Year of the Comet
Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)

PANSTARRS information

Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON)

ISON information

Issues

July 1976

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Features
Publisher's Preface
pg. 6
Prehistoric American Astronomy (c. 1054 A.D.)
By Von Del Chamberlain
pg. 10
Skylore of Indigenous Americans
By Henry J. Phillips
pg. 12
History of American Astronomy
By Micahel Mendillo, David DeVorkin, Richard Berendzen
A Chronological Perspective
pg. 20
Comets and Transits: 1620-1776
pg. 23
Practical Men, Practical Astronomy: 1776-1825
pg. 34
Astronomy Comes of Age: 1825-1840
pg. 44
Astrophysics is Born: 1840-1900
pg. 50
History of Astrophotography
By Trudy E. Bell
pg. 66
Astro-Mart
pg. 82
The Universe Unfolds: 1900-1950
pg. 87
Toward Man's Dream of Worlds Unseen: 1950-1976
pg. 98
Sky Almanac
Nowhere to Go But Up
pg. 108
Planet Finder - July 1976
pg. 110
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