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November 1997 |
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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 Bound for the Ringed Planet By
Josh Rogan The launch of Cassini heralds a new era in the exploration of Saturn, its rings, and its retinue of moons. |
pg. 36 |
Destination Titan By
Steve Mirsky Piggybacking on the Cassini spacecraft will be Huygens, a probe designed to study the atmosphere and, if only briefly, the surface of Saturn's cloud-shrouded moon. |
pg. 42 |
Ask Astro The editors of ASTRONOMY answer your questions about the science and hobby. |
pg. 48 |
Yerkes at 100 By
William Sheehan A century ago, a Chicago transit magnate financed George Ellery Hale's dream of a great American observatory - the home of the largest refractor in the world. |
pg. 50 |
Into the Moon's Shadow By
Richard Talcott Glorious totality awaits eclipse chasers in South America or the Caribbean next February, but a nice partial eclipse is in store for those who stay in North America. |
pg. 56 |
Seeing Double By
Larry Landolfi Tired of the same old two-dimensional astrophotos? Then maybe you should try recording the sky in three dimensions. |
pg. 76 |
Intensify the Night By
Gregory Terrance Night-vision scopes excel at showing large features along the Milky Way, but don't expect them to render crisp images of faint deep-sky objects. |
pg. 84 |
A Stairway to the Stars By
Anthony Aveni When the Inca built their capital in Peru, they used the surrounding hills as an agricultural calendar. |
pg. 92 |
Departments Behind the Scenes Setting Off for Saturn Letters AstroForum AstroNews - A Hot Time on Io
- Support for Mini-Comet Theory
- Mystery Objects in the Deep Field
- With a Little Help from Nature
- Hoppin' the Solar System
- Mars Pathfinder Update Astronomy Books - Before the Beginning: Our Universe and
Others
- Hunting Down the Universe: The Missing
Mass, Primordial Black Holes, and Other
Dark Matters
- In Search of Planet Vulcan: The Ghost in
Newton's Clockwork Universe AstroBytes - Starry Night Deluxe
- The Hubble Library of Electronic Picture
Books Meetings and Events Resources & Photofacts New Products - Wonders of the Universe 1998 Calendar
- Wheelchair Binocular Mount
- DeepMap 600 Advertiser Index Reader Reports Ultimate Exposure Sky Show Although the Leonid meteors have to battle a bright moon, Jupiter and Saturn put on spectacular shows. Hot Shots The Eclipse That Almost Wasn't
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