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The S&T Iceland Tour: Auroras and Adventure
Observing Editor JR Johnson-Roehr recently joined a group of astro-tourists in Iceland for the 2016 Sky & Telescope northern lights tour
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Going Deep: Perseus Galaxy Cluster
Looking for a new deep-sky challenge? Turn your scope toward ACO 426, the Perseus Galaxy Cluster.
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Inside the December 2016 Issue
Explore the solar system: see Ceres through Dawn's eyes, and Pluto's moons through the eyes of New Horizon. Then take a tour of cosmic time and space with these popular celestial sights.
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Active Space Missions in 2017
Sky & Telescope has put together a digest of active missions in 2017. We’ve included astrophysics, planetary, gravity, solar, space weather, and stellar projects.
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75 Years of Sky & Telescope: A Lifetime of Astronomy Coverage
The November 2016 Sky & Telescope recaps the 75 most exciting years for astronomy in human history -- since its issue number 1 in 1941.
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Experience the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse with S&T in Wyoming!
Wondering where to go to witness next year's total solar eclipse? Sky & Telescope is proud to offer a newly developed tour based in eastern Wyoming.
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Inside the November 2016 Issue
Sky & Telescope celebrates 75 years with a special anniversary issue! Find out how it all began and catch the highlights of astronomy over the decades.
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Inside the October 2016 Issue
PURCHASE PRINT ISSUE | PURCHASE DIGITAL ISSUE | PURCHASE BACK ISSUES | SUBSCRIBE Shedding Light on Pluto, Finding Life on Mars New Horizons' flight past Pluto last year revealed a stunning world we couldn't have dreamed up — now scientists are sifting through the data, trying to make sense of…
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Last Chance for Iceland Auroras with Sky & Telescope
Iceland is a country full of fascinating contradictions, none so mysterious as its aurora. Come explore with Sky & Telescope in October 2016!
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Inside the September 2016 Issue
The minute distortions of weak gravitational lensing may hold the key to dark matter and dark energy, Big Data promises — and threatens — to overrun astronomy, and videography just got a whole lot easier.
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A 3D View of Eta Carinae
New research on Eta Carinae featured in S&T's October 2016 issue lets you peer in and around Eta Carinae's Homunculus Nebula.
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Experience Iceland with S&T!
Join Sky & Telescope Observing Editor JR Johnson-Roehr in Iceland and see the aurora borealis.
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Inside the August 2016 Issue
As August rolls around, it will soon be time for the yearly show of the Perseid meteor shower. And this year the show could be even better than usual, maybe even spectacular. Pick up the issue to find out why
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My Do-It-Yourself Relativity Test
Here's an update on an amateur astronomer's amazing effort to prove that Einstein really was right during next year's total solar eclipse.
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Inside the July 2016 Issue
Sky & Telescope's July issue reveals the mysteries of Fast Radio Bursts, previews Juno's mission to Jupiter, explores the depths of Aquila's nebulae, and much more.
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Join S&T in Iceland This October
Have you ever seen the aurora borealis? Want to join us? Read on for more information on our next trip to Iceland to see the Northern Lights!
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Join S&T’s Brand-New Zenith Club
A handy S&T field kit and access to iTelescope.Net are just two great benefits of membership.
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Minkowski Planetary Nebulae
Looking for an observing challenge? An expert observer offers advice for exploring the Minkowski catalog of planetary nebulae.
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Hercules Galaxy Cluster: Going Deep
To aid your observing endeavor, Contributing Editor Steve Gottlieb has provided an expanded table of galaxies, with their position angles, visual magnitudes, size, and positions.
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More from C. E. Barns's 1001 Celestial Wonders
Here is Jim Mullaney's much longer sample of objects from this delightful 1927 amateur-astronomy guide, in order of right ascension, followed by more illustrations of the book.