites (Differences). What Difference Does it Make? (Cosmology & Relativity).
91 - The Bergamo Analemna (North Italian sundial). Parallax, Aberration and Nutation The Significance of Aberration (Discovery of Parallax). X-ray Interferometer Telescope (Space x-ray Mission).
92 -
NGC3628 (The Hamburger Galaxy), Dumfries and Maxwelltown Camera Obscura
93 - Two Camera Obscuras Nearby (Local Camera Obscuras). Mapping the Stars (Using Parallax). Editors Bit (Gravity). What's in a name, P1 & 2 (Astronomical Naming Issues). An Ansty Church Window. StephensonFast - and the Weather in Coventry, 1724 (Old weather records).
94 -
Transit 2012 (Transit of Venus & visit to Jeremiah Horrocks house). The Last Transit. A Canadian Transit (The 2012 Transit of Venus). The Moon (Formation and Features). Two Recent Lunar Missions (Chadrayaan-1 and GRAIL)
.
95 - A Return to Oz (Solar Eclipse of 2012 from Australia). Mercury (Features). Messenger, NASA Update (New results from NASA's Messenger Orbiter). Jeremiah Horrocks and New England (USA in early 1600's).
96 - An Inventory of the Solar System (Masses of Solar System bodies). Life on Exoplanets Moons? (Types of life on exoplanet moons). Cataclysmic Variables (Types of stars). Two ESA Missions (an up-date). "Observing Basics" The History of Astronomy (Getting involved in Astronomical history).
97 - An Introduction to Astronomical Image Processing (Part 1) (Using Photoshop to process images). Catching Cosmic Rays in Space (Space Detectors). Analysing Cosmic Rays in Space.
98 - Yerkes Observatory (Visit). Hunting Halley (Halley's Tomb). A Laboratory Named Diamond (New Laboratory at Harrell). Editors Bit (Space Probes). Two Variables and a Planetary (Objects in Cygnus).
99 - Race to the Moon (USA & Russia's Space Race to the Moon). William Pearson's Sundial (Sundial now in Harborough Museum).
100 - The Wonderful Star (Discovery). The First Interstellar Voyagers (Solar Sails). The Einstein Tower, Potsdam (Visit). Two Scottish Observatories (Visit) Ocean Beach Camera Obscura (Visit).
101 - You Cannot be Sirius