February 1981

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Features

Voyager: Science at Saturn

By Richard Berry

pg. 6

Forum

- Further: A Space Odyssey - Saturnalia - "Gee Whiz"

pg. 24

Eye on the Sky

By Fred Schaaf

The Great Conjunction

pg. 30

In Focus

pg. 36

Behind the Scenes

pg. 37

Photography in Astronomy

By Jack B. Newton

A Cold Camera for Astrophotography

pg. 39

Equipment Atlas

By Stephen D. Greenberg

All About Telecompressors

pg. 47

Gazer's Gazette

By Alan Goldstein

Observing Peculiar Galaxies

pg. 52

AstroNews

pg. 58

Stellar Frontiers

By Mary Martin DeLancy

The Case of the Missing Sunspots

pg. 66

AstroMart

pg. 72

Through the Eyepiece

Close-up on Monoceros/Canis Minor

pg. 78

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

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

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