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Yearbook of Astronomy 2025
Gone But Not Forgotten: Anser by Lynne M. Stockman (page 151 of the printed edition) The author of The Lost Constellations: A History of Obsolete, Extinct, or Forgotten Star Lore is John C. Barentine, not Balantine.
Monthly Sky Notes: October (page 164 of the printed edition) In the notes for Mars, the star Zubenelgenubi (α² Librae) is described as fifth-magnitude. It is in fact third-magnitude.
Eta Carinae: A Chance Encounter and Journey of Discovery by Peter Rea (page 286 of the printed edition) In the section headed Location, Size and Distance, the distance to the Eta Carinae nebula is given as 500 light years. This is incorrect. The true distance is 7,500 light years, as stated in the caption of the accompanying image of the nebula.
Yearbook of Astronomy 2024
Gone But Not Forgotten: Musca Borealis by Lynne M. Stockman (page 163 of the printed edition) The author of The Lost Constellations: A History of Obsolete, Extinct, or Forgotten Star Lore is John C. Barentine, not Balantine.
Yearbook of Astronomy 2021
Solar System Exploration in 2022 by Peter Rea (page 219 of the printed edition)
The section entitled “Rosalind Franklin goes to Mars” was written — and the book went to print — before this mission was delayed from the 2020 launch opportunity. The mission has been rescheduled for the next Mars launch window in 2022 and this section will reappear, with amendments, in the Yearbook of Astronomy 2023
Yearbook of Astronomy 2020
Anniversaries in 2020 by Neil Haggath (page 209 of the printed edition)
The section commemorating Eugène Michel Antoniadi states that he is one of only two astronomers — the other being Giovanni Schiaparelli — to be honoured with named features on the Moon, Mars and Mercury. There are in fact three. Gerard Kuiper (1905–1973) also has craters named for him on all three bodies.
Yearbook of Astronomy 2019
Minor Planets in 2019 by Neil Norman (page 155 of the printed edition)
The sentence which begins Hebe has a high bulk density and contains around 50% of the mass of the asteroid belt should read Hebe has a high bulk density and contains around 0.5% of the mass of the asteroid belt.
The First Micro-Quasar by David M. Harland (page 258 of the printed edition)
The sentence These were taken on the nights of 13, 14, 15 and 17 July 1978 should read These were taken on successive nights between 13 and 16 July 1978.
Yearbook of Astronomy 2018
Some Pioneering Lady Astronomers by Mike Frost (page 209 of the printed edition)
The article contains an illustration sourced from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics Archives, Bangalore, of the staff of the Kodaikanal Observatory, Tamil Nadu, India, circa 1907. The four westerners at the centre of the photograph are identified as (left-to-right) Michie Smith (the first director of the Observatory), Michie Smith’s sister Lucy, John Evershed, and Mary Evershed, the first lady pioneer featured in the article. A recent biography of Mary Evershed, Dante and the Early Astronomer: Science, Adventure, and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens by Tracy Daugherty (Yale University Press, 2019), makes a different identification. Mary and John Evershed are at the centre of the picture, and the other two westerners, sitting to either side of John and Mary, are John Evershed’s assistant T. Royds and his wife. The biography contains several other photographs of Mary Evershed, which confirm Daugherty’s identification.
Glossary entry for Magnitude (page 293 of the printed edition)
The sentence In 1856 the English astronomer Norman Robert Pogson refined the system devised by Hipparchus by classing a 1st magnitude star as being 100 times as bright as one of 6th magnitude, giving a difference between successive magnitudes of 5Ö100 or 2.512 should read In 1856 the English astronomer Norman Robert Pogson refined the system devised by Hipparchus by classing a 1st magnitude star as being 100 times as bright as one of 6th magnitude, giving a difference between successive magnitudes of 5√100 or 2.512.