December 1973

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Features

Life on a Neutron Star

An Interview with Frank Drake

pg. 4

Letters to the Editor

pg. 10

A Message from Earth

By Carl Sagan

pg. 12

Photography in Astronomy

By Brad D. Wallis, Robert Provin

Highlight Masking: A Method of Detail Enhancement

pg. 19

Astrophotography With the Polaroid ED-10

By Alene D. Oestreicher

pg. 23

Stellar Frontiers

By Gerrit L. Verschuur

Inside and Behind the Orion Nebula

pg. 26

Authors

pg. 30

Bibliographies

pg. 31

December Star Dome

By John G. Harmon

pg. 32

Sky Almanac

By Terence Dickinson

Four Evening Planets, a Lunar Eclipse and the Pleiades Provide Delightful Viewing This Month

pg. 36

Memo from the Publisher

pg. 42

Astro-Mart

pg. 43

Gazer's Gazette

By Terence Dickinson

Can I Really See Saturn's Rings?

pg. 44

Astro-News

pg. 53

Constellation Close-Up

By Thomas C. Bretl

Taurus

pg. 58

	Sun	Sun	Moon
RISE	—		—	PHASE	—
SET	—		—	DISK	—

	Mercury	Mercury	Venus	Venus
RISE	—		—
SET	—		—
		—		—

	Mars	Mars	Jupiter	Jupiter	Saturn	Saturn
RISE	—		—		—
SET	—		—		—
		—		—		—