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NEAF 2014 Product Videos Are Here!
Watch in-depth interviews with some of the top vendors at the 2014 Northeast Astronomy Forum featuring new telescopes, mounts, filters, and more.
Toddlers at the Telescope - Further Resources
Toddlers can gain a great deal from star parties, more than we might think possible. Here are some further resources for engaging youngsters at your next event.
The asteroid occultation of August 19, 2014
The asteroid occultation of August 19, 2014
An Image Gallery of the Cosmic Dawn
In the cover story of the June 2014 issue of Sky & Telescope, a team of scientists uses the Hubble Space Telescope to look back through cosmic time to the dawn of the universe, back to the time when galaxies were just beginning to form. With hundreds of hours of…
Cepheid Variable Stars in M5
Did you know that the great globular cluster Messier 5 contains two bright Cepheid variables? Here's the useful information about them.
The asteroid occultation of July 19, 2014
As told in the July 2014 Sky & Telescope, on the morning of July 19th an 8.7-magnitude star in Pisces will vanish for up to 4 seconds behind the invisibly faint asteroid 611 Valeria, as seen from a track crossing northern Mexico, Texas, the Deep South including the Atlanta area,…
Comet ISON Photo Contest Winners
Announcing the winners of Sky & Telescope's Comet ISON photo contest, sponsored by Celestron.
Cosmos Reborn
FOX Beginning Sunday evening, March 9th, Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey will air on the Fox television network, the rebirth of Carl Sagan's classic Cosmos. In the cover story of our April 2014 issue, contributing editor J. Kelly Beatty reveals a behind-the-scenes look at the new series. (All of the images…
Sky & Telescope Errata: 2014
This article lists all known errors in issues of Sky & Telescope for 2014.
Great Red Spot Transit Table Sept - Dec 2014
Transit times for Jupiter's Great Red Spot are listed through December 2014.
Quasar Hunting
The March 2014 issue of Sky & Telescope features an article by Bob Cava, who hunts for quasars in light-polluted New Jersey with his 10- and 16-inch telescopes. As Cava discovered, quasar hunting requires considerable skill with astronomical databases and online tools. This web supplement describes some useful resources and…
The Radio Jove Project: Listening in on Jupiter
The January 2014 issue of Sky & Telescope features Yvette Cendes’s article on radio emission from Jupiter — and the possibility that we might soon hear similar radio signals from planets beyond our solar system. Auroral activity lights up Jupiter's poles in the ultraviolet. The permanent auroras are often accompanied…
Jupiter Watchers
This stunning movie of Jupiter contains tens of thousands of frames as seen through a 14-inch telescope.Damian Peach The cover story of S&T's January 2014 issue features the significant role amateur astronomers have played in planetary science, and especially the study of Jupiter, over the past decade. Amateurs have monitored…
Join the Great Supernova Race
Supernova 1987A exploded just 168,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, captured here in a Hubble Space Telescope image.NASA / ESA / K. France / P. Challis / R. Kirshner In the cover story of the October 2013 issue of Sky & Telescope, author Bob Zimmerman tells the story…
Water on Mars
How many times has NASA discovered water on Mars? For the answer, look in the September 2013 issue, where author Emily Lakdawalla sets the record straight. Orbiters and landers have returned so many beautiful high-res images, we couldn't include them all in the article. To see more of the photographic…
Resources for Amateur Spectroscopy
Check out these links to learn more about conducting spectroscopy with amateur telescopes.
Current B-mode Projects
More information about the projects searching for evidence of the universe's inflation, mentioned in our October 2013 issue.
Exoplanets: The Next Frontier
Sara Seager sits down with S&T's Editor in Chief Robert Naeye to talk about the future of exoplanet studies and the exotic worlds we might find.
NEAF 2013 Videos Are Here!
Check out our videos from the 22nd annual Northeast Astronomy Forum, one of the world's largest telescope shows.
Color Balance with eXcalibrator
To accurately balance color CCD images, there are a number of techniques and tools to get you in the ballpark. I use eXcalibrator to balance all my color-filtered images. The program analyzes your red, green and blue FITS files in search of white stars, then automatically computes RGB ratios based…
