1. CATENA—Chain of craters, eg on the Moon 3. COLUMBA—The Dove 5. VIXEN—cat-like eyepiece brand 8. CASTOR—Star name Actors (anagram) 10. COMA—Dust or gas around a comet - focal aberration in a lens 11. PEACOCK—Star name Cake Cop - in Pavo (anagram) 12. ALPHERATZ—Brightest in Andromeda - or is it Pegasus? 14. WATSON—This astromomer was in the 'Bradford and East Fife Ready Mixed Concrete Company' band. 16. HYDROGEN—what our Sun is mostly composed of 18. PEGASUS—Constellation, also 1974 hit tune by Ross Ryan 21. VESTA—Large asteroid - wax match 22. CAELI—The Sculptor's Chisel 23. EPOCH—Date reference for celestial co-ordinates 24. SIX—How many Moderators IIS has 27. TERMINATOR—Boundary between light and shadow - Arnie's best known film role 30. OORT—.... Cloud, a distant diffuse cloud of comets around our Sun 36. SACKETT—Director of Stromlo, then Australia's Chief Scientist 37. ORRERY—Clockwork Solar System model 39. JUPITER—Himalia is a moon of which planet? 40. NORMA—Constellation Roman (anagram) 41. VENUS—Planet closest in size to Earth 42. FLATS—Images of a uniformly illuminated field - Blocks of apartments 43. LIBRA—The Scales 44. APHELION—Furthest orbital point from the Sun
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2. ATACAMA—Desert in Chile, scene of much observatory construction 4. MERCURY—The smallest planet 5. VOLANS—The Flying Fish 6. TOM—Major ... was a Space Oddity 7. SATURN—Dione is a moon of which planet? 9. CANNON—Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me.....it wasn't Kate, it was Annie...? 13. FOMALHAUT—Mouth of the Southern Fish (star) 15. STACKING—Combining separate images, eg with software 17. ERIDANUS—Constellation Air Nudes (anagram) 18. PLANITIA—Low plain, eg on the Moon 19. SPACE—Deep Purple tour of the Solar System 1 20. CERNAN—Last man on the moon 25. LIMB—Edge of the apparent disk of a body - humans have four 26. FORNAX—Laboratory Furnace, or Brazier 28. ROBBY—Robot in 'Forbidden Planet' 29. LOWELL—Astronomer who saw "canals" on Mars 31. RETROGRADE—Backwards apparent motion of a planet 32. SPECULUM—Metal used for early telescope mirrors 33. ALDEBARAN—Red giant in Taurus - "The Follower" 34. MONS—Huge Martian volcano, Olympus .... 35. DIURNAL—Relating to the day 38. DELOS—Televue at the birthplace of Apollo
