Staff profile

• Applied Historical Astronomy
• Astronomy and Astrophysics

• Professor Stephenson's East Asian research

Chapter in book

• Green, D. A. & Stephenson, F. R. (2003). Historical supernovae. In Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursters. Weiler, K. W. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Lecture Notes in Physics 598: 7-19.

Journal Article

• Uchikawa, Yuta, Cowley, Les, Hayakawa, Hisashi, Willis, David M. & Stephenson, F. Richard (2020). Provenance of the cross sign of 806 in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: a possible lunar halo over continental Europe? History of Geo- and Space Sciences 11(1): 81-92.
• Stephenson, F. Richard, Willis, David M., Hayakawa, Hisashi, Ebihara, Yusuke, Scott, Christopher J., Wilkinson, Julia & Wild, Matthew N. (2019). Do the Chinese Astronomical Records Dated AD 776 January 12/13 Describe an Auroral Display or a Lunar Halo? A Critical Re-examination. Solar Physics 294(4): 36.
• Shara, Michael M., Drissen, Laurent, Martin, Thomas, Alarie, Alexandre & Stephenson, F. Richard (2017). When does an old nova become a dwarf nova? Kinematics and age of the nova shell of the dwarf nova AT Cancri. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 465(1): 739-745.
• Stephenson, F. R. & Green, D. A. (2005). A reappraisal of some proposed historical supernovae. Journal for the History of Astronomy 36(2): 217-229.
• Morrison, L. V. & Stephenson, F. R. (2004). Historical values of the Earth's clock error Delta T and the calculation of eclipses. Journal for the History of Astronomy 35(2): 327-336.
• Stephenson, F. R. (2003). Historical eclipses and Earth's rotation. Astronomy & Geophysics 44(2): 2.22-2.27.