Hello and welcome to another year of stargazing. Among the articles about the Star of Bethlehem I said there would surely be, there was one by a Mark Matney suggesting the object may have been a comet. This is not a new idea, indeed there were several plausible ideas put forward in a book …
July 2025
Moon and Stars - the weather has been kind enough the last couple of weeks to allow a return trip to the lovely cliff top walk I enjoyed at the beginning of the month but this time in the evening to see the moon rise. The full moon was at its lowest point on the …
ASTRONOMY NOTES: JANUARY STAR…TS
Better late than never, here is a round up of starry night sights for January: Welcome to another year of astronomical observing prompts and miscellany, which gets off to a cracking start with news of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe which has been steadily nearing the sun since 2018. By the time you hear this, …

