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March 1994 |
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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 Putting Hubble Right By
Richard Talcott Endeavour's crew made the Hubble servicing mission look easy. The big question now is whether the optical fixes work. |
pg. 26 |
Hypergiants By
James B. Kaler These massive stars push the limit of how big and bright a star can get. |
pg. 32 |
Seven Mysteries of Galaxies By
Jay Gallagher, Jean Keppel How do galaxies form and evolve? Astronomers struggle to understand these basic building blocks of the universe. |
pg. 38 |
Sky Almanac By
Deborah Byrd, Jeff Kanipe The morning sky abounds with activity as the Moon slides by Uranus and Neptune on March 7 and Mercury passes 0.3 degrees south of Saturn on March 24. |
pg. 46 |
Copernicus and Mare Insularum By
Michael T. Kitt You'll see most of the Moon's history on display around the crater Copernicus. |
pg. 56 |
Taking the Deep-Sky Plunge By
Alister Ling Are you ready to dive into deep-sky observing? Here are a few tips from a pro. |
pg. 58 |
Running a Celestial Marathon By
Phil Harrington Backyard observing's answer to the ultimate distance race is a grueling one-night marathon to view all 100-plus objects in the Messier catalog. |
pg. 61 |
Losmandy's Telescope Mounts By
Alan Dyer If a sturdy platform and superb tracking matter to you, check out these two portable mounts. |
pg. 66 |
Virtual Sky By
Robert Burnham Galaxies, nebulae, and the Moon highlight a star-studded portfolio of CCD images. |
pg. 70 |
Departments Behind the Scenes Just Do It Letters Viewpoints Having FITS - Trying to make sense of the alphabet soup of CCD image formats AstroNews - Hubble Views Distant Interacting Galaxies
- Viewing Titan's Surface
- New Age for the Universe?
- ROSETTA Comet Mission Gets Okay from
Europeans
- What Dark Matter Isn't Amateur News - Astronomers Win Waste Lighting Battle
- Planet Walk Opens in Michigan Reader Reports Photographing the Summer Milky Way Astronomy Books Several recent books help you to explore the universe in many ways New Products - A new line of binoculars from Aus Jena
- Starscape CCD Cameras
- Spotting Scopes from Swarovski
- New software for Electrim Color Imager AstroBytes Distant Suns, a popular PC-based planetarium program, comes to the Mac Readings and Credits Meetings and Events Advertiser Index
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