Features
11 How satellites became a threat to our night sky Paul Daniels
14 Is Pluto a planet? Keith Cooper
16 A tale of two clusters Martin Griffiths
Regulars
3 President’s Letter Jen Gupta
4 Editorial Keith Cooper
6 AstroNews Keith Cooper
– A moon or a planet?
– More evidence for life on Mars
– Dark energy is real after all
– ‘Shadow Blaster’ galaxy blasts out extreme neutrino
– The UK unprepared for solar storms
– The Milky Way turned upside down
10 An Astronomer’s View Stuart Atkinson
– When worlds (almost) collide
18 Amateur scene Peter Wade
– Bristol AS then and now
– Ipswich’s Discovery Day
– Devon’s Dark-Sky Parks
– Out and about
20 Young Astronomers
– From the Chief Stargazer Sheila Kanani
– What’s the weather like on other planets? Jon Chase
24 Space Exploration
– NASA enacts daring rescue of Swift Eleni Tsiakaliari
– Robot arm repaired during epic spacewalk Keith Cooper
– Mars atmosphere mission officially over Keith Cooper
– Revealing the crew of Artemis III Keith Cooper
– Chinese mission reaches asteroid Keith Cooper
28 Telescope topics
– AI in astrophotography David Eagle
32 What’s Up Mark Hardaker
– A meeting place of seasons as autumn’s stars rise Mark Hardaker
– Focus on Aquila Mark Hardaker
– Double-star challenge: Zeta Aquarii Peter Morris
35 Sky guide
– Moon data
– Occultation and meteor notes Jeff Stevens/Mark McIntyre
– Planets/variable star notes Alan Clitherow/Matthew Barrett
37 Section reports
– Aurora and NLC Sandra Brantingham
– Solar Neil Waby
– Planetary Alan Clitherow
– Variable star Matthew Barrett
– Deep sky Dave Finnigan
44 The Society Pages Robin Scagell
– SPA Meeting, 24 October
– Residential weekend course, Preston Montford
– BAA meetings
– Member profile: Sonia Turkington
46 SPA contacts
47 Showcase