November 1983

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Features

Geology from Space

By Andrew Maslowski

pg. 6

Forum

The Tragedy of the American Space Program

pg. 24

In Focus

pg. 32

Behind the Scenes

pg. 33

Gazer's Gazette

By Gail O. Clark

Discover the Pleiades

pg. 35

Astronomy Reviews

pg. 39

Eye on the Sky

By Fred Schaaf

Juno Reaches Opposition

pg. 42

Photography in Astronomy

By Jim Baumgardt

Simple and Inexpensive Tricolor Photography

pg. 51

AstroNews

pg. 60

AstroMart

pg. 65

Stellar Frontiers

By Sten Odenwald

The Decay of the False Vacuum

pg. 66

Gazer's Gazette

By Craig Crossen

Studying Galactic Structure with Binoculars, Part 2

pg. 75

The Backyard Astronomer

Pegasus

pg. 78

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

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

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