Sky & Telescope June 2011

FEATURED ARTICLES

The Great Telescope Race
In the 19th century, the U.S. changed from a backwater to an astronomical juggernaut.
By Trudy E. Bell

The AAVSO's New Sky Survey
Star magnitudes in deep catalogs are currently unreliable. The AAVSO aims to fix that.
By Arne Henden

The Far Country
The Serpent's head hosts showpieces bright and faint.
By Sue French

Eclipsing Binaries of Summer
Try your skill at some analogs of Algol.
By Tony Flanders

BEYOND THE PRINTED PAGE

BLAST, The Movie
Mark Devlin is coauthor of our cover story about the balloon-borne BLAST telescope and its search for missing starlight. As luck would have it, Mark's brother Paul is a professional filmmaker. Click here to see clips from Paul's movie about his brother's work.
By Paul Devlin

Interview with Trudy Bell
S&T's editor-in-chief interviews the author of our story about the Great Telescope Race.
By Robert Naeye

Map Tutorial
Watch Alan show how to use S&T's all-sky charts and planispheres.
By Alan MacRobert

Lunar Librations
Librations and other lunar data for June 2011
By The Editors of Sky & Telescope

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Layering Image Contrast
Bring out faint detals in images.
By R. Jay GaBany

Orion Parsec 8300M
Is Orion's latest deep-sky CCD camera its best model yet?
By Johnny Horne

Tele Vue's New Delos Eyepiece
There's more to these eyepieces than you might expect from their specifications alone.
By Dennis di Cicco

Galaxies Near Bright Stars
These faint fuzzies are easy to find, but not always easy to see.
By S. Kent Blackwell

Binocular Sights for City Nights
Even a light-polluted sky offers rewards for binocular astronomy.
By Hugh Bartlett

Table of Contents
See what else June's issue has to offer.