November 2019
The world's best-selling astronomy magazine offers you the most exciting, visually stunning, and timely coverage of the heavens above. Each monthly issue includes expert science reporting, vivid color photography, complete sky coverage, spot-on observing tips, informative telescope reviews, and much more! All this in an easy-to-understand, user-friendly style that's perfect for astronomers at any level.
Features
Apollo 12: 50 years later
This mission launched during a thunderstorm and landed in the Ocean of Storms, but it had smooth sailing the rest of the way.
Apollo 12 in 3D
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Four months after the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, Pete Conrad and Alan Bean became the second human crew to visit the lunar surface.
The Moon’s violent origin
Apollo astronauts returned nearly 842 pounds of Moon rocks to Earth. These precious samples have revealed a lot about the Moon’s past.
Observe the transit of Mercury
If you miss the November 11 lineup, you’ll have to wait another 13 years to try again.
Visions of the 2019 eclipse
The July 2 total solar eclipse inspired many breathtaking images. Here are our top picks.
We test Nikon’s new astrocamera
With 24 megapixels of resolution, Wi-Fi, and a vast ISO range, the D750 was built to shoot the night sky.
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Sky this Month
Mercury transits the Sun
StarDome and Path of the Planets
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