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August's Perseids: More Meteors This Year?
Sky & Telescope magazine predicts that this year's Perseid meteor shower will peak on the night of August 11–12 and, despite some moonlight, might be much better than usual.
Tour August's Sky: Planets Aplenty
Download or play Sky & Telescope's astronomy podcast, and you'll get a guided tour of the night sky. In early evening look for Mars and Saturn embedded in Scorpius toward south, and key an eye out for Perseid meteors.
Product Videos & Demonstrations
NEAF 2016 Astronomy Equipment Videos
Former S&T editor Dennis di Cicco interviews several vendors about their newest products - watch and find out full details on new lines of astronomy equipment.
Product Videos & Demonstrations
Celestron at NEAF 2016
Dennis di Cicco talks with several members of the Celestron staff who demonstrate the latest version of the Evolution series of Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes
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iOptron at NEAF 2016
iOptron’s Roger Rivers tells Dennis di Cicco about the advanced features offered on the company’s extensive line of altazimuth and equatorial telescope mounts.
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Meade at NEAF 2016
MeadeMeade’s Scott Byrum and Dennis di Cicco take a look at the company’s line of LX600 telescopes with Starlock technology
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Astro-Physics at NEAF 2016
Roland Christen gives Dennis di Cicco an overview of Astro-Physics’s brand new 17-inch astrograph, the largest telescope offered by the renowned manufacturer of refractors, astrographs, and German equatorial mounts.
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Stellarvue at NEAF 2016
Stellarvue’s Vic Maris shows Dennis di Cicco many of the user-requested features that the company is incorporating in its latest line of refractors and astrographs.
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Finger Lakes Instrumentation at NEAF 2016
Dennis di Cicco and Finger Lakes Instrumentation’s Gregory Terrance take a look at the latest features of the company’s venerable MicroLine and ProLine CCD cameras and accessories
The Kavli Foundation Q&A: How Did Nature's Heaviest Elements Form?
The Kavli Foundation hosted a Q&A with three astronomers to probe the recent discovery of hard-to-produce heavy elements in a nearby dwarf galaxy. The discovery sheds light on stellar histories and galactic evolution.
Mars: Closest, Biggest, and Brightest in a Decade
Mars shines low in the southeast at nightfall, closer to Earth than it has been since November 2005. A Sky & Telescope press release.
May 9th's Transit of Mercury: How and When to See It
Use a telescope to spot Mercury's silhouette crossing the Sun's disk on May 9th for the first time since 2006. View it live using S&T's exclusive webcast.
Stargazer's Corner: Adventures Under the Night Sky
Binocular Stargazing Catalog
Wondering what to look at in the night sky with your binoculars? Start with this binocular stargazing catalog with 150 bright, deep-sky objects.
At the 25th Northeast Astronomy Forum
The editors of Sky & Telescope made our annual pilgrimage to last weekend’s Northeast Astronomy Forum. Here are our tales of the voyage to Pluto, the newest gadgets, and encouraging encounters with readers.
Fred Espenak: Great American Eclipse of 2017
Get ready for the great American eclipse of 2017 with expert advice from "Mr. Eclipse", Fred Espenak.
Alan Stern: The Exploration of Pluto
Alan Stern discusses the New Horizons flyby of Pluto in July 2015 and what ongoing analysis continues to reveal about this fascinating world.
Hans Koenigsmann: SpaceX, Exploration through Innovation
Hans Koenigsmann, the Vice President of Flight Reliability for SpaceX, talks about current and near-future space travel.
Alice Bowman: Reaching for New Horizons
New Horizons Missions Operations Manager Alice Bowman talks about the spacecraft's historic voyage to Pluto and beyond.
David Shoemaker: The Confirmation of Gravitational Waves
Dr. David Shoemaker discusses the groundbreaking observation of gravitational waves in September 2015 and the future of gravitational wave astronomy.
Bernard Kutter: Enabling a Robust Space Economy
Where are the space highways of tomorrow? What technology leaps will open cislunar space to commercial development? ULA's Bernard Kutter talks about the path toward a space economy.
