1 October 2025: A new Galaxy, Double stars, Cluster and Picture of the Month. Scroll down to take a look.

31 May 2025: Issue 195 of The Deep-Sky Observer (DSO) is now available for subscribers to download

31 May 2025: Wolfgang Steinicke has a new Object of the Season for you to observe

21 April 2025: New images of Messier 82 and Sextans A by David Davies

Our Annual Meeting

Our Annual Meeting for 2025 was held on Saturday the 28th of June 2025 at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. Thank you to all our helpers, speakers and those who attended and stuck with us in the heat.

So now the work of organising the 2026 Annual Meeting starts. We'll have a date for you as soon as possible, keep watching this space.

Our Publications

The Webb Deep-Sky Society has a wide range of publications on offer.

Mike Swan's excellent Atlas of Open Star Clusters is now available as a single spiral-bound volume. This has a few additions over his earlier volumes 1 and 2.

Owen has added a Volume 2 to his Galaxy of the Month book series. We have a special price for those that choose to buy both volumes.

Issue 195 of The Deep-Sky Observer (DSO) is now available.

Why not join us?

You can now join the Webb Deep-Sky Society online using PayPal. Options include Paper and PDF versions of the Deep-Sky Observer journal, or PDF alone for a reduced price.

Perhaps you'd like to join our groups.io mailing group? Access is limited to members, but you're all welcome.

You can subscribe to our mailing list to receive emailed updates when a new issue is released.

Picture of the Month: NGC 1333 in Perseus

An image of the reflection nebula NGC 1333 in Perseus in infrared wavelengths by the JWST courtesy of ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Scholz, K. Muzic, A. Langeveld, R. Jayawardhana
Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Scholz, K. Muzic, A. Langeveld, R. Jayawardhana

A look inside the star-forming regions of the Perseus molecular cloud with an infrared space telescope this month. Yes, it's a professional image, but a rather unique perspective on a well known object.

Galaxy of the Month: NGC 1042 in Cetus

An image of galaxies NGC 1042, NGC 1052, NGC 1035 in Cetus provided by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
Image credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)

Owen has a field full of galaxies that offer observing challenges for a range of telescope apertures. They can all be squeezed into the same field of view, but how deep can you go?

Nebula or Cluster of the Month: NGC 381 in Cassiopeia

An image of open cluster NGC 381 in Cassiopeia taken with a ZWO Seestar S50 by Patrick Maloney
Image credit: Patrick Maloney

Frequently overlooked, yet accessible to most telescopes, Partick invites you to take advantage of the dark and mild autumn nights to look at one of the many open clusters in Cassiopeia.

Double Stars of the Month: 34 Piscium and HJ 3375

Tiny finder chart for the double star HJ 3375 in Sculptor
Image credit: created with Cartes du Ciel

Bob's offering an attractive unequal northern pair which will be tricky for smaller telescopes, whilst his southern choice is less extreme, there's a much more challenging split nearby.

Object of the Season: NGC 6543 in Draco

Planetary Nebula NGC 6543 in Draco - Nordic Optical Telescope and Romano Corradi (Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, Spain)
Image credit: Nordic Optical Telescope and Romano Corradi (Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, Spain)

Wolfgang Steinicke would appreciate your observations of planetary nebula NGC 6543 in Draco for his Object of the Season column in the Deep-Sky Observer.

The Deep-Sky Observer

The cover of The Deep-Sky Observer 194

Profusely illustrated, The Deep-Sky Observer is printed on art paper. Its magazine format encourages all amateurs to make a contribution to the Society's work.

Double Star Section Circulars

The contents page of Double Star Section Circular 28

Double Star Section Circulars (DSSC) feature the latest techniques and measurements from double star observers around the World. They are available as PDFs for free download.

Observations

M61 in Virgo by David Davies
M61 in Virgo by David Davies

Some observations and images provided by amateur astronomers around the globe. We're happy to receive your images, sketches and observations of the deep-sky made in pursuit of your projects.