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    Astronomer Paul Abel

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    Paul G Abel is the director of the British Astronomical Association’s Mercury and Venus section, and a theoretical physicist at the University of Leicester.

    Recent articles by Paul Abel

    A sketch of a dust storm over Argyre Planitia on Mars. Credit: Paul Abel
    Skills

    How to draw Mars at your telescope

    Make the most of Mars at opposition in 2020. Find out how to see Mars tonight. Credit:Pete Lawrence
    Skills

    Observing guide See Mars as it approaches opposition

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    How to observe variable stars

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    A multi-wavelength view of Supernova 1987A, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Angelich (NRAO/AUI/NSF); Hubble image: NASA, ESA, and R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation) Chandra image: NASA/CXC/Penn State/K. Frank et al. ALMA image: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) and R. Indebetouw (NRAO/AUI/NSF).
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    How to find and observe a supernova through your telescope

    How to keep an astronomy log book. Credit: iStock
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    How to keep an astronomical log book

    A mission to Uranus could teach us a lot, including about the early Solar System. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library
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    Why we should send a spacecraft to explore Uranus

    Paul's finished sketch of Jupiter. Credit: Paul Abel
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    How to draw Jupiter

    Once the 9th planet in the Solar System, Pluto is now classified as a Kuiper Belt Object. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
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    Astronomy explained Why is Pluto not a planet?

    A crescent Venus. Credit: Pete Lawrence
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    Ashen light: the mystery of Venus’s dark-side glow

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    Maat Mons on Venus, as seen by the Magellan spacecraft. Simulated colour has been used. Credit: NASA/JPL
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    A guide to the mountains of Venus

    Mag. -3.9 Venus appears 4.8° from a 6%-lit waxing crescent Mon on 28 December. Credit: Pete Lawrence
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    See Venus the ‘Evening Star’ in the night sky this month

    An artist's illustration of New Horizons at Pluto. Credit: Image Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
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    What did New Horizons discover at Pluto?

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    Observe and record the Geminid meteor shower

    In this comparison image the photo at the top was taken by Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in 1995 and shows the spot at a diameter of just under 21 000km; the second down shows a 2009 WFC3 photo of the spot at a diameter of just under 18 000km; and the lowest shows the newest image from WFC3 taken in 2014 with the spot at its smallest yet, with diameter of just 16 000km.
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    How to measure Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

    Image Credit: Paul Whitfield, Pete Lawrence, Patrick Moore x 2, Paul Abel
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    How to observe and record the storms of Jupiter

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