February 1985

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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

Through Monster Eyes

By Dennis Mammana

pg. 6

Discovering the Expanding Universe

By Mike Corwin, Dale Wachowiak

pg. 18

Forum

- Is NASA Being Militarized? - A Reply to "The Tragedy of the American Space Program"

pg. 24

In Focus

pg. 32

Behind the Scenes

pg. 33

Photography in Astronomy

By Ben Mayer

Find Halley's Comet by Blinking

pg. 35

Astronomy Reviews

pg. 39

Eye on the Sky

By Fred Schaaf

Venus at Its Best

pg. 42

Equipment Atlas

By Steve Edberg, Mark Coco

An Intensified Evening at the Telescope

pg. 51

AstroNews

pg. 60

AstroCalendar

pg. 64

Stellar Frontiers

By Sten Odenwald

Astronomical Ballooning, 2 A Quickie Guide to Analyzing Data from a Balloon-borne Infrared Telescope

pg. 66

AstroMart

pg. 72

Gazer's Gazette

By Roger Browne

Computing the Ephemeris of Comet Halley

pg. 75

The Backyard Astronomer

Canis Major

pg. 78

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

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

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