1 January 2026: A new Galaxy, Double Stars, Cluster and Picture of the Month. Scroll down to take a look.
18 December 2025: Double Star Section Circular (DSSC) 33 is available to download
3 December 2025: Issue 196 of The Deep-Sky Observer (DSO) is now available for subscribers to download
3 December 2025: Wolfgang Steinicke has a new Object of the Season for you to observe
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.
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 196 of The Deep-Sky Observer (DSO) is now available.
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.
A wonderfully detailed SHO narrowband image of one of Stewart Sharpless' H-II regions. This one comes complete with a fugitive in its midst and a pile of astronomical designations.
Owen's starting the New Year with a pair of galaxies that will challenge UK observers. Those further south should find one of them easier and than other, but there's a real challenge for large scopes.
Patrick starts 2026 with a historic and unusual open clusters surrounded by nebulosity. The cluster is easily seen in modest telescopes, the nebula will be much more challenging.
Bob offers a wide binary system some distance from the Hyades, of which it's a member, and a much closer, very uneven, pairing with a touch of colour. Both are available in modest telescopes.
Wolfgang Steinicke would appreciate your observations of the galaxy Pair NGC 4567/68 in Virgo for his Object of the Season column in the Deep-Sky Observer.
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 (DSSC) feature the latest techniques and measurements from double star observers around the World. They are available as PDFs for free download.
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.
