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Astronomy? Nothing to do with me
Beginners Luck
A Better Sky
How Big can a Star be? - Bigger than we Thought!
Once in a Blue Moon
The Caldwell Catalogue
Black-out over Cornwall
S281, Planetary Science and Astronomy, An OU Course
And now for something completely different
Edinburgh Imaging Visit
From eyeglass to kijkglas: A history of the telescope
Fireballs 2001
First Light, First Night
Why are there no Green Stars?
Hazards of Space Debris
Iridium Flares
It's a mystery
The Other (Known?) Solar System
Kennedy Space Centre
The Leonid Meteor Shower in 2001
A Letter from Australia
Magnitude
The First Magnitude Marathon
Meade LX-90 Telescope Review
Sir Patrick Moore presents 'Mars: A New Frontier'
A 'Mystery Object' in Orion
In Search of the Northern Lights
Olbers' Paradox or Why is the sky dark at night?
AFA Star Parties: Opposition of Mars 2003
Perseids 2002
Photons
Rainbows Haloes and Coronas
Redshift 5 Review
The Scotch Mount (Reprinted from SAG Mag)
Summer, Was that it?
Theft of the Night
Time
Transit of Mercury 7th May 2003
Using the Meade ETX (book review)

NASA Space Place Articles

A New View of the Andromeda Galaxy
Improbable Bulls-Eye
Voices from the Cacophony
Chew on This
Cosmic Cockroaches
The Ions of Dawn
Micro-sats with Macro Potential
Moving a Mountain of a Dish
Where No Spacecraft Has Gone Before
Omit Needless Bytes!
Ozone, the Greenhouse Gas
Snowstorm on Pluto
The Red (Hot?) Planet
No Mars Rock Unturned
Newest Weather Sentry Takes Up Watch
Ultraviolet Surprise
Tracking Wildlife from Space
A Great Big Wreck
A Wrinkle in Space-Time

Miscellaneous Articles

Awards for All
The Mars Week Diary
AFA on the Web
AFA on the Web: The First Year

Meeting Reports

British Astronomical Association: Aurora Section
Scottish Astro-Fest 2000
Scottish Astronomers Group winter meeting review
Scottish Astronomers Group Spring 2001 Meeting
SAG Meeting May 2002 Edinburgh

Community

AFA: Third Annual Exhibition
Mars Week
Quotations

Events

AFA Events 2000

Glen Lyon Astronomy Weekend 2000

AFA Events 2001

2001 BBQ Report and Photographs
2001 BBQ Report and Photographs
Glen Lyon Astronomy Weekend 2001

AFA Events 2002

Glen Lyon Astronomy Weekend 2002
Scottish Astronomer Group Weekend
Wigtown Astronomy Weekend 2002

AFA Events 2003

Glen Lyon Astronomy Weekend 2003
Annular Eclipse Helmsdale
Annular Solar Eclipse - Strathy Point

AFA Events 2004

The Egyptian Adventure
Glen Lyon Astronomy Weekend 2004

Gallery

David Ogilvie

Douglas Cooper

Malcolm Gibb

Martin Russell

Noctilucent Clouds 2004

Russell Cockman

Transit of Venus 2004

Various

Walter Scott

Eclipse Animations

The 11th August 1999 solar eclipse from Bucharest, Romania
The 21st June 2001 solar eclipse from Rushinga, Zimbabwe.

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