May 1981

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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

A New Look at the Nearest Star: The Solar Maximum Mission

By James Ryan

pg. 6

The View from Io

By William K. Hartmann

pg. 17

Forum

- Louis Friedman: Planetary Advocate - Drazen Premate: Space Champion

pg. 24

Eye on the Sky

By Fred Schaaf

Mercury Emerging: A Special Sight in the May Sky

pg. 30

In Focus

pg. 36

Save the U.S. Space Program

pg. 37

Gazer's Gazette

The Moon: Rilles and Wrinkle Ridges

pg. 40

Photography in Astronomy

By Roger Sliva

Hypersensitizing, Part 2

pg. 48

Equipment Atlas

By Tom Wilson

Getting Away To It All

pg. 52

AstroNews

pg. 58

Astronomy Reviews

pg. 62

Stellar Frontiers

By Adrian L. Melott

The Invisible Universe

pg. 66

AstroMart

pg. 72

Through the Eyepiece

Close-up on Ursa Minor/Draco

pg. 78

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

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

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