Northern Lights, Iceland

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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

NGC 1275

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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.

Akatsuki spacecraft

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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.

Sky & Telescope's November 2016 cover

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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.

Total Solar Eclipse

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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…

Northern Lights Iceland

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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.

Eta Carinae

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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.

Northern Lights Iceland

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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

Reference fields for relativity test

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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.

Strange Night Sights

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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!

S&T's Zenith Club

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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.

Mink 1-65 Planetary Nebula

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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.

Hercules Galaxy Cluster.

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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.

Title page of C. E. Barns's 1001 Celestial Wonders, 1931 edition.

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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.