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WE ASKED: What will you be observing over the coming summer months?

Peter McNulty I will be observing Saturn and Titan as well as 4 Vesta. DSOs will be varied but Vega and M19 are of interest.

Paul Scott In July I travel back to La Palma. The planning has already begun. How many lenses to take; how to divide my time up on top of the mountain; and wondering how many scary monsters are going to try and eat me. The plan is to drive up to as close as I can to the international telescopes and this time, using a tracking mount, capture tracked images of the Milky Way.

Jason Hart Jupiter and its moons are an obvious target during the short nights of late spring and early summer, but globular clusters are favourites of mine as well, and M13, M3 and M5 are all well-placed during this period.

William Wickham Mars is coming into opposition in July. Steve Green Mostly clouds :( Tony Horton I’d love to photograph some noctilucent clouds for the first time, so that’ll be top of my list for the coming months.

Simon Whitfield Summer nights for me usually means the Moon, planets and – if the weather plays ball – solar.

Peter McCormick The calendar, until it gets dark again. Peter Louer In Tenerife, we have dark skies all year round. Anthony Morgan I want to get back out with my telescope after a few months of not having the chance.

Vince Ralph I will probably spend lots of nights setting up to then watch clouds that haven’t been forecast roll in. Then I’ll dismantle the gear in a huff.

OOPS! In the June issue’s Hotshots, Pete Lawrence’s image of the Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, on page 29 was incorrectly labelled as the Pinwheel Galaxy.

In the article about The June Sun on page 52 of the June issue’s Sky Guide, the Sun’s declination at solstice should be 23.4369º.