Year Month Page Department Title Author 1 Author 2 Author 3 Author 4 2000 1 1 Front-Cover Photo Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232 2000 1 8 Spectrum Always My Boss "Robinson, Leif J." 2000 1 10 Focal Point Seeing the Unseen "Schilling, Govert" 2000 1 12 Letters How to Collect Geostationary Satellites "Young, Jim" "Young, Karen" 2000 1 14 Letters More Ways to Sunwatch "Winkler, William" 2000 1 14 Letters Roping In Party Crashers "Goldberg, Steve" 2000 1 16 News Notes Astronomers Declare New Variable-Star Class 2000 1 17 News Notes Hubble Details Galaxy Duo 2000 1 18 News Notes Galaxy Bars Seen Edge On 2000 1 18 News Notes Close-Call Meteorite Yields Primordial Water 2000 1 20 News Notes Light Speed Is Colorblind 2000 1 20 News Notes Is Dark Matter Just Plain Hydrogen? 2000 1 21 News Notes Seafloor Stardust? 2000 1 22 News Notes A Different Wobble for Upsilon Andromedae 2000 1 22 News Notes White Dwarfs in the Milky Way's Outer Halo 2000 1 23 News Notes Another Sign of the Milky Way's Bar 2000 1 23 News Notes Crash Yields No Lunar Water 2000 1 24 News Notes A Planet Orbiting a Binary Star? 2000 1 24 News Notes Piercing the Crab's Heart 2000 1 26 News Notes Stellar Quadruplets Put Theories to the Test 2000 1 26 News Notes The Dark Planet of Tau Boötis 2000 1 28 Mission Update Mission Update "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 1 32 Feature Where the Astronomers Are: A Stagnant Century "Heck, André" 2000 1 37 Feature The 10 Most Inspiring Images of the Century "Robinson, Leif J." 2000 1 50 Feature Looking Backward: Themes of 20th-Century Astronomy "Trimble, Virginia" 2000 1 60 S&T Test Report Six 8-Inch Dobsonians "MacRobert, Alan M." 2000 1 67 S&T Test Report Sizing Up the Secondary Mirror 2000 1 76 New Product Showcase New Product Showcase 2000 1 78 Books & Beyond "Our Worlds: The Magnetism and Thrill of Planetary Exploration, by S. Alan Stern, ed." "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2000 1 79 Books & Beyond "Seven Wonders of the Cosmos, by Jayant V. Narlikar" "Mitchell, Jacqueline Seabury" 2000 1 79 Books & Beyond "Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos, by William Poundstone" 2000 1 79 Books & Beyond "Carl Sagan: A Life, by Keay Davidson" 2000 1 82 Books & Beyond "The Astronomical Almanac for the Year 2000, Nautical Almanac Office" 2000 1 82 Books & Beyond "The Astronomical Pocket Diary 2000, by Norbert Haley" 2000 1 82 Books & Beyond "The Handbook of the British Astronomical Association 2000, by Jacqueline Mitton, ed." 2000 1 82 Books & Beyond "Observer's Handbook 2000, by Roy L. Bishop, ed." 2000 1 82 Books & Beyond "MPO2000, by Bwd Publishing" 2000 1 82 Books & Beyond "2000 Comet Handbook, by Syuichi Nakano and Daniel W. E. Green, eds." 2000 1 82 Books & Beyond "Astronomical Yearbook 2000, by Andrew Yen, ed." 2000 1 82 Books & Beyond "Astronomical Calendar 2000, by Guy Ottewell" 2000 1 85 Amateur Astronomers Amateur Astronomy in Jordan "Odeh, Mohammad Shawkat" 2000 1 89 Amateur Astronomers Wyoming's First Star Summit "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" "Bruner, Marilyn" "Acton, Loren W." "Ogawara, Yoshiaki" 2000 1 90 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: A Sunrise Total Eclipse "Levy, David H." 2000 1 94 Rambling Through the Skies The Big Room "Krupp, E. C." 2000 1 98 Guide to the Evening Sky Orion's Mighty Stellar Retinue "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 1 99 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2000 1 100 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight "Seronik, Gary" 2000 1 101 Small-Scope Sampler A Hero's Quest "French, Sue" 2000 1 103 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in January" "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 1 104 Guide to the Evening Sky Light-Pollution Notes: Triumphs and Heartbreak "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 1 106 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 1 109 Celestial Calendar "Awesome Eclipse of the Moon, An" 2000 1 109 Celestial Calendar An Awesome Eclipse of the Moon "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2000 1 114 Celestial Calendar Lunar Occultation Highlights for 2000 "Dunham, David W." 2000 1 116 Celestial Calendar Box: A Date with Delta2 Tauri "Gault, David" 2000 1 116 Celestial Calendar "Date with Delta2 Tauri, A" 2000 1 122 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Welcome to the Future "Ryan, Jay" 2000 1 122 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes 2000 1 125 Observer's Log "You, Your Weather, and Your Skies" "Gross, Todd" 2000 1 128 Observer's Log How to Predict Seeing "Douglass, Eric J." 2000 1 131 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook "Freeman, Jay Reynolds" 2000 1 134 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook "Wood, Charles A." 2000 1 136 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook "Seronik, Gary" 2000 1 141 Telescope Techniques "A ""Magic Box"" Solar Telescope" "Virag, Pal" 2000 1 148 Astro Imaging Thoughts on High-Resolution Imaging "Legault, Thierry" 2000 1 156 Gallery Big Dipper Alongside Church Steeple "Wehler, Randall" 2000 1 156 Gallery Baker Lake Aurora "Clark Jr., Wade B." 2000 1 157 Gallery All-Sky Milky Way "Wang, Wei-Hao" 2000 1 157 Gallery Shuttle Reentry Over Rocket Exhibit "Zemba, Brian" 2000 1 158 Gallery Milky Way Starscape "Schad, Jerry" 2000 1 158 Gallery First-Quarter Moon "Collart, Michel" 2000 2 1 Front-Cover Photo Robotic Telescope Showdown 2000 2 8 Spectrum And the Big Loser Was . . . "Robinson, Leif J." 2000 2 10 Focal Point First Light "Lago, Don" 2000 2 12 Letters Mapping Dark Skies "Burton, Bill" 2000 2 12 Letters No Maunder Minimum "Pankenier, David W." 2000 2 14 Letters Solar-Eclipse Hysteria "Szczepanowski, Edward" 2000 2 16 News Notes Extrasolar Planet Seen Transiting Its Star 2000 2 17 News Notes A Martian Solar Eclipse 2000 2 18 News Notes A Naked-Eye Nova in Aquila 2000 2 18 News Notes New Asteroid Satellite 2000 2 20 News Notes Chandra's X-ray Visions 2000 2 21 News Notes Centaurus A 2000 2 22 News Notes "Goodbye Disks, Hello Planetary Systems" 2000 2 23 News Notes Gravity Experiment Weighs In for Einstein 2000 2 24 News Notes Markarian 421 and Its Companion 2000 2 24 News Notes Taking Stock of a Southern Starburst 2000 2 25 News Notes Remains of a Gobbled Galaxy? 2000 2 26 Mission Update Mission Update "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 2 28 Feature A Year of Discovery: Astronomy Highlights of 1999 "Trimble, Virginia" 2000 2 38 Feature Gerbert d'Aurillac: Y1K's Science Guy "Ryan, Jay" 2000 2 46 Feature "Thomas Dick's ""Sublime Science""" "Hennessey, R. A. S." 2000 2 50 Images 2MASS Infrared View of the Orion Nebula "O'Dell, C. Robert" 2000 2 54 S&T Test Report Go To Telescope Showdown 2000 2 54 S&T Test Report Go To Telescope Showdown "di Cicco, Dennis" "Seronik, Gary" 2000 2 61 S&T Test Report Interoffice E-Chat: Dennis and Gary Choose 2000 2 62 New Product Showcase New Product Showcase 2000 2 65 Computers in Astronomy Xceptional Astronomical Software "Medkeff, Jeff" 2000 2 66 Computers in Astronomy Getting XEphem 2000 2 68 Computers in Astronomy Lining Yourself Up with Linux 2000 2 70 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Starry Night Pro 3.0 "Foust, Jeffrey A." 2000 2 72 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Companies Dot Com "Goldman, Stuart J." 2000 2 77 Amateur Astronomers Observing in Lewis and Clark Country "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2000 2 80 Amateur Astronomers Oregon Star Party's Cornerstone 2000 2 82 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: A Starlight Night "Levy, David H." 2000 2 87 Rambling Through the Skies From Here to Eternity "Krupp, E. C." 2000 2 90 Guide to the Evening Sky The Pattern-Filling Stars of Winter "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 2 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2000 2 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight "Seronik, Gary" 2000 2 93 Small-Scope Sampler Touring Orion's Sword "French, Sue" 2000 2 95 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in February" "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 2 96 Guide to the Evening Sky The Near Sky: Call for Cold Observations "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 2 98 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 2 100 Celestial Calendar Planetary Occultations of Stars in -- 2000 "Dunham, David W." 2000 2 103 Celestial Calendar Observing Tips 2000 2 109 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes 2000 2 109 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Gregorian Calendar "Ryan, Jay" 2000 2 111 Observer's Log Double Stars: The Spirit of 33 "Argüelles, Luis" 2000 2 116 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2000 2 118 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook "Wood, Charles A." 2000 2 120 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2000 2 122 Observer's Log Under Mercury's Shadow 2000 2 125 Telescope Techniques Woodshop Eyepieces "Hards, Chuck" 2000 2 129 Telescope Techniques Homemade Barlow Lenses "Pfannenschmidt, Ernie" 2000 2 130 Telescope Techniques Measuring a Barlow Lens "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2000 2 134 Astro Imaging A Place for Astro Imagers "McLaughlin, Bill" 2000 2 140 Gallery Canadian Aurora "Gagne, Charles" 2000 2 140 Gallery Orion Rising "Schad, Jerry" 2000 2 140 Gallery Rocket Exhaust Trail "Cook, Chris" 2000 2 141 Gallery IC 2948 and IC 2944 in Centaurus "Stecker, Michael" 2000 2 142 Gallery Iridium Flare "Young, James W." 2000 2 142 Gallery M 6 and Sharpless 12 in Scorpius "Rhemann, Gerald" "Kersche, Franz" 2000 2 143 Gallery Simeis 147 "Stecker, Michael" 2000 3 1 Front-Cover Photo Aurora and Comet Hale-Bopp "Klensch, Michael" 2000 3 8 Spectrum Reading Last Summer "Robinson, Leif J." 2000 3 10 Focal Point Extreme Astronomy "Battaglia, Michael" 2000 3 12 Letters What's Wrong with an Achromat? "Midiri, Robert A." 2000 3 12 Letters The Visable Layers of Jupiter "Minton, R. B." 2000 3 14 Letters Naked-Eye Nebula? "Ling, Alister" 2000 3 14 Letters Small-Scope Cruising "Sasser, John" 2000 3 14 Letters Lunar Ray Tracing "Dembowski, Bill" 2000 3 14 Letters The Telescope of Leonardo's Dreams "Gingrich, Mark" 2000 3 16 News Notes Gamma-Ray Bursts Yield Up Secrets 2000 3 17 News Notes Brown Dwarf or Loose Planet? 2000 3 17 News Notes A Distance for Every Gamma-Ray Burst? 2000 3 18 News Notes How Did Globulars Get Here? 2000 3 18 News Notes Local Group Gains a Galaxy 2000 3 20 News Notes M83 by VLT 2000 3 20 News Notes The Planet of Tau Boötis: Not So Dark After All? 2000 3 21 News Notes Galaxy Ages Probed Anew 2000 3 21 News Notes Stormy Neptune Revealed 2000 3 22 News Notes Lunar Surface Change: A False Alarm 2000 3 22 News Notes Supermassive Black Holes: Immigrants or Natives? 2000 3 23 News Notes Distancing Dwingeloo 1 2000 3 24 News Notes Ganymede's Snows 2000 3 24 News Notes Ganymede's Glows 2000 3 25 News Notes Heavy Elements from Neutron Stars 2000 3 27 Mission Update Mission Update "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 3 34 Feature Anatomy of an Aurora "Burtnyk, Kimberly" 2000 3 42 Feature An Aurora Watcher's Guide "Eather, Robert H." 2000 3 42 Feature An Aurora Watcher's Guide "Eather, Robert H." 2000 3 50 Feature Solar Storms: The Silent Menace "Odenwald, Sten" 2000 3 56 Feature Box: May's Punchless Solar Wind "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2000 3 63 S&T Test Report Three Wide-Field Reflectors "Roth, Joshua" 2000 3 70 New Product Showcase New Product Showcase 2000 3 72 Computers in Astronomy Scripting: A Programming Alternative "Benn, David" 2000 3 75 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: NGCView 6.1 "Ratledge, David" 2000 3 76 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Is That Your Final Answer? "Goldman, Stuart J." 2000 3 80 Books & Beyond "Astrophotography for the Amateur, Second Edition, by Michael A. Covington" "Schur, Chris" 2000 3 82 Books & Beyond "Mapping and Naming the Moon: A History of Lunar Cartography and Nomenclature, by Ewen A. Whitaker" "Wood, Charles A." 2000 3 86 Amateur Astronomers Astronomy Olympiads in the Caucasus "Nielsen, Holger" 2000 3 91 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: Telescopes for Telethon "Levy, David H." 2000 3 92 Amateur Astronomers "Leo J. Scanlon, 1903- 1999" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2000 3 94 Rambling Through the Skies Theft of Light "Krupp, E. C." 2000 3 98 Guide to the Evening Sky Hallmarks of the Gemini Hour "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 3 99 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2000 3 100 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight "Seronik, Gary" 2000 3 101 Guide to the Evening Sky Winter Clusters Galore 2000 3 103 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in March" "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 3 104 Guide to the Evening Sky Light-Pollution Notes: IDA Breakthroughs "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 3 106 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 3 108 Celestial Calendar Bright Asteroids for Binoculars "Sinnott, Roger W." 2000 3 111 Celestial Calendar Pluto in 2000 2000 3 114 Celestial Calendar SkyWise:Equinox "Ryan, Jay" 2000 3 114 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes 2000 3 119 Observer's Log Enjoying and Surviving Your First Messier Marathon "Ting, Ed" 2000 3 124 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook "Seronik, Gary" 2000 3 126 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook "Jakiel, Richard" 2000 3 128 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook "Wood, Charles A." 2000 3 132 Telescope Techniques More Reader Tele-Tips "Seronik, Gary" 2000 3 135 Astro Imaging Photographing the Analemma "di Cicco, Dennis" 2000 3 142 Gallery Double Rainbow "Sawicki, Mikolaj" 2000 3 142 Gallery Serene Summer Sunrise "Bidinger, Robert M." 2000 3 142 Gallery Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules "Aiken, Eric C." "Mobley, Jeff" 2000 3 143 Gallery Digital Full Moon "Terrance, Gregory" 2000 3 143 Gallery North America and Pelican Nebulae in Cygnus "Ware, Jason" 2000 3 144 Gallery Gas Cloud IC 1396 in Cepheus "Wisniewski, Jan" 2000 4 1 Front-Cover Photo Hubble Telescope in Orbit 2000 4 8 Spectrum Not in Kansas Anymore "Robinson, Leif J." 2000 4 10 Focal Point Risky Buisness "Finkbeiner, Ann K." 2000 4 12 Letters Venus Isn't a Supernova "Aveni, Anthony F." 2000 4 12 Letters Comparing 8-Inch Dobsonians "Cox, Allen" 2000 4 12 Letters Comparing 8-Inch Dobsonians "Fullerton, James" 2000 4 12 Letters Comparing 8-Inch Dobsonians "Smith, Steven C." 2000 4 14 Letters Learning Astronomy "Heydon, Alexander J." 2000 4 16 News Notes Eta Carinae Untangled 2000 4 17 News Notes "Supernova and Its Companion, A" 2000 4 17 News Notes Mapping the Local Interstellar Cloud 2000 4 18 News Notes More Super-Sharp Images from Keck 2000 4 18 News Notes Io's Fountain of Fire 2000 4 20 News Notes Zooming in on M87's Jets 2000 4 22 News Notes Hubble Back in Action 2000 4 23 News Notes "Very, Very Early Galaxies" 2000 4 24 News Notes Creating Uranus and Neptune 2000 4 24 News Notes Diamond Hail in Uranus and Neptune 2000 4 25 News Notes "Virgo Cluster's Intergalatic Planetaries, The" 2000 4 26 Mission Update Mission Update "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 4 28 Feature Ten Years and Counting: HST in Orbit "Smith, Robert W." 2000 4 36 Feature Healing Hubble "Grunsfeld, John M." 2000 4 44 Feature High Tides and The Canterbury Tales "Olson, Donald W." "Laird, Edgar S." "Lytle, Thomas E." 2000 4 48 Feature Box: Rarity of Tidal Alignments "Olson, Donald W." "Laird, Edgar S." "Lytle, Thomas E." 2000 4 56 S&T Test Report SkySensor 2000-PC: a la Carte Go To "Dyer, Alan" 2000 4 60 S&T Test Report And the Winner Is... "di Cicco, Dennis" 2000 4 63 Computers in Astronomy Where Eclipses Come Thrice "Meeus, Jean" 2000 4 66 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: SkyMap Pro 6.0 "Heafner, Joe" 2000 4 68 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Living in the Past: The New Yesteryear "Goldman, Stuart J." 2000 4 73 Books & Beyond "Magnificent Universe, by Ken Croswell" "Mechler, Gary" 2000 4 73 Books & Beyond "The Invisible Universe, by David Malin" "Mechler, Gary" 2000 4 76 Books & Beyond "The Planets, David McNab and James Younger" 2000 4 76 Books & Beyond "Majestic Universe: Views from Here to Infinity, by Serge Brunier" 2000 4 76 Books & Beyond "Other Worlds, by James Trefil" 2000 4 76 Books & Beyond "Cosmic Phenomena, by Gabriele Vanin" 2000 4 76 Books & Beyond "Figures du Ciel, by Marc Lachièze-Rey and Jean-Pierre Luminet" 2000 4 80 Amateur Astronomers High Observatory Adventure at Astronomy Camp "McCarthy, Donald W. Jr." 2000 4 82 Amateur Astronomers Spectroscopy at Astronomy Camp "Kulesa, Craig" 2000 4 84 Amateur Astronomers "Ben Mayer, 1925- 99" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2000 4 84 Amateur Astronomers Amateurs Find Superfaint Comet "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2000 4 86 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: Meteor Nights "Levy, David H." 2000 4 88 Amateur Astronomers New England Light-Pollution Crusaders Meet 2000 4 93 Rambling Through the Skies Lost Worlds "Krupp, E. C." 2000 4 98 Guide to the Evening Sky Treasures of an April Night "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 4 99 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2000 4 100 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight "Seronik, Gary" 2000 4 101 Small-Scope Sampler Bear Up! "French, Sue" 2000 4 103 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in April" "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 4 104 Guide to the Evening Sky More Light-Pollution Breakthroughs "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 4 106 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 4 108 Celestial Calendar Observing the Zodiacal Light "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2000 4 110 Celestial Calendar Montezuma and the Zodiacal Light 2000 4 113 Celestial Calendar "Uranus, Neptune in 2000" 2000 4 113 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes 2000 4 114 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Lunar Skies "Ryan, Jay" 2000 4 116 Observer's Log Full-Moon Fade-Out "Seronik, Gary" 2000 4 120 Observer's Log Daylight Sightings "Seronik, Gary" 2000 4 122 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook "Whitman, Alan" 2000 4 125 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook "Wood, Charles A." 2000 4 128 Telescope Techniques Motorizing a Dobsonian "Bartels, Mel" 2000 4 130 Telescope Techniques Using a Motorized Dob "Shaw, Chuck" 2000 4 132 Telescope Techniques Box: A Low-Tech Motor System "Wolanski, Gary" 2000 4 134 S&T Test Report Takahashi's FSQ-106 Fluorite Refractor "Gendler, Robert" 2000 4 136 Astro Imaging Notes on Focal Length "di Cicco, Dennis" 2000 4 140 Gallery Saturn "Hanon, David" "Hanon, David" 2000 4 140 Gallery "Nebulae NGC 896, IC 1805 and IC 1848 in Cassiopeia" "Ware, Jason" 2000 4 140 Gallery Spiral Galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 in Canis Major "Wolfe, Ted" 2000 4 141 Gallery Nebula IC 2177 in Monoceros "Greaney, George" 2000 4 142 Gallery Pinwheel Galaxy (M33) in Triangulum "Greaney, George" 2000 4 142 Gallery Star Cluster IC 348 in Perseus "Cordiale, John E." 2000 5 1 Front-Cover Photo Planetary Alignment "Garlick, Mark A." 2000 5 8 Spectrum Coming: More Hype! Yikes!! "Robinson, Leif J." 2000 5 10 Focal Point "The ""Grand Illusion"" of April-May 2000" "Hockey, Thomas" 2000 5 12 Letters An Observing Project at the Cuttin Edge "Ragazzoni, Roberto" "Marchetti, Enrico" "Valente, Gianpaolo" 2000 5 12 Letters "Yes, There Was a Maunder Minimum" "Gonzalez, Guillermo" 2000 5 12 Letters Still Inspiring "Pierson, Jerry" 2000 5 14 Letters More TC Lens Tricks "Seaman, Al" 2000 5 14 Letters Help for Club Leaders "Klosinski, Mark" 2000 5 14 Letters More TC Lens Tricks "Samworth, Roger" 2000 5 16 News Notes NEAR Embraces Eros 2000 5 17 News Notes Martian Meteorite Discovered in California 2000 5 17 News Notes Nail in the Coffin for Bombarding Minicomets 2000 5 18 News Notes Hubble on Stamps 2000 5 18 News Notes SOHO's Sungrazing Comets: 100 and Counting 2000 5 20 News Notes Surveying Galactic Hydrogen Clouds 2000 5 20 News Notes Mapping Galaxies' Dark Halos 2000 5 21 News Notes White Dwarfs Hiding in the Halo? 2000 5 22 News Notes A Black Hole for Nearly Every Galaxy 2000 5 22 News Notes Meteorite Perfume 2000 5 23 News Notes Holes Dark and Lonely 2000 5 23 News Notes No Panspermia Between Stars 2000 5 24 News Notes Amateurs and the AAS 2000 5 24 News Notes Massive Lightning Storms May Drive Jupiter's Weather 2000 5 25 News Notes Massive Lightning Storms May Drive Jupiter's Chemistry 2000 5 26 Mission Update Mission Update "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 5 28 Feature Conjunctions That Changed the World "Schaefer, Bradley E." 2000 5 34 Feature Box: The Stars Do Change the World "Schaefer, Bradley E." 2000 5 36 Feature Beyond the Hubble Sequence "Bothun, Gregory D." 2000 5 46 Feature Selling Astrophysics in a Crystal Palace "Maran, Stephen P." 2000 5 54 Images Spotlight on a Majestic Spiral (M81) "Elmegreen, Debra Meloy" "Elmegreen, Bruce" 2000 5 57 S&T Test Report Backyard Spectroscopy "Gavin, Maurice V." 2000 5 64 New Product Showcase New Product Showcase 2000 5 66 Computers in Astronomy The ASCOM Revolution "Medkeff, Jeff" 2000 5 69 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Cartes du Ciel 2.41 "Medkeff, Jeff" 2000 5 72 Computers in Astronomy "Astronomy Online: Where are you, Really?" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2000 5 76 Books & Beyond "Cometography: A Catelog of Comets, Vol. 1, by Gary W. Kronk" "Bortle, John E." 2000 5 78 Books & Beyond "Astronomy for Dummies, Stephan P. Maran" "Salamony, Sandra N." 2000 5 82 Amateur Astronomers The World and the Universe Meet at Castel Gandolfo "Joson, Imelda B." "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2000 5 82 Amateur Astronomers "World and the Universe Meet at Castel Gandolfo, The" 2000 5 85 Amateur Astronomers History of the Vatican Observatory 2000 5 85 Amateur Astronomers Box: History of Vatican Observatory "Corbally, Christopher J." 2000 5 88 Amateur Astronomers New Zealand's StarDate 2000 "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2000 5 89 Amateur Astronomers Return of the Winter Star Party "Sinnott, Roger W." 2000 5 90 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails:The Radical Amateur "Levy, David H." 2000 5 92 Amateur Astronomers Astronomy Day Award 2000 5 95 Rambling Through the Skies Clean Sweep "Krupp, E. C." 2000 5 98 Guide to the Evening Sky "Cross Hairs on Corvus, the Crow" "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 5 99 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2000 5 100 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight "Seronik, Gary" 2000 5 101 Small-Scope Sampler Chasing Treasures Under the Dipper "French, Sue" 2000 5 103 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in May" "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 5 104 Guide to the Evening Sky The Near Sky: Keeping a Weather Log "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 5 106 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 5 109 Celestial Calendar "Tidal Forces on May 5, 2000" "Olson, Donald W." "Lytle, Thomas E." 2000 5 112 Celestial Calendar Double Stars off Mizar "Haas, Sissy" 2000 5 115 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes 2000 5 116 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Scope Basics "Ryan, Jay" 2000 5 120 Observer's Log Exploring the Hubble Sequence by Eye "Skiff, Brian A." 2000 5 128 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook "Gottlieb, Steve" 2000 5 130 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook "Wood, Charles A." 2000 5 132 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook "Seronik, Gary" 2000 5 135 Telescope Techniques Optimal Polish for Optimal Optics "Sasian, Jose M." 2000 5 138 Telescope Techniques Common Polishing Mistakes "Bartels, Mel" 2000 5 142 Gallery Total Lunar Eclipse Triptych "Barnes, Stephen" 2000 5 142 Gallery Lunar Eclipse Sequence (45 Exposures) "Espenak, Fred" 2000 5 143 Gallery Waning Crescent Moonrise with Earthshine I "Arnold, Luc" 2000 5 144 Gallery Waning Crescent Moonrise with Earthshine II & III "Arnold, Luc" 2000 5 144 Gallery Morning Conjunction of Moon and Venus "Schad, Jerry" 2000 6 1 Front-Cover Photo Leonid Meteors "Hallas, Tony" "Hallas, Daphne" 2000 6 8 Spectrum Best of the Best "Robinson, Leif J." 2000 6 10 Focal Point 0 to 60: An Excessive-Compulsive Gets Into Astronomy "O'Leary, Robert" 2000 6 12 Letters Messier Marathon Tips "Ferris, William D." 2000 6 12 Letters China's No Blank on the Amateur Map "Renjiang, Xie" 2000 6 12 Letters The Real Caldwell "Lee, Steven" "Ratledge, David" 2000 6 14 Letters Auroral Deja Vu "Hall, John H." 2000 6 14 Letters Pulsar Planets Were First "Blake, Mel" 2000 6 14 Letters Our Special Place "Seargent, David A. J." 2000 6 16 Letters Asteriods at Their Brightest "Vila-Echague, Eduardo" 2000 6 16 Letters Brighter Geostationary Satellites "Lazuka, Thomas" 2000 6 18 News Notes Trouble in Hubble's Key Project? 2000 6 19 News Notes Hubble Discovers Twin Quasar's Host Galaxy 2000 6 20 News Notes A Close-Up of the Dynamic Bubble Nebula 2000 6 20 News Notes Green Light for Africa's Giant Eye 2000 6 21 News Notes Two Extrasolar Saturns 2000 6 22 News Notes Yukon Meteorite Bonanza 2000 6 22 News Notes A Baby Cluster in Our Backyard 2000 6 22 News Notes Mild Comet Shower Forecast 2000 6 24 News Notes More Martian Floods 2000 6 24 News Notes Cassini Glimpses 2685 Masursky 2000 6 26 News Notes The Far Ultraviolet Unveiled 2000 6 26 News Notes Opening Up to Terahertz Astronomy 2000 6 28 Mission Update Mission Update "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 6 30 Feature "Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Will the Leonid Storms Continue?" "Rao, Joe" 2000 6 36 Feature "Box: The Surprising ""Lunar Leonids""" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2000 6 38 Feature The Leonids' Rising Stars "Fischer, Daniel" 2000 6 42 Feature Storm Chasers "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2000 6 46 Feature Catching a Falling Star "Drummond, Jack D." "Gardner, Chester S." "Kelley, Michael C." 2000 6 56 S&T Test Report Big Binoculars on a Budget "di Cicco, Dennis" 2000 6 61 S&T Test Report No Ordinary Binocular Mount "di Cicco, Dennis" 2000 6 62 New Product Showcase New Product Showcase 2000 6 64 Computers in Astronomy Some Odds and Ends "Goldman, Stuart J." 2000 6 66 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Deepsky 2000 "Ratledge, David" 2000 6 67 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Temples to the Stars "Goldman, Stuart J." 2000 6 70 Books & Beyond "Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, by Alex Filippenko" "Roth, Joshua" 2000 6 72 Books & Beyond "Quintessence, by Lawrence M. Krauss" "Wright, Edward L." 2000 6 76 Amateur Astronomers The Pro-Am Revolution "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2000 6 77 Books & Beyond "The Star of Bethlehem: The Legacy of the Magi, by Michael R. Molnar" "Schaefer, Bradley E." 2000 6 80 Amateur Astronomers Students Find 73 Novae in M31 "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2000 6 81 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: Of Pro-Am Partnerships and Astronomy Education "Levy, David H." 2000 6 86 Rambling Through the Skies Slithering Toward Solstice "Krupp, E. C." 2000 6 90 Guide to the Evening Sky "Herdsman, Crown, and Serpent" "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 6 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2000 6 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight "Seronik, Gary" 2000 6 93 Small-Scope Sampler "Dazzling Doubles, Glittering Globulars" "French, Sue" 2000 6 95 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in June" "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 6 96 Guide to the Evening Sky The Near Sky: Problems with Airglow "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 6 98 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 6 100 Celestial Calendar Surprising Comeback of the June Bootid Meteor Shower "Sinnott, Roger W." 2000 6 107 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Tropics "Ryan, Jay" 2000 6 107 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes 2000 6 109 Observer's Log Mesmerized by Mercury "Sheehan, William" "Dobbins, Thomas A." 2000 6 115 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2000 6 118 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook "Wood, Charles A." 2000 6 120 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook "Seronik, Gary" 2000 6 125 Telescope Techniques Doghouse Detail "di Cicco, Dennis" 2000 6 134 Gallery Solar Prominence "Dal Lago, Giovanni" 2000 6 134 Gallery Mercury and Airliner Transiting the Sun "Albrecht, Rick" 2000 6 134 Gallery Star Trails over Bok Telescope Dome "Esquerdo, Gilbert" 2000 6 135 Gallery Single Geminid Meteor with Star-trails "Udea, Takeharu" 2000 6 135 Gallery Big Dipper over Cornfield "Carlson, Todd" 2000 6 135 Gallery Rosette Nebula in Monoceros "Miyakawa, Tyouei" 2000 6 135 Gallery Sagittarius Starcloud M24 2000 6 135 Gallery Aurora and Big Dipper "Read, Steve" 2000 6 136 Gallery Orion's Belt with Flame and Horsehead Nebulae "Kitazato, Fumihiro" 2000 7 1 Front-Cover Photo Compton Gamma Ray Observatory in Orbit 2000 7 8 Spectrum Babylon Revisited "Robinson, Leif J." 2000 7 10 Focal Point The Forest and the Trees "Burgess, Craig" 2000 7 12 Letters The Kansas Universe - III "West, Herb" 2000 7 12 Letters The Kansas Universe - I "Price, Jim" 2000 7 12 Letters The Kansas Universe - II "Linderholm, Robert" 2000 7 14 Letters The Kansas Universe - IV "Edwards, Stefan" 2000 7 14 Letters The Kansas Universe - V "Roe, John" 2000 7 14 Letters A Leonardo-Era Lens "Renning, John" 2000 7 14 Letters The Kansas Universe - VI "Berkey, Cale" 2000 7 16 Letters Eta Carinae: Single After All? "Humphreys, Roberta M." "Smith, Nathan" "Davidson, Kris" "de Koter, Alex" "Morris, Pat" 2000 7 16 Letters A Bad Example "Vance, Norbert" 2000 7 16 Letters If You Want Something Done Right... "Neuzil, Ed" 2000 7 18 News Notes Free-Floating Planets in the Orion Nebula 2000 7 19 News Notes Asteroid Kleopatra: Wild and Wonderful 2000 7 19 News Notes TMR-1C: Not a Planet After All 2000 7 20 News Notes M82 by Subaru 2000 7 21 News Notes Watching the Birth of Globular Clusters 2000 7 22 News Notes "Explaining Comet Hyakutake's ""Impossible"" Tail" 2000 7 22 News Notes Lost Moons of Uranus Recovered 2000 7 23 News Notes Iridium Satellites May Come Down Soon 2000 7 24 News Notes Firming Up the Case for a Flat Cosmos 2000 7 26 News Notes A Monumental Sun Pointer 2000 7 26 News Notes Verdict on M73 2000 7 26 News Notes A Recent Rush of Impacts? 2000 7 28 News Notes Darker Skies for the D.C. Area 2000 7 28 News Notes A Hot Superbubble Bursts from a Galaxy's Core 2000 7 30 Mission Update Mars Polar Lander "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 7 30 Mission Update Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 7 30 Mission Update Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 7 32 Feature What Is the Real Shape of the Ring Nebula? "Kwok, Sun" 2000 7 40 Feature Astronomy and the Fall of Babylon "Gurzadyan, Vahe G." 2000 7 42 Feature Box: Babylonian Chronologies "Armstrong, James A." 2000 7 48 Feature Compton's Legacy "Leonard, Peter J. T." "Wanjek, Christopher" 2000 7 56 Images "Cat's Paw Nebula, NGC 6334" "Kraemer, Kathleen E." 2000 7 59 S&T Test Report Image-Stabilized Binoculars Aplenty "Seronik, Gary" 2000 7 63 S&T Test Report Box: Power vs. Pupil Size: Which Is Better? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2000 7 64 S&T Test Report Box: Stabilization on a Budget "Seronik, Gary" 2000 7 66 New Product Showcase Gary's Astro Fabricating's Fine-Focus Adapter 2000 7 66 New Product Showcase Stellarvue 80-millimeter f/6 Refractor 2000 7 66 New Product Showcase Astro Works Centurion 18 Telescope System 2000 7 69 Books & Beyond "Deep-Sky Wonders, by Walter Scott Houston and Stephen James O'Meara" "Mullaney, James" 2000 7 71 Books & Beyond "Astronomer's Computer Companion, by Jeff Foust and Ron Lafon" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2000 7 72 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Astronomer's Journal, by Ken Sullivan" 2000 7 72 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Chronological Encyclopedia of Discoveries in Space, by Robert Zimmerman" 2000 7 72 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Five Ages of the Universe, by Fred Adams and Greg Laughlin" 2000 7 72 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: One Universe, by Neil de Grasse Tyson, Charles Liu, and Robert Irion" 2000 7 72 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: New Perspectives in Astrophysical Cosmology, by Martin Rees" 2000 7 72 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Allen's Astrophysical Quantities, by Arthur N. Cox, ed." 2000 7 72 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Mystery of Mars, by Sally Ride and Tam O'Shaughnessy" 2000 7 76 Amateur Astronomers "The Chiefland ""Experiment""" "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2000 7 79 Amateur Astronomers ASP Award 2000 7 80 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: The Man Behind Meade "Levy, David H." 2000 7 86 Rambling Through the Skies Whiter Shade of Pale "Krupp, E. C." 2000 7 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Scorpius Stalks the South "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 7 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2000 7 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: Resolving Nu Draconis "Seronik, Gary" 2000 7 93 Small-Scope Sampler Deep-Sky Wonders in Hercules "French, Sue" 2000 7 95 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in July" "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 7 96 Guide to the Evening Sky Light-Pollution Notes: Measuring Sky Brightness "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 7 98 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 7 100 Celestial Calendar Comet LINEAR's Summer Show "Bortle, John E." 2000 7 103 Celestial Calendar July's Three Pacific Eclipses "MacRobert, Alan M." 2000 7 108 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Occultations by the Moon 2000 7 108 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Porter Turret "Ryan, Jay" 2000 7 112 Observer's Log Double-Star Measurement Made Easy "Teague, Thomas" 2000 7 117 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: The Other Cygnus - Faint Galaxies of the Swan "McNeil, Jay" 2000 7 120 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Rings and Things "Wood, Charles A." 2000 7 122 Observer's Log Eyeballing the Hubble Sequence 2000 7 122 Observer's Log Coney Island Conjunction 2000 7 122 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: A Busy Marathon Season "Seronik, Gary" 2000 7 125 Astro Imaging Getting the Most from a CCD Spectrograph "Kannappan, Sheila" "Fabricant, Daniel" 2000 7 127 Astro Imaging Box: The Life of a Star 2000 7 134 Gallery "Aurora over Lyndhurst Mansion, Tarrytown, NY" "Yasinsac, Robert" 2000 7 134 Gallery Aurora over Big Dipper "Martin, Nick" 2000 7 134 Gallery Aurora in Taurus "Lodriguss, Jerry" 2000 7 134 Gallery Aurora over Scotland "Law, Ian" 2000 7 134 Gallery "April 4, 2000, Aurora" "Koskimo, Martti" 2000 7 135 Gallery Aurora over Coney Island "Scarpitta, Rich" 2000 7 136 Gallery Rainbow Aurora in Germany "Rothermel, Jens" 2000 7 136 Gallery Aurora and Twilight over Australia "Clark, Maurice Leonard" 2000 8 1 Front-Cover Photo Observatorio de Sierra Nevada "Chen, PK" 2000 8 8 Spectrum Running...Running... "Robinson, Leif J." 2000 8 12 Focal Point "Astronomy, Eclipses, and Parenthood" "Miladinovic, Dragan" 2000 8 14 Letters Sidewalk Astronomer in a Strange Land "Heyn, Herman M." 2000 8 14 Letters Pluto in a 4 1/2-inch Scope "Ewart, Scott" 2000 8 14 Letters Jumping In at the Deep End "Zahr, Rodrigue" 2000 8 16 Letters For the Record 2000 8 16 Letters 50 & 20 Years Ago 2000 8 16 Letters Turning the Tide in New Mexico "Hale, Alan" "Berman, Marshall" 2000 8 18 News Notes Breathing Soul into ALMA 2000 8 19 News Notes Superimposed Galaxies 2000 8 20 News Notes Tennis-Ball Particles from M87? 2000 8 20 News Notes SOHO Catches the May Planet Conjunction 2000 8 21 News Notes Catching the Swiftest of the Swift 2000 8 22 News Notes Spacewatch Snares Long-Lost Asteroid 719 Albert 2000 8 22 News Notes 4.5 Million Asteroid Observations 2000 8 23 News Notes Conference on Astronomy and Culture 2000 8 24 News Notes Io's Telltale Colors 2000 8 24 News Notes "A ""Missed"" Comet" 2000 8 26 News Notes An Enigmatic Nebula Solved 2000 8 26 News Notes No Vulcanoids Inside Mercury's Orbit - Yet! 2000 8 28 News Notes Astronomers Threatened by Star-Naming Company 2000 8 30 Mission Update The Outer Solar System "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 8 30 Mission Update The Inner Solar System "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 8 30 Mission Update Near-Earth Space "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 8 34 Feature Visions of Today's Giant Eyes "Chen, PK" 2000 8 42 Feature A Galaxy of Telescopes "Sinnott, Roger W." "Tytell, David" 2000 8 52 Feature Giant Eyes of the Future "Schilling, Govert" 2000 8 58 Images The Hidden Treasure of M17 "Lada, Charles J." 2000 8 61 S&T Test Report "Nomad 300, Rechargeable Power Source" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2000 8 61 S&T Test Report Takahashi Camera Mount System "Horne, Johnny" 2000 8 66 New Product Showcase "S.T.A.R. 2000, Self-guiding System for Starlight Xpress Cameras" 2000 8 66 New Product Showcase Takahashi Astronomer 22x60 Apochromatic Binoculars 2000 8 66 New Product Showcase Tokai Light Pollution Suppression Filters 2000 8 68 Computers in Astronomy Automatic Asteroid Hunting "Medkeff, Jeff" 2000 8 70 Computers in Astronomy Box: Making Your Own Robot "Medkeff, Jeff" 2000 8 72 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Coeli Gold "Foust, Jeff" 2000 8 74 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Investigating Webring Communities "Goldman, Stuart J." 2000 8 75 Software Showcase JCC-CCD 2000 8 75 Software Showcase AlphaCentaure 1.1 2000 8 75 Software Showcase SunGraph 2000 8 77 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: A Central American Heaven "Levy, David H." 2000 8 83 Rambling Through the Skies Managing Expectations "Krupp, E. C." 2000 8 88 Guide to the Evening Sky Into the Heart of the Milky Way "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 8 89 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2000 8 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: A Milky Way Surprise "Seronik, Gary" 2000 8 91 Small-Scope Sampler Floating on Cloud 24 "French, Sue" 2000 8 93 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in August" "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 8 94 Guide to the Evening Sky Light-Pollution Notes: New Light-Pollution Maps "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 8 96 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 8 98 Celestial Calendar Ultrathin Moon Clips Venus "Sinnott, Roger W." 2000 8 103 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: August Meteors 2000 8 103 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Occultations by the Moon 2000 8 103 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Ryan's Rules "Ryan, Jay" 2000 8 105 Observer's Log My Favorite Deep-Sky Wonders "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2000 8 112 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: A Tour of Obscure Summer Globular Clusters "Gottlieb, Steve" 2000 8 114 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Between Freezing and Serenity "Wood, Charles A." 2000 8 116 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: A Challenging Globular-Cluster Marathon "Seronik, Gary" 2000 8 120 Telescope Techniques Sizing Up the Newtonian Secondary "Seronik, Gary" 2000 8 123 Telescope Techniques Diagonal Calculations with Sec "Adler, Alan" 2000 8 129 Astro Imaging "The ""State"" of Astrophotography" "Cook, Chris" 2000 8 138 Gallery April 7th Aurora over Circumpolar Star Trails "Wada, Kazuto" 2000 8 138 Gallery Moonscapes of Alpine Valley and Apennine Mountains "Mengoli, Giorgio" 2000 8 139 Gallery Hydrogen-Alpha Sunspot "Garcia, Gordon" 2000 8 139 Gallery Nebula NGC 2359 in Canis Major "Blankenship, Ken" 2000 8 139 Gallery Nebula IC 2948 "Mandel, Steve" 2000 8 140 Gallery Milky Way over the Texas Star Party "Gillard, Robert B." 2000 8 140 Gallery Atmospheric Corona "Bernstein, Marc" 2000 8 140 Gallery Sundogs over Lithuania "Selevic, Henryk" 2000 8 141 Gallery Italian Sunset Sequence "Melandri, Fabrizio" 2000 8 141 Gallery German Aurora "Jager, Thomas" 2000 9 1 Front-Cover Photo Mimi Wagner and Her 10-inch Dobsonian "Robinson, Marsha" 2000 9 8 Spectrum Why Don't You Name Stars? "Robinson, Leif J." 2000 9 12 Focal Point Imagination Astronomy "Bray, Richard" 2000 9 14 Letters Compton Didn't Have to Die "Dieters, Stefan" 2000 9 14 Letters Calculating Solar Tides "Rawlins, Dennis" 2000 9 16 Letters For the Record 2000 9 16 Letters Capturing the Heart of M81 "Wolfe, Ted" 2000 9 16 Letters "Rare Earth, Not Unique" "Brownlee, Don" "Ward, Peter D." 2000 9 16 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago 2000 9 18 News Notes More Pieces of Rare Meteorite Recovered 2000 9 19 News Notes A Meteorite Worth Its Salt 2000 9 20 News Notes Do All Pulsars Fly Pole First? 2000 9 20 News Notes Comet LINEAR Brightens On Schedule 2000 9 21 News Notes More Martian and Lunar Meteorites 2000 9 22 News Notes Nailing the LMC 2000 9 24 News Notes U.S. Astronomers Choose Top Projects for Coming Decade 2000 9 26 News Notes Next Generation Space Telescope on the Fast Track 2000 9 28 News Notes The Biggest 3-D Map of the Universe 2000 9 28 News Notes Interstellar Sugar 2000 9 30 Mission Update Ulysses "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 9 30 Mission Update Compton Gamma Ray Observatory "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 9 30 Mission Update Alexis "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 9 32 Feature African Adventure: The New Millennium's First Totality "Espenak, Fred" "Anderson, Jay" 2000 9 36 Feature Box: NASA's 2001 Solar-Eclipse Bulletin 2000 9 38 Feature Stars in the Cellar: Classes Lost and Found "Kaler, James B." 2000 9 42 Feature Box: It's All in the Temperature 2000 9 46 Feature The Ultimate Mountaintop: Astronomy Aboard Balloons "Wanjek, Christopher" 2000 9 56 Feature Martian Mudflows "Tytell, David" 2000 9 59 S&T Test Report Hydrogen-Alpha Filter Systems "Bealo, Peter" 2000 9 63 S&T Test Report Baader AstroSolar Safety Film "MacRobert, Alan M." 2000 9 66 New Product Showcase The Astronomer's Journal: An Observer's Daily Log & Sketch Book 2000 9 66 New Product Showcase Takahashi FS-60C Refractor 2000 9 66 New Product Showcase Magnificent Constellations: Astronomy Slide Set #3 2000 9 68 Computers in Astronomy For a More Precise Position "Goldman, Stuart J." 2000 9 70 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: MoonCalc 5.2 "Heafner, Joe" 2000 9 72 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: So You Want to Be a Star? "Goldman, Stuart J." 2000 9 74 Software Showcase Satellite Tracker 1.1.5 2000 9 74 Software Showcase The Secret of the Universe 2000 9 74 Software Showcase Arty the Part-Time Astronaut 2000 9 76 Books & Beyond "The Runaway Universe: The Race to Rind the Future of the Cosmos, by Donald Goldsmith" "Primack, Joel R." 2000 9 77 Books & Beyond "Cosmic Catastrophes: Supernovae, Gamma-ray Burts, and Adventure in Hyperspace, by J. Craig Wheeler" "Habig, Alec" 2000 9 79 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Moon and the Western Imagination, by Scott L. Montgomery" 2000 9 79 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Measuring the Universe, by Stephen Webb" 2000 9 79 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: On Tycho's Island, by John Robert Christianson" 2000 9 82 Amateur Astronomers Where Are the Young Astronomers? "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2000 9 85 Amateur Astronomers "Mimi, the Messier Monster" "Wagner, Mark" 2000 9 87 Amateur Astronomers Young Astronomer Award Winners "Tytell, David" 2000 9 88 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: The Real Unified Theory "Levy, David H." 2000 9 93 Rambling Through the Skies Astronomical Instrument "Krupp, E. C." 2000 9 98 Guide to the Evening Sky The Best Skywatching Season "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 9 99 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2000 9 100 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: The Road to the Cocoon "Seronik, Gary" 2000 9 101 Small-Scope Sampler Lyre Lessons "French, Sue" 2000 9 103 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in Septemeber" "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 9 104 Guide to the Evening Sky The Near Sky: Paranthelion "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 9 106 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 9 108 Celestial Calendar Moons of the Outer Planets "Sinnott, Roger W." 2000 9 110 Celestial Calendar Box: Where to Look 2000 9 113 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: September Meteors 2000 9 113 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Lunar Occultations 2000 9 114 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Polar Skies "Ryan, Jay" 2000 9 117 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Exploring Stephan's Quintet "Freeman, Jay Reynolds" 2000 9 120 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Ancient Thebit and Huygens's Sword "Wood, Charles A." 2000 9 122 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: White-Light Adventures on the Sun "Seronik, Gary" 2000 9 125 Telescope Techniques Understanding Thermal Behavior in Newtonian Reflectors "Greer, Bryan" 2000 9 136 Gallery Antares and Rho Ophiuchi "Hallas, Tony" "Hallas, Daphne" 2000 9 136 Gallery Orion and Taurus Star Trails over Death Valley "Schad, Jerry" 2000 9 137 Gallery "Snake or S Nebula, Barnard 72" "Ware, Jason" 2000 9 137 Gallery Veil of Nebula IC 443 "Gendler, Robert" 2000 9 138 Gallery Pinwheel Galaxy M101 "Gendler, Robert" 2000 10 1 Front-Cover Photo Merging Neutron Stars "Dixon, Don" 2000 10 8 Spectrum Gravity Matters "Robinson, Leif J." 2000 10 14 Focal Point Star Partying "Hettenhausen, Amy" 2000 10 16 Letters Image of an Ancient Sky "Root, Nile" 2000 10 16 Letters Ersatz Star Names and Lawsuit Threats - I "Martino, Robert" 2000 10 18 Letters Ersatz Star Names and Lawsuit Threats - II "Deming, D.A." 2000 10 18 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago 2000 10 18 Letters Ersatz Star Names and Lawsuit Threats - IV "Fisher, Jim" 2000 10 18 Letters Ersatz Star Names and Lawsuit Threats - III "Rao, Joe" 2000 10 18 Letters Thaw Refractor Soldiers On "Gatewood, George D." 2000 10 18 Letters Spectroscopy from Harvard Square "Grindlay, Jonathan E." 2000 10 20 Letters Swept Up "Amoroso, John" 2000 10 20 Letters Astronomers Invade Classrooms "Fraknoi, Andrew" 2000 10 22 News Notes Star Collisions in a Globular's Heart 2000 10 23 News Notes Planets Come Up Missing in a Globular Cluster 2000 10 24 News Notes Rings Around the Cat's Eye 2000 10 24 News Notes Finding Missing Baryons 2000 10 25 News Notes The Milky Way and M31: Batle of the Heavyweights 2000 10 26 News Notes Giant New Infrared Survey On the Web 2000 10 27 News Notes "The New, Improved MMT" 2000 10 28 News Notes Black Holes and Galaxy Bulges: Tightly Wedded Mates 2000 10 29 News Notes Brown-Dwarf Flare 2000 10 30 News Notes Naked-Eye Eruption of Delta Scorpii 2000 10 30 News Notes Are Pulsar Ages Wrong? 2000 10 32 News Notes Methane Rain on Titan? 2000 10 32 News Notes "Tribe, Museum Settle Meteorite Dispute" 2000 10 34 News Notes Recent Volcanism on Mars 2000 10 34 News Notes Dating a Star Like a Rock 2000 10 36 Mission Update Cluster II "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 10 36 Mission Update Deep Space 1 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 10 36 Mission Update Zvezda "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 10 40 Feature LIGO: An Antenna Tuned to the Songs of Gravity "Sanders, Gary H." "Beckett, David" 2000 10 46 Feature Box: An Early Look at LISA "Riordon, James" 2000 10 50 Feature Teaching Einstein to Dance: The Dynamic World of General Relativity "Frank, Adam" 2000 10 58 Feature Gravitational Waves: A Prehistory "Kennefick, Daniel" 2000 10 68 Images Lagoon Nebula M8 "Stapelfeldt, Karl" 2000 10 71 S&T Test Report Celestron CR-150 HD & Orion Skywatcher 120mm EQ Refractors "Dyer, Alan" 2000 10 75 S&T Test Report Box: Lessons Learned "Dyer, Alan" 2000 10 78 New Product Showcase Starlight Xpress Ltd.'s MX916 CCD Camera 2000 10 78 New Product Showcase Boyd Observatories' Model 6000 2000 10 78 New Product Showcase Helical Crayford Focuser 2000 10 80 Software Showcase Amateur Telescope Maker Optical Design and Analysis Software 2000 10 80 Software Showcase RegiStar 2000 10 80 Software Showcase Star Explorer 1.0 2000 10 82 Books & Beyond "The Book of the Cosmos, by Dennis Danielson, ed." "Berendzen, Richard" 2000 10 84 Books & Beyond "A Different Approarch to Cosmology: From a Static Universe to the Big Bang towards Reality, by Hoyle, Burbridge, and Narlikar" "Kragh, Helge" 2000 10 86 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: 3-D Atlas of Stars and Galaxies, by Richard Monkhouse and John Cox" 2000 10 86 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Orrery: Computer Models of Astronomical Systems, by Caxton C. Foster" 2000 10 86 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Dark Matter, Missing Planets & New Comets: Paradoxes Resolved, Origins Illuminated, by Tom Van Flandern" 2000 10 86 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Protostars and Planets IV, by Vincent Mannings, Alan P. Boss, and Sara S. Russell, eds." 2000 10 86 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Between the Lines: The Mystery of the Giant Ground Drawings of Ancient Nasca, Peru, by Anthony F. Aveni" 2000 10 86 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Globes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Globes and Armillary Spheres. . . , by Elly Decker, ed." 2000 10 86 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Elementary Astronomy: A Simple Reference Guide to Our Solar System, by James N. Pierce" 2000 10 89 Amateur Astronomers Hunting for SOHO Comets Using the Internet "Kilburn, Kevin J." 2000 10 91 Amateur Astronomers Box: Have You Found Something? "Biesecker, Douglas A." 2000 10 92 Amateur Astronomers Comet Award Winners 2000 10 93 Amateur Astronomers Stargazing in Mason-Dixon Country "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2000 10 94 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: The Man with CCD Eyes "Levy, David H." 2000 10 101 Rambling Through the Skies Flood Control "Krupp, E. C." 2000 10 106 Guide to the Evening Sky Pegasus: Between Bright and Dark "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 10 107 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2000 10 108 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: A Farewell to Summer "Seronik, Gary" 2000 10 109 Small-Scope Sampler Messier Hunting with the Horse and the Water Boy "French, Sue" 2000 10 111 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in October" "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 10 112 Guide to the Evening Sky "Light-Pollution Notes: Lighting and Crime, Part 1" "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 10 114 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 10 116 Celestial Calendar Seeking the Elusive Gegenschein "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2000 10 121 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: October Meteors 2000 10 121 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultations 2000 10 122 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Horizon Dip "Ryan, Jay" 2000 10 124 Observer's Log A Jupiter Observing Guide "McAnally, John W." 2000 10 128 Observer's Log Box: Jupiter in 2000-01 2000 10 131 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: The Globulars of the Water Constellations "Whitman, Alan" 2000 10 134 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Deslandres and a Hell of a Crater "Wood, Charles A." 2000 10 136 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Comet LINEAR Comes and Goes "Seronik, Gary" 2000 10 138 Telescope Techniques A Weightless Woodshop Refractor "Hards, Chuck" 2000 10 142 Gallery C-5A and Refueling Tanker Cross the Moon "Field, Jeff" 2000 10 142 Gallery Eta Carinae Nebula "Ward, Peter" 2000 10 143 Gallery Sombrero Galaxy M104 "Ware, Jason" 2000 10 143 Gallery July's Lunar Eclipse "Munford, Noel" 2000 10 143 Gallery Blue Flash "Marks, Rodney" 2000 10 143 Gallery Globular Star Cluster M5 "Lula, Brian" 2000 10 144 Gallery Moonrise over Spain "Teus, Jon" 2000 10 144 Gallery Crescent Nebula NGC 6888 "Walker, Sean" 2000 10 144 Gallery Lunar Crater Clavius "Kovacsy, Arpad" 2000 10 145 Gallery Dumbbell Nebula M27 "Newton, Jack" 2000 11 1 Front-Cover Photo NGC 3603 Nebula and Star Complex 2000 11 8 Spectrum SALT: Spice of the Karroo "Robinson, Leif J." 2000 11 14 Focal Point Fly Me to the Moon "Mellberg, William F." 2000 11 16 Letters Dating of Babylon's Fall Disputed - II "Huber, Peter J." "Gurzadyan, Vahe G." 2000 11 16 Letters Dating of Babylon's Fall Disputed - I "Britton, John P." "Gurzadyan, Vahe G." 2000 11 18 Letters Io's True Colors "Zukauskas, Walter" 2000 11 18 Letters Northern California Dark Sites "Parsons, Jim" 2000 11 18 Letters Trick or Peep II "Colton, Dan" 2000 11 18 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago 2000 11 18 Letters Robotic Observing "Roberts, Paul Dale" 2000 11 20 Letters Don't Open a Coronado "Lunt, David" 2000 11 20 Letters A Lady Restored "Medlock, Denni" 2000 11 20 Letters For the Record 2000 11 24 News Notes Extrasolar Planets Aplenty 2000 11 25 News Notes A Way to Sniff Exoplanet Atmospheres 2000 11 26 News Notes Cosmologists Honored 2000 11 26 News Notes The Era of Precision Cosmology 2000 11 28 News Notes HST's Hubble Constant Announced - Again 2000 11 29 News Notes SETI Projects to Expand 2000 11 30 News Notes Jodrell Bank to Carry On 2000 11 30 News Notes New Green Bank Telescope Dedicated 2000 11 31 News Notes Square Kilometer Array Under Way 2000 11 32 News Notes Asteroid Name News 2000 11 32 News Notes Millimeter Wavelengths Saved for Astronomers 2000 11 32 News Notes New Names for Uranian Moonlets 2000 11 34 News Notes Europan Undulations 2000 11 34 News Notes Pluto Debate Resurfaces 2000 11 36 News Notes "Rest in Pieces, Comet LINEAR" 2000 11 38 Mission Update Mars Surveyor 2003 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 11 38 Mission Update Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 11 38 Mission Update High-Energy Transient Explorer 2 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 11 40 Feature The Most Mysterious Astronomical Manuscript "Schaefer, Bradley E." 2000 11 44 Feature Recycling in the Universe "Goodman, Alyssa A." 2000 11 56 Images "The California Nebula, NGC 1499" "Schilling, Govert" 2000 11 59 S&T Test Report Celestron's NexStar 8 Go To Scope "di Cicco, Dennis" 2000 11 62 S&T Test Report NexStar Support Group "di Cicco, Dennis" 2000 11 64 New Product Showcase David H. Levy's Guide to the Stars Planisphere 2000 11 64 New Product Showcase Astronomy 2001 Calendar 2000 11 64 New Product Showcase Cosmic One's SCT Cooler Model R1 2000 11 66 Computers in Astronomy Adding a Personal Touch "Goldman, Stuart J." 2000 11 67 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Astronomica 1.5 "Medkeff, Jeff" 2000 11 70 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Stories in the Sky "Goldman, Stuart J." 2000 11 72 Software Showcase Aurora Monitor 2000 11 72 Software Showcase Orbit Xplorer 2000 11 72 Software Showcase Power Age Sky Simulator 2.0 2000 11 74 Books & Beyond "The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals As Solar Observatories, by J.L. Heilbron" "Mendelsohn, Leatrice" 2000 11 76 Books & Beyond The Bible According to Einstein: A Scientific Complement to the Holy Bible for the Third Millennium "Taylor, Nola" 2000 11 76 Books & Beyond "The Way to the Dwelling of Light: How Physics Illuminates Creation, by Guy Consolmagno" "Taylor, Nola" 2000 11 76 Books & Beyond "Show Me God, by Fred Heeren" "Taylor, Nola" 2000 11 77 Books & Beyond "Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist, by Guy Consolmagno" "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2000 11 78 Books & Beyond "Absolutely Awesome, by Michael and Caroline Carroll" 2000 11 78 Books & Beyond "Sun Symbolism and Cosmology in Michelangelo's ""Last Judgement,"" by Valerie Shrimplin" 2000 11 83 Amateur Astronomers Ventura Starways "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2000 11 88 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: Skyward Bound "Levy, David H." 2000 11 93 Rambling Through the Skies Hard Rain "Krupp, E. C." 2000 11 98 Guide to the Evening Sky November's Sights to Remember "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 11 99 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2000 11 100 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: Galactic Cluster NGC 7789 "Seronik, Gary" 2000 11 101 Small-Scope Sampler Leaping Lizards "French, Sue" 2000 11 103 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in November" "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 11 104 Guide to the Evening Sky Light-Pollution Notes: The Conundrum of Outdoor Lighting "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 11 106 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 11 108 Celestial Calendar November's Rare Occultation of Mu Geminorum "Sinnott, Roger W." 2000 11 110 Celestial Calendar Box: Timing Tips 2000 11 111 Celestial Calendar Leapin' Leonids! 2000 11 114 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Magnification "Ryan, Jay" 2000 11 114 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Lunar Occultations 2000 11 117 Observer's Log Beyond the Dawes Limit: Observing Saturn's Ring Divisions "Dobbins, Thomas" "Sheehan, William" 2000 11 122 Observer's Log "Deep-Sky Notebook: Galaxy Bridges, Tails, and Rings" "Jakiel, Richard" 2000 11 126 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Messier on the Moon "Wood, Charles A." 2000 11 128 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Perseids and an Aurora by Moonlight "Seronik, Gary" 2000 11 131 Telescope Techniques Flexing Spheres into High-Quality Telescope Mirrors "Adler, Alan" 2000 11 142 Astro Imaging Color Planetary Imaging for Beginners "Di Sciullo, Maurizio" 2000 11 152 Gallery Sunset Partial Solar Eclipse "Mortfield, Paul" 2000 11 152 Gallery "Comet LINEAR, C/1999 S4" "Lula, Brian" 2000 11 152 Gallery Star-Studded Lunar Eclipse "Ward, Peter" 2000 11 153 Gallery "Aurora over Island View Beach, Victoria, BC" "Lee, David" 2000 11 153 Gallery Lunar Eclipse Sequence "Yan Tse, James" 2000 11 154 Gallery Sunset Eclipse Sequence "Espenak, Fred" 2000 11 154 Gallery Aurora over Mount Megantic Observatory "Gauthier, Sebastian" 2000 11 155 Gallery Auroral Arc over North Dakota "Brausch, Jay" 2000 12 1 Front-Cover Photo Hot New Products of 2000 2000 12 10 Spectrum It's Time to Say Goodbye "Robinson, Leif J." 2000 12 14 Focal Point Getting It All the First Time Around "Griffin, Anne" 2000 12 15 Focal Point It's Gotta Be White "Turco, Michael A." 2000 12 18 Letters Finding the Young Astronomers - III "Napier, Tom" 2000 12 18 Letters Finding the Young Astronomers - II "Leggett, Nick" 2000 12 18 Letters Finding the Young Astronomers - I "Ryan, Jay" 2000 12 18 Letters Finding the Young Astronomers - IV "Federer, Tony" 2000 12 20 Letters Finding the Young Astronomers - IX "Nichols, Ted A." 2000 12 20 Letters Finding the Young Astronomers - VII "Gittins, Jonathan" 2000 12 20 Letters Finding the Young Astronomers - VI "Roberts, Patricia Mary" 2000 12 20 Letters Finding the Young Astronomers - V "Wisenfelder, Richard" 2000 12 20 Letters Finding the Young Astronomers - VIII "Gibson, Gary T." 2000 12 22 Letters For the Record 2000 12 22 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago 2000 12 22 Letters Fixing the 6-inch Chinese Refractor "Davis, Tom" "Dyer, Alan" 2000 12 24 News Notes Space Weathering Cements Asteroid-Meteorite Link 2000 12 25 News Notes New Binary Asteroids 2000 12 26 News Notes Bursts of Another Color 2000 12 26 News Notes A New Gamma-Ray-Burst Surprise 2000 12 27 News Notes New Youngest Pulsar 2000 12 28 News Notes A Microlensed Gamma-Ray Burst 2000 12 30 News Notes Measuring Orbits at the Milky Way's Heart 2000 12 30 News Notes A Newborn Star Squirts a Bubble 2000 12 31 News Notes A British Blueprint for Impact Protection 2000 12 32 News Notes Sources of the Asteroid Threat 2000 12 32 News Notes The Searches for Near-Earth Objects 2000 12 34 News Notes Best Evidence Yet for Europa's Ocean 2000 12 34 News Notes Follow That Story: No Light from the Planet of Tau Bootis 2000 12 34 News Notes Follow That Story: Asteroseismology Comes of Age 2000 12 34 News Notes Another Lunar Meteorite Discovered 2000 12 34 News Notes Follow That Story: Pulsar's Age Explained? 2000 12 38 Mission Update Stardust "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 12 38 Mission Update Galileo and Cassini "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 12 38 Mission Update Space Infrared Telescope Facility "McDowell, Jonathan" 2000 12 40 Feature Artistry and Solar Eclipses "Maor, Eli" 2000 12 44 Feature Hot New Products of 2000 "Sky & Telescope, the Editors of" 2000 12 54 Feature 2MASS Treasure Hunt "Deans, Paul" 2000 12 64 Images IC 1396 in Cepheus "Johnson, Lee" 2000 12 69 Computers in Astronomy Shopping the Online Galaxy Galleria "Goldman, Stuart J." 2000 12 72 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Star Pilot 3.01 "Foust, Jeff" 2000 12 74 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Browsing Books "Goldman, Stuart J." 2000 12 76 Software Showcase Solar Kingdom 2000 12 76 Software Showcase Aberrator 2.1 2000 12 76 Software Showcase Kagayaki III 2000 12 78 Books & Beyond "The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos, by Mario Livio" "Tytell, David" 2000 12 80 Books & Beyond "Heavens Unearthed in Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales, by Matt Kane" "Ottewell, Guy" 2000 12 82 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Spark of Life: Darwin and the Primeval Soup, by Christopher Wills and Jeffrey Bada" 2000 12 82 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia, by David Darling" 2000 12 82 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Life on Other Worlds and How to Find It, by Stuart Clark" 2000 12 82 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Astrobiology, the Origin of Life, and the Death of Darwinism, by Rhawn Joseph" 2000 12 82 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Here Be Dragons: The Scientific Quest for Extraterrestrial Life, by David Koerner and Simon LeVay" 2000 12 85 Amateur Astronomers Backyard Science: The IAPPP and the Amateur Astronomer "Stephens, Robert D." 2000 12 90 Amateur Astronomers Asteroid 27 Euterpe: A Pro-Am Project 2000 12 90 Amateur Astronomers SOHO's 200th Comet 2000 12 91 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: From Telescope Mirrors to the Grand Canyon "Levy, David H." 2000 12 94 Rambling Through the Skies Noticing the Eclipse "Krupp, E. C." 2000 12 98 Guide to the Evening Sky Seeing Stars As They Really Are "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 12 99 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2000 12 100 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: M34: A True Binocular Cluster "Seronik, Gary" 2000 12 101 Small-Scope Sampler Local Calls "French, Sue" 2000 12 103 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in December" "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 12 104 Guide to the Evening Sky "Light-Pollution Notes: Lighting and Crime Prevention, Part 3" "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 12 106 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2000 12 109 Celestial Calendar North America's Christmas Eclipse "Sinnott, Roger W." 2000 12 113 Celestial Calendar Leonid Alert for Eastern North America 2000 12 115 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Occultations by Minor Planets 2000 12 115 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Moon Occults Delta Geminorum 2000 12 116 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Distances "Ryan, Jay" 2000 12 116 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: December Meteors 2000 12 120 Observer's Log My 10 Favorite Deep-Sky Wonders "Mullaney, James" 2000 12 125 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: The Ghosts at 891 Andromeda Way "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2000 12 128 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: The Layers of Mare Crisium "Wood, Charles A." 2000 12 130 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Jupiter's Eventful Return "Seronik, Gary" 2000 12 134 Telescope Techniques A Simple Truss-Tube Dobsonian "Leger, Barry" 2000 12 142 Gallery Meteor over Mount Shasta "Flinn, John R." 2000 12 142 Gallery Open Cluster NGC 2264 "Lula, Brian" 2000 12 143 Gallery Auroral Beam "Brausch, Jay" 2000 12 143 Gallery Moonrise Behind San Diego "Schad, Jerry" 2000 12 144 Gallery Large Magellanic Cloud "George, Douglas" 2000 12 144 Gallery "Owl (Monkey) Nebula, M97" "Lula, Brian" 2000 12 145 Gallery Aurora over Thunderheads "Laird, Vic" 2000 12 146 Gallery Sunrise Eclipse "Skilbrei, Oddleiv" 2001 1 1 Front-Cover Photo Spiral Galaxy NGC 4414 2001 1 8 Spectrum Steady As She Goes "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2001 1 10 Focal Point The Year of the Cloud "Adams, Eric" 2001 1 14 Letters Amateurs Detect an Extrasolar Planet "Oksanen, Arto" 2001 1 14 Letters A Proper Wave to Maxwell "Pasachoff, Jay M." 2001 1 16 Letters Amateur Balloon Astronomy "Verhage, Paul" 2001 1 16 Letters Solar-Filter Scare "Roth, Peter" 2001 1 16 Letters For the Record 2001 1 16 Letters Blow Out Those Tube Currents! "Powell, Rex R." 2001 1 20 News Notes "Loose ""Planets"" Everywhere" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 1 21 News Notes Saturn's Rings: Pure as Driven Snow "Taylor, Nola" 2001 1 22 News Notes The Virgo Cluster: A Finger Pointed at Us "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 1 23 News Notes Saving Old Sky Plates "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 1 24 News Notes Pinpointing the Great Attractor "Roth, Joshua" 2001 1 24 News Notes The LMC in Radio "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2001 1 26 News Notes New Midsize Black Hole? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 1 26 News Notes The Finest Measurement Ever Made? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 1 28 News Notes New Moons of Jupiter and Saturn "Tytell, David" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 1 28 News Notes Where the Corona Gets Its Heat "Tytell, David" 2001 1 29 News Notes Follow That Story: Better Size for the Transiting Exoplanet "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 1 32 Mission Update Astronomy Satellites "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 1 33 Mission Update Human Spaceflight "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 1 33 Mission Update Planetary Exploration "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 1 38 Feature A Blueprint for Astronomy's Next 10 Years "McKee, Christopher F." "Taylor, Joseph H." 2001 1 48 Feature The Duality of Spiral Structure "Block, David L." 2001 1 56 Feature Dusty Phenomena in the Solar System "Graps, Amara" "Juhasz, Antal" 2001 1 67 S&T Test Report SBIG's STV Integrating Video Camera and Autoguider "Dyer, Alan" 2001 1 74 New Product Showcase Orion SkyQuest XT4.5 Dobsonian Telescope 2001 1 74 New Product Showcase Earth from Space 2001 Calendar 2001 1 74 New Product Showcase Orion SkyQuest XT10 Dobsonian Telescope 2001 1 74 New Product Showcase Universe of the Hubble Space Telescope 2001 Calendar 2001 1 74 New Product Showcase Moonstick Moon-Phase Calculator 2001 1 77 Computers in Astronomy Web-Based Education Coming of Age "Wallin, John" 2001 1 80 Computers in Astronomy Finding Online Courses and Teaching Resources "Goldman, Stuart J." 2001 1 82 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Solar Kingdom "Ratledge, David" 2001 1 84 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Rocks from and in Space "Goldman, Stuart J." 2001 1 87 Books & Beyond "Turn Right at Orion: Travels Through the Cosmos, by Mitchell Begelman" "Tytell, David" 2001 1 88 Books & Beyond "The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Orignis of Atoms, by Marcus Chown" "Deans, Paul" 2001 1 89 Books & Beyond "The Horse and the Iron Ball: A Journey Through Time, Space, and Technology, by Jerry and Georgiana Allan" 2001 1 89 Books & Beyond "Stardust: Supernovae and Life--The Cosmic Connection, by John Gribbin" 2001 1 90 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Handbook of the British Astronomical Association 2001, by J. Mitton, ed." 2001 1 90 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Astronomical Pocket Diary 2001, by Norbert Haley" 2001 1 90 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Observer's Handbook 2001, by Rajiv Gupta, ed." 2001 1 90 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: The Astronomical Almanac for the Year 2001 2001 1 90 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Astronomical Yearbook 2001, by Andrew Yen, ed." 2001 1 90 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Astronomical Calendar 2001, by Guy Ottewell" 2001 1 90 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: MPO2001 (Minor Planet Observer 2001) 2001 1 92 Amateur Astronomers Gamma-Ray Bursts and Amateur Astronomers "Fishman, Gerald J." "Henden, Arne A." "Mattei, Janet Akyuz" 2001 1 99 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: Guatemala's Rising Star "Levy, David H." 2001 1 103 Rambling Through the Skies Calendar Worlds "Krupp, E. C." 2001 1 106 Guide to the Evening Sky First Light and the Taurus Hour "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 1 107 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2001 1 108 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: NGC 1647: The Crab Cluster "Seronik, Gary" 2001 1 109 Small-Scope Sampler "Fireflies (The Pleiades, M45)" "French, Sue" 2001 1 111 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in January" "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 1 112 Guide to the Evening Sky The Near Sky: A Circumzenithal-Arc-Tinted Moon "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 1 114 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 1 117 Celestial Calendar Lunar Occultation Highlights for 2001 "Dunham, David W." 2001 1 120 Celestial Calendar Recent Grazes of 97 Tauri and SAO 93963 "Dunham, David W." 2001 1 124 Celestial Calendar Where to See January 9th's Total Lunar Eclipse "Sinnott, Roger W." 2001 1 126 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Binocular Comet 2001 1 126 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: January Meteors 2001 1 127 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Apollo "Ryan, Jay" 2001 1 127 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Delta-T for 2001 2001 1 131 Observer's Log The Season's Prettiest Double Stars "Adler, Alan" 2001 1 133 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Exploring the Pisces-Perseus Supercluster "Gottlieb, Steve" 2001 1 137 Observer's Log "Lunar Notebook: Archimedes, Autolycus, Aristillus, and Time" "Wood, Charles A." 2001 1 141 Telescope Techniques Stray Light in Telescopes "Suiter, Harold R." 2001 1 152 Astro Imaging Combining Exposures with Layer Masks "Lodriguss, Jerry" 2001 1 160 Gallery Saturn "Gross, Todd" 2001 1 160 Gallery Minotaur Missile Exhaust Plume "Webb, Brian" 2001 1 160 Gallery Globular Cluster Omega Centauri "Brownfield, Jim" 2001 1 161 Gallery Bubble Nebula in Cassiopeia "Middleton, Bobby" 2001 1 161 Gallery Sagittarius Starscape "Guimond, Jean" 2001 1 162 Gallery Galaxies NGC 4725 and NGC 4712 in Coma Berenices "Lula, Brian" 2001 1 162 Gallery Solar Prominence "Bottari, Claudio" 2001 1 162 Gallery Eastern Veil Nebula in Cygnus "Gralak, Ray" 2001 1 163 Gallery Jupiter "Gross, Todd" 2001 1 163 Gallery Face-On Spiral Galaxy M101 in Ursa Major "Davis, Tom" 2001 2 1 Front-Cover Photo Solar Eruptions by TRACE Spacecraft 2001 2 8 Spectrum Unfinished Business "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2001 2 10 Focal Point A Code of Ethics for Telescope Advertising? "Covington, Michael A." 2001 2 14 Letters "Mercury, Here We Come" "Weinstock, Maia" 2001 2 14 Letters Better Color CCD Filters "Holmes, Alan" 2001 2 16 Letters Flexing to Parabolize a Mirror "Dobbins, Thomas" 2001 2 16 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago 2001 2 16 Letters Dobson's Silent Cannons "Schwartz, Tristan" 2001 2 16 Letters For the Record 2001 2 20 News Notes "A Greener, Drier Mars" "Tytell, David" 2001 2 21 News Notes Peering Into a Distant Cocoon "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 2 22 News Notes Gamma-Ray Bursts Caught Holding Supernova Debris "Schilling, Govert" 2001 2 22 News Notes A Butterfly in the Making "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 2 23 News Notes A Spirograph Nebula "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 2 24 News Notes Big Scopes Aren't Always Best "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 2 24 News Notes Runaway Stars Corralled "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 2 26 News Notes Did Asteroids Supply Earth's Water? "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 2 26 News Notes New Views of Double Asteroids "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 2 27 News Notes Could You Stand on a Comet? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 2 28 News Notes Tiny Wisp of a Younger Veil "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 2 29 News Notes Follow That Story: LIGO Achieves First Lock "Tytell, David" 2001 2 29 News Notes Follow That Story: Vikings Erred on Martian Climate "Schilling, Govert" 2001 2 32 Mission Update Genesis "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 2 32 Mission Update Mars Exploration Program "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 2 32 Mission Update BepiColombo "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 2 34 Feature Today's Science of the Sun --- Part 1 "Schrijver, Carolus J." "Title, Alan M." 2001 2 40 Feature Solar-Eclipse Science: Still Going Strong "Pasachoff, Jay M." 2001 2 45 Feature Box: A Pro-Am Solar-Eclipse Conference "Pasachoff, Jay M." 2001 2 46 Feature Box: Early Eclipse Science "Pasachoff, Jay M." 2001 2 50 Feature A Year of Discovery: Astronomy Highlights of 2000 "Trimble, Virginia" 2001 2 60 Images Map of Mars's Elevation "Zuber, Maria T." 2001 2 64 S&T Test Report The Tele Vue-102 Refractor "di Cicco, Dennis" 2001 2 66 S&T Test Report Astrophotography with the Tele Vue-102 "Cook, Chris" 2001 2 68 New Product Showcase Chandra 2001 Wall Calendar 2001 2 68 New Product Showcase LaserMate Collimator from Orion 2001 2 68 New Product Showcase Sunspotter 2001 2 71 Computers in Astronomy Seven Best of the Web "Goldman, Stuart J." 2001 2 76 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: The Cosmos 3D "Heafner, Joe" 2001 2 78 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Think About the Children! "Goldman, Stuart J." 2001 2 82 Software Showcase Dark Skies 2001 2 82 Software Showcase ImagesPlus 2001 2 82 Software Showcase Planet's Visibility 2001 2 84 Books & Beyond "Asteroids: A History, by Curtis Peebles" "Consolmagno, Guy" 2001 2 86 Books & Beyond "Peterson's Field Guide to the Stars and Planets, 4th Edition, by Jay M. Pasachoff" "Seronik, Gary" 2001 2 88 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Fundamental Ephemeris Computations, by Paul J. Heafner" 2001 2 88 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: See the Stars: Your First Guide to the Night Sky, by Ken Croswell" 2001 2 88 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, 4th Ed., by Lutz D. Schmadel" 2001 2 88 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Facts On File Dictionary of Astronomy, 4th Ed., by Illingworth and Clark, eds." 2001 2 88 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: More...Universe at Your Fingertips, by Fraknoi and Schatz, eds." 2001 2 88 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Neptune File, by Tom Standage" "Standage, Tom" 2001 2 88 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Celestial Sites, Celestial Splendors, by Herve Burillier" 2001 2 91 Amateur Astronomers Exploring the Sky at Mamalluca "Winn, Joshua N." 2001 2 96 Amateur Astronomers Stargazing Under Enchanted Skies "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2001 2 97 Amateur Astronomers Former S&T Staff Member Honored 2001 2 98 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: Explorer of Distant Worlds "Levy, David H." 2001 2 102 Rambling Through the Skies Fire Bird "Krupp, E. C." 2001 2 106 Guide to the Evening Sky Beyond Orion's Boundaries "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 2 107 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2001 2 108 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: Another Double Cluster "Seronik, Gary" 2001 2 109 Small-Scope Sampler Hodierna's Auriga "French, Sue" 2001 2 111 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in February" "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 2 112 Guide to the Evening Sky Night of the Venus Green Flashes "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 2 114 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 2 116 Celestial Calendar Planetary Occultations for 2001 "Dunham, David W." 2001 2 122 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Two Winter Comets 2001 2 122 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Moon Hides Delta Geminorum 2001 2 123 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: UFOs? "Ryan, Jay" 2001 2 126 Observer's Log Introducing the Bortle Dark-Sky Scale "Bortle, John E." 2001 2 130 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Observing Emission Nebulae in the Filter Age "Whitman, Alan" 2001 2 133 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Copernicus: A Spellbinding Crater "Wood, Charles A." 2001 2 136 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Leonids Surprise and Impress "Seronik, Gary" 2001 2 138 Telescope Techniques A Simple Dark-Sky Meter "Flodqvist, Gote" 2001 2 140 Telescope Techniques Box: Applications for the PBM "Seronik, Gary" 2001 2 142 Gallery Moonrise over Lick Observatory "Sato, Kevin" 2001 2 142 Gallery Sunspot Rotation Sequence "Slawik, Eckhard" 2001 2 143 Gallery Aurora over Moonlit Alaska "Klensch, Michael" 2001 2 144 Gallery Spiral Galaxy NGC 7331 in Pegasus "Gendler, Robert" 2001 2 144 Gallery "Moon, Mercury, and a Mexican Mission" "Billings Popejoy, Mary" 2001 2 144 Gallery Planetary Nebula NGC 6781 in Aquila "Juchnowski, Steven" 2001 2 145 Gallery NGC 7023 in Cepheus "Greaney, George" 2001 3 1 Front-Cover Photo Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius "Guthmiller, Allan" 2001 3 8 Spectrum My Place in the Dark "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2001 3 10 Focal Point Tranquility Base Here "Lago, Don" 2001 3 14 Letters A Hike in the Kuiper Belt "Hoernig, Guenther" 2001 3 14 Letters Darkness Deters Crime "Dees, Gene A." 2001 3 16 Letters How to Start Right "Billings, Robert D." 2001 3 16 Letters Immodest Equipment "Lindsey, Kevin" 2001 3 16 Letters A Tale of Two March 7th Eclipses "Rao, Joe" 2001 3 16 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago 2001 3 16 Letters The World's Smoothest Mirrors "Davis, Glenn" 2001 3 18 Letters For the Record 2001 3 18 Letters The Drive to Observe "McKinney, Michael" 2001 3 18 Letters Early Comet Breakups "Sheehan, William" 2001 3 20 News Notes Ancient Martian Lakes? Perhaps. "Tytell, David" 2001 3 22 News Notes Hubble Peers Into the Merope Nebula "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 3 22 News Notes Timing a Neutron Star's Hot Spot "Schilling, Govert" 2001 3 23 News Notes A Well-Behaved Exoplanet "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 3 24 News Notes Chandra Views Sirius B "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 3 24 News Notes Collecting Sirius Binaries "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 3 26 News Notes The Solar System's Edge? "Tytell, David" 2001 3 26 News Notes Giants Found Lurking in the Kuiper Belt "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 3 28 News Notes Lunar Crater Rays: Ancient and Modern "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 3 28 News Notes Follow That Story: Yet More Moons of Saturn "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 3 28 News Notes Follow That Story: Brief Meteor Outbursts Are Real "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 3 32 Mission Update Yohkoh "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 3 32 Mission Update Solar and Heliospheric Observatory "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 3 32 Mission Update High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 3 32 Mission Update Cluster II "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 3 34 Feature Today's Science of the Sun - Part 2 "Schrijver, Carolus J." "Title, Alan M." 2001 3 42 Feature Starspots "Garlick, Mark A." 2001 3 50 Images "Rosette Nebula, NGC 2237" "Kuchar, Thomas" 2001 3 54 S&T Test Report Takahashi 60-mm Premium Binoculars "di Cicco, Dennis" 2001 3 60 New Product Showcase Takahashi Sky 90 Refractor 2001 3 60 New Product Showcase Southern Hemisphere Planisphere 2001 3 60 New Product Showcase Carbon Light Tripod 2001 3 62 Computers in Astronomy TheSky Pocket Edition "Goldman, Stuart J." 2001 3 68 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Messages to the Stars "Goldman, Stuart J." 2001 3 70 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Modern Optical Design and Analysis Software 3.1 "Medkeff, Jeff" 2001 3 73 Books & Beyond SolarMax "Maran, Stephen P." 2001 3 75 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: A Walk Through the Southern Sky, by Heifetz and Tirion" 2001 3 75 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: 2001 Comet Handbook, by Nakano and Green, eds." 2001 3 75 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Target Earth, by Duncan Steel" 2001 3 75 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Exporing the Universe: Science Activities for Kids, by Anthony D. Fredericks" 2001 3 76 Amateur Astronomers "Asteroids, Teenagers, and Real Science" "Furutani, Tracy" 2001 3 80 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: A Man Called Ilan "Levy, David H." 2001 3 81 Amateur Astronomers "Roger W. Tuthill, 1919-2000" 2001 3 86 Rambling Through the Skies The Sphinx Blinks "Krupp, E. C." 2001 3 90 Guide to the Evening Sky What's That over the Spring Horizon? "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 3 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2001 3 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: Two Southern Delights "Seronik, Gary" 2001 3 93 Small-Scope Sampler What a Crab! "French, Sue" 2001 3 95 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in March" "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 3 96 Guide to the Evening Sky Light-Pollution Notes: Light Pollution and Birds: Part 1 "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 3 98 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 3 100 Celestial Calendar Venus's Evening Sky Show "Ashford, Adrian R." 2001 3 102 Celestial Calendar Box: Finding Venus in the Daytime "Ashford, Adrian R." 2001 3 104 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Occultations by Asteroids 2001 3 105 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: March Meteors 2001 3 106 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Jovian Skies "Ryan, Jay" 2001 3 108 Observer's Log Messier Surveys by the Dozen "Freeman, Jay Reynolds" 2001 3 113 Observer's Log "Deep-Sky Notebook: Great Galaxies, By Gemini!" "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2001 3 116 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Alphonsus: Volcanism Then and Now? "Wood, Charles A." 2001 3 117 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: A Christmas Partial Eclipse "Seronik, Gary" 2001 3 120 Telescope Techniques The Folded Refractor: Quality Optics on a Budget "Pfannenschmidt, Ernie" 2001 3 126 Astro Imaging Astrophotography Heavyweight "Guthmiller, Allan" 2001 3 130 Astro Imaging Box: H. Page Bailey: A Pioneering Telescope Maker "Cook, Anthony" 2001 3 132 Gallery Spiral Galaxy M81 "Guthmiller, Allan" 2001 3 132 Gallery "Flame Nebula, NGC 2024" "Guthmiller, Allan" 2001 3 132 Gallery "Lagoon Nebula, M8" "Guthmiller, Allan" 2001 3 133 Gallery "Pinwheel Galaxy, M33" "Guthmiller, Allan" 2001 3 133 Gallery "Omega Nebula, M17" "Guthmiller, Allan" 2001 3 134 Gallery "Cocoon Nebula, IC 5146" "Guthmiller, Allan" 2001 3 134 Gallery "Flaming Star Nebula, IC 405" "Guthmiller, Allan" 2001 4 1 Front-Cover Photo "The Whirlpool Galaxy, M51" "McLaughlin, Bill" 2001 4 8 Spectrum Move Over Harry! "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2001 4 10 Focal Point A Clearing of One's Own "Roohr, Damien" 2001 4 14 Letters Photometry the Old-Fashioned Way "Dunlap, J. Lawrence" 2001 4 14 Letters The Center of the Universe? "Danielson, Dennis" 2001 4 14 Letters Seeing Double "Bartlett, Hugh" 2001 4 16 Letters Young Astronomer Frustrations "Erdman, Earl" 2001 4 16 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago 2001 4 16 Letters Teaching Teachers Astronomy "Bobich, Chuck" 2001 4 16 Letters Tales of Young Astronomers "Barclay-Saxon, Samii" "Collett, Lenka" 2001 4 18 Letters The Power of Pollution "Magee, Mitch" 2001 4 18 Letters What's in a Name? "Rust, Paul D." 2001 4 18 Letters For the Record 2001 4 18 Letters Measuring Night-Sky Brightness "Falchi, Fabio" "Federici, Alessandro" 2001 4 20 News Notes Two Weird New Planetary Systems "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 4 22 News Notes Death Spirals at a Black Hole? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 4 22 News Notes Black Holes Really Are Black "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 4 24 News Notes Future Planetary System of a Massive Star? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 4 26 News Notes Mini-Moons II: Jovian Moon Lost and Found "Goldman, Stuart J." "Tytell, David" 2001 4 26 News Notes Mini-Moons I: Saturn's Irregulars "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 4 27 News Notes Mini-Moons III: 10 More for Jupiter "Tytell, David" 2001 4 27 News Notes Asteroid No. 20000 "Sinnott, Roger W." 2001 4 28 News Notes "Olympus Mons ""Shrinks""" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 4 29 News Notes Follow That Story: Delta Scorpii Still Bright "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 4 29 News Notes Follow That Story: A Pummeling 3.9 Billion Years Ago "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 4 32 Mission Update Pluto Mission "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 4 32 Mission Update Huygens "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 4 32 Mission Update 2001 Mars Odyssey "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 4 34 Feature "Identifying the ""Star"" in a Long-Lost Van Gogh" "Olson, Donald W." "Doescher, Russell L." "Honors Astronomy Class, The Southwest Texas" 2001 4 42 Feature The Future of SETI "Shostak, Seth" 2001 4 48 Feature Box: SETI Searches in 2001 "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 4 50 Feature "Box: A Newer, Smarter SETI Strategy" "Cohen, Nathan" "Hohlfeld, Robert" 2001 4 52 Feature Box: Test Bench for SETI's Radio Future "Shostak, Seth" 2001 4 56 Images "30 Doradus,The Tarantula Nebula" "Chu, You-Hua" "Brandner, Wolfgang" "Grebel, Eva K." 2001 4 59 S&T Test Report Orion's SkyQuest XT4.5 Dobsonian "Beatty, J. Kelly" "Roth, Joshua" 2001 4 63 S&T Test Report Box: Making a Good Scope Better "Seronik, Gary" 2001 4 66 New Product Showcase Starbeam Finder 2001 4 66 New Product Showcase 1-1/4-inch Everbrite Star Diagonal 2001 4 66 New Product Showcase "Century Seasons CD, by John Serrie" 2001 4 68 Software Showcase Redshift 4 2001 4 68 Software Showcase Atlas of the Solar System 2001 4 68 Software Showcase Exploring the Planets 2001 4 70 Books & Beyond "Henry Norris Russell, by David H. DeVorkin" "Batten, Alan H." 2001 4 72 Books & Beyond "Wide-Field Astrophotograpy, by Robert Reeves" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2001 4 73 Books & Beyond "Practical Astrophotography, by Jeffrey R. Charles" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2001 4 74 Books & Beyond "Secrets of the Sun: A Closer Look at Our Star, by Patricia Barnes-Svarney" 2001 4 74 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Scientific American Book of the Cosmos, by David H. Levy" 2001 4 74 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Celestial Harvest, by James Mullaney" 2001 4 74 Books & Beyond "Star Factories: The Birth of Stars and Planets, by Ray Jayawardhana" 2001 4 74 Books & Beyond "Life in Outer Space: The Search for Extraterrestrials, by Kim McDonald" 2001 4 74 Books & Beyond "Signals from Space: The Chandra X-ray Observatory, by Robert Naeye" 2001 4 74 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: StarGuides 2001, by Andre Heck" 2001 4 76 Amateur Astronomers Amid the Treasures of Persia "Simmons, Mike" 2001 4 80 Amateur Astronomers Box: Astronomers Meet in Isfahan "Heyn, Herman M." "Naze, Yael" 2001 4 82 Amateur Astronomers Astronomy Day 2001 "Tomlinson, Gary E." 2001 4 83 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: The Long Orbit of Albert Jones "Levy, David H." 2001 4 86 Rambling Through the Skies With a Bird's-Eye View "Krupp, E. C." 2001 4 90 Guide to the Evening Sky A Season for Stellar Marathons "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 4 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2001 4 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: The Great Rays of Tycho "Seronik, Gary" 2001 4 93 Small-Scope Sampler Stalking the Leo Triplet "French, Sue" 2001 4 95 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in April" "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 4 96 Guide to the Evening Sky Light-Pollution Notes: Light Pollution and Birds: Part 2 "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 4 98 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 4 102 Celestial Calendar Doubles Near Procyon and Hydra "Haas, Sissy" 2001 4 104 Celestial Calendar Outer Planets in 2001 "Sinnott, Roger W." 2001 4 108 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: April Meteors 2001 4 108 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Refraction "Ryan, Jay" 2001 4 108 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Jupiter Almost Moonless 2001 4 108 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Lunar Occultations 2001 4 113 Observer's Log My Favorite Deep-Sky Wonders "Levy, David H." 2001 4 118 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: The Ghost Cat in the Sky "Freeman, Jay Reynolds" 2001 4 121 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Rheita and Snellius: Valleys of Wonder "Wood, Charles A." 2001 4 124 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: An Excellent Eclipse Adventure "Seronik, Gary" 2001 4 128 Telescope Techniques Newtonian Baffling Made Easy "Seronik, Gary" 2001 4 136 Gallery Midwestern Aurora "Wallach, James" 2001 4 136 Gallery Total Lunar Eclipse from Sweden "Ask, Bengt" 2001 4 136 Gallery Glory Photographed from Airplane "Root, Nile" 2001 4 136 Gallery Christmas Partial Solar Eclipse "Sewell, Dave" 2001 4 137 Gallery Orion Nebula "Middleton, Bobby" 2001 4 138 Gallery Spiral Galaxy M81 in Ursa Major "Gendler, Robert" 2001 5 1 Front-Cover Photo 1999 Hubble Composite of Mars 2001 5 8 Spectrum New Kids on the Block "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2001 5 10 Focal Point "A Small Boy's First ""Telescope""" "Tabrah, Frank" 2001 5 14 Letters Looking to the Future "Lowrey, Justin" 2001 5 14 Letters Space Bucks "Kao, Kuo-Chiun" 2001 5 14 Letters Killing Lights with Lasers "Morrow, Mike" 2001 5 14 Letters Purchasing a Piece of the Heavens "Armstrong, Thomas K." 2001 5 16 Letters Untruth in Advertising - I "Roberts, Joe" 2001 5 16 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago 2001 5 16 Letters Untruth in Advertising - III "Dole, Jim" 2001 5 16 Letters Untruth in Advertising - II "Pither, Colin M." 2001 5 18 Letters For the Record 2001 5 18 Letters Parts for the Simple Dark-Sky Meter "Olsen, James" 2001 5 18 Letters A Christmas Present "Galea, Rev. George S." 2001 5 18 Letters Color Corrected "Pasachoff, Jay M." 2001 5 20 News Notes Making the Virtual Observatory Real "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2001 5 21 News Notes Bipolar Splendor "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 5 22 News Notes Not Quite a Solar Twin "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 5 22 News Notes Star Streams from Lost Milky Way Companions "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 5 23 News Notes Radioactive Dating of Stars "Tytell, David" 2001 5 24 News Notes Pulsar Linked to Supernova of A.D. 386 "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2001 5 24 News Notes The First Exo-Solar Wind "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 5 26 News Notes Making Gas Giants Later "Schilling, Govert" 2001 5 27 News Notes "Did ""Survivors"" Create the Oort Cloud?" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 5 27 News Notes "Case for ""Ashen Light"" Weakens" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 5 28 News Notes U.S. Public Wants NASA to Explore Europa and Pluto "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 5 28 News Notes Pluto's Palette "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 5 29 News Notes Follow That Story: Another Clue to the Lack of Antimatter "Roth, Joshua" 2001 5 29 News Notes Follow That Story: Evolution Returns to Kansas "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 5 32 Mission Update Mars Global Surveyor "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 5 32 Mission Update Next Generation Space Telescope "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 5 32 Mission Update Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 5 34 Feature NEAR Falls for Eros "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 5 40 Feature Galileo's Closest Look at Io "Spencer, John" 2001 5 48 Images Eta Carinae Nebula "Walborn, Nolan R." 2001 5 52 S&T Test Report "Five ""Go To"" Telescopes for Beginners" "Dyer, Alan" 2001 5 59 S&T Test Report Box: Tips for Happy Slewing "Dyer, Alan" 2001 5 62 Computers in Astronomy Superior Moments for Inferior Planets "Gingrich, Mark" 2001 5 68 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: The Digital Universe 2.2 "Foust, Jeff" 2001 5 70 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Astronomy in the Sunshine State "Goldman, Stuart J." 2001 5 72 Software Showcase The Simple Observing Log 2001 5 72 Software Showcase Solar System Sim 2.0.1 2001 5 72 Software Showcase Helio 2.0 2001 5 75 Books & Beyond "The Hatfield Photographic Lunar Atlas, by Jeremy Cook, ed." "Wood, Charles A." 2001 5 75 Books & Beyond "Observing the Moon: The Modern Astronomer's Guide, by Gerald North" "Wood, Charles A." 2001 5 75 Books & Beyond "Atlas of the Lunar Terminator, by John E. Westfall" "Wood, Charles A." 2001 5 75 Books & Beyond "Observing the Moon, by Peter T. Wlasuk" "Wood, Charles A." 2001 5 75 Books & Beyond "The Face of the Moon: A Descriptive Guide, by Joseph Cohen" "Wood, Charles A." 2001 5 78 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Celestial Sphere, by Robert Dick" 2001 5 78 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Universe Unveiled: Instruments and Images Through History, by Stephenson, Bolt, and Friedman" 2001 5 78 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: AstroFAQs, by Stephen F. Tonkin" 2001 5 78 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Cosmos in the Classroom 2000, by Andrew Fraknoi, ed." 2001 5 78 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: StarGaze: Hubble's View of the Universe (DVD-ROM) 2001 5 78 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe, by Mark Voit" 2001 5 78 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Cambridge Guide to Stargazing with Your Telescope, by Robin Scagell" 2001 5 80 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: Arthur C. Clarke's Vision of the Cosmos "Levy, David H." 2001 5 86 Rambling Through the Skies Dropping In "Krupp, E. C." 2001 5 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Stargazing at the Spica Hour "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 5 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2001 5 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: In and Around Melotte 111 "Seronik, Gary" 2001 5 93 Small-Scope Sampler A Toehold in the Virgo Cluster "French, Sue" 2001 5 95 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in May" "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 5 96 Guide to the Evening Sky Light-Pollution Notes: Limiting Tower Lighting "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 5 98 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 5 102 Celestial Calendar A Grand Return of Mars "Troiani, Daniel M." 2001 5 104 Celestial Calendar Box: A Mars Observer's Calendar "Troiani, Daniel M." 2001 5 106 Celestial Calendar Box: Which Side Is Visible? "Troiani, Daniel M." 2001 5 110 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultation 2001 5 110 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Declination "Ryan, Jay" 2001 5 110 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: May Meteors 2001 5 115 Observer's Log The Martian-Flares Mystery "Dobbins, Thomas" "Sheehan, William" 2001 5 124 Observer's Log "Deep-Sky Notebook: More Bridges, Tails and Rings" "Jakiel, Richard" 2001 5 127 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: A Privately Held Mare "Wood, Charles A." 2001 5 130 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: More Boltwood "Seronik, Gary" 2001 5 130 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Above and Beyond "Seronik, Gary" 2001 5 132 Astro Imaging Automated Meteor Observing "Molau, Sirko" 2001 5 137 Astro Imaging An Aerial Rendezvous with the Leonids "Okamura, Osamu" 2001 5 140 Gallery Van den Bergh 142 in Cepheus "McLaughlin, William" 2001 5 140 Gallery Barnard's Loop "Mandel, Steve" 2001 5 140 Gallery Young Crescent Moon "Pitt, Stephen" 2001 5 141 Gallery Rosette Nebula "Gendler, Robert" 2001 5 141 Gallery Spiral Galaxy M74 "Gendler, Robert" 2001 5 141 Gallery Witch Head Nebula in Eridanus "Stevens, Gary L." 2001 5 142 Gallery Pelican Nebula "Rhemann, Gerald" 2001 5 142 Gallery Christmas Eclipse and the U.S. Capitol "Wachs, Tom" 2001 5 142 Gallery Helix Nebula "Hanon, David" 2001 5 142 Gallery Lunar Eclipse Mosaic "Dal Lago, Giovanni" 2001 6 1 Front-Cover Photo Peculiar Galaxy NGC 5128 2001 6 8 Spectrum It's Party Time! "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2001 6 10 Focal Point "Observing Log: October 2, 1998" "Anderson, Jim" 2001 6 14 Letters Lasting Impressions "Rao, Joe" 2001 6 14 Letters International Lighting Laws "Falchi, Fabio" 2001 6 15 Letters Take Back the Skies "Kaville, Ray" 2001 6 16 Letters A Lonely Future "Dryer, Ivan" 2001 6 16 Letters A Gift That Speaks Volumes "Land, William O." 2001 6 16 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago 2001 6 18 Letters Crime and Lighting "Roller, Tom" 2001 6 18 Letters Observing on Shaky Ground "Shylaja, B. S." 2001 6 18 Letters For the Record 2001 6 18 Letters An Underappreciated Beauty "Adler, Alan" 2001 6 20 News Notes An Early Universe Lit by Black Holes "Tytell, David" 2001 6 21 News Notes Subtleties of Spiral Galaxies "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 6 22 News Notes The Nearest Very Cool Dwarf "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 6 22 News Notes Eroded Stars Found Orbiting White Dwarfs "Goldman, Stuart J." 2001 6 23 News Notes Students Catch the First Radio Brown Dwarf "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2001 6 23 News Notes Comet Hale-Bopp Still Alive in the Distance "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2001 6 24 News Notes A Medieval Impact Debunked "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 6 24 News Notes Magnetite Chains Hint at Martian Microbes "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 6 26 News Notes Impact Evidence for the Biggest Mass Extinction "Tytell, David" 2001 6 26 News Notes When Was Solar Max? "Tytell, David" 2001 6 26 News Notes One Rock Killed the Dinosaurs "Tytell, David" 2001 6 28 News Notes First Fringes for the Keck and VLT Interferometers "MacRobert, Alan M." "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2001 6 29 News Notes Tagish Lake Meteorite Mystery Deepens "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 6 32 Mission Update Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 6 32 Mission Update Odin "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 6 32 Mission Update Mir "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 6 34 Feature The Race to Epsilon Eridani "Schilling, Govert" 2001 6 44 Images M51 and NGC 5195 "Canzian, Blaise" 2001 6 47 S&T Test Report IDAS Light Pollution Suppression Filters "Horne, Johnny" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2001 6 50 S&T Test Report Celestron NexStar 4 GT "Seronik, Gary" 2001 6 56 New Product Showcase Astele Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescopes 2001 6 56 New Product Showcase YES Watch 2001 6 56 New Product Showcase Guide to North American Meteorites 2001 6 58 Computers in Astronomy Java Applets for Astronomy "Ashford, Adrian R." 2001 6 60 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: STD Aurora Monitor 2.0 "Ratledge, David" 2001 6 62 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: On the Eclipse Trail "Goldman, Stuart J." 2001 6 64 Software Showcase CCDPRo 2001 6 64 Software Showcase PalmAtlas 1.0 2001 6 64 Software Showcase GraphDark 2001 6 66 Books & Beyond "Transit: When Planets Cross the Sun, by Michael Maunder and Patrick Moore" "Westfall, John E." 2001 6 66 Books & Beyond "June 8, 2004: Venus in Transit, by Eli Maor" "Westfall, John E." 2001 6 68 Books & Beyond "The Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing, by Richard Berry and James Burnell" "Szymanek, Nik" 2001 6 70 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Star Struck: One Thousand Years of the Art and Science of Astronomy, by Ronald Brashear and Daniel Lewis" 2001 6 70 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Sky Atlas 2000.0 Companion, by Robert A. Strong and Roger W. Sinnott" 2001 6 70 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Life Beyond Earth, by Timothy Ferris" 2001 6 70 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium, by the National Research Council" 2001 6 70 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Cambridge Dictionary of Astronomy, by Jaqueline Mitton" 2001 6 70 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Origin of the Earth and Moon, by Robin M. Canup and Kevin Righter, eds." 2001 6 70 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics Vol. 38, by Burbidge, Sandage, and Shu, eds. " 2001 6 74 Amateur Astronomers Longfellow: Voice of the Night "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2001 6 78 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: A Marriage of Science and Art "Levy, David H." 2001 6 85 Rambling Through the Skies Celestial Awe and Alignments in 2001 "Krupp, E. C." 2001 6 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Old Polestars and the Dragon's Eye "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 6 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2001 6 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: R Cor Bor's Vanishing Act "Seronik, Gary" 2001 6 93 Small-Scope Sampler Polar Nights "French, Sue" 2001 6 95 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in June" "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 6 96 Guide to the Evening Sky The Near Sky: A Ghostly Anthelion 2001 6 98 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 6 100 Celestial Calendar Rare Flyby of 1999 KW4 "Sinnott, Roger W." 2001 6 102 Celestial Calendar The Demon Sprites of Mars "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2001 6 104 Celestial Calendar Box: An Uncanny Prediction "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2001 6 105 Celestial Calendar The June 21st Eclipse of the Sun "Sinnott, Roger W." 2001 6 108 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Southern Hemisphere Comet 2001 6 109 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultations 2001 6 110 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Green Flash "Ryan, Jay" 2001 6 112 Observer's Log James Dunlop: Messier of the Southern Sky "Cozens, Glen" "White, Graeme L." 2001 6 117 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Snaring Galaxies Near M13 "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2001 6 120 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Serene Craters "Wood, Charles A." 2001 6 122 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: International Space Station with a Webcam "di Cicco, Dennis" 2001 6 125 Telescope Techniques Readers Ask: Power and Alignment "Seronik, Gary" 2001 6 128 Gallery Nebula IC 2948 in Centaurus "Stecker, Michael" 2001 6 128 Gallery Spiral Galaxy NGC 2997 "Juchnowski, Steven" 2001 6 129 Gallery Barred-Spiral Galaxy NGC 1808 "Juchnowski, Steven" 2001 6 129 Gallery All-Sky Milky-Way from West Malaysia "Toh, Michael" 2001 6 130 Gallery Eta Carinae Nebula "Sefick, John" 2001 6 131 Gallery Spiral Galaxy NGC 253 in Sculptor "Brewer, Randy" 2001 6 131 Gallery Nebula NGC 1763 in LMC "Juchnowski, Steven" 2001 6 131 Gallery Southern Scorpius "Dodd, Luke" 2001 6 132 Gallery Star Cluster NGC 1850 in LMC "Juchnowski, Steven" 2001 6 132 Gallery Galaxies NGC 1531 and NGC 1532 2001 7 1 Front-Cover Photo Flame Nebula in Orion 2001 7 8 Spectrum The Great Myth "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2001 7 10 Focal Point The Accuracy of the Press "Schaefer, Bradley E." 2001 7 14 Letters Cutting Commentaries - I "Vernier, Richard" 2001 7 14 Letters Cutting Commentaries - II "Urban, Josh" 2001 7 16 Letters Cutting Commentaries - Reply "Roohr, Damien" 2001 7 16 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago 2001 7 16 Letters Cutting Commentaries - III "Winfree, Art T." 2001 7 16 Letters Cutting Commentaries - V "Simpson, John" 2001 7 16 Letters Underwater Observing "Schaeffer, Harden" 2001 7 16 Letters Cutting Commentaries - IV "Sutherland, Michael" 2001 7 18 Letters We Smell a Rat "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2001 7 18 Letters For The Record 2001 7 18 Letters The Velveteen Telescope "Brown, Chris" 2001 7 18 Letters Some Pennies for Your Thoughts "Lyons, Randy" 2001 7 20 News Notes Farthest Supernova Clinches Case for Accelerating Universe "Roth, Joshua" 2001 7 21 News Notes Evidence of Cosmic Speedup "Roth, Joshua" 2001 7 22 News Notes The Stage Is Set for FAME "Sinnott, Roger W." 2001 7 22 News Notes The Best Star Catalog Ever "Sinnott, Roger W." 2001 7 24 News Notes A Brown Dwarf and Planet Combo "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 7 24 News Notes Disputed Weird Worlds Among 11 New Exoplanets "MacRobert, Alan M." "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 7 26 News Notes Why Is Mars Red? "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 7 26 News Notes Other Ways To Make Martian Gullies "Tytell, David" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 7 28 News Notes Ganymede's Hidden Ocean "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 7 28 News Notes Follow That Story: Eta Carinae's Binary Orbit "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 7 28 News Notes A Kuiper Belt Binary "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 7 28 News Notes Follow That Story: Gold from Them Thar Neutron Stars "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 7 28 News Notes Follow That Story: Why No Planets in 47 Tucanae? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 7 32 Mission Update Galileo "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 7 32 Mission Update 2001 Mars Odyssey "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 7 32 Mission Update National Aeronautics and Space Administration "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 7 33 Mission Update Pioneer 10 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 7 34 Feature 2MASS: Unveiling the Infrared Universe "Skrutskie, Michael" 2001 7 38 Feature Box: How 2MASS Surveyed the Sky "Skrutskie, Michael" 2001 7 44 Feature A New Century for Asteroids "Binzel, Richard P." 2001 7 49 Feature Box: Celebrating Ceres at 200 "Robinson, Leif J." 2001 7 52 Images Infrared and Radio Composite of Region in Cygnus "English, Jayanne" "Taylor, A. Russell" 2001 7 55 S&T Test Report Meade LX90 "di Cicco, Dennis" 2001 7 61 S&T Test Report Box: LX90 or NexStar 8? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2001 7 65 Computers in Astronomy Star Catalogs for the 21st Century "Ashford, Adrian R." 2001 7 68 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: RedShift 4 "Heafner, Joe" 2001 7 70 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Some Funny Stuff "Goldman, Stuart J." 2001 7 72 Software Showcase The Planets 2.0 2001 7 72 Software Showcase Celestia 2001 7 72 Software Showcase Galaxy Collider 2001 7 74 Books & Beyond "Percival Lowell: The Culture and Science of a Boston Brahmin, by David Strauss" "Osterbrock, Donald E." 2001 7 76 Books & Beyond "Video Astronomy, by Steve Massey, Thomas A. Dobbins, and Eric J. Douglass" "Macfarlane, Alan W." 2001 7 79 Amateur Astronomers A Gift of the Universe "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2001 7 82 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: The Street-Corner Astronomer "Levy, David H." 2001 7 86 Rambling Through the Skies Horse Sense "Krupp, E. C." 2001 7 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Scorpius and a Little Night Music "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 7 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2001 7 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: A False Comet "Seronik, Gary" 2001 7 93 Small-Scope Sampler Overlooked Neighbors "French, Sue" 2001 7 95 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in July" "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 7 96 Guide to the Evening Sky The Near Sky: Special Summer Rainbows "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 7 98 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 7 100 Celestial Calendar The Crescent Moon Hides Venus "Sinnott, Roger W." "Gingrich, Mark" 2001 7 103 Celestial Calendar A Partial Lunar Eclipse for the Far East "Sinnott, Roger W." 2001 7 106 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultation 2001 7 106 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: July Meteors 2001 7 106 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Ceres in the Teapot 2001 7 106 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Coriolis "Ryan, Jay" 2001 7 111 Observer's Log More Pretty Doubles "Adler, Alan" 2001 7 114 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: A Chain of Galaxies Near M92 "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2001 7 116 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Apollo 15 and Hadley Rille "Wood, Charles A." 2001 7 120 Telescope Techniques An Attractive Three-Point Dobsonian "Milsom, Francis" 2001 7 127 Astro Imaging High-Resolution Composite Color Imaging with Films "Gupta, Rajiv" 2001 7 133 Astro Imaging Color CCD Imaging with Luminance Layering "Gendler, Robert" 2001 7 140 Gallery "Heart Nebula, IC 1805" "BenDaniel, Matt" 2001 7 140 Gallery Winter Milky Way "Lorenzi, Marco" "Zaggia, Luca" 2001 7 141 Gallery Spiral Galaxy M101 "Gendler, Robert" 2001 7 141 Gallery Delta Scorpii and Mars "Fujii, Akira" 2001 7 142 Gallery Nebula IC 443 in Gemini "Wright, Cliff" 2001 8 1 Front-Cover Photo Moon's Southern Highlands "Lau, Canon" 2001 8 8 Spectrum Cosmologic Illogic "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2001 8 10 Focal Point Telescopes I Have Known and Loved "Roth, Joshua" 2001 8 12 Letters A Mooving Experience "Bliss, Frank" 2001 8 12 Letters Fire in the Sky "Leach, Sid" 2001 8 12 Letters First Light "Borders, Craig" 2001 8 14 Letters A Night with an Old Friend "Taylor, Chuck" 2001 8 14 Letters The Future of Astronomy? "Bemus, Tom" 2001 8 14 Letters For the Record 2001 8 14 Letters Revisiting Venus "Maor, Eli" 2001 8 16 Letters More Celestial Currency "Tatum, Jeremy B." 2001 8 16 Letters Rediscovering a Poet "Johnson, Duane" 2001 8 16 Letters Last Laugh "Epstein, Lewis Carroll" 2001 8 18 News Notes The New Cosmology Firms Up "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 8 19 News Notes Horsehead by Hubble "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 8 19 News Notes The Double Cluster Really is Double "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 8 20 News Notes The Biggest-Ever Cosmic Map "Roth, Joshua" 2001 8 20 News Notes White Dwarfs As Dark Matter "Schilling, Govert" 2001 8 22 News Notes Stars with Planets I: Telltale Heavy Elements "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 8 22 News Notes Stars with Planets II: Swallowed Worlds "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 8 23 News Notes Stars with Planets III: Clues from Planetary Nebulae "Tytell, David" 2001 8 24 News Notes Iridium Satellites Get New Lease on Life "Roth, Joshua" 2001 8 24 News Notes Stars with Planets IV: Most Earths are Old "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 8 26 News Notes Millisecond-Pulsar Bonanza in a Globular Cluster "Schilling, Govert" 2001 8 26 News Notes No Central Black Hole "Schilling, Govert" 2001 8 28 News Notes Follow That Story: Refining the Cosmic Deuterium Assay "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 8 28 News Notes Stellafane Gets Lighting Reprieve "di Cicco, Dennis" 2001 8 28 News Notes Follow That Story: The Fate of the Earth "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 8 28 News Notes Earth from Mars Odyssey "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 8 30 Mission Update Lunar A "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 8 30 Mission Update Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 8 30 Mission Update Selene "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 8 30 Mission Update Beagle 2 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 8 32 Feature Taking the Pulse of Neutron Stars "Maurer, Stephen M." 2001 8 36 Feature Box: Strange Doomsdays "Maurer, Stephen M." 2001 8 40 Feature Sharing Mauna Kea "Tytell, David" 2001 8 46 Feature Box: History Repeated: Sharing Mount Graham "Tytell, David" 2001 8 52 Images Fox Fur Nebula "Malin, David F." 2001 8 55 S&T Test Report The Astrovid Color PlanetCam "Horne, Johnny" 2001 8 59 S&T Test Report Box: Fine Focus with a Twist "Roth, Joshua" 2001 8 60 New Product Showcase Sky Window 2001 8 60 New Product Showcase StarDust Containers 2001 8 60 New Product Showcase Sky/View 360 Astro-Observatory 2001 8 62 Computers in Astronomy Another Look at Cosmic Distances "Weil, Thomas A." 2001 8 68 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Ephemeris Tool 4.3 "Medkeff, Jeff" 2001 8 70 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Back to BASICs "Goldman, Stuart J." 2001 8 72 Software Showcase SKY:Lab 2001 8 72 Software Showcase XEphem 2001 8 72 Software Showcase AstroStack 2001 8 75 Books & Beyond "Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, by Paul Murdin, ed." "Robinson, Leif J." 2001 8 78 Books & Beyond "Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos, by Alan W. Hirshfeld" "Gatewood, George D." 2001 8 80 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Amateur-Professional Partnerships in Astronomy, by John R. Percy and Joseph B. Wilson, eds." 2001 8 80 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Little Book of Stars, by James B. Kaler" 2001 8 80 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Bigger Bang, by James E. Lidsey" 2001 8 80 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Trained Sky Star Atlas, by Leon Palmer" 2001 8 80 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Taking Science to the Moon, by Donald A. Beattie" 2001 8 80 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Wishing on a Star, by Fran Lee" 2001 8 80 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations, by Brian McConnell" 2001 8 83 Amateur Astronomers A Decade of Celebrating Astronomy in the Northeast "Ashford, Adrian R." 2001 8 84 Amateur Astronomers Box: Behind the Scenes with the Rockland Astronomy Club "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2001 8 86 Amateur Astronomers Box: The Northeast Astronomy Forum's Pillar "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2001 8 88 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: Clyde Tombaugh's Window to the Stars "Levy, David H." 2001 8 92 Rambling Through the Skies Hollywood Star "Krupp, E. C." 2001 8 98 Guide to the Evening Sky Sagittarius and a Symphony of Stars "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 8 99 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2001 8 100 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: IC 4756 In Serpens "Seronik, Gary" 2001 8 101 Small-Scope Sampler The Clusters of Taurus Poniatovii "French, Sue" 2001 8 103 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in August" "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 8 104 Guide to the Evening Sky Light-Pollution Notes: Regional Organizations "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 8 106 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 8 108 Celestial Calendar Perseid Prospects for 2001 "Sinnott, Roger W." 2001 8 110 Celestial Calendar Jupiter's Close Encounter with the Moon "Sinnott, Roger W." 2001 8 113 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: A Star Near Mars 2001 8 113 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Callisto's Phenomena Resume 2001 8 113 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultation 2001 8 114 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Gray Nebulae "Ryan, Jay" 2001 8 116 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Lyra As a Deep-Sky Sampler "Whitman, Alan" 2001 8 118 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Wargentin and Schickard "Wood, Charles A." 2001 8 120 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: The Red Planet "di Cicco, Dennis" 2001 8 120 Observer's Log "Observer's Notebook: Late ""Breaking"" News" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2001 8 121 Observer's Log "Observer's Notebook: ""Triton Watch"" Under Way" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2001 8 124 Telescope Techniques Texas Slim: A Multipurpose Binocular Mount "Leonberger, George" 2001 8 128 Astro Imaging Astro Imaging with Digital Cameras "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2001 8 130 Astro Imaging Box: Afocal What? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2001 8 138 Gallery Mammoth Sunspot Complex "Utter, Craig Michael" 2001 8 138 Gallery "Aurora over Skagway, Alaska" "Klensch, Michael" "Heinselman, Craig" 2001 8 139 Gallery Horsehead and Orion Nebulae "Ware, Jason" 2001 8 140 Gallery Moonbow "BenDaniel, Matt" 2001 8 140 Gallery Galaxies M81 and M82 "Gendler, Robert" 2001 9 1 Front-Cover Photo Galaxy Cluster Abell 2218 2001 9 8 Spectrum Three Nights on Mars "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2001 9 10 Focal Point The Lost Stars "Haworth, Peter N. J." 2001 9 12 Letters Crazy for Craterlets "Tung, Brian" 2001 9 12 Letters An Unlikely Tour Guide "Stout, R. William" 2001 9 12 Letters A Really Heavyweight Mount "Robinson, Micah" 2001 9 14 Letters Surprising Discoveries "Leidt, Hans-Jurgen" 2001 9 14 Letters Go To or Not Go To "Mathers, David" 2001 9 14 Letters Falsely Accused "Gould, Ross" 2001 9 16 Letters Type II Quasars Revisited "Hines, Dean C." 2001 9 16 Letters A Lesson Learned "Covington, Michael A." 2001 9 16 Letters Unsung Heroes "Farquhar, Robert W." 2001 9 16 Letters For the Record 2001 9 16 Letters What Has Two Mirrors and Flies? "Morris, Randy" 2001 9 18 News Notes Solar-Neutrino Problem Solved "MacRobert, Alan M." "Tytell, David" 2001 9 19 News Notes Mira's Companion "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 9 20 News Notes Sloan Survey Shows Its Stuff "Tytell, David" 2001 9 21 News Notes Mapping Mass in 3-D Space "Downey, Philip" "Tytell, David" 2001 9 21 News Notes Sloan at Your Fingertips: The SDSS SkyServer "Tytell, David" 2001 9 22 News Notes Two Types of Spirals "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 9 24 News Notes Far-Out Kuiper-Belt Object Confounds Dynamicists "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 9 24 News Notes "Brown Dwarfs with Circum""stellar"" Disks" "Tytell, David" 2001 9 25 News Notes Landmark Light-Pollution Law "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 9 26 News Notes Stuff of Life from Irradiated Ice "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 9 27 News Notes Oblate Altair "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 9 30 Mission Update Hubble Space Telescope "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 9 30 Mission Update Deep Impact "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 9 30 Mission Update HST Servicing Mission 3B "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 9 30 Mission Update Galileo "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 9 32 Feature The Universe Through Gravity's Lens "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2001 9 42 Feature A Wide Deep Field: Getting the Big Picture "Tytell, David" 2001 9 46 Images Sunset on Jupiter "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 9 49 S&T Test Report A Dob for the Deep Sky "Ashford, Adrian R." 2001 9 54 New Product Showcase Universal Camera Mounting Adapter 2001 9 54 New Product Showcase Astronomy Edition of Monopoly 2001 9 54 New Product Showcase Laser Collimation Tools 2001 9 56 Books & Beyond Einstein's Brainchild: Relativity Made Relatively Easy! by Barry Parker "Reed, Frank E." 2001 9 56 Books & Beyond "Relativity for Windows, by Hans-Josef Patt and Peter Nemec" "Reed, Frank E." 2001 9 56 Books & Beyond "Maxwell's Conundrum: A Serious but Not Ponderous Book About Relativity, by Walter Scheider" "Reed, Frank E." 2001 9 59 Books & Beyond "Einstein's Unfinished Symphony, by Marcia Bartusiak" "Phinney, E. Sterl" 2001 9 60 Books & Beyond "Time Travel in Einstein's Universe, by J. Richard Gott" 2001 9 60 Books & Beyond "Einstein: Decoding the Universe, by Francoise Balibar" 2001 9 66 Amateur Astronomers "Amateur Astronomy in Russia: Past, Present, and Future" "Maslikov, Sergey" 2001 9 73 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: Crescent City Astronomers "Levy, David H." 2001 9 77 Rambling Through the Skies Europing the Bull "Krupp, E. C." 2001 9 82 Guide to the Evening Sky Early Sky-Signs of Autumn "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 9 83 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2001 9 84 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: A Colorful Cygnus Triple "Seronik, Gary" 2001 9 85 Small-Scope Sampler Skirting the Scutum Starcloud "French, Sue" 2001 9 87 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in September" "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 9 88 Guide to the Evening Sky The Near Sky: Readying for Auroras "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 9 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 9 93 Celestial Calendar Saturn's Vanishing Act "Ashford, Adrian R." 2001 9 95 Celestial Calendar Titania Hides a Bright Star "Sinnott, Roger W." 2001 9 98 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Callisto's First Eclipse 2001 9 98 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: September Meteors 2001 9 98 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultation 2001 9 102 Observer's Log Taking Your Telescope to the Limit "Skiff, Brian A." 2001 9 105 Observer's Log A Trio of Deep-Sky Duos "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2001 9 108 Observer's Log Julius Caesar and the Haemus Mountains "Wood, Charles A." 2001 9 110 Observer's Log Darkness on the Dark Continent "di Cicco, Dennis" 2001 9 112 Observer's Log Mars Flares in Florida "Seronik, Gary" 2001 9 114 Telescope Techniques The Hargreaves Strut "Dobbins, Thomas A." 2001 9 116 Astro Imaging Fixing Vignetting in Astrophotos "Walker, Sean" 2001 9 124 Gallery Splendor of the Southern Milky Way "Yan, James Tse" 2001 9 124 Gallery Sunspot Parade "Slawik, Eckhard" 2001 9 125 Gallery NGC 2442 "Juchnowski, Steven" 2001 9 125 Gallery Crescent Venus "Comolli, Lorenzo" 2001 9 125 Gallery Mediterranean Aurora "Feyte, Pierre-Paul" 2001 9 125 Gallery First-Quarter Moon "Bonduelle, Etienne" 2001 9 126 Gallery The Maffei Galaxies "Ratledge, David" "Bramall, Gerald" 2001 10 1 Front-Cover Photo Star Trails over Gemini North 2001 10 8 Spectrum "My Hero, the Tyrant" "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2001 10 10 Focal Point The Lost Stars - II "Sincell, Mark" 2001 10 12 Letters Star-Hoppin' to an Asteroid "Castle, Paul R." 2001 10 12 Letters I Spy a Space Station "Hudgens, Ben" 2001 10 14 Letters "I Fought the Rock, and the Rock Won" "Ferrin, Ignacio" 2001 10 14 Letters A SWAN Flying High "Robson, Monty" 2001 10 14 Letters Now That's Speeding! "Sewell, Alan E." 2001 10 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago 2001 10 16 Letters Astronomy Musings of a New Father "Jablonowski, Mark M." 2001 10 16 Letters "The Price of ""Star""dom - II" "Alexander, Bob" 2001 10 16 Letters For the Record 2001 10 16 Letters "The Price of ""Star""dom - I" "Holliday, Bill" 2001 10 18 News Notes Fountains of Chondrules from the Sun's Cloudy Birth "Beatty, J. Kelly" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 10 19 News Notes Why Does Venus Spin Backward? "Tytell, David" 2001 10 20 News Notes Barely Stable Planetary Systems "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 10 20 News Notes A Young Globular Cluster in the LMC "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 10 21 News Notes No Planet Found at Barnard's Star "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 10 22 News Notes A Star Cluster Awash in X-rays "Tytell, David" 2001 10 22 News Notes Windblown Waves on a Striking Nebular Sea "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 10 24 News Notes Listening to Alpha Centauri's Heartbeat "Tytell, David" 2001 10 26 News Notes Moon Sheds Light on Earth's Climate "Goldman, Stuart J." 2001 10 26 News Notes Billions of Comets Orbit a Dying Star "Schilling, Govert" 2001 10 28 Mission Update Microwave Anisotropy Probe "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 10 28 Mission Update Spektr-Rontgen-Gamma "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 10 28 Mission Update Messenger "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 10 30 Feature Adaptive Optics Comes of Age "Schilling, Govert" 2001 10 34 Feature Box: Cultivating AO: The Center for Adaptive Optics "Schilling, Govert" 2001 10 35 Feature Box: A Sharper Sun "Schilling, Govert" 2001 10 37 Feature Box: Rubber Secondaries "Schilling, Govert" 2001 10 42 Feature Mission Possible: The Promise of Pisgah "Goldman, Stuart J." 2001 10 48 Images Infrared View of Sharpless 106 "Shepherd, Debra" 2001 10 51 S&T Test Report William Optics Megrez 80 Refractor "Dyer, Alan" 2001 10 56 New Product Showcase Pier-Tech Adjustable-Height Supports 2001 10 56 New Product Showcase Peterson Engineering EyeOpener 2001 10 56 New Product Showcase Star Tek Industries 3N1 Tray 2001 10 58 Computers in Astronomy A Trio for Minor-Planet Observers "Medkeff, Jeff" 2001 10 62 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Atlas of the Solar System "Foust, Jeff" 2001 10 64 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Dealing with Online Einsteins "Goldman, Stuart J." 2001 10 66 Software Showcase Our Fantastic Universe 2001 10 66 Software Showcase The Fourth Day 2001 10 66 Software Showcase Astronomer's Control Program 2 2001 10 69 Books & Beyond "Great Comets, by Robert Burnham" "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2001 10 69 Books & Beyond "Comet Science, by Jacques Crovisier and Therese Encranaz" "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2001 10 72 Books & Beyond "Guides to the Night Sky: Audio Tours of the Heaven's Above, by Benjamin J. Senson" "Deans, Paul" 2001 10 73 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Catalogue of Meteorites, 5th Edition, by Monica Grady" 2001 10 73 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Observations of Comets from B.C. 611 to A.D. 1640, Translated from the Chinese Annals, by John Williams" 2001 10 73 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The First Asteroid: Ceres 1801-2001, by Clifford J. Cunningham" 2001 10 76 Amateur Astronomers The Stars Through the Eyes of the Dragon "Wai-Kin Ng, Eric" 2001 10 78 Amateur Astronomers Box: A Pioneer Hong Kong Amateur "Wai-Kin Ng, Eric" 2001 10 81 Amateur Astronomers Comet Award Winners 2001 10 82 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: A Unique Observatory "Levy, David H." 2001 10 86 Rambling Through the Skies Unlimited Ceiling "Krupp, E. C." 2001 10 90 Guide to the Evening Sky In Search of the Sea Goat "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 10 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2001 10 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: Messier 2 Shining Through "Seronik, Gary" 2001 10 93 Small-Scope Sampler A Fish Tail to Get Your Goat "French, Sue" 2001 10 95 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in October" "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 10 96 Guide to the Evening Sky Light-Pollution Notes: Recent Victories "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 10 98 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 10 100 Celestial Calendar The Quest for Elusive Moons "Sinnott, Roger W." 2001 10 102 Celestial Calendar Box: Where to Look for a Planet's Moons "Sinnott, Roger W." 2001 10 103 Celestial Calendar Update on Titania's Occultation "Sinnott, Roger W." 2001 10 106 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultations 2001 10 106 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Driving Space "Ryan, Jay" 2001 10 108 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: October Meteors 2001 10 110 Observer's Log My Favorite Deep-Sky Objects "Freeman, Jay Reynolds" 2001 10 115 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: A Tour of Extragalactic Globulars "Jakiel, Richard" 2001 10 118 Observer's Log "Lunar Notebook: Sabine, Ritter, and Dionysius" "Wood, Charles A." 2001 10 119 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Double Disappearing Act "di Cicco, Dennis" 2001 10 122 Telescope Techniques Downsizing Newtonian Secondary Mirrors "Pfannenschmidt, Ernie" 2001 10 124 Telescope Techniques Box: More Uses for Relay Lenses "Seronik, Gary" 2001 10 128 Gallery Eclipse Sequence "Legault, Thierry" 2001 10 128 Gallery June 21st Solar Eclipse Crescent "Bruenjes, Fred" 2001 10 128 Gallery June 21st Eclipse "Carlos, Wendy" "Kern, Jonathan" 2001 10 128 Gallery Celestial Diamond Ring "Guertin, Jacques" 2001 10 130 Gallery June 21st Eclipse and Jupiter "Espenak, Fred" 2001 10 130 Gallery Comet LINEAR at Lake Titicaca "Mirot, Max" "Tanner, Roger" "Close, Brian" 2001 10 131 Gallery June 21st Eclipse Prominence "Legault, Thierry" 2001 10 131 Gallery Faces of Mars "Massey, Steve" 2001 10 131 Gallery Venus Time Lapse Composite "Tezel, Tunc" 2001 10 132 Gallery The Moon in Shadow "Anderson, Peter E." 2001 11 1 Front-Cover Photo The Crescent Nebula "Gendler, Robert" 2001 11 8 Spectrum Sixty Years and Counting... "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2001 11 10 Focal Point Escape from the Armchair "Lally, Raymond" 2001 11 12 Letters Point and Shoot - II "Donnelly, Joey" 2001 11 12 Letters Revisiting Mauna Kea - II "Dutch, Steven I." 2001 11 12 Letters I Saw the Great Pumpkin! "Marks, Joel" 2001 11 12 Letters Point and Shoot - I "DeMidio, Rich" 2001 11 12 Letters Revisiting Mauna Kea - I "Milledge, Robert D." 2001 11 14 Letters In Praise of Small Scopes "Hamer, Martijn" 2001 11 14 Letters For the Record 2001 11 14 Letters Greetings from Turkey "Kalfaoglu, Turgut" 2001 11 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago 2001 11 16 News Notes A Better Fix on Gamma-Ray Bursts "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 11 17 News Notes A Warped Edge-on Galaxy "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 11 18 News Notes Time Bomb in Scorpius "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 11 18 News Notes How Miras Vary "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 11 19 News Notes Looking Toward the Dark Age "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 11 20 News Notes The Source of the Milky Way's X-rays "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 11 20 News Notes An Asteroid Belt Like Our Own? "Tytell, David" 2001 11 22 News Notes Dust Storm Clouds Out Mars "Tytell, David" 2001 11 23 News Notes Daylight Meteor Lights the Northeast "Beatty, J. Kelly" "Tytell, David" 2001 11 23 News Notes The Origin of Brown Dwarfs "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 11 24 News Notes Antique-Instrument Market Heats Up "Sinnott, Roger W." 2001 11 25 News Notes "Fred Hoyle, 1915-2001" "Tytell, David" 2001 11 28 Mission Update KORONAS-F "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 11 28 Mission Update Genesis "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 11 28 Mission Update Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 11 30 Feature Sixty Years of Hindsight "Robinson, Leif J." 2001 11 35 Feature Box: No Identity Crisis "di Cicco, Dennis" 2001 11 38 Feature The Race to Measure the Cosmos "Hirshfeld, Alan W." 2001 11 48 Feature The Star Too Tough to Die "Kerber, Florian" "Asplund, Martin" 2001 11 54 Images Starbirth Cloud RCW 108 in Ara "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2001 11 57 S&T Test Report Two Ultrasensitive CCD Cameras "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2001 11 63 Computers in Astronomy Stellar Guides for Your Birthday "Farinacci, Jeff A." 2001 11 67 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Pocket Universe 2000 3.0.2 "Ratledge, David" 2001 11 70 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Permission Policing "Goldman, Stuart J." 2001 11 74 Software Showcase Lunar 1.2 2001 11 74 Software Showcase Solscape 1.0.1 2001 11 74 Software Showcase NexStar Observer List 2001 11 77 Books & Beyond "Field Guide to the Deep Sky Objects, by Mike Inglis" "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2001 11 77 Books & Beyond "Deep Sky Observing: The Astronomical Tourist, by Steven R. Coe" "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2001 11 77 Books & Beyond "The Deep-Sky Observer's Year, by Grant Privett and Paul Parsons" "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2001 11 80 Books & Beyond "Revealing the Universe, by Wallace Tucker and Karen Tucker" "Tytell, David" 2001 11 82 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: New Cosmic Horizons, by David Leverington" 2001 11 82 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Southern Sky Guide, by David Ellyard and Wil Tirion" 2001 11 82 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Sacred Geometry, by Miranda Lundy" 2001 11 82 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Taking Science to the Moon, by Donald A. Beattie" 2001 11 82 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Useful Mathematical & Physical Formulae, by Matthew Watkins" 2001 11 82 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Maria Mitchell: A Life in Journals and Letters, by Henry Albers, ed." 2001 11 82 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Planetary and Lunar Coordinates 2001-2020, by H. M. Nautical Almanac Office" 2001 11 82 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Sun, Moon, & Earth, by Robin Heath" 2001 11 82 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Understanding the Heavens, by Claude Pecker" 2001 11 84 Amateur Astronomers Astronomy on the Road "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2001 11 86 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: A Solstice Eclipse "Levy, David H." 2001 11 93 Rambling Through the Skies Astronomical Babel "Krupp, E. C." 2001 11 98 Guide to the Evening Sky Wanderings at the Fomalhaut Hour "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 11 99 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2001 11 100 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: Watching Delta Cephi "Seronik, Gary" 2001 11 101 Small-Scope Sampler Arcing Through the Autumn Sky "French, Sue" 2001 11 103 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in November" "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 11 104 Guide to the Evening Sky The Near Sky: Green Flashes (Part 1) "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 11 106 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 11 109 Celestial Calendar Leonids 2001: The Saga Continues "Rao, Joe" 2001 11 118 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Two Novae for Binoculars 2001 11 118 Celestial Calendar "Calendar Notes: Jupiter ""Without Moons""" 2001 11 120 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Penumbra "Ryan, Jay" 2001 11 120 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Vesta Tours the Hyades 2001 11 122 Observer's Log A Sampling of Edge-on Galaxies "Polakis, Tom" 2001 11 125 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Pegasus I Galaxy Cluster "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2001 11 127 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: From the Caucasus to the Alps "Wood, Charles A." 2001 11 129 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Canadian's Star-Party Comet "Dyer, Alan" 2001 11 132 Astro Imaging Imaging the Sky from the Suburbs "Gendler, Robert" 2001 11 140 Gallery Spiral Galaxy IC 342 in Camelopardalis "Foster, James" 2001 11 140 Gallery Whirlpool Galaxy M51 in Canes Venatici "Block, Adam" 2001 11 140 Gallery Milky Way Panorama "Tse, James" 2001 11 141 Gallery Ring Nebula M57 in Lyra "Moilanen, Marko" "Oksanen, Arto" 2001 11 141 Gallery Nebula Complex NGC 6559 in Sagittarius "Stevens, Gary L." 2001 11 142 Gallery Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae in Sagittarius "Middleton, Bobby" 2001 11 142 Gallery S Monocerotis Region "Mandel, Steve" 2001 11 142 Gallery Spiral Galaxy M94 in Canes Venatici "Ehrhorn, Brad" "Gralak, Ray" 2001 11 143 Gallery Winter Sun Pillar "Woodward, Bill" 2001 12 1 Front-Cover Photo Montage: Hot New Products of 2001 2001 12 8 Spectrum "One World, One Hobby" "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2001 12 10 Focal Point Running the Numbers "Young, Robert" 2001 12 12 Letters Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder "Grossenbacher, Roger" 2001 12 12 Letters Steering Readers in the Wrong Direction "Pushkarsky, Louis P." 2001 12 14 Letters A Costly Question "Alcaide, Antonio" 2001 12 14 Letters "Just ""Go To"" It - II" "Marion, Marian" 2001 12 14 Letters Revisiting Old Friends "Ferris, Bill" 2001 12 14 Letters "Just ""Go To"" It - I" "Atkinson, Paul" 2001 12 16 Letters Not Your Average Perseid! "Boschat, Michael E." 2001 12 16 Letters Our Global Community "Laurentino, David" 2001 12 16 Letters For the Record 2001 12 16 Letters "Just ""Go To"" It - III" "Swanson, Mike" 2001 12 18 News Notes Meet Comet Borrelly "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 12 20 News Notes New Physics from Ancient Quasars? "Roth, Joshua" 2001 12 22 News Notes Exoplanet Transit Refined "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 12 22 News Notes A Cousin of the Solar System "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 12 24 News Notes A World Awash in Light "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 12 25 News Notes Kuiper Belt Object Dethrones Ceres "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 12 25 News Notes Chicago's Controversial Ray of Light "Aguirre, Edwin L." "Tytell, David" 2001 12 26 News Notes The Ice Spires of Callisto "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2001 12 26 News Notes Blue-Ribbon Panel Opposes NASA Control of Astronomy "Tytell, David" 2001 12 27 News Notes Follow That Story: No Hypernova Remnants "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 12 27 News Notes Follow That Story: New Cosmology Keeps Firming Up "MacRobert, Alan M." 2001 12 30 Mission Update Ulysses "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 12 30 News Notes Pluto Mission "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 12 30 Mission Update Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 12 30 Mission Update Chandra X-ray Observatory "McDowell, Jonathan" 2001 12 32 Feature Hot New Products of 2001 "Sky & Telescope, the Editors of" 2001 12 44 Feature Wondering in the Dark "Croswell, Ken" 2001 12 52 Feature Dmitri Maksutov: The Man and His Telescopes "Petrunin, Yuri" "Trigubov, Eduard" 2001 12 60 Images Seasons on Saturn "Deans, Paul" 2001 12 63 Computers in Astronomy A Flexible Virtual Planetarium "Badillo, Victor L." 2001 12 66 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: The Inspiration of Imagined Places "Goldman, Stuart J." 2001 12 68 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: SKY:Lab 2.5 "Heafner, Joe" 2001 12 70 Software Showcase Deep Space Explorer 2001 12 70 Software Showcase Pocket Deepsky 2001 12 70 Software Showcase Image2000 2001 12 72 Books & Beyond "The Art of Chesley Bonestell, by Ron Miller and Frederick C. Durant III" "Hartmann, William K." 2001 12 74 Books & Beyond "Visions of Spaceflight: Images from the Ordway Collection, by Frederick I. Ordway III" 2001 12 74 Books & Beyond "Our Universe: The Thrill of Extragalactic Exploration As Told by Leading Experts, by S. Alan Stern, ed." "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2001 12 74 Books & Beyond "Imagining Space, by Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy" 2001 12 74 Books & Beyond "Hardyware: The Art of David A. Hardy, by Chris Morgan" 2001 12 77 Amateur Astronomers Sparks Fly Under Sonoma Skies "Jones, Jane Houston" 2001 12 80 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: The Pacific Meets Minnesota "Levy, David H." 2001 12 86 Rambling Through the Skies Missing Mars "Krupp, E. C." 2001 12 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Andromeda at the Zenith "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 12 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2001 12 92 Guide to the Evening Sky "Binocular Highlight: The E.T. Cluster, NGC 457" "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 12 93 Small-Scope Sampler Sculpting at the South Galactic Pole "French, Sue" 2001 12 95 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in December" "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 12 96 Guide to the Evening Sky The Near Sky: Green Flashes (Part 2) "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 12 98 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2001 12 101 Celestial Calendar A Nice Comet for the Holiday Season "Bortle, John E." 2001 12 104 Celestial Calendar December's Annular Eclipse of the Sun "Deans, Paul" 2001 12 105 Celestial Calendar The Full Moon Hides Saturn "Deans, Paul" 2001 12 107 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Meteor Showers 2001 12 107 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultations 2001 12 108 Celestial Calendar SkyWise: Astronomy Bug "Ryan, Jay" 2001 12 113 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Checking Off the Galaxies at 1 Arietis "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2001 12 115 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Imbrium Lava Flows "Wood, Charles A." 2001 12 117 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: The 2001 Martian Dust Storm "Parker, Donald C." 2001 12 120 Telescope Techniques A Compact 8-inch Travelscope "Seronik, Gary" 2001 12 127 Astro Imaging Thoughts on Super-Resolution Planetary Imaging "Cidadao, Antonio Jose" 2001 12 136 Gallery Medusa Nebula (Sharpless 2-274) in Gemini "Wright, Cliff" 2001 12 136 Gallery Perseid Meteor over Giant Hand Rock Formation "Pacholka, Wally" 2001 12 137 Gallery Pinwheel Galaxy (M33) in Triangulum "Hallas, Tony" "Hallas, Daphne" 2001 12 137 Gallery Jupiter Occultation "Fujii, Akira" 2001 12 137 Gallery Saturn Nebula (NGC 7009) in Aquarius "Block, Adam" 2001 12 138 Gallery Pac-Man Nebula (NGC 281) in Cassiopeia "Gralak, Ray" 2002 1 1 Front-Cover Photo Earth from Galileo 2002 1 8 Spectrum Sign of the Times "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2002 1 10 Focal Point Lessons from the Sky "Bodnar, Alan" 2002 1 12 Letters In My Mind I'm Goin' to Carolina "Patterson, Bobby W." 2002 1 12 Letters Stamping Out Errors "Dicati, Renato" 2002 1 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago 2002 1 14 Letters A Silent Memorial "Palan, Kevin M." 2002 1 14 Letters From Trash to Treasure "Sieminski, Laurie" 2002 1 14 Letters For the Record 2002 1 14 Letters Next Stop: Hogwarts "Hockey, Thomas" 2002 1 16 News Notes The Dark Matter Around Us "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 1 16 News Notes A Handle on Dark Matter? "Lucentini, Jack" 2002 1 17 News Notes Zooming In on a Protogalaxy "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 1 18 News Notes Hubble Finds a Vigorous Stellar Nursery "Tytell, David" 2002 1 18 News Notes Milky Way's Black Hole: Case Closed "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 1 20 News Notes Kalliope's Kin "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 1 20 News Notes Twin Trojan Found "Tytell, David" 2002 1 21 News Notes The Face of Ceres "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 1 22 News Notes Lunar Soil Reveals Solar Secrets "Goldman, Stuart J." 2002 1 22 News Notes Mars in a Dust Cocoon "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 1 24 News Notes An Amateur Space Telescope? "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 1 24 News Notes The Saga of Simplesat "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 1 26 News Notes Clash of the Titans: Meade Sues Celestron "di Cicco, Dennis" 2002 1 26 News Notes Asteroid Memorials for September 11th "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 1 28 Mission Update Space Science in Japan "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 1 28 Mission Update Space Science in Europe "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 1 29 Mission Update Space Science in Russia "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 1 29 Mission Update Space Science in the Developing World "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 1 32 Feature Searching for the Molecules of Life in Space "Nadis, Steve" 2002 1 40 Feature Supernovae Are Not Round "Wang, Lifan" "Wheeler, J. Craig" 2002 1 48 Feature Butterflies and Crabs of the Southern Sky "Kwok, Sun" 2002 1 50 Feature "Box: The Origin of ""He"" Planetary Nebulae" "Kwok, Sun" 2002 1 55 S&T Test Report Sky Window: A Novel Mount for Binocular Astronomy "di Cicco, Dennis" 2002 1 57 S&T Test Report Sirius Optics' Minus Violet Filter "di Cicco, Dennis" 2002 1 60 New Product Showcase True Technology Custom-Wheel 2002 1 60 New Product Showcase Kuelco Bino Mount 2002 1 60 New Product Showcase JMI Megapod and Power PAC 2002 1 63 Computers in Astronomy Finding Your Double-Star Limit "Arguelles, Luis" 2002 1 67 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Lunar Calculator 1.53 "Medkeff, Jeff" 2002 1 70 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: The Allure of Saturn "Goldman, Stuart J." 2002 1 72 Books & Beyond "Star and Sky, by Robert Burnham, ed." "Lyster, Timothy A." 2002 1 74 Books & Beyond "Heavenly Errors, by Neil F. Comins" "Thessin, Rachel" 2002 1 74 Books & Beyond "Astronomical Observatories and Planetariums of the World, by Map Link" 2002 1 76 Books & Beyond "Observer's Handbook 2002, by Rajiv Gupta, ed." 2002 1 76 Books & Beyond "Astronomical Calendar 2002, by Guy Ottewell" 2002 1 76 Books & Beyond "2002 Comet Handbook, by Syuichi Nakano and Daniel W. E. Green, eds." 2002 1 76 Books & Beyond "The Astronomical Almanac for the Year 2002, by the Nautical Almanac Office" 2002 1 76 Books & Beyond "Astronomical Yearbook 2002, by Steve Pattie, ed." 2002 1 76 Books & Beyond "The Astronomical Pocket Diary 2002, by Norbert Haley" 2002 1 76 Books & Beyond MPO2002 (Minor Planet Observer 2002) 2002 1 76 Books & Beyond "The Handbook of the British Astronomical Association 2002, by J. Mitton, ed." 2002 1 79 Amateur Astronomers Sharing the Sky "Nelson, Robert" 2002 1 81 Amateur Astronomers Benson Prize Winner 2002 1 82 Amateur Astronomers Exploring the Universe by Touch "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2002 1 84 Amateur Astronomers It's Time to Party! "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2002 1 86 Amateur Astronomers Box: Star-Party Etiquette 2002 1 89 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: Dr. Comet at 95 "Levy, David H." 2002 1 94 Rambling Through the Skies Celestial Sweets "Krupp, E. C." 2002 1 98 Guide to the Evening Sky Stars on the Meridian "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 1 99 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2002 1 100 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: The Alpha Persei Association "Seronik, Gary" 2002 1 101 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in January" "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 1 104 Small-Scope Sampler January's Celestial Menagerie "French, Sue" 2002 1 106 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 1 108 Celestial Calendar Lunar Occultation Highlights for 2002 "Dunham, David W." 2002 1 111 Celestial Calendar Box: Lunar Profile from an Eta Geminorum Graze "Dunham, David W." 2002 1 116 Celestial Calendar Light-Pollution Notes: Catch Phrases for Dark-Sky Activism "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 1 116 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: January Meteors 2002 1 116 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Comet LINEAR (C/2000 WM1) 2002 1 118 Observer's Log Enjoying Unequal Double Stars "Haas, Sissy" 2002 1 122 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Star Clusters That Weren't "Freeman, Jay Reynolds" 2002 1 126 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Clavius and Neighbors "Wood, Charles A." 2002 1 128 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Bright Auroras 2002 1 128 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Canadian Daylight Fireball "Dyer, Alan" 2002 1 132 Telescope Techniques Thermal Management in Newtonian Reflectors "Adler, Alan" 2002 1 138 Gallery Veil Nebula in Cygnus "Mandel, Steve" 2002 1 138 Gallery Dynamic Sun "Garcia, Gordon" 2002 1 138 Gallery Circumpolar Star Trails "Nemy, John" 2002 1 140 Gallery Saturn's Vanishing Act - Scene I "Burgstaller, Siegfried" 2002 1 140 Gallery Spiral Galaxy NGC 6384 in Ophiuchus "Schur, Chris" 2002 1 140 Gallery Colorful Circumzenithal Arc "Babcock, Taavi" 2002 1 140 Gallery Magnificent Saturn "Grafton, Ed" 2002 1 141 Gallery Saturn's Vanishing Act - Scene II "Zerbe, Craig" 2002 2 1 Amateur Astronomers test - default cover date 2002 2 8 Spectrum Change of Address "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2002 2 10 Focal Point The Unexpected Letter "Barnes, Don" 2002 2 12 Letters A Whale of a Tale "Gallup, John" "Gallup, Denise" 2002 2 12 Letters Return of the Green Lantern "Compton, Ron" 2002 2 12 Letters A Night on the Open Seas "Payne, Tom" 2002 2 14 Letters Leaving with a Big Bang - II "Truitt, Steve" 2002 2 14 Letters Anniversary Stars "Sullivan, Woodruff T." 2002 2 14 Letters Leaving with a Big Bang - I "Shook, Jim" 2002 2 16 Letters Astronomical Sacred Sites - II "Pasachoff, Jay M." 2002 2 16 Letters My Little Supernova "Walach, Rebecca" 2002 2 16 Letters Astronomical Sacred Sites - I "Wiener, Matthew P." 2002 2 18 News Notes One Less Hubble-Constant Hang-Up? "Roth, Joshua" 2002 2 19 News Notes Steady State Theory Getting the Last Laugh "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 2 20 News Notes M87's Hole Without a Doughnut "Schilling, Govert" 2002 2 21 News Notes Pluto: Mission Impossible? "Tytell, David" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 2 22 News Notes Great Blue Gobs of Supernova Guts "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 2 22 News Notes Brown Dwarfs Showing Their True Colors "Goldman, Stuart J." 2002 2 24 News Notes All in the Asteroid Family "Schilling, Govert" 2002 2 24 News Notes "A ""Negative Gravity"" Asteroid" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 2 24 News Notes Wide Binary in the Kuiper Belt "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 2 25 News Notes Looking Below a Sunspot's Surface "Tytell, David" 2002 2 26 News Notes Follow That Story: Disaster at Super-Kamiokande "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 2 26 News Notes "The End of NASA's ""Goldin Age""" "Vatalaro, Michael" 2002 2 26 News Notes Follow That Story: Eta Carinae's Coming Burst of Doom "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 2 28 Mission Update Genesis "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 2 28 Mission Update High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 2 28 Mission Update Interplanetary Monitoring Platform 8 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 2 28 Mission Update High-Energy Transient Explorer 2 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 2 28 Mission Update 2001 Mars Odyssey "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 2 30 Feature The Age of Behemoths "Jayawardhana, Ray" 2002 2 34 Feature Box: Remote Observing "Jayawardhana, Ray" 2002 2 36 Feature Box: International Collaboration "Jayawardhana, Ray" 2002 2 38 Feature The Great Ptolemy-Hipparchus Dispute "Schaefer, Bradley E." 2002 2 46 Images Inside the Orion Nebula "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2002 2 49 S&T Test Report Celestron's NexStar 11 GPS: Beauty and Brains "di Cicco, Dennis" 2002 2 56 New Product Showcase B&D Instruments Crayford Focusers 2002 2 56 New Product Showcase Advanced Telescope Systems Portable and Permanent Piers 2002 2 56 New Product Showcase "Telescope Engineering Co. 6"" f/12 Maksutov-Cassegrain Reflector" 2002 2 58 Software Showcase C88 2002 2 58 Software Showcase Our Solar System 2002 2 58 Software Showcase ScopeDriver 2002 2 60 Books & Beyond "Extreme Stars: At the Edge of Creation, by James B. Kaler" "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2002 2 62 Books & Beyond "Epic Moon, by William P. Sheehan and Thomas A. Dobbins" "Robinson, Leif J." 2002 2 65 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: An Intimate Look at the Night Sky, by Chet Raymo" 2002 2 65 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 39" 2002 2 65 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Distant Wanderers, by Bruce G. Dorminey" 2002 2 65 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Kingdom of the Sun, by Jacqueline Mitton and Christina Balit" 2002 2 65 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Color and Light in Nature, by David K. Lynch and William Livingston" 2002 2 67 Amateur Astronomers Amateur Uses Monster Telescope "Schilling, Govert" 2002 2 70 Amateur Astronomers Box: Finding Planetaries in Globs: A Do-It-Yourself Guide "Tytell, David" 2002 2 72 Amateur Astronomers "Star Trails: Meet Larry, Moe, and Curly" "Levy, David H." 2002 2 76 Rambling Through the Skies Hunting the Hare "Krupp, E. C." 2002 2 82 Guide to the Evening Sky Winter's Bright Circle "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 2 83 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2002 2 84 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: The Pleiades "Seronik, Gary" 2002 2 85 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in February" "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 2 88 Small-Scope Sampler Looking the Bull in the Face "French, Sue" 2002 2 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 2 92 Celestial Calendar A Saturn-Moon Spectacle "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 2 95 Celestial Calendar Juno Goes It Alone "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 2 98 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Moon Occults Jupiter 2002 2 98 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultation 2002 2 99 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Delta-T for 2002 2002 2 102 Observer's Log "A Rare Opportunity to Glimpse Saturn's ""Lost Ring""" "Dobbins, Thomas A." "Sheehan, William" 2002 2 108 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Nebulae of the Deep South "Whitman, Alan" 2002 2 112 Observer's Log "Lunar Notebook: Catharina, Cyrillus, and Theophilus" "Wood, Charles A." 2002 2 115 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Leonids 2001: A First Look "di Cicco, Dennis" 2002 2 117 Astro Imaging Wide-Field Imaging with CCD Cameras "Mandel, Steve" 2002 2 123 Telescope Techniques Four Infamous Telescope Myths "Seronik, Gary" 2002 2 130 Gallery Auroral Landscapes "Venhaus, Chris" 2002 2 130 Gallery Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules "Ball, Jeff" 2002 2 131 Gallery Mars in Sagittarius "Oltolini, Alberto" 2002 2 131 Gallery Moon Runs Over Saturn "Bonduelle, Etienne" 2002 2 132 Gallery More Northern Lights "Irvine, Steve" "Slobins, Robert B." 2002 2 132 Gallery New Moon in Old Moon's Arms "BenDaniel, Matt" 2002 2 132 Gallery Edge-On Spiral Galaxy NGC 253 in Sculptor "Jacobs, Rich" 2002 2 133 Gallery Star Trails "Wienerroither, Peter" 2002 2 133 Gallery Reflection Nebula NGC 7023 in Cepheus "Lula, Brian" 2002 3 1 Front-Cover Photo John Grunsfeld Hangs on to Hubble 2002 3 8 Spectrum Eyes on the Prize "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2002 3 10 Focal Point No Escaping the Obvious "Battaglia, Michael" 2002 3 12 Letters Longing for Leonids - II "Pappaceno, Marian" 2002 3 12 Letters Longing for Leonids - I "Chilton, Lewis J." 2002 3 12 Letters Rubber Secondaries "Pacini, Franco" "Strittmatter, Peter" 2002 3 14 Letters Happy Birthday to S&T "Keel, William C." 2002 3 14 Letters "Something Old, Something New" "Webster, Jim" 2002 3 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2002 3 16 News Notes New Adaptive Optics at the VLT "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 3 17 News Notes Castor C Challenges Red-Dwarf Theory "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 3 18 News Notes A Whiff of Vanished Martian Seas "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 3 18 News Notes Mars's Active Snow and Ice "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 3 19 News Notes Martian Gully Mystery Solved? "Tytell, David" 2002 3 20 News Notes The Heart of Omega Centauri "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 3 20 News Notes Binary Star Yields Distance to Omega Centauri "Roth, Joshua" 2002 3 21 News Notes The Universe Is Unbiased "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 3 22 News Notes The Super-Black Heart of Comet Borrelly "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 3 22 News Notes Detecting an Exoplanet's Atmosphere "Winn, Joshua N." 2002 3 24 News Notes Fourth Planet of a Pulsar "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 3 24 News Notes "Look, No Spectrograph!" "Schilling, Govert" 2002 3 28 Mission Update Galileo "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 3 28 Mission Update 2001 Mars Odyssey "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 3 28 Mission Update Rosetta "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 3 30 Feature Remaking Hubble "Grunsfeld, John Mace" 2002 3 34 Feature Hubble's New Eyes "Wanjek, Christopher" 2002 3 42 Images Horsehead Nebula "Hester, J. Jeff" 2002 3 44 S&T Test Report "Three New Maksutovs: Orion StarMax 127 EQ, Meade ETX-105EC, and Orion Optics OMC-140" "Seronik, Gary" 2002 3 50 Computers in Astronomy Delving into Deep-Sky Data "Skiff, Brian A." 2002 3 56 Computers in Astronomy "Screen Shot: Planetarium 2.1.1, by Aho Software" "Foust, Jeff" 2002 3 58 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Message-Board Meteor Magic "Goldman, Stuart J." 2002 3 60 Software Showcase "MojoWorld Transporter, Transporter Pro, and Generator, by Pandromeda" 2002 3 60 Software Showcase "Daily Astro Data 2002, by Aurora Software" 2002 3 60 Software Showcase "2sky 2.0, by Zerpec" 2002 3 62 Books & Beyond Explore the Universe Exhibit "Maran, Stephen P." 2002 3 64 Books & Beyond "Beyond Earth: Mapping the Universe, by David Devorkin, ed." 2002 3 64 Books & Beyond "Celestial Treasury, by Lachieze-Rey and Luminet" 2002 3 65 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Transit of Venus, by David Sellers" 2002 3 65 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Astronomy 2002, by Dawes, Northfield, and Wallace" 2002 3 65 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Walter Baade, by Donald E. Osterbrock" 2002 3 68 Amateur Astronomers Nova Hunters "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2002 3 72 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: Planetarium Nights "Levy, David H." 2002 3 78 Rambling Through the Skies The Winds Encompassed "Krupp, E. C." 2002 3 82 Guide to the Evening Sky A Night Sky to Remember "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 3 83 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2002 3 84 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: A Passage to Imbrium "Seronik, Gary" 2002 3 85 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in March" "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 3 88 Small-Scope Sampler Dog Overboard! "French, Sue" 2002 3 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 3 92 Celestial Calendar Planetary Occultations for 2002 "Dunham, David W." 2002 3 99 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Crescent Moon and Saturn 2002 3 100 Celestial Calendar The Near Sky: A Real-Life Bonestell Saturn "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 3 102 Observer's Log The 2001 Leonids: A Great Show "di Cicco, Dennis" 2002 3 106 Observer's Log Lunar Leonids Strike Again "Tytell, David" 2002 3 107 Observer's Log "Lunar Notebook: Furnerius, Petavius, and Humboldt" "Wood, Charles A." 2002 3 108 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: A Collection of Bipolar Planetary Nebulae "Jakiel, Richard" 2002 3 111 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: A Hit-and-Miss Annular Eclipse "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 3 111 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: A (Barely) Naked-Eye Comet "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 3 113 Telescope Techniques A Selection of Bino-Mounts "Seronik, Gary" 2002 3 116 Gallery Fireball in Auriga "Kolb, Jon" 2002 3 116 Gallery Leonid Fisheye View "Shirao, Motomaro" 2002 3 116 Gallery Leonids from Down Under "Espenak, Fred" 2002 3 118 Gallery Star Trails and Leonids "Herrera, Jimmy" 2002 4 1 Front-Cover Photo The Pinwheel Galaxy "Fletcher, Bill" "Fletcher, Sally" 2002 4 8 Spectrum We're Everywhere "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2002 4 10 Focal Point Make Way for the New Breed "Buffington, David" 2002 4 12 Letters Astrology vs. Astronomy - II "Brasch, Klaus R." 2002 4 12 Letters Astrology vs. Astronomy - I "Louis, Anthony" 2002 4 14 Letters Astrology vs. Astronomy - III "Egler, Robert A." 2002 4 14 Letters Amateur Outreach Survey "Bennett, Michael" 2002 4 14 Letters For the Good of the Field? - II "Knowlen, Loron W." 2002 4 14 Letters For the Good of the Field? - I "Lusby, David" 2002 4 14 Letters Astrology vs. Astronomy - IV "Vardhan, Vishnu" 2002 4 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2002 4 16 Letters For the Record 2002 4 16 Letters A Small Triumph over Light Pollution "Runyan, Bob" 2002 4 16 Letters Adventures of an Armchair Meteor Hunter "Feibelman, Walter A." 2002 4 16 Letters Who Needs Sleep? "DePalma, Steven" 2002 4 16 Letters A New Observing Marathon "Bacon, James" 2002 4 18 News Notes Chandra Unveils the Milky Way's Center "Tytell, David" 2002 4 19 News Notes An Infant Universe Teeming with Stars "Chandler, David L." 2002 4 20 News Notes Gamma-Ray Bursts Next Door? "Roth, Joshua" 2002 4 21 News Notes The Hue of the Universe "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 4 22 News Notes First Planet of a Giant Star "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 4 22 News Notes Barred Spirals Come and Go "Schilling, Govert" 2002 4 24 News Notes Jupiter's Shrinking Red Spot "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 4 24 News Notes Brown Dwarf Imaged Close to a Star "Tytell, David" 2002 4 26 News Notes The Leonids' Best Home Videos "Goldman, Stuart J." 2002 4 26 News Notes Vega's Clumpy Dust May Reveal a Hidden Planet "Tytell, David" 2002 4 27 News Notes A Hidden Planet for Beta Pictoris? "Roth, Joshua" 2002 4 28 News Notes Follow That Story: Brown Dwarfs with Clear Skies "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 4 28 News Notes NASA Kills FAME Over Busted Budget "Lewis, Rhiannon" 2002 4 28 News Notes Gemini South: Open for Business "Tytell, David" 2002 4 28 News Notes Follow That Story: Dark Matter Is Not Like a Gas "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 4 30 Mission Update Deep Space 1 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 4 30 Mission Update Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 4 30 Mission Update Yohkoh "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 4 32 Feature Urban Astronomy: Observing the Messier Objects from the City "Flanders, Tony" 2002 4 40 Feature Your Home Lighting Guide "Thessin, Rachel" "Crawford, David L." 2002 4 48 Images The Earth at Night "Thessin, Rachel" 2002 4 50 S&T Test Report Home Lighting for Amateur Astronomers "di Cicco, Dennis" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 4 54 New Product Showcase Aries Chromacor 2002 4 54 New Product Showcase nFOCUS controller from Rigel Systems 2002 4 54 New Product Showcase AstroCapella 2.0 2002 4 57 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: C88 "Ratledge, David" 2002 4 58 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: To Pluto and Beyond! "Goldman, Stuart J." 2002 4 60 Software Showcase "The Earth Centered Universe, by Nova Astronomics" 2002 4 60 Software Showcase KStars 2002 4 60 Software Showcase "Secrets of the Universe, by Montparnasse Multimedia" 2002 4 62 Books & Beyond "Stars & Planets, by Ridpath and Tirion" "Roth, Joshua" 2002 4 65 Books & Beyond "Telescope Guidebook, Vol. 1, by Roger Blake" "Freeman, Jay Reynolds" 2002 4 66 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Storms in Space, by J. Freeman" 2002 4 66 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Falling Stars, by M. Reynolds" 2002 4 66 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Kingdom of the Sun, by J. Mitton and C. Balit" 2002 4 66 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Cosmic Architecture in India, by A. Volwahsen" 2002 4 66 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Cosmic Butterflies, by Sun Kwok" 2002 4 66 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Grip of Gravity, by P. Gondhalekar" 2002 4 66 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Skywatchers, by A. Aveni" 2002 4 68 Amateur Astronomers Astronomy Adventure at Biosphere 2 "Wood, Charles A." "Garmany, Catharine D." 2002 4 71 Amateur Astronomers Astronomy Day 2002 "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2002 4 73 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: A Perfect Storm "Levy, David H." 2002 4 78 Rambling Through the Skies Lighter Than Air "Krupp, E. C." 2002 4 82 Guide to the Evening Sky Across the Winter-Spring Divide "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 4 83 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2002 4 84 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: A Visit to NGC 2903 "Seronik, Gary" 2002 4 85 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in April" "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 4 88 Small-Scope Sampler Gregarious Galaxies "French, Sue" 2002 4 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2002 4 93 Celestial Calendar T Pyxidis: Still Hanging Fire "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 4 94 Celestial Calendar Outer Planets in 2002 "Sinnott, Roger W." 2002 4 98 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: April Meteors 2002 4 98 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultations 2002 4 98 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Lunar Occultations 2002 4 98 Celestial Calendar Light-Pollution Notes: Connecticut's Darker Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 4 101 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: The Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster "Gottlieb, Steve" 2002 4 104 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Mysterious Descartes "Wood, Charles A." 2002 4 105 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Jupiter: The Story So Far "Seronik, Gary" 2002 4 108 Telescope Techniques Building a Curved-Vane Secondary-Mirror Holder "Seronik, Gary" 2002 4 114 Astro Imaging "Improving Astrophotos with Photoshop's ""Curves""" "BenDaniel, Matt" 2002 4 122 Gallery Supernova Remnant in Gemini "Motoki, Motosugu" 2002 4 122 Gallery Scimitar Sunset "Fleenor, George W." 2002 4 122 Gallery Giant Spiral in Ursa Major "Stevens, Gary L." 2002 4 124 Gallery "Large Magellanic Cloud and NGC 2070, The Tarantula Nebula" "Rhemann, Gerald" "Kersche, Franz" 2002 5 1 Front-Cover Photo Center of Milky Way "Mellinger, Axel" 2002 5 8 Spectrum Show Your Support "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2002 5 10 Focal Point The Neighborhood Astronomer "Field, Laurence" 2002 5 12 Letters New Mexico at Night "Taylor, Tommy" 2002 5 12 Letters A Ringing Impression "Forbes, Stephen B." 2002 5 12 Letters A Deep-Sky Favorite "Stahl, Neil" 2002 5 14 Letters Cool It! - I "Robinson, Micah" 2002 5 14 Letters Cool It! - II "Beinert, Ulrich" 2002 5 14 Letters A Job Well Done "Earley, Chris" 2002 5 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2002 5 16 News Notes "To See Galaxies Merge, Watch a Pulsar" "Schilling, Govert" 2002 5 17 News Notes Smoking Quasars "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 5 18 News Notes A Supernova's Light Echo "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 5 18 News Notes "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Quasar" "Schilling, Govert" 2002 5 19 News Notes "One Quasar, Six Images" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 5 20 News Notes Chandra Spies Southern Starbirth Scene "Roth, Joshua" 2002 5 20 News Notes Buoyant Bubbles in a Galaxy Cluster "Roth, Joshua" 2002 5 22 News Notes The Eagle Nebula at Three Wavebands "Schilling, Govert" 2002 5 23 News Notes Delta Scorpii Gets Brighter Than Ever "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 5 23 News Notes How Hot Can Venus Get? "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 5 24 News Notes Killer Asteroid Count Rises "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 5 24 News Notes New Directions for NASA "Vatalaro, Michael" 2002 5 28 Mission Update Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 5 28 Mission Update High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 5 28 Mission Update Galileo "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 5 32 Feature Microquasars in the Milky Way "Mirabel, I. Felix" "Rodriguez, Luis Felipe" 2002 5 44 S&T Test Report "Premium Refractors: Borg 100ED, Orion/Vixen VX114-ED, and Tele Vue-NP 101" "Dyer, Alan" 2002 5 53 Computers in Astronomy Worlds of Planetary Data "Medkeff, Jeff" 2002 5 57 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Deep Space Explorer "Heafner, Joe" 2002 5 58 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: AstroAlerts: The Next Generation "Goldman, Stuart J." 2002 5 61 Books & Beyond "The Great Atlas of the Stars, by Serge Brunier" "Kanipe, Jeff" 2002 5 63 Books & Beyond "Cosmic Discoveries, by David H. Levy" "Schilling, Govert" 2002 5 63 Books & Beyond "On the Cosmic Horizon, by Jeffrey O. Bennett" "Schilling, Govert" 2002 5 65 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Search for Life in the Universe, by Goldsmith and Owen" 2002 5 65 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Our Cosmic Habitat, by Martin Rees" 2002 5 65 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Cosmic Dispatches, by J. Wilford, ed. " 2002 5 66 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Beyond Pluto, by John Davies" 2002 5 66 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: David Levy's Guide to the Night Sky 2002 5 66 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Exploring the Unknown, by J. Logston, ed." 2002 5 69 Amateur Astronomers High-Flying Disco Balls "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2002 5 73 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: The Renaissance Man "Levy, David H." 2002 5 79 Rambling Through the Skies "Love, War, and Other Worlds" "Krupp, E. C." 2002 5 82 Guide to the Evening Sky The Diamond of Virgo "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 5 83 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2002 5 84 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: A Short Hop to M51 "Seronik, Gary" 2002 5 85 Guide to the Evening Sky "The Sun, Moon, and Planets in May" "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 5 88 Small-Scope Sampler Coma Squared "French, Sue" 2002 5 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2002 5 92 Celestial Calendar Halley's Comet Crumbs "Kronk, Gary W." 2002 5 96 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse 2002 5 96 Celestial Calendar The Near Sky: Unusual Halos "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 5 96 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Comet Ikeya-Zhang 2002 5 98 Observer's Log The Best Abell Planetary Nebulae "Honeycutt, Eric" 2002 5 103 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Gateway to the Year's Globular Clusters "Freeman, Jay Reynolds" 2002 5 106 Observer's Log "Lunar Notebook: Smooth Floors, Smooth Plains" "Wood, Charles A." 2002 5 108 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: A Pair of Naked-Eye Comets "Bryant, Greg" 2002 5 110 Telescope Techniques A Simple Double-Plate Cell for Your Telescope's Mirror "Seronik, Gary" 2002 5 114 Gallery "Nov. 5-6, 2001, Aurora" "Klensch, Michael" 2002 5 114 Gallery Orion Rising "Wienerroither, Peter" 2002 5 114 Gallery Andromeda Galaxy M31 "Candy, Paolo" 2002 5 115 Gallery NGC 2359 in Canis Major "Lula, Brian" 2002 5 115 Gallery Half Moon "Adler, Alan" 2002 5 116 Gallery Nebula DWB 111 in Cygnus "Cook, Mike" 2002 6 1 Front-Cover Photo Eclipses of the Sun "Espenak, Fred" 2002 6 8 Spectrum Bad-Guy Editor "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2002 6 10 Focal Point Without a Telescope "Cooper, Andrew" 2002 6 12 Letters Collimation Epiphany "Slezak, James J." 2002 6 12 Letters Ptolemy vs. Hipparchus - II "Litsinger, Warren" 2002 6 12 Letters Ptolemy vs. Hipparchus - I "Ryan, Jay" 2002 6 14 Letters Creating New Astronomers: Both Young and Old "Webster, Joseph B." 2002 6 14 Letters High Inclinations "Dunham, David W." 2002 6 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2002 6 18 News Notes OGLEing New Extrasolar Planets "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 6 19 News Notes Binary Quasar Is No Mirage "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 6 20 News Notes The Most Massive Star Known "Roth, Joshua" 2002 6 20 News Notes The Fastest Binary Star "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 6 22 News Notes Dust in the Wind "Tytell, David" 2002 6 24 News Notes More Jupiter News "Tytell, David" 2002 6 24 News Notes Mysterious Jovian Hot Spot Puzzles Astronomers "Tytell, David" 2002 6 26 News Notes Mars Odyssey Starts Mapping Minerals "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 6 26 News Notes Ancient Martian Lakes? Maybe Not "Tytell, David" 2002 6 28 News Notes Follow That Story: Lensed Galaxy Sets New Redshift Record "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 6 28 News Notes Mercury's Hidden Splash "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 6 28 News Notes Follow That Story: The Universe Isn't Turquoise "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 6 30 Mission Update Kepler "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 6 30 Mission Update Contour "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 6 30 Mission Update Dawn "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 6 32 Feature Eclipse 2002: Africa or Australia? "Espenak, Fred" "Anderson, Jay" 2002 6 37 Feature Box: NASA's 2002 Solar Eclipse Bulletin 2002 6 40 Feature Hubble Rejuvenated "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2002 6 44 Images Dwarf Galaxy NGC 6822 "Tytell, David" 2002 6 48 S&T Test Report "Premium Refractors: Takahashi Sky 90, TMB 105-mm f/6.2 " "Dyer, Alan" 2002 6 53 S&T Test Report Box: The f/8 Alternative "Dyer, Alan" 2002 6 56 New Product Showcase Rittenhouse Clock No. 1 2002 6 56 New Product Showcase "Nagler Type 6 Eyepieces, by Tele Vue" 2002 6 56 New Product Showcase "Precision Equatorial Tracking Platforms, by Johnsonian Designs" 2002 6 59 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Power Age Sky Simulator 3 "Medkeff, Jeff" 2002 6 60 Computers in Astronomy "Astronomy Online: ""Go To"" Help" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2002 6 62 Software Showcase "AstroNotes, by Ohio Star Software" 2002 6 62 Software Showcase "Ecliptic, by David Birkett" 2002 6 62 Software Showcase "Halo3, by Cowley and Schroeder" 2002 6 64 Books & Beyond "Higher than Everest, by Paul Hodge" "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2002 6 66 Books & Beyond "The Stars of Heaven, by Clifford A. Pickover" "Johnson, Rebecca A." 2002 6 66 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Bright Star Atlas 2000.0, by Tirion and Skiff" 2002 6 67 Books & Beyond The Complete Idiot's Guide to Theories of the Universe "Goldman, Stuart J." 2002 6 67 Books & Beyond "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Astronomy, 2nd Ed." "Goldman, Stuart J." 2002 6 68 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Don't Know Much About Space, by Kenneth C. Davis" 2002 6 68 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Using the Meade ETX, by Mike Weasner" 2002 6 70 Amateur Astronomers High Astronomy Adventure from the Land Down Under "Rogers, Paul" 2002 6 75 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: Shakespeare's Eclipses Return "Levy, David H." 2002 6 78 Rambling Through the Skies Skywise and Streetsmart "Krupp, E. C." 2002 6 82 Guide to the Evening Sky Camping Under the Summer Triangle "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 6 83 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2002 6 84 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: A Double for Steady Hands "Seronik, Gary" 2002 6 85 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in June" "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 6 88 Small-Scope Sampler Grabbing the Bear by the Tail "French, Sue" 2002 6 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2002 6 93 Celestial Calendar June's Transpacific Solar Eclipse "Sinnott, Roger W." 2002 6 97 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Spring Comets 2002 6 98 Celestial Calendar The Near Sky: Noneclipse Shadow Bands "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 6 100 Observer's Log Stargazing from the Arctic Wastes of a Tropical Paradise "Freeman, Jay Reynolds" 2002 6 104 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Ancient Planetaries "Jakiel, Richard" 2002 6 106 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Exploring Ptolemaeus "Wood, Charles A." 2002 6 108 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: More Amateur Comet Tales "Seronik, Gary" 2002 6 111 Telescope Techniques How to Collimate Your Newtonian Reflector "Carlin, Nils Olof" 2002 6 113 Telescope Techniques Box: Tools of the Trade "Carlin, Nils Olof" 2002 6 116 Telescope Techniques Box: Offsetting the Secondary Mirror "Carlin, Nils Olof" 2002 6 118 Astro Imaging Choosing a Camera for Film Astrophotography "Covington, Michael A." 2002 6 124 Gallery "Comet Ikeya-Zhang, C/2002 C1" "Newton, Jack" 2002 6 124 Gallery Centaurus-Crux Panorama "Von Eiff, Hermann" 2002 6 124 Gallery "Comet Ikeya-Zhang, C/2002 C1" "Jager, Michael" 2002 6 126 Gallery "NGC 1499, California Nebula" "Wendel, Volker" "Eberle, Roland" "Eisenhauer, Stephan" 2002 6 126 Gallery "M8, Lagoon Nebula" "Rhemann, Gerald" "Kersche, Franz" 2002 6 127 Gallery Galaxy NGC 660 in Pisces "McLaughlin, Bill" 2002 6 127 Gallery "M57, Ring Nebula" "Wendel, Volker" "Eberle, Roland" "Flach-Wilken, Bernd" 2002 7 1 Front-Cover Photo Moon and USS Indianapolis "Olson, Donald W." "Doescher, Russell L." 2002 7 8 Spectrum Situational Awareness "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2002 7 10 Focal Point Video Killed the Radio Star "Laird Calia, Charles" 2002 7 12 Letters Cosmic Confections "Day, Geraint J." 2002 7 12 Letters Nova Hunting "Liller, Bill" 2002 7 12 Letters When You Wish... "Van Flandern, Barbara" 2002 7 14 Letters Corrected Guidebook "Blake, Roger" 2002 7 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2002 7 14 Letters Ask Not What Your Hobby Can Do for You "Eichhorn, Guenther" 2002 7 14 Letters Musings of a Nascent Astronomer "Webster, Greg" 2002 7 15 Letters "Location, Location, Location" "Hanner, Gerald P." 2002 7 16 News Notes A Possible Quark-Star Discovery "Lucentini, Jack" 2002 7 17 News Notes The Nature of Strange Matter "Lucentini, Jack" 2002 7 18 News Notes Illusory Pulsar Connections "Schilling, Govert" 2002 7 18 News Notes The Pulsar Age Crisis "Schilling, Govert" 2002 7 20 News Notes A Fiery Birth for Frigid Worlds? "Roth, Joshua" 2002 7 22 News Notes Making Binary Asteroids in the Kuiper Belt "Tytell, David" 2002 7 23 News Notes Double Trouble Among Near-Earth Asteroids "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 7 24 News Notes Threatening Asteroid Aids Planetary Prognosticators "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 7 24 News Notes Comet Borrelly: Dry and Hot "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 7 25 News Notes Follow That Story: Closing In on Neutrino Properties "Schilling, Govert" 2002 7 26 Mission Update Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 7 26 Mission Update Mars Global Surveyor "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 7 26 Mission Update High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 7 28 Images "Tadpole Galaxy, UGC 10214" "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2002 7 30 Feature Ill Met by Moonlight: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis "Olson, Donald W." "Johns, Brandon R." "Doescher, Russell L." 2002 7 38 Feature The Brightest Red Dwarf "Croswell, Ken" 2002 7 42 Feature Box: Lalande 21185: The Brightest Red Dwarf for the Rest of Us "Tytell, David" 2002 7 46 S&T Test Report "The Versa-Port Slider 2, by Van Slyke Engineering" "Horne, Johnny" 2002 7 49 S&T Test Report Kodak Elite Chrome 100EC film "Horne, Johnny" 2002 7 50 New Product Showcase "ScopeTronix adapters, clamps, and gizmos" 2002 7 50 New Product Showcase SCT Microfocuser 2002 7 50 New Product Showcase "Variable Filter System, by Sirius Optics" 2002 7 54 Software Showcase "Guide 8, by Project Pluto" 2002 7 54 Software Showcase "Solar System 2001, by PCs in Space" 2002 7 54 Software Showcase "StarParty, by Vince Sempronio" 2002 7 56 Books & Beyond "Meteorites, by Bevan and de Laeter" "Deans, Paul" 2002 7 56 Books & Beyond "Meteorite Hunter, by Roy A. Gallant" "Deans, Paul" 2002 7 58 Books & Beyond "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites, by Norton" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 7 59 Books & Beyond "Disturbing the Solar System, by Alan E. Rubin" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2002 7 60 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Connecting with the Cosmos, by Goldsmith" 2002 7 60 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Light Years and Time Travel, by Clegg" 2002 7 60 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Compact NASA Atlas of the Solar System, by Greeley and Batson" 2002 7 60 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: On a Clear Night, by Davis" 2002 7 64 Amateur Astronomers The Birth and Growth of the Tainai Star Party "Numazawa, Shigemi" 2002 7 68 Amateur Astronomers Yuji Hyakutake (1950-2002) "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2002 7 70 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: The Comet Master "Levy, David H." 2002 7 78 Rambling Through the Skies Message Machine "Krupp, E. C." 2002 7 82 Guide to the Evening Sky Dog Days and Scorpion Nights "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 7 83 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2002 7 84 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: Rho Ophiuchi "Seronik, Gary" 2002 7 85 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in July" "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 7 88 Small-Scope Sampler Overlooked in Ophiuchus "French, Sue" 2002 7 90 Southern Hemisphere's Sky A Fire in the Wolf's Belly "Bryant, Greg" 2002 7 93 Celestial Calendar All Eyes on Pluto "Sicardy, Bruno" 2002 7 94 Celestial Calendar Box: What We Learned About Titania "Sicardy, Bruno" 2002 7 96 Celestial Calendar Light-Pollution Notes: Dark Skies as a Resource "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 7 96 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: July meteors 2002 7 96 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Lunar occultations 2002 7 99 Observer's Log Lowell and the Spokes of Venus "Sheehan, William" "Dobbins, Thomas A." 2002 7 104 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: The Reiner Gamma Swirl "Wood, Charles A." 2002 7 106 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Around the Tail and the Teapot "Dalrymple, Les" 2002 7 110 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Jupiter Season Winds Down "Seronik, Gary" 2002 7 112 Telescope Techniques Homebuilt Right-Angle Binoculars "LeDrew, Glenn" 2002 7 117 Astro Imaging Measuring Double Stars with Video "Anton, Rainer" 2002 7 122 Gallery Comet Ikeya-Zhang and M31 "Rhemann, Gerald" 2002 7 122 Gallery "Comet Ikeya-Zhang, C/2002 C1" "Pope, Conrad" 2002 7 123 Gallery Space Shuttle Columbia Smoke Pillar "Coe, Malcolm" 2002 7 123 Gallery Spiral Galaxy M74 in Pisces "Henry, Edward" 2002 7 123 Gallery Solar Flare from AR 9661 "Pettitt, Jeff" 2002 7 124 Gallery Spiral Galaxy NGC 1792 in Columba "Juchnowski, Steven" 2002 7 124 Gallery NGC 6820 in Vulpecula "Cook, Mike" 2002 7 124 Gallery NGC 4565 in Coma Berenices "Poiget, Florent" 2002 7 125 Gallery Emission Nebula IC 2177 "Salvato, Giampaolo" 2002 7 125 Gallery Contrail from Minuteman II "Fletcher, Bill" "Fletcher, Sally" 2002 7 126 Gallery Sombrero Galaxy M104 in Virgo "Stotz, Dan" "Ford, Mike" "Block, Adam" 2002 8 1 Front-Cover Photo Free-Floating Planet 2002 8 8 Spectrum The Outreach Imperative "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2002 8 10 Focal Point "An Observatory at 49,000 Feet" "Durda, Daniel D." 2002 8 12 Letters The Frying Pan "Walker, Bob" 2002 8 12 Letters The Wrong-Way Moon? "Lyster, Timothy A." 2002 8 12 Letters A New Breed - I "Allen, Michael E." 2002 8 14 Letters A New Breed - II "Nugent, Richard" 2002 8 14 Letters A New Breed - III "Sales, Thomas" 2002 8 14 Letters Curved-Vane Secondaries "Adler, Alan" 2002 8 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2002 8 16 Letters Collimation Epiphany "Slezak, James J." 2002 8 16 Letters Observer's Notebook "Borra, John" 2002 8 18 News Notes Cooling White Dwarfs Date the Universe "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 8 19 News Notes The Deepening Mystery of Early Black Holes "Roth, Joshua" 2002 8 19 News Notes Making Millisecond Pulsars "Schilling, Govert" 2002 8 20 News Notes The Closest Brown Dwarf to a Star "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 8 20 News Notes "X-ray ""Gamma-Ray Bursts"" " "Schilling, Govert" 2002 8 21 News Notes New Payoffs from the 2dF Survey "Tytell, David" 2002 8 22 News Notes "Are Dead Quasars Throwing ""Baseballs"" At Us?" "Schilling, Govert" 2002 8 22 News Notes Ordinary Cosmic Rays from Supernovae "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 8 24 News Notes All Black Holes Sing Alike "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 8 24 News Notes R Cor Bor's Weird Origin "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 8 25 News Notes SS Cygni's Magnetic Braking "di Cicco, Dennis" 2002 8 26 News Notes Mars Odyssey Finds Signs of Ice at Flare Site "Chandler, David L." 2002 8 26 News Notes "Jupiter Reclaims Title As ""King of Moons""" "Tytell, David" 2002 8 27 News Notes "A Breakthrough in Big, Cheap Scopes" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2002 8 28 News Notes Follow That Story: Missing-Link Supernova Was Not Round "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 8 28 News Notes Tensions Erupt on Mauna Kea "Tytell, David" 2002 8 28 News Notes Follow That Story: Space Astrometry Takes Another Hit "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 8 30 Mission Update Microwave Anisotropy Probe "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 8 30 Mission Update Human Spaceflight "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 8 30 Mission Update Genesis "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 8 32 Feature The Puzzles of Planethood "Kaisler, Denise" 2002 8 42 Feature Toward a Planet Paradigm "Stern, S. Alan" "Levison, Harold F." 2002 8 48 Images NGC 2264 in Monoceros "Tytell, David" 2002 8 52 S&T Test Report Hydrogen-Alpha Telescope: Coronado's SolarMax and MaxScope "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2002 8 58 New Product Showcase "Amici-Prism Diagonal, by Williams Optics" 2002 8 58 New Product Showcase "XY Finder, by Tau Ceti" 2002 8 58 New Product Showcase Filter Drawer 2002 8 61 Computers in Astronomy Master of the Universe "Chandler, David L." 2002 8 63 Computers in Astronomy Box: Partiview: Play the Digital Universe Home Version "Chandler, David L." 2002 8 67 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: XEphem 3.5.2 for Windows "Ratledge, David" 2002 8 69 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Galaxy Hunt "Goldman, Stuart J." 2002 8 73 Books & Beyond Flash! by Govert Schilling "Reichart, Daniel E." 2002 8 73 Books & Beyond "The Biggest Bangs, by Jonathan I. Katz" "Reichart, Daniel E." 2002 8 75 Books & Beyond "The Universe and How To See It, by Giles Sparrow" "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2002 8 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Chasing the Rainbow, by Robert Greenler" 2002 8 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Rainbow Bridge, by Lee and Fraser" 2002 8 77 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: The Prophet and the Astronomer 2002 8 77 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: How the Universe Got Its Spots, by Janna Levin" 2002 8 77 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: The Story of the Solar System 2002 8 79 Amateur Astronomers Firelight Nights: Stargazing from the Caribbean's Emerald Isle "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2002 8 84 Amateur Astronomers A Decade of Soaking Up Southern Starshine "Bryant, Greg" 2002 8 86 Amateur Astronomers This Year's Young Astronomer Award Winners "Tytell, David" 2002 8 87 Amateur Astronomers Spanish Amateur Discovers Earth-Crossing Asteroid "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2002 8 88 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: An Old Friend from Summer Camp "Levy, David H." 2002 8 94 Rambling Through the Skies Corn Maidens "Krupp, E. C." 2002 8 98 Guide to the Evening Sky The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 8 99 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2002 8 100 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: IC 4665 in Ophiuchus "Seronik, Gary" 2002 8 101 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in August" "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 8 104 Small-Scope Sampler Night of the Trifid "French, Sue" 2002 8 106 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Heads Up for the Scorpion "Bryant, Greg" 2002 8 110 Celestial Calendar A Great Year for the Perseids "Sinnott, Roger W." 2002 8 113 Celestial Calendar Mira's Upcoming Maximum "Sinnott, Roger W." 2002 8 115 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Crescent Moon and M35 2002 8 116 Celestial Calendar Eye and I: The Naked-Eye Limit (Part 1) "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 8 118 Observer's Log My Favorite Globular Clusters "Dalrymple, Les" 2002 8 124 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Off-Season Galaxies "Freeman, Jay Reynolds" 2002 8 126 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Australe: A Mare on the Edge "Wood, Charles A." 2002 8 128 Gallery April-May 2002 Naked-Eye Planetary Grouping "Pyros, Gregory" 2002 8 129 Gallery Iridium Flare "Shobbrook, John" 2002 8 129 Gallery "Comet Ikeya-Zhang, C/2002 C1, in Cepheus" "Schur, Chris" 2002 8 130 Gallery "Comet Utsunomiya, C/2002 F1" "Jager, Michael" 2002 8 131 Gallery Earthshine on the Moon "Friedman, Alan J." 2002 9 1 Front-Cover Photo Spiral Galaxy NGC 2997 in Antlia 2002 9 8 Spectrum Lines of Sight "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2002 9 10 Focal Point The Hazards of Astronomy "Dohmen, Kevin D." 2002 9 12 Letters Stars and Guitars "Lavin, Christine" 2002 9 12 Letters A Little Respect "Whittemore, Mark" 2002 9 12 Letters Astrology Revisited "Ventimiglia, Matt" 2002 9 14 Letters A Different Kind of Light Pollution "McDonald, Steve" 2002 9 14 Letters Brazilian Stars "Cassio dos Santos Jr., Jose" 2002 9 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2002 9 16 News Notes Double Supernova Behind the Veil? "Schilling, Govert" 2002 9 17 News Notes A Tidally Shredded Globular Cluster "Chandler, David L." 2002 9 18 News Notes More Support for the New Cosmology "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 9 19 News Notes Behind the Great Attractor "Roth, Joshua" 2002 9 20 News Notes The First Exo-Jupiters "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 9 22 News Notes "Mars's Abundant ""White Gold""" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 9 23 News Notes Mystery Meteorite with a Molten Past "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 9 24 News Notes The Biggest Near-Miss Asteroid "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 9 24 News Notes Celestron Secures Its Future "di Cicco, Dennis" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 9 26 Mission Update Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 9 26 Mission Update Solar Orbiter "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 9 26 Mission Update Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 9 26 Mission Update Eddington "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 9 26 Mission Update Cosmic Vision 2020 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 9 28 Feature Creating Hubble's Technicolor Universe "Villard, Ray" "Levay, Zoltan" 2002 9 36 Feature The Mysteries of Galaxy Spirals "Lucentini, Jack" 2002 9 46 S&T Test Report Binocular Viewers for Telescopes "Dyer, Alan" 2002 9 51 S&T Test Report Zoom Eyepieces "Dyer, Alan" 2002 9 52 Software Showcase "Visual Ephemeris for Uranian Moons, by Dennis W. Tracy" 2002 9 52 Software Showcase "AstroByte Logging System, by MainByte Software" 2002 9 52 Software Showcase "Desktop Universe, by Main-Sequence Software" 2002 9 54 Books & Beyond "The New CCD Astronomy, by Ron Wodaski" "Walker, Sean" 2002 9 56 Books & Beyond ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series 2002 9 58 Amateur Astronomers Rejuvenating Our Past: The Antique Telescope Society "Bell, Trudy E." 2002 9 63 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: The Astronomer Artist "Levy, David H." 2002 9 68 Rambling Through the Skies Behind the Curve "Krupp, E. C." 2002 9 74 Guide to the Evening Sky On the Wings of the Swan "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 9 75 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2002 9 76 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: M11 in Scutum "Seronik, Gary" 2002 9 77 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in September" "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 9 80 Small-Scope Sampler Tea Cozy "French, Sue" 2002 9 82 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Peering Past the Peacock's Tail "Bryant, Greg" 2002 9 85 Celestial Calendar New Meteor Shower from Taurus? "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2002 9 90 Celestial Calendar Eye and I: The Naked-Eye Limit (Part 2) "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 9 90 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occults a Star 2002 9 94 Observer's Log Some Thoughts on Choosing and Using Binoculars for Astronomy "Adler, Alan" 2002 9 100 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Two Planetaries and Three Decades "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2002 9 102 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Bailly and Schiller "Wood, Charles A." 2002 9 104 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: The June 10th Annular Eclipse of the Sun "di Cicco, Dennis" 2002 9 106 Telescope Techniques A Solar-Powered Observatory "Lange, Robert J." 2002 9 112 Astro Imaging Focusing a CCD Camera "Wodaski, Ron" 2002 9 122 Gallery Solar Prominence "Newton, Jack" 2002 9 122 Gallery Spiral Galaxy NGC 6946 "Block, Adam" 2002 9 123 Gallery Spiral Galaxy NGC 4725 in Coma Berenices "Keller, Philipp" "Fuchs, Christian" 2002 9 123 Gallery Lunar Halo "Klein, Joe" 2002 9 124 Gallery Comet Ikeya-Zhang over Coast Mountain Range "Klensch, Michael" 2002 10 1 Front-Cover Photo Planetary Nebula NGC 2132 in Vela 2002 10 8 Spectrum Back to School "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2002 10 10 Focal Point Misadventures with a Green Laser "Adams, Eric" 2002 10 12 Letters Lowell's Spokes on Venus Explained "Sheehan, William" "Dobbins, Thomas A." 2002 10 14 Letters "An Unconventional ""Tripod""" "Sackett, Ross" 2002 10 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2002 10 14 Letters Better Ways to Cool It "Hards, Chuck" 2002 10 14 Letters A Marriage Made for the Heavens "Masnaghetti, Jeff" 2002 10 16 Letters Zigging and Zagging - I "Rule, Bob" 2002 10 16 Letters Zigging and Zagging - II "Gordon, Rodger W." 2002 10 18 News Notes Big Variable-Star Payoff from Small Scopes "di Cicco, Dennis" 2002 10 20 News Notes A Stronger Supernova-GRB Link? "Roth, Joshua" 2002 10 20 News Notes The Case of the Missing Dead Comets "Tytell, David" 2002 10 21 News Notes Star-Swapping in Globulars "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 10 21 News Notes Omega Centauri's Checkered Past "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 10 22 News Notes A Formative Extrasolar Planet? "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 10 22 News Notes More Possible Planet Transits "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 10 24 News Notes New Roadmap for Planetary Exploration "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 10 25 News Notes Homegrown Diamond Dust? "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 10 26 News Notes Follow That Story: Fewer Bright Early Quasars? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 10 26 News Notes U.K. Joins European Southern Observatory "Ashford, Adrian R." 2002 10 26 News Notes Follow That Story: Invisible Dwarf Galaxies "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 10 28 Mission Update Comet Nucleus Tour "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 10 28 Mission Update BeppoSAX "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 10 28 Mission Update Spectroscopy and Photometry of the IGM's Diffuse Radiation "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 10 30 Feature The Fate of the Earth "Garlick, Mark A." 2002 10 38 Feature Gems from the Stars "Kwok, Sun" 2002 10 45 S&T Test Report The Sky-Watcher EQ6 Mount "Privett, Grant" 2002 10 52 Computers in Astronomy Fun with Sky & Telescope's Interactive Sky Chart "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2002 10 56 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Encyclopedia Galactica 3.0 "Foust, Jeff" 2002 10 58 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Software on a Budget "Goldman, Stuart J." 2002 10 61 Books & Beyond "Mission Jupiter, by Daniel Fischer" "Moore, Jeff" 2002 10 61 Books & Beyond "Jupiter Odyssey, by David M. Harland" "Moore, Jeff" 2002 10 61 Books & Beyond "The Worlds of Galileo, by Michael Hanlon" "Moore, Jeff" 2002 10 63 Books & Beyond "Bad Astronomy, by Philip Plait" "Sadler, Bud" 2002 10 65 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Setting Sail for the Universe, by Donald Fernie" 2002 10 65 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Hands-on Astronomy, by Burillier and Lehenaff" 2002 10 65 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Star Lore of Japan, by Kouichi Kitao" 2002 10 66 Amateur Astronomers Astronomy in the Land of the Aztecs "Ortiz, Francisco Javier Mandujano" 2002 10 70 Amateur Astronomers A European-Style Stellafane "Stein, Guido" 2002 10 71 Amateur Astronomers Comet Award Winners for 2002 "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2002 10 72 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: My Life and Hard Times As a Comet Hunter "Levy, David H." 2002 10 78 Rambling Through the Skies Shelter from the Storm "Krupp, E. C." 2002 10 82 Guide to the Evening Sky Cool Nights and Rustling Leaves "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 10 83 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2002 10 84 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: Crisium Watching "Seronik, Gary" 2002 10 85 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in October" "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 10 88 Small-Scope Sampler The Arrow and the Dolphin "French, Sue" 2002 10 90 Southern Hemisphere's Sky An Ode to Octans "Bryant, Greg" 2002 10 94 Celestial Calendar Ceres and Melpomene in Binoculars "Bryant, Greg" 2002 10 95 Celestial Calendar Box: An Explosion of Asteroids "Bryant, Greg" 2002 10 96 Celestial Calendar When Will RS Ophiuchi Next Blow Its Stack? "Wallerstein, George" 2002 10 99 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: October Meteors 2002 10 100 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultation 2002 10 100 Celestial Calendar The Near Sky: Venus Pillars and Venusdogs? "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 10 103 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Observing Faint Nearby Galaxies "Freeman, Jay Reynolds" 2002 10 106 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Neglected Nubium "Wood, Charles A." 2002 10 108 Telescope Techniques A Refractor in the Round "Carreira, Emmanuel M." 2002 10 113 Astro Imaging Deep-Sky Imaging with Digital Cameras "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2002 10 120 Gallery Sunburst "Stankiewicz, Richard" 2002 10 120 Gallery Hydrogen-Alpha Sun "Sacco, Giovanni A. Quarra" 2002 10 120 Gallery Crater Clavius "Adler, Alan" 2002 10 121 Gallery Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules "Higgins, Wesley" 2002 10 121 Gallery Saturn "Higgins, Wesley" 2002 10 121 Gallery Jupiter "Ng, Eric W.K." 2002 10 121 Gallery "M16, the Eagle Nebula" "Schedler, Johannes" 2002 10 122 Gallery Crescent Sun "Fienberg, Thorir G." 2002 10 122 Gallery Perseus Double Cluster "Mayfield, Ginger" 2002 10 122 Gallery "June 12, 2002, Conjunction of the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter" "Ireland, Dale E." 2002 10 122 Gallery Albireo "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2002 10 123 Gallery Planetary Nebula M27 in Vulpecula "Schedler, Johannes" 2002 10 123 Gallery Canadian Northern Lights "Moussette, Philippe" 2002 11 1 Front-Cover Photo Crab Nebula in Taurus 2002 11 8 Spectrum Dark Days for Dark Nights "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2002 11 10 Focal Point The Ultimate Sky "Marks, Joel" 2002 11 12 Letters Bilberry Fields Forever "Maher, Raymond P." 2002 11 12 Letters Coming into Focus "Copeland, Bill" 2002 11 12 Letters My Personal Travelscope "Crowl, William D." 2002 11 14 Letters Can't We All Just Get Along? - I "Ford, John" 2002 11 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2002 11 14 Letters Can't We All Just Get Along? - II "Szuch, Ernest" 2002 11 14 Letters The Wrong-Way Sun "Speare, William" 2002 11 16 News Notes Normal Dark Matter All Found At Last? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 11 17 News Notes Streamers in a Hot Breeze "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 11 18 News Notes "1,000 New Planetary Nebulae" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 11 18 News Notes Making the Case for Merging Black Holes "Roth, Joshua" 2002 11 19 News Notes An Electric Star? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 11 19 News Notes A Shadowy Hamburger "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 11 20 News Notes Asteroid Color Clans "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 11 20 News Notes Water on Arcturus "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 11 20 News Notes A Recent Asteroid Crackup "Schilling, Govert" 2002 11 22 News Notes Solar Science for the Coming Decade "Tytell, David" 2002 11 23 News Notes Changes Urged for Astrobiology Effort "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 11 24 News Notes Follow that Story: The Milky Way's Young Bar "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 11 24 News Notes The Moon Through an 8-Meter Eye "Ashford, Adrian R." 2002 11 24 News Notes Follow That Story: Not a Quark Star? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 11 26 Mission Update Venus Express "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 11 26 Mission Update Comet Nucleus Tour "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 11 26 Mission Update Cassini "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 11 28 Feature Anatomy of a Supernova "Maurer, Stephen M." "Howell, Andrew" 2002 11 38 Feature Planetary Oceans "Stevenson, David J." 2002 11 46 Images "Corona Australis, the Southern Crown" "Malin, David F." 2002 11 49 S&T Test Report The Questar 50th Anniversary Edition Telescope "Seronik, Gary" 2002 11 54 S&T Test Report Questar's Qmax Spectrometer "di Cicco, Dennis" 2002 11 56 New Product Showcase SBIG CCD Cameras with USB-Connectivity 2002 11 56 New Product Showcase "Model 2000HF Focuser, by Burgess Optical" 2002 11 56 New Product Showcase "Shirts, Caps, Mugs, and More from Velocitees" 2002 11 58 Software Showcase "Lunar Map Pro, by RITI" 2002 11 58 Software Showcase "GeoVirgil, by Silicon Spaceships" 2002 11 58 Software Showcase "MPj Equinox, by Microprojects" 2002 11 60 Books & Beyond "More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, by Jean Meeus" "Miller, Robert D." 2002 11 62 Books & Beyond "Seeing in the Dark, by Timothy Ferris" "Raymo, Chet" 2002 11 64 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Variable Stars, by Broens, Diepvens, and Van Der Looy" 2002 11 64 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Neptune: The Planet, Rings, and Satellites" 2002 11 64 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Illustrated Dictionary of Practical Astronomy 2002 11 64 Books & Beyond Galileo's Battle for the Heavens "Goldman, Stuart J." 2002 11 67 Amateur Astronomers Amateur Astrophysics in the Arctic Circle "Oksanen, Arto" 2002 11 73 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: A Builder and a Healer "Levy, David H." 2002 11 78 Rambling Through the Skies Meeting the Eye "Krupp, E. C." 2002 11 82 Guide to the Evening Sky Other Geometries in the Autumn Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 11 83 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2002 11 84 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: M52 in Cassiopeia "Seronik, Gary" 2002 11 85 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in November" "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 11 88 Small-Scope Sampler Hunting Down the Helix "French, Sue" 2002 11 90 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Brave New Worlds "Bryant, Greg" 2002 11 95 Celestial Calendar Leonids 2002: The Grand Finale "Rao, Joe" 2002 11 104 Celestial Calendar Eye and I: Seeing Venus's Crescent at 1x "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 11 104 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Occultations by Asteroids 2002 11 107 Observer's Log The Caroline Herschel Objects "Houston Jones, Jane" 2002 11 112 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Imbrium Lineaments and Davy's Weird Chain "Wood, Charles A." 2002 11 114 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Two Galaxy Fields in Pegasus "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2002 11 118 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Things Fly in the August Sky "Deans, Paul" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 11 121 Astro Imaging Planning an Astro-Imaging Expedition "BenDaniel, Matt" 2002 11 128 Gallery "May Conjunction, Moon and Venus" "Ball, Jeff" 2002 11 128 Gallery Orion Nebula "Schedler, Johannes" 2002 11 128 Gallery Riverside Star Party Scene "Osborne, Daryl" 2002 11 128 Gallery "Dumbbell Nebula, M27" "Unsold, Mike" 2002 11 128 Gallery International Space Station "Young, James" "Grasdalen, Gary L." 2002 11 130 Gallery Crescent Sunset "Reynolds, Carl" 2002 11 130 Gallery Lunar Halo "Loftus, Don" 2002 11 130 Gallery "Ring Nebula, M57" "Schedler, Johannes" 2002 11 131 Gallery "Sombrero Galaxy, M104" "Honis, Gary J." 2002 11 131 Gallery Lunar Close-Up "Pollock, Garvin" 2002 11 131 Gallery Sun Pillar "Kangus, Lauri" 2002 11 132 Gallery Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules "Unsold, Mike" 2002 11 132 Gallery "Sunspots, May 2001" "Hyndman, Paul" 2002 12 1 Front-Cover Photo Milky Way "BenDaniel, Matt" 2002 12 8 Spectrum The Wrong Stuff "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2002 12 10 Focal Point Moon Illusions "Fortier, Edmund" 2002 12 12 Letters Lightning on the Moon "Rao, Joe" 2002 12 12 Letters What's in a Name? "Bortle, John E." 2002 12 14 Letters Recognizing Talents "Whitney, Charles A." 2002 12 14 Letters Mini-Moon Mania "Whiting, Tom" 2002 12 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2002 12 14 Letters Know When to Hold 'Em "Stanicki, Steve" 2002 12 14 Letters Using Both Eyes "Nagler, Al" 2002 12 16 Letters The Not-So-Wrong-Way Moon "White, Jeff" 2002 12 16 Letters New Meteor Showers "Gliba, George W." 2002 12 16 Letters Free Database "Tejera, Rick" 2002 12 16 Letters Hawaiian Battles "Brust, R. W." 2002 12 18 News Notes Midsize Black Holes Lurk in Globular Clusters "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 12 19 News Notes Globulars' Pregalactic Origins "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 12 20 News Notes Polarized Microwaves Bolster New Cosmology "Roth, Joshua" 2002 12 21 News Notes Weather on a Pre-Nova: Surf's Up! "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 12 22 News Notes First View of Mars in X-rays "Tytell, David" 2002 12 22 News Notes Hoag's Ring Galaxy "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 12 24 News Notes Kuiper Belt Kingpin "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 12 24 News Notes Did a Comet Swarm Kill the Dinosaurs? "Tytell, David" 2002 12 26 News Notes A Deep-Space UFO Mystery Solved "Tytell, David" 2002 12 26 News Notes Refining a Key Distance "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 12 27 News Notes The Webb Space Telescope "McDowell, Jonathan" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 12 28 News Notes Follow That Story: LIGO Comes Alive "Roth, Joshua" 2002 12 28 News Notes Follow That Story: No Quantized Redshifts "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 12 28 News Notes Follow That Story: Supernova Source of Cosmic Rays? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2002 12 30 Mission Update Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer Spacecraft "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 12 30 Mission Update Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 12 30 Mission Update International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory "McDowell, Jonathan" 2002 12 32 Feature "Bright Lights, Big Problems" "Thessin, Rachel" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2002 12 40 Feature How I Beat Light Pollution in My Hometown "Crelin, Bob" 2002 12 46 Images "The Eagle Nebula, M16, NGC 6611" "Reipurth, Bo" 2002 12 48 S&T Test Report Meade's LXD55 Schmidt-Newtonians "di Cicco, Dennis" 2002 12 56 New Product Showcase "HyperCamera, by Taurus Technologies" 2002 12 56 New Product Showcase "Fluoro-Star FLT-110, by William Optics" 2002 12 56 New Product Showcase "LM-3 ""Perfect Pitch"" Lap Mold, by Kevin McCarthy" 2002 12 59 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Celestia 1.2.4 "Heafner, Joe" 2002 12 61 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: When Moon Meets Sun "Goldman, Stuart J." 2002 12 62 Software Showcase EclipseTimer 2002 12 62 Software Showcase "StarDrive 2.1, by Alexander Goloveshin" 2002 12 62 Software Showcase "MegaStar Sky Atlas 5.0, by Willman-Bell, Inc." 2002 12 65 Books & Beyond "Storms from the Sun, by Carlowicz and Lopez" "Burnham, Robert" 2002 12 65 Books & Beyond "Solar Observing Techniques, by Chris Kitchin" "Burnham, Robert" 2002 12 65 Books & Beyond "Journey from the Center of the Sun, by Zirker" "Burnham, Robert" 2002 12 66 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: SolarMax DVD 2002 12 68 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The 23rd Cycle, by Sten Odenwald" 2002 12 68 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Nearest Star, by Golub and Pasachoff" 2002 12 68 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Sun from Space, by Lang" 2002 12 68 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Sun, by Lang" 2002 12 71 Books & Beyond "Glorious Eclipses, by Brunier and Luminet" "Deans, Paul" 2002 12 71 Books & Beyond "Eclipse, by Duncan Steel" "Deans, Paul" 2002 12 75 Amateur Astronomers The Winter Star Party: Back to the Future "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2002 12 78 Amateur Astronomers Box: The Cedar Key Star Party "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2002 12 79 Amateur Astronomers Hunt for Extrasolar Planets from Hawaii "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2002 12 81 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: Red Lights in the Sky "Levy, David H." 2002 12 86 Rambling Through the Skies Whale Watching "Krupp, E. C." 2002 12 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Celebrating the Longest Night "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 12 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2002 12 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: Challenging NGC 253 and 288 "Seronik, Gary" 2002 12 93 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in December" "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 12 96 Small-Scope Sampler Cassiopeia's Chair "French, Sue" 2002 12 98 Southern Hemisphere's Sky In the Shadow of the Clouds "Bryant, Greg" 2002 12 100 Celestial Calendar Mutual Events of Jupiter's Moons "Meeus, Jean" 2002 12 103 Celestial Calendar The Return of Comet Brewington "Bryant, Greg" 2002 12 104 Celestial Calendar Eclipse Down Under "Sinnott, Roger W." 2002 12 108 Celestial Calendar Light-Pollution Notes: Books on Light Pollution "Schaaf, Fred" 2002 12 108 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: December Meteors 2002 12 111 Observer's Log Southern Double-Star Gems "Jaworski, Richard" 2002 12 114 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Jason's Phantom Argonauts "Dalrymple, Les" 2002 12 118 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: The Apollo 17 Landing Site "Wood, Charles A." 2002 12 120 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Strange Eclipses Update "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2002 12 122 Telescope Techniques A Roundup of 6-inch Travelscopes "Highe, Albert" "Clement, Jerry" "Milsom, Francis" "Hunton, Donald E." 2002 12 132 Astro Imaging Shooting the Space Station with Video "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2002 12 139 Gallery Earth from Hot Air Balloon "Verhage, L. Paul" 2002 12 140 Gallery "Flame Nebula, NGC 2024" "Moll, Karl" 2002 12 140 Gallery "Small Magellanic Cloud, 47 Tucanae" "BenDaniel, Matt" 2002 12 141 Gallery Distorted Sun "Medina, Oscar" 2002 12 142 Gallery Lagoon Nebula and M7 "BenDaniel, Matt" 2002 12 143 Gallery Iridium-Flash Reflection "Sabatini, S. Matthew" 2003 1 1 Front-Cover Photo Saturn's Rings 2003 1 8 Spectrum Willkommen! "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2003 1 10 Focal Point The Glaze "Alper, Chris" 2003 1 12 Letters Back to School "Pasachoff, Jay M." 2003 1 12 Letters A Stellar Mural "Heyn, Herman M." 2003 1 14 Letters "Defining a ""Planet""" "Paulsel, Lee" 2003 1 14 Letters Appreciating the Mountain "Landstrom, Erich" 2003 1 14 Letters Stamp of Approval "Tatum, Jeremy B." 2003 1 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2003 1 14 Letters Budget Binoculars "Fusfield, William" 2003 1 16 Letters A Run-in with the Law "Wood, Bruce" 2003 1 16 Letters Binocular Fallacies "Rice, Doug" 2003 1 16 Letters I Love It When a Plan Comes Together "Merritt, Frank S." 2003 1 18 News Notes Star Caught Swinging Around Milky Way's Black Hole "Schilling, Govert" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 1 19 News Notes The Magnetar Connection "Schilling, Govert" 2003 1 20 News Notes A Planet of a Bright Double Star "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 1 22 News Notes The Best-Observed Gamma-Ray Burst "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 1 22 News Notes A Modest Solar Appetite for Baby Planets "Roth, Joshua" 2003 1 24 News Notes The Sharpest Picture Ever Made "Winn, Joshua N." 2003 1 24 News Notes Planets in Fomalhaut's Dust Disk? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 1 24 News Notes Dating Beta Pic "Roth, Joshua" 2003 1 26 News Notes Places for Exo-Earths "Kaisler, Denise" 2003 1 26 News Notes A New Way to Set Off Supernovae? "Roth, Joshua" 2003 1 28 News Notes Big Binary Asteroid "Tytell, David" 2003 1 28 News Notes Reporting Asteroid Impact Risks "Chandler, David L." 2003 1 30 News Notes Pluto's Warming Atmosphere "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2003 1 32 News Notes Fewer Hits in Our Future? "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2003 1 32 News Notes Does Neptune Make Saturn Tipsy? "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2003 1 34 Mission Update Mu Space Engineering Satellite C "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 1 34 Mission Update Beagle 2 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 1 34 Mission Update Nozomi "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 1 36 Feature Hot New Products of 2003 "Sky & Telescope, the Editors of" 2003 1 50 Feature From Ptolemy to the Renaissance "Kanas, Nick" 2003 1 60 Images "M64, NGC 4826, Black Eye Galaxy" "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2003 1 62 Software Showcase "TelePoint, by Larry Phillips" 2003 1 62 Software Showcase "TS-24, Crystal Lake Observatory Simulator" 2003 1 62 Software Showcase "SkyChart III, by Southern Stars Systems" 2003 1 64 Books & Beyond "Uranometria 2000.0, Vols. 1 and 2: Deep Sky Atlas" "Jakiel, Richard" 2003 1 64 Books & Beyond Uranometria 2000.0 Vol. 3: Deep Sky Field Guide "Jakiel, Richard" 2003 1 66 Books & Beyond "Space, by Andrew Chaikin" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2003 1 66 Books & Beyond "Space Odyssey, by Serge Brunier" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2003 1 66 Books & Beyond Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years "Goldman, Stuart J." 2003 1 68 Books & Beyond "Benjamin Banneker, by Charles A. Cerami" "Dinderman, Gregg" 2003 1 69 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Star Ware, Third Edition, by Harrington" 2003 1 69 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: STF 2000.0: F.G.W. Struve's Double Stars 2003 1 69 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Patterns in the Void, by Odenwald" 2003 1 70 Amateur Astronomers Peter Pan Under the Starlight: A Chat with P. K. Chen "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2003 1 75 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: The Last Hour "Levy, David H." 2003 1 78 Rambling Through the Skies Pit Vipers "Krupp, E. C." 2003 1 82 Guide to the Evening Sky Winter's Greatest Attraction "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 1 83 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2003 1 84 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: The Glorious Double Cluster "Seronik, Gary" 2003 1 85 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in January" "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 1 88 Small-Scope Sampler Winter Wonders "French, Sue" 2003 1 90 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Bright Stars and Faint Galaxies "Bryant, Greg" 2003 1 93 Celestial Calendar Lunar Occultation Highlights for 2003 "Dunham, David W." 2003 1 98 Celestial Calendar Box: A Graze Is Well Observed Remotely "Dunham, David W." 2003 1 101 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: January Meteors 2003 1 102 Celestial Calendar Eye and I: Far-Violet Venus "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 1 106 Observer's Log Saturn's Colorful Mystery "Dobbins, Thomas A." "Heath, Alan W." "Dikarev, Valeri" 2003 1 112 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Active Aristarchus? "Wood, Charles A." 2003 1 115 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Triangular Targets: Exploring Abell 262 "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2003 1 118 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Of Spots Great and Small "Seronik, Gary" 2003 1 121 Telescope Techniques Collimation with a Barlowed Laser "Carlin, Nils Olof" 2003 1 127 Astro Imaging CCD Imaging with Hydrogen-Alpha Filters "Mandel, Steve" 2003 1 130 Astro Imaging Box: Color CCD Imaging with Hydrogen Alpha "Gendler, Robert" 2003 1 136 Gallery "NGC 7331, Stephan's Quintet: NGC 7317, 7318A & B, 7319, and 7320" "Carrico, Tom" 2003 1 136 Gallery Crepuscular Rays "Kangas, Lauri" 2003 1 136 Gallery Supernova Remnant Simeis 147 in Taurus "Tan, Loke Kun" 2003 1 138 Gallery Canadian Aurora Borealis "Cantin, Dominic" 2003 1 138 Gallery "Pelican Nebula, IC 5067 and 5070" "Rickert, Bob" 2003 1 138 Gallery "NGC 6894, Miniature Ring Nebula" "Jacobs, Rich" 2003 1 138 Gallery "Rainbow over Cooper Landing, Alaska" "Zhu, Jerry Xiaojin" 2003 1 138 Gallery IC 1396 in Cepheus "Rhemann, Gerald" 2003 1 140 Gallery Eta Carinae "Ward, Peter" 2003 2 1 Front-Cover Photo Orion Nebula in the Infrared 2003 2 8 Spectrum Separated at Birth? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2003 2 10 Focal Point Adventures in Sidewalk Astronomy "Bourque, Kevin" 2003 2 12 Letters Mythical Partners "Moore, Patrick" 2003 2 12 Letters A Flawed Gem? - I "Campbell, Thomas J." 2003 2 12 Letters "Join the NASA ""Saturn Parties"" " "Quinn, Jim" 2003 2 14 Letters A Flawed Gem? - II "Dorschner, Johann" 2003 2 14 Letters Blinded by the Light "Rocheleau, Wayne" 2003 2 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2003 2 16 News Notes Zooming In on the Sun "Schilling, Govert" 2003 2 18 News Notes Makeover for Jodrell Bank "Sadler, Bud" 2003 2 18 News Notes New Support for Dark Energy "Bobra, Monica" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 2 20 News Notes Oldest Stars: I - Hunting the First Star "Tytell, David" 2003 2 22 News Notes Oldest Stars: II - Dwarf Carbon Stars "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 2 22 News Notes A Hive of Hypernovae? "Roth, Joshua" 2003 2 24 News Notes Tracking a Runaway Black Hole "Roth, Joshua" 2003 2 26 News Notes Cassini Spies Saturn "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 2 26 News Notes Why Life May Be Common - and Intelligence Rare "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 2 28 News Notes Follow That Story: No Black Hole in M15? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 2 28 News Notes Follow That Story: Another Sign Tunguskas Are Rare "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 2 28 News Notes Follow That Story: Three Exoplanets That Aren't "Roth, Joshua" 2003 2 28 News Notes Follow That Story: Super-Kamiokande Limps Back to Life "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 2 30 Mission Update Galileo "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 2 30 Mission Update Stardust "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 2 30 Mission Update International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 2 30 Mission Update Rosetta "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 2 32 Feature Cosmology's Treasure Map "Schilling, Govert" 2003 2 35 Feature Box: How They Did It "Schilling, Govert" 2003 2 36 Feature Box: An Even Bigger Redshift Survey "Roth, Joshua" 2003 2 38 Feature Box: The 2dFGRS: Not for Cosmology Alone "Schilling, Govert" 2003 2 42 Feature NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility: Seeking Warmth in the Cosmos "Waller, William Howard" 2003 2 46 Feature Box: Legacies Await 2003 2 54 Images "Perfect Spiral Galaxy, M74, NGC 628" "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2003 2 57 S&T Test Report Four Low-Cost Astronomical Video Cameras "Horne, Johnny" 2003 2 64 New Product Showcase Home Observatory Planning Booklets 2003 2 64 New Product Showcase Static-cling Chart Markers 2003 2 64 New Product Showcase Go To Telescope Dovetail Adapter 2003 2 66 Computers in Astronomy Relativistic Travel: To the Stars in a Lifetime "Tung, Brian" 2003 2 70 Computers in Astronomy "Screen Shot: Voyager 3.52, by Carina Software" "Foust, Jeff" 2003 2 72 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Tuning In to Astro Radio "Goldman, Stuart J." 2003 2 74 Software Showcase "SkyTools 2, by CapellaSoft" 2003 2 74 Software Showcase "Maxclock, by Udo Mark" 2003 2 74 Software Showcase "Stellaris, by Nick Heyworth" 2003 2 76 Books & Beyond "The Turtle and the Stars, by Arthur Upgren" "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2003 2 78 Books & Beyond "The Hundred Greatest Stars, by James B. Kaler" "Deans, Paul" 2003 2 80 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 40" 2003 2 80 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Practical Amateur Spectroscopy 2003 2 80 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: El Universo a Sus Pies 2003 2 80 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Heaven & Earth: Unseen by the Naked Eye 2003 2 80 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Mission to Saturn 2003 2 80 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Alien Vision 2003 2 80 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: More Small Astronomical Observatories 2003 2 83 Amateur Astronomers Stargazing in the Shadow of the Great Wall "Xie, Renjiang" 2003 2 86 Amateur Astronomers Nanjing's Historic Refractor "Moran, James M." 2003 2 89 Amateur Astronomers The Light-Pollution Fight Goes Mainstream "Poulsen, Tim" 2003 2 90 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: Pluto's New Little Cousin "Levy, David H." 2003 2 94 Rambling Through the Skies Pattern Recognition "Krupp, E. C." 2003 2 98 Guide to the Evening Sky "A Triangle, a Tree, and a Unicorn's Horn" "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 2 99 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2003 2 100 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: Open Cluster M35 in Gemini "Seronik, Gary" 2003 2 101 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in February" "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 2 104 Small-Scope Sampler A Leap into Lepus "French, Sue" 2003 2 106 Southern Hemisphere's Sky The Arms of Orion "Bryant, Greg" 2003 2 109 Celestial Calendar "The ""Cave"" in Copernicus" "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2003 2 114 Celestial Calendar Light-Pollution Notes: Progress in 2002 "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 2 114 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Trapezium Variable 2003 2 116 Observer's Log The Mystery of the Double Cluster "O'Meara, Stephen James" "Green, Daniel W. E." 2003 2 120 Observer's Log "Deep-Sky Notebook: Orion's ""Other"" Nebulae" "Jakiel, Richard" 2003 2 122 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: The Serenitatis Basin and a Lunar Valentine "Wood, Charles A." 2003 2 124 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Leonids Under a Frost Moon "Seronik, Gary" 2003 2 128 Astro Imaging Scanning Deep-Sky Astrophotos "Lodriguss, Jerry" 2003 2 136 Gallery "The Pleiades, M45" "Tan, Loke Kun" 2003 2 136 Gallery Airplane Crossing the Sun "Jacquot, Philippe" 2003 2 137 Gallery "The Whirlpool Galaxy, M51" "Hallas, Daphne" "Hallas, Tony" 2003 2 138 Gallery Lunar Crater Plato "Mengoli, Giorgio" 2003 2 139 Gallery "The Dumbbell Nebula, M27" "Wodaski, Ron" 2003 2 139 Gallery Barred-Spiral Galaxy NGC 2146 "Block, Adam" 2003 3 8 Spectrum "What We Do, and Why" "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2003 3 10 Focal Point Last Tango in Minneapolis "Aalseth, Douglas" 2003 3 12 Letters SOS: Save Our Skies - I "Krueger, Keith J." 2003 3 12 Letters SOS: Save Our Skies - II "Frederick, Richard" 2003 3 12 Letters A Stake Through the Heart "Kelly, Rick" 2003 3 14 Letters Sage Advice "Pepin, M. Barlow" 2003 3 14 Letters What's in a Name? "Reesor, Tom" 2003 3 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2003 3 14 Letters SOS: Save Our Skies - III "Steffey, Philip C." 2003 3 14 Letters The Folded Refractor "Pfannenschmidt, Ernie" 2003 3 16 News Notes Ripples from a Shredded Galaxy "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 3 17 News Notes A Galaxy Merger Begins "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 3 17 News Notes The Crab's Shimmering Shock Waves "Bobra, Monica" 2003 3 18 News Notes Hubble Reveals a Pulsar's Doomed Partner "Roth, Joshua" 2003 3 20 News Notes What Shapes Planetary Nebulae? "Schilling, Govert" 2003 3 22 News Notes Sizing Up Proxima Centauri "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 3 24 News Notes Storm Clouds Over Titan "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2003 3 26 News Notes Making Moons Slowly "Tytell, David" 2003 3 26 News Notes Rubble-Pile Moon "Tytell, David" 2003 3 28 News Notes Martian Meteorites Made Easy "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2003 3 30 Mission Update Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 3 30 Mission Update New Horizons "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 3 30 Mission Update Spectrum-X-Gamma "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 3 32 Feature Astronomy's Phantom Foul Balls: Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays "Semeniuk, Ivan" 2003 3 42 Feature Old Astrophotos: Averting a Lost Legacy "Schaefer, Bradley E." 2003 3 48 Images "Trifid Nebula, M20" "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2003 3 50 S&T Test Report Brains and Brawn: Meade's LX200GPS "Dyer, Alan" 2003 3 59 Computers in Astronomy "Screen Shot: SkyChart III, Version 3.6" "Ratledge, David" 2003 3 61 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Satisfy Your Auroral Longing "Goldman, Stuart J." 2003 3 64 Software Showcase "Starry Night Pro 4.0, Starry Night Backyard 4.0" 2003 3 64 Software Showcase Personal Sky Chart 2003 3 64 Software Showcase Planet's Visibility 2.0 2003 3 70 Books & Beyond Where Is Everybody? by Stephen Webb "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 3 71 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Children of the Stars 2003 3 71 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Life at the Limits 2003 3 71 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: What Does a Martian Look Like? 2003 3 71 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Earth, Life, and the Universe" 2003 3 72 Books & Beyond "The Extravagant Universe, by Robert P. Kirshner" "Roth, Joshua" 2003 3 75 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: On the Shoulders of Giants 2003 3 75 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Asteroid Rendezvous 2003 3 75 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Touch the Universe 2003 3 75 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Celestial Harvest 2003 3 77 Amateur Astronomers Astronomy with Children: Our Backyard Analemma Project "Kauper, Michael" 2003 3 78 Amateur Astronomers What Is an Analemma? "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2003 3 82 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: The New Age of CCD Observing "Levy, David H." 2003 3 86 Rambling Through the Skies The Final Unicorn "Krupp, E. C." 2003 3 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Night-Sky Facts and Fantasies "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 3 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2003 3 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: M46 and M47: A Celestial Odd Couple "Seronik, Gary" 2003 3 93 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in March" "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 3 96 Small-Scope Sampler Double Your Fun "French, Sue" 2003 3 98 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Views from the Ship's Stern "Bryant, Greg" 2003 3 101 Celestial Calendar Planetary Occultations for 2003 "Dunham, David W." 2003 3 107 Celestial Calendar More Events of Jupiter's Moons "Meeus, Jean" 2003 3 110 Celestial Calendar The Near Sky: Halo Effects "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 3 110 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Full Moon not Full? 2003 3 115 Observer's Log Tips and Techniques for Sketching the Deep Sky "Jakiel, Richard" 2003 3 120 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: A Hive of Galaxies in Cancer "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2003 3 122 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Multi-Ring Mare Humorum "Wood, Charles A." 2003 3 124 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: December's Brief Totality "di Cicco, Dennis" 2003 3 126 Telescope Techniques A Hemispheric Reflector "Wehler, Randall" 2003 3 130 Gallery Dec. 2002 Solar Eclipse with Silhouettes "Hurley, Dan" 2003 3 130 Gallery Dec. 2002 Solar Eclipse Sequence "DiLetti, Kevin" 2003 3 130 Gallery Dec. 2002 Solar Eclipse Corona "Carlos, Wendy" "Kern, Jonathan" "Kern, Jan" 2003 3 132 Gallery Dec. 2002 Solar Eclipse Crescent "Schechter, Eliot J." 2003 3 132 Gallery Dec. 2002 Solar Eclipse Diamond Ring "Morel, Philippe" 2003 3 132 Gallery Dec. 2002 Solar Eclipse over Tree "Karrer, Michael" 2003 3 132 Gallery Dec. 2002 Solar Eclipse with Prominences "Barnes, Stephen" 2003 4 8 Spectrum Out of Africa "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2003 4 10 Focal Point The Stars in Opposition "Gordon, Nicole" 2003 4 12 Letters Sweeping Up Stars "Embry, Calvin" 2003 4 12 Letters An Old Friend "Fusco, Ralph L." 2003 4 12 Letters Egocentric Naming "Loosli, Urs" 2003 4 12 Letters Tenuous Tenure "Sonnabend, Dave" 2003 4 14 Letters The Wrong Stuff - III "Evans, Hilton" 2003 4 14 Letters The Wrong Stuff - I "Fischer, Eric M." 2003 4 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2003 4 14 Letters The Wrong Stuff - II "Sutherland, Michael" 2003 4 14 Letters A Clear View "Flynn, Chris" 2003 4 16 Letters Star Power "Caddock, Earl" 2003 4 16 Letters Silver Anniversaries "Kuplin, Bob" 2003 4 18 News Notes Australian Scopes Lost to Wildfire "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2003 4 20 News Notes A New Way to Find Planets "Tytell, David" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 4 21 News Notes Snowflakes in the Dark Age? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 4 21 News Notes Planet Seen by Sideways Wobble "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 4 22 News Notes Andromeda's Second Stream "Schilling, Govert" 2003 4 22 News Notes Ring Around the Milky Way "Tytell, David" 2003 4 24 News Notes Earth on the Moon "Lucentini, Jack" 2003 4 26 News Notes The Nearest Brown Dwarf "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 4 26 News Notes Cosmic-Ray Bits of the Kuiper Belt "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 4 27 News Notes The Coolest Brown Dwarf "Tytell, David" 2003 4 27 News Notes Neptune's Growing Family "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2003 4 27 News Notes The Brightest Brown Dwarf "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 4 28 News Notes Speed of Gravity Measured - or Maybe Not "Tytell, David" 2003 4 30 Mission Update Rosetta "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 4 30 Mission Update Comet Nucleus Tour "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 4 30 Mission Update Space Infrared Telescope Facility "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 4 30 Mission Update International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 4 36 Feature Planets in Production: Making New Worlds "Jayawardhana, Ray" 2003 4 38 Feature Box: Growing Up in a Rough Neighborhood "Tytell, David" 2003 4 44 Feature A Trip to the Galactic Center "Tanner, Angelle" 2003 4 52 Images Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689 "Villard, Ray" 2003 4 56 S&T Test Report A Siberian Achromatic Refractor "Kalemjian, Ethan" 2003 4 59 S&T Test Report Box: Retro Refractor "di Cicco, Dennis" 2003 4 62 Computers in Astronomy A Weather Clock for Observers "Danko, Attilla" 2003 4 66 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Starry Night Pro 4.0.2 "Heafner, Joe" 2003 4 68 Software Showcase Nightfall 2003 4 68 Software Showcase Kagayaki III 2003 4 72 Books & Beyond "Strange Matters, by Tom Siegfried" "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2003 4 74 Books & Beyond "The Florida Night Sky, by Elinor De Wire" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2003 4 74 Books & Beyond "Our Spacious Skies, by Lezak, Winter, and Winter" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2003 4 75 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: The Facts On File Space and Astronomy Handbook 2003 4 75 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: The Enigma of Sunspots 2003 4 75 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: The Observing Guide to the Messier Marathon 2003 4 77 Amateur Astronomers Sun and Snow: Mount Wilson Observatory's Summer Program "Simmons, Mike" 2003 4 82 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: Adventure on the High Seas "Levy, David H." 2003 4 86 Rambling Through the Skies Hands-On "Krupp, E. C." 2003 4 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Star Names New and Old "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 4 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2003 4 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: Jupiter Visits the Beehive "Seronik, Gary" 2003 4 93 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in April" "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 4 96 Small-Scope Sampler The Sickle's Harvest "French, Sue" 2003 4 98 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Setting Sail in the Stellar WInds "Bryant, Greg" 2003 4 101 Celestial Calendar Vesta in Virgo: A Naked-Eye Asteroid "Bryant, Greg" 2003 4 104 Celestial Calendar Outer Planets in 2003 "Sinnott, Roger W." 2003 4 108 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: April Meteors 2003 4 108 Celestial Calendar Eye and I: Brightest Comet Trails "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 4 110 Observer's Log 111 Deep-Sky Wonders for Light-Polluted Skies "Mullaney, James" 2003 4 116 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: A Galaxy -Hop from M49 "Whitman, Alan" 2003 4 119 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: The Marius Hills "Wood, Charles A." 2003 4 122 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Conjunction with a Crustacean "di Cicco, Dennis" 2003 4 124 Telescope Techniques A Simple and Sturdy Wedgepod "Seronik, Gary" 2003 4 127 Telescope Techniques A Crutch Tripod "Pfannenschmidt, Ernie" 2003 4 130 Astro Imaging Guiding Techniques for Astrophotography "Perkins, Philip" 2003 4 133 Astro Imaging "Box: Simple, Accurate Polar Alignment" 2003 4 134 Astro Imaging Box: Practical Tips for Using the ST-4 Autoguider 2003 4 136 Gallery Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744 in Pavo "Wendel, Volker" "Flach-Wilken, Bernd" 2003 4 136 Gallery "Total Solar Eclipse, Dec. 2002, Africa" "Halliday, Tony" 2003 4 136 Gallery Canadian Aurora "Rickerby, Jason" 2003 4 137 Gallery "Fox Fur Nebula, S Monocerotis" "Gendler, Robert" 2003 4 138 Gallery NGC 1973-75-77 in Orion "Held, David" 2003 5 8 Spectrum "Com-mu-ni-ty, n." "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2003 5 10 Focal Point A Detective Story "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2003 5 12 Letters Pleiades Illusion "Wood, Charles A." 2003 5 12 Letters Catch a Falling Star "Schreiner, Rick" 2003 5 12 Letters The Lost Years "D'Andrea, John" 2003 5 14 Letters Purple Prose - I "Newsom, Gerald" 2003 5 14 Letters Purple Prose - II "Hanner, Gerald P." 2003 5 14 Letters A Galilean Dream "Ayiomamitis, Anthony" 2003 5 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2003 5 16 News Notes Turning a Corner on the New Cosmology "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 5 18 News Notes Hunting the First Stars "Tytell, David" 2003 5 18 News Notes Lumicon Lives "Tytell, David" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2003 5 19 News Notes New Light on the Whirpool's Origin "Roth, Joshua" 2003 5 20 News Notes Chaos at a White Dwarf "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 5 20 News Notes Zooming Into the Dumbbell "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 5 22 News Notes The Great Lakes of Titan "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2003 5 22 News Notes Short Lives for Short-Period Comets "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 5 24 News Notes The Moon's Youngest Crater? "Beatty, J. Kelly" "Bobra, Monica" 2003 5 26 News Notes Space Science After Columbia: On Schedule "Tytell, David" 2003 5 28 Mission Update Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 12 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 5 28 Mission Update Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 5 28 Mission Update National Aeronautics and Space Administration "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 5 30 Feature Optical Interferometry Comes of Age "Lawson, Peter R." 2003 5 32 Feature Box: How It Works: The Simplest Case 2003 5 34 Feature Box: Why Is It So Hard? 2003 5 40 Feature A Millennium of Shattered Stars "Stephenson, F. Richard" "Green, David A." 2003 5 50 S&T Test Report 21st-Century Robotic Astronomy "di Cicco, Dennis" 2003 5 58 New Product Showcase Landing Pad for NexStar GPS 2003 5 58 New Product Showcase SolarView 50 H-Alpha Telescope 2003 5 58 New Product Showcase Moon Mission Game 2003 5 62 Software Showcase Astronomer's Digital Clock 2003 5 62 Software Showcase Stargazer's Delight 6.1 2003 5 62 Software Showcase EarthWatch 4.01 2003 5 65 Books & Beyond "The Smithsonian Book of Mars, by Joseph Boyce" "Tytell, David" 2003 5 65 Books & Beyond "Mars: The Lure of the Red Planet, by Sheehan and O'Meara" "Tytell, David" 2003 5 65 Books & Beyond "Mapping Mars, by Oliver Morton" "Tytell, David" 2003 5 68 Books & Beyond "Mars Observer's Guide, by Neil Bone" "Tytell, David" 2003 5 69 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Mars: The Mystery Unfolds 2003 5 70 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Photographic Atlas of the Moon 2003 5 70 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Observer's Guide to Stellar Evolution 2003 5 70 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: SETI 2020 2003 5 70 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Solar System Voyage 2003 5 70 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Touch the Stars II 2003 5 70 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: How to Observe the Sun Safely 2003 5 70 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: The Restless Universe 2003 5 74 Amateur Astronomers Astronomy in the Land of Fire and Ice "Gudmundsson, Snaevarr" 2003 5 76 Amateur Astronomers Box: Travel Tips for Eclipse Chasers 2003 5 78 Amateur Astronomers Astronomy Day 2003 "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2003 5 80 Amateur Astronomers "Star Trails: The Great ""Supernova"" of 2003" "Levy, David H." 2003 5 86 Rambling Through the Skies Sky Writing "Krupp, E. C." 2003 5 90 Guide to the Evening Sky The Yardstick Solar System "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 5 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2003 5 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: Visiting Vesta "Seronik, Gary" 2003 5 93 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in May" "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 5 96 Small-Scope Sampler Under Virgo's Wing "French, Sue" 2003 5 98 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Unveiling the Centaur "Bryant, Greg" 2003 5 104 Celestial Calendar May's Two Eclipses "Sinnott, Roger W." 2003 5 107 Celestial Calendar Mercury Transits the Sun "Sinnott, Roger W." 2003 5 112 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultation 2003 5 112 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: May Meteors 2003 5 113 Celestial Calendar Light-Pollution Notes: Dark Sky Week "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 5 116 Observer's Log Observing Lord Rosse's Spirals "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2003 5 122 Observer's Log "Lunar Notebook: Mare Vaporum, Sinus Aestuum, and Fire Fountains" "Wood, Charles A." 2003 5 123 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Things Far and Near "di Cicco, Dennis" 2003 5 125 Telescope Techniques A Compact Back-Garden Observatory "Ashford, Adrian R." 2003 5 130 Gallery "Aurora from Airplane, Dec. 2002" "Myhrvold, Nathan" 2003 5 130 Gallery "Columbia's Launch, Jan. 2003" "Ramotowski, Becky" 2003 5 131 Gallery "Partial Eclipse, Setting Sun, Dec. 2002" "Evans, Nigel" 2003 5 131 Gallery Full Moon Rising "Churchill, Christine" 2003 5 132 Gallery Barred-Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 in Fornax "Wendel, Volker" "Flach-Wilken, Bernd" 2003 5 132 Gallery "Flame Nebula, NGC 2024" "Wolfe, Ted" 2003 5 132 Gallery "Titan II Launch, Jan. 2003" "Lockett, Brian" 2003 5 133 Gallery "Tarantula Nebula, NGC 2070, 30 Doradus" "Ward, Peter" 2003 6 1 Front-Cover Photo Mars 2003 6 8 Spectrum Nothing New Under the Sun "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2003 6 10 Focal Point Life Amid the Grit "Wann, Jey" 2003 6 12 Letters A Black Eye "Lunn, Martin" 2003 6 12 Letters Level-Headed Advice "Privett, Grant" 2003 6 12 Letters A Stellar Merger "Vecoli, Jeremy" 2003 6 12 Letters As an Empire Declined "Stephan, Christopher" 2003 6 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2003 6 14 Letters Not-So-Dark Ages "Jackson, Richard A." 2003 6 14 Letters Monogrammed Moon "Dierick, Dominique" 2003 6 16 News Notes A Light Echo Like No Other "Schilling, Govert" 2003 6 18 News Notes Star Wars Satellite Spies Galactic Wind "Roth, Joshua" 2003 6 18 News Notes A Molecular View of M82 "Roth, Joshua" 2003 6 19 News Notes Do Globular Clusters Spit Out X-ray Stars? "Roth, Joshua" 2003 6 20 News Notes A Planet That's Boiling Away "Schilling, Govert" 2003 6 21 News Notes Mars Radiation Not So Bad "Chaikin, Andrew" 2003 6 22 News Notes The Lost Lunar Meteorites "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2003 6 24 News Notes Lunar Flash Doesn't Pan Out "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2003 6 25 News Notes "Follow That Story: Alpha Centauri, Exactly" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 6 25 News Notes Follow That Story: Simple Inflation Not Dead Yet "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 6 26 Mission Update Pioneer 10 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 6 26 Mission Update Mu Space Experiment System C "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 6 26 Mission Update Galaxy Evolution Explorer "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 6 28 Feature Mars Mania 1956 "Dobbins, Thomas A." "Sheehan, William" 2003 6 30 Feature Box: Masters of Their Craft 2003 6 38 Feature Delving Into Extra Dimensions "Naeye, Robert" 2003 6 46 S&T Test Report Breaking New Ground in the Beginner's Market "Roth, Joshua" 2003 6 49 S&T Test Report Box: Fun and Frustration with a 2 1/2-Pound Wonder "Roth, Joshua" 2003 6 52 New Product Showcase Speers-Waler WA Series Eyepieces 2003 6 52 New Product Showcase Dobsonian Mount for Newtonian Reflector by Teeter Telescopes 2003 6 52 New Product Showcase 2-inch Star Diagonal by William Optics 2003 6 54 Computers in Astronomy Three for the Moon "Seronik, Gary" 2003 6 58 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Exploring the Red Planet "Goldman, Stuart J." 2003 6 60 Books & Beyond "Astronomy Encyclopedia, Patrick Moore, ed." "Kanipe, Jeff" 2003 6 62 Books & Beyond "Deep-Sky Companions: The Caldwell Objects, by Stephen James O'Meara" "Cozens, Glen" 2003 6 64 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Observing the Craters of Mars, Part 1" 2003 6 64 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Episodes from the Early History of Astronomy 2003 6 64 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Objects in the Heavens, by Peter Birren" 2003 6 66 Amateur Astronomers Jewel of the Andes: Love at First Light "Kurtz, Patricia A." 2003 6 72 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: A Sonnet for Columbia's Seven "Levy, David H." 2003 6 78 Rambling Through the Skies Woman Drivers "Krupp, E. C." 2003 6 82 Guide to the Evening Sky Patterns You Never Knew "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 6 83 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2003 6 84 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: M4: A Marvelous Globular "Seronik, Gary" 2003 6 85 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in June" "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 6 88 Small-Scope Sampler Spectral Hues of Double Stars "French, Sue" 2003 6 90 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Galaxies Near and Far "Bryant, Greg" 2003 6 93 Celestial Calendar Mars at Its All-Time Finest "Troiani, Daniel M." 2003 6 94 Celestial Calendar Box: A Mars Record for the Ages "Sinnott, Roger W." 2003 6 96 Celestial Calendar Box: About the Maps 2003 6 98 Celestial Calendar Box: ALPO's Training Program "Robertson, Timothy J." 2003 6 102 Celestial Calendar Eye and I: Bright Spots on the Moon "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 6 105 Observer's Log Seeking Colorful Double Stars "Inglis, Mike" 2003 6 110 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: The Bow and Arrow "Dalrymple, Les" 2003 6 112 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Frigoris and Beyond "Wood, Charles A." 2003 6 117 Astro Imaging Shooting the Planets with Webcams "Davis, Michael" "Staup, David" 2003 6 124 Gallery IC 1795 in Cassiopeia "Lula, Brian" 2003 6 125 Gallery Small Magellanic Cloud "Rhemann, Gerald" "Kersche, Franz" 2003 6 125 Gallery "Hickson 44: NGC 3193, NGC 3190, and NGC 3187" "Block, Adam" 2003 6 126 Gallery Milky Way "Mak, Mark" "Kong, Albert" 2003 6 126 Gallery Circumpolar Star Twirl "Fletcher, Bill" "Fletcher, Sally" 2003 6 127 Gallery Hydrogen-Alpha Sun "Hyndman, Paul" 2003 7 8 Spectrum Unsung Heros "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2003 7 10 Focal Point Silent(ly) Running "White, Jay C." 2003 7 12 Letters Why We Observe "Foreman, Jeff" 2003 7 14 Letters Pictures from the Past - I "Hazen, Martha L." 2003 7 14 Letters Plane Speaking - II "Anderson, Colin" 2003 7 14 Letters Pictures from the Past - II "Sherman, Steven M." 2003 7 14 Letters Plane Speaking - I "Morgan, Jeff" 2003 7 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2003 7 16 Letters With All Due Respect "Zwicky, Barbarina" 2003 7 16 Letters Radio Stars "Kaplan, Mat" 2003 7 18 News Notes Gamma-ray Burst Proves a Supernova Link "Schilling, Govert" 2003 7 19 News Notes Superwide Camera Shows Its Stuff "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 7 20 News Notes Galaxy Bars: Firm or Fleeting? "Roth, Joshua" 2003 7 20 News Notes Better Look at a Protoplanetary Disk "Schilling, Govert" 2003 7 21 News Notes Nuclear Physics from Quivering White Dwarfs "Roth, Joshua" 2003 7 22 News Notes LOFAR: A Deep Look Through a Neglected Window "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2003 7 24 News Notes Martian Gullies Revisited "Tytell, David" 2003 7 24 News Notes NASA Sets Its Sites on Mars "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2003 7 25 News Notes Moon Race Heats Up "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2003 7 25 News Notes Meteorites Rain on Chicago Suburbs "Brown, Peter" 2003 7 26 News Notes Secret Documents Rewrite the Discovery of Neptune "Sheehan, William" 2003 7 28 Mission Update Deep Impact "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 7 28 Mission Update Space Infrared Telescope Facility "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 7 28 Mission Update Rosetta "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 7 28 Mission Update Nozomi "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 7 30 Feature Eta Carinae's Year of Glory "Roth, Joshua" 2003 7 36 Feature Mysteries of Mars "Hartman, William K." 2003 7 46 S&T Test Report Coronado 90-mm Better White Light Filter "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2003 7 48 S&T Test Report BinoMite Solar Binoculars "di Cicco, Dennis" 2003 7 50 S&T Test Report CEMAX Eyepieces "di Cicco, Dennis" 2003 7 52 New Product Showcase Clement Focuser 2003 7 52 New Product Showcase Table Tote 2003 7 52 New Product Showcase "Spanish Planisphere, Guia de las Estrellas" 2003 7 54 Computers in Astronomy "Dating van Gogh's ""Moonrise""" "Olson, Donald W." "Doescher, Russell L." "Olson, Marilynn S." 2003 7 59 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: A 21st-Century Logbook "Foust, Jeff" 2003 7 60 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: T.G.I. Summer "Goldman, Stuart J." 2003 7 62 Software Showcase StarStrider 2003 7 62 Software Showcase Deepsky 2003 2003 7 62 Software Showcase NightVision 2003 7 64 Books & Beyond "Out of the Blue, by John Naylor" "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2003 7 66 Books & Beyond "Solar System, by Nigel Hey" "Harwood, William" 2003 7 69 Amateur Astronomers Going Royal: A Century of Public Service "Grey, Denis" 2003 7 72 Amateur Astronomers A Golden Celebration "Grego, Peter" "Scagell, Robin" 2003 7 73 Amateur Astronomers The Sky's Knight: Patrick Moore "Ashford, Adrian R." 2003 7 74 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: A Midsummer Night's Starcloud "Levy, David H." 2003 7 78 Rambling Through the Skies High Fashion "Krupp, E. C." 2003 7 82 Guide to the Evening Sky Scorpius and a July Riddle "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 7 83 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2003 7 84 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: A Globular Pair in Ophiuchus "Seronik, Gary" 2003 7 85 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in July" "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 7 88 Small-Scope Sampler Around the Bend in Draco "French, Sue" 2003 7 90 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Stellar Nurseries and Associations "Bryant, Greg" 2003 7 96 Celestial Calendar All Eyes on Cassiopeia "Tytell, David" 2003 7 101 Celestial Calendar Mars Notebook: Polar Cap on Display "Sinnott, Roger W." 2003 7 104 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Visible Side of Mars 2003 7 104 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Moon Occults Mars 2003 7 104 Celestial Calendar The Near Sky: Wonders of the Lupus Supernova "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 7 107 Observer's Log Storm Watch on Mars "Parker, Donald C." "Beish, Jeff D." 2003 7 110 Observer's Log Global Warming on Mars? "Sheehan, William" 2003 7 114 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: In the Shadow of Copernicus "Wood, Charles A." 2003 7 117 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Celestial Odd Couples "Gottlieb, Steve" 2003 7 120 Telescope Techniques A New Lightweight Dobsonian "Henderson, Scott" 2003 7 128 Astro Imaging Getting Star and Nebula Colors Right in CCD Imaging "Goldman, Don S." 2003 7 136 Gallery Spiral Galaxy M81 "Lula, Brian" 2003 7 136 Gallery "Orion Nebulosities, M78, NGC 2064, 2067, and 2071" "Tarr, Chris" 2003 7 136 Gallery NGC 2623 in Cancer "Keller, Philipp" "Fuchs, Christian" 2003 7 136 Gallery Star Trails and a Meteor "Klein, Joe" 2003 7 138 Gallery "Thor's Helmet, NGC 2359" "Lutch, Benjamin" 2003 7 139 Gallery Saturn "Gu, Yu" 2003 7 139 Gallery "Eskimo Nebula, NGC 2392" "Flach-Wilken, Bernd" "Wendel, Volker" 2003 8 8 Spectrum "My, How You've Changed!" "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2003 8 10 Focal Point Driving to Pluto "Livingston, Andrew" 2003 8 12 Letters Moore Opinions "Opderbeck, David" 2003 8 12 Letters Through Starlit Eyes "Tabbutt, Don" 2003 8 12 Letters Like Deja Vu All Over Again "Keel, William C." 2003 8 12 Letters Analemma "Tobiason, Dick" 2003 8 14 Letters Where the Satellite GOES "Kleespies, Thomas J." 2003 8 14 Letters Columbia Remembered "Lock, Frank" 2003 8 14 Letters Tenuous Tenure Revisited "Napier, Tom" 2003 8 14 Letters Breaking Up Is Hard to Do "Wiggins, Patrick" 2003 8 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2003 8 16 Letters Proper Planning "Latham, Don" 2003 8 16 Letters The Battle Continues... "Shoemaker, Paul" 2003 8 18 News Notes The Delta Sco Show Continues "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 8 18 News Notes The Milky Way and M31 "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 8 19 News Notes Waves Against the Swan "Sadler, Bud" 2003 8 20 News Notes Galaxies with No Dark Matter "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 8 20 News Notes Supernovae and Cosmic Acceleration "MacRobert, Alan M." "Roth, Joshua" 2003 8 21 News Notes Stellar Slingshot in Taurus? "Roth, Joshua" 2003 8 22 News Notes "Titan's Surface: Mostly Ice, Not Goo" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 8 22 News Notes Neptune's Forecast: A Cloudy Summer "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2003 8 24 News Notes S&T Rocks! "Tytell, David" 2003 8 24 News Notes Torn-Apart Stars? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 8 26 News Notes Follow That Story: More Signs of Very Early Stars "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 8 26 News Notes Mount Stromlo: Out of the Ashes "Tytell, David" 2003 8 26 News Notes Follow That Story: Distance to the LMC "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 8 28 Mission Update Hubble Space Telescope "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 8 28 Mission Update Galaxy Evolution Explorer "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 8 28 Mission Update Hayabusa (MUSES C) "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 8 30 Feature The Iceball Next Door "Clifford, Stephen M." 2003 8 38 Feature Gamma-Ray Astronomy Achieves Stardom "Wanjek, Christopher" 2003 8 41 Feature Box: The Gamma-Ray Primer "Wanjek, Christopher" 2003 8 42 Feature Box: Our Gamma-Ray Sun "Lin, Robert P." 2003 8 46 Images Andromeda Retrospective "Gendler, Robert" 2003 8 53 S&T Test Report "A Classic Returns, Orion SkyView Pro 6LT EQ Reflector" "Ting, Ed" 2003 8 56 S&T Test Report Orion's SkyView Pro Equatorial Mount "di Cicco, Dennis" 2003 8 60 New Product Showcase Multi-Eyepiece Turret 2003 8 60 New Product Showcase LightWedge 2003 8 60 New Product Showcase Monster Clamp 2003 8 62 Computers in Astronomy Dark Skies Rule "Ferris, William D." 2003 8 66 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: MegaStar 5 "Ratledge, David" 2003 8 68 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Deep into the Infrared Sky "Goldman, Stuart J." 2003 8 70 Software Showcase RegiStax 2003 8 70 Software Showcase S-Spline 2 and S-Spline Pro 2003 8 70 Software Showcase Anti-Blooming Filter 2003 8 72 Books & Beyond "The Backyard Astronomer's Guide, Second Edition" "Aguilar, David A." 2003 8 74 Books & Beyond "What Your Astronomy Textbook Won't Tell You, by Norman Sperling" "Bobra, Monica" 2003 8 75 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Intelligent Life in the Universe 2003 8 75 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Meteorites, Ice, and Antarctica: A Personal Account" 2003 8 75 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Mind Over Matter: Conversations with the Cosmos 2003 8 78 Amateur Astronomers Own a Piece of the Sky "Redfern, Greg" 2003 8 82 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: The Architect of Stellafane East "Levy, David H." 2003 8 86 Rambling Through the Skies Facing Mars "Krupp, E. C." 2003 8 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Showing Off the Cosmos "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 8 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2003 8 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: The Lagoon Nebula "Seronik, Gary" 2003 8 93 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in August" "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 8 96 Small-Scope Sampler After Tea "French, Sue" 2003 8 98 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Cities Among the Stars "Bryant, Greg" 2003 8 102 Celestial Calendar "The Hunt for the ""Hurtling Moons""" "Sinnott, Roger W." 2003 8 103 Celestial Calendar Box: Walt Whitman and a Perihelic Opposition of Mars "Olson, Donald W." "Olson, Marilynn S." 2003 8 108 Celestial Calendar Mars Notebook: The Cap Breaks Up "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2003 8 109 Celestial Calendar Eye and I: The Brightness and Color of Mars "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 8 109 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: August Meteors 2003 8 109 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Visible Side of Mars 2003 8 112 Observer's Log Observing the Volcanoes of Mars "Sheehan, William" "Dobbins, Thomas A." 2003 8 118 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Dark Nebulae in Northern Cygnus "Whitman, Alan" 2003 8 120 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Treasures of Western Tranquillitatis "Wood, Charles A." 2003 8 122 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: The Dark of an Eclipsed Moon "Deans, Paul" 2003 8 124 Telescope Techniques Coping with Atmospheric Dispersion "Dobbins, Thomas A." 2003 8 130 Astro Imaging Creating High-Resolution Color CCD Mosaics with Photoshop "Gendler, Robert" 2003 8 136 Gallery "Lunar Portrait, Full Moon" "Bonduelle, Etienne" 2003 8 136 Gallery Young Crescent Moon "Gu, Yu" 2003 8 136 Gallery Mercury's Transit of the Sun "Bosman, Richard" 2003 8 136 Gallery Great Nebula in Orion "Bonduelle, Etienne" 2003 8 138 Gallery Lunar Crater Clavius "Higgins, Wes" 2003 8 138 Gallery "Ring Nebula, M57" "Bonduelle, Etienne" 2003 8 138 Gallery Phases of Venus "Massey, Steve" 2003 8 139 Gallery Lunar Crater Complex "Bethune, Christophe" 2003 8 139 Gallery Saturn "Yen, I Cheng" 2003 9 8 Spectrum A Decade of Rambling "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2003 9 10 Focal Point The Tao of Astronomy "Dohmen, Kevin D." 2003 9 12 Letters A Global Community "Wilson, Bruce" 2003 9 12 Letters Missing Artwork "Willard, Bert" 2003 9 14 Letters Proper Credit - I "Sherwood, Bruce" 2003 9 14 Letters Proper Credit - II "Wisse, Peter" 2003 9 14 Letters Had a Great Trip "White, Gerald Kimber" 2003 9 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2003 9 14 Letters The Aging Eye "Logan, William L." 2003 9 16 News Notes Planet-Forming Paradox Solved? "Tytell, David" 2003 9 17 News Notes X-raying Planetary Birthplaces "Tytell, David" 2003 9 18 News Notes Weighing a Pulsar's Planets "Tytell, David" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 9 18 News Notes Supernova Factory in a Newborn Globular Cluster "Tytell, David" 2003 9 19 News Notes X-raying Windblown Bubbles "Roth, Joshua" 2003 9 20 News Notes Calibrating Dwarf Novae "Roth, Joshua" 2003 9 20 News Notes The Flattest Star "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 9 22 News Notes Tracking Exoplanet Migration "Schilling, Govert" 2003 9 23 News Notes Metals Hint at How Planets Form "Schilling, Govert" 2003 9 24 News Notes Jupiter's Weather Gets Clearer "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2003 9 26 News Notes Siberian Fireball Ignites Forest? "Goldman, Stuart J." 2003 9 26 News Notes Noctilucent Clouds from Rocket Exhaust "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2003 9 27 News Notes Follow That Story: Light-Echo Star Cools "Tytell, David" 2003 9 27 News Notes Follow That Story: Celestron Wins a Round "di Cicco, Dennis" 2003 9 27 News Notes Follow That Story: Exoplanets and Habitable Zones "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 9 28 Mission Update Mars Express and Beagle 2 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 9 28 Mission Update Spectroscopy and Photometry of the IGM's Diffuse Radiation "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 9 28 Mission Update Spirit and Opportunity (Mars Exploration Rovers) "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 9 30 Feature Flourine: An Elementary Mystery "Croswell, Ken" 2003 9 38 Feature 400 Years of Uranometria "Tidey, Steve" 2003 9 46 Images M33: More than Meets the Eye "Rector, Travis A." 2003 9 50 S&T Test Report A Stellarvue Duo: The Nighthawk and the SV85S "Dyer, Alan" 2003 9 56 New Product Showcase Helix Observing Accessories' Bino Platform 2003 9 56 New Product Showcase Barry Crist's Telescope Miniatures 2003 9 56 New Product Showcase ScopeTronix's MaxView 2 Eyepiece 2003 9 60 Computers in Astronomy Into the 21st Century "Johnston, Bill" 2003 9 64 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Planetarium Gold 4.1 "Heafner, Joe" 2003 9 66 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: View from Mars Orbit "Goldman, Stuart J." 2003 9 68 Software Showcase "JODAS, Ivan Krastev" 2003 9 68 Software Showcase "TheSky, Software Bisque" 2003 9 68 Software Showcase Jim Berry's PocketSat+ 2003 9 70 Books & Beyond "Observing Comets, by John Nick James and Gerald North" "Bortle, John E." 2003 9 72 Books & Beyond "Universe, by Robin Kerrod " "Ruiz, S. Tania" 2003 9 72 Books & Beyond "A Beginner's Guide to the Universe, by Andrew Conway and Rosie Coleman" "Ruiz, S. Tania" 2003 9 74 Books & Beyond "The Universe: 365 Days, by Robert Nemiroff and Jerry T. Bonnell" 2003 9 74 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites, by Jon Erickson" 2003 9 74 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Sky at Night, by Patrick Moore" 2003 9 74 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Universe, by Tim Tully" 2003 9 75 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Misfortunes as Blessings in Disguise, by Dorrit Hoffleit" 2003 9 75 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Alpha and Omega, by Charles Seife" 2003 9 75 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Stikky Night Skies 2003 9 77 Amateur Astronomers How to Organize a Public Star Party "Machholz, Don" 2003 9 82 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: Black Drop Rising "Levy, David H." 2003 9 86 Rambling Through the Skies Balancing Act "Krupp, E. C." 2003 9 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Patterns in a Million-Mars SKy "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 9 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2003 9 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: Three Star Clusters in Ophiuchus "Seronik, Gary" 2003 9 93 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in September" "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 9 96 Small-Scope Sampler The Gem of the Milky Way "French, Sue" 2003 9 98 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Celestial Pathways "Bryant, Greg" 2003 9 104 Celestial Calendar How Nearby Is Teegarden's Star? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2003 9 106 Celestial Calendar X Sagittarii: A Star Toward Our Galaxy's Heart "Bryant, Greg" 2003 9 107 Celestial Calendar Mars Notebook: Dusty Times Ahead? "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2003 9 108 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Visible Side of Mars 2003 9 108 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultation 2003 9 109 Celestial Calendar "Light-Pollution Notes: A Myriad, a Few" "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 9 111 Observer's Log Globular Treasures Near Summer Showpieces "Jones, Paul B." 2003 9 116 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Night of the Dolphin "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2003 9 120 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Oblique Crisium and Proclus "Wood, Charles A." 2003 9 122 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Martian Happenings "Parker, Donald C." 2003 9 125 Astro Imaging Get Ultrasharp Planetary Images with Your CCD Camera "Grafton, Ed" 2003 9 130 Gallery Icelandic Ring Eclipse "Garde, Olivier" 2003 9 130 Gallery Scimitar Eclipse Sunrise "Wienerroither, Peter" 2003 9 131 Gallery Mercury's Transit of the Sun "Dierick, Dominique" 2003 9 131 Gallery Lunar-Eclipse Sequence "Guay, Jean-Francois" 2003 9 131 Gallery Scottish Crescent Sunrise "Davidson, Ian" 2003 9 132 Gallery Lunar Totality "Ball, Jeff" 2003 9 132 Gallery "Partial Sunrise, Scene I" "Giusti, Ida" 2003 9 132 Gallery "Partial Sunrise, Scene III" "Taylor, Mark" 2003 9 132 Gallery "Partial Sunrise, Scene II" "Jager, Michael" 2003 9 133 Gallery Mercury Transit in Hydrogen-Alpha "Ward, Peter" 2003 10 8 Spectrum Cosmology's New Era "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2003 10 10 Focal Point Sky Writing "Smith, Michael S." 2003 10 12 Letters Moon Shots "Sochinski, John" 2003 10 12 Letters Closest Approach "Henderson, Ralph C." 2003 10 12 Letters Catch a Falling Star... "Bowser, Willis E." 2003 10 14 Letters Watching the Gods "Ayiomamitis, Anthony" 2003 10 14 Letters The Winter of Our Discontent "Cassidy, Brian E." 2003 10 14 Letters In Memoriam "Greer, John" "Greer, Linda" 2003 10 16 Letters Catching a Wave "Beish, Jeffrey D." 2003 10 16 Letters Sharing Old Photos "Clark, Maurice" 2003 10 16 Letters Feeling a Bit Green? "Pasachoff, Jay M." 2003 10 18 News Notes "The Oldest, Weirdest Planet" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 10 19 News Notes The Overlooked Crab Supernova "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 10 20 News Notes Detailing Dark Matter "Roth, Joshua" 2003 10 20 News Notes A Telltale Heart "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 10 21 News Notes A New Dark-Matter Map "Roth, Joshua" 2003 10 22 News Notes GOODS Eyes Galaxies Being Built "Tytell, David" "Roth, Joshua" 2003 10 24 News Notes "Keck, VLT Interferometers Break New Ground" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 10 24 News Notes Omega Centauri: One Cluster or Two? "Roth, Joshua" 2003 10 26 News Notes Solar Faculae Stand Exposed "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 10 27 News Notes Stardust in the Air "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 10 27 News Notes Putting the Spin on Venus "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2003 10 28 Mission Update Microvariability and Oscillations of Stars "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 10 28 Mission Update Solar and Heliospheric Observatory "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 10 28 Mission Update Gravity Probe B "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 10 30 Feature Cosmology in the New Millennium "Freedman, Wendy L." "Turner, Michael S." 2003 10 42 Feature Cosmology's Growing Pains "Finkbeiner, Ann K." 2003 10 43 Feature A Cosmologist's Diary: Summer at the South Pole "Leitch, Erik" 2003 10 44 Feature Gus Evrard: Observer of Virtual Universes "Salgado, Jose Francisco" 2003 10 46 Feature The Deepest Image Ever Made "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 10 50 S&T Test Report Losmandy's Gemini System "Horne, Johnny" 2003 10 61 New Product Showcase Astrobuffet's ST80 Wide-Field Eyepiece 2003 10 61 New Product Showcase Stellar Technologies' Series IV Stiletto Focuser 2003 10 61 New Product Showcase PixSoft's StarGPS 2003 10 63 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Desktop Universe 1.1 "Foust, Jeff" 2003 10 65 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Cosmological Foundations "Goldman, Stuart J." 2003 10 66 Software Showcase "Space Update, by Cosmyx" 2003 10 66 Software Showcase "MaxPoint, by Diffraction Limited" 2003 10 66 Software Showcase "Gravity 6, by Anderson Digital Design" 2003 10 70 Books & Beyond "Echo of the Big Bang, by Michael D. Lemonick" "Roth, Joshua" 2003 10 71 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Tycho & Kepler, by Kitty Ferguson" 2003 10 71 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Tycho Brahe, by William J. Boerst" 2003 10 71 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Johannes Kepler, by William J. Boerst" 2003 10 72 Books & Beyond "Observing Variable Stars, by Gerry A. Good" "Isles, John" 2003 10 74 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Latitude, by Bill Carter and Merri Sue Carter" 2003 10 74 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Concise Catalog of Deep-Sky Objects by W. H. Finlay 2003 10 74 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Constellations of the Night Sky by Bruce LaFontaine 2003 10 76 Amateur Astronomers A Public Star Party from Earth Orbit "Berry, Richard" 2003 10 81 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: A Peak Experience "Levy, David H." 2003 10 83 Amateur Astronomers Comet Award Winners 2003 10 86 Rambling Through the Skies Celestial Cetacean "Krupp, E. C." 2003 10 90 Guide to the Evening Sky The Deep Background of Mars "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 10 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2003 10 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Biinocular Highlight: Spying Orientale "Seronik, Gary" 2003 10 93 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in October" "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 10 96 Small-Scope Sampler On the Wings of a Swan "French, Sue" 2003 10 98 Southern Hemisphere's Sky The Water-Filled Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2003 10 102 Celestial Calendar Comets on Parade "Bryant, Greg" 2003 10 105 Celestial Calendar Mars Notebook: Cloud Watch! "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2003 10 108 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Crescent Moon Occults Venus 2003 10 108 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Visible Side of Mars 2003 10 108 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: October Meteors 2003 10 108 Celestial Calendar Eye and I: Three Planets in Daytime "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 10 111 Observer's Log Outer Halos of Planetary Nebulae "Kraljic, Frank" 2003 10 115 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Cassiopeia's Clusters "Freeman, Jay Reynolds" 2003 10 116 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Elusive Orientale "Wood, Charles A." 2003 10 120 Observer's Log "Observer's Notebook: Mars and Moon, Together Again" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2003 10 122 Telescope Techniques Better Dobsonian Bearings "Lewis, Martin" 2003 10 128 Astro Imaging Shooting the Heavens from Space "Grunsfeld, John Mace" 2003 10 136 Gallery Witch Head Nebula "Held, David" 2003 10 137 Gallery Edge-On Spiral Galaxy NGC 4631 "Croman, Russell" 2003 10 137 Gallery Moon Occults Mars "Dantowitz, Ron" 2003 10 138 Gallery Snake Nebula "Stevens, Gary" 2003 10 138 Gallery Mars Occultation Sequence "Chaikin, Andrew" 2003 10 138 Gallery Galaxy M106 in Canes Venatici "Faworski, Sheldon" 2003 10 138 Gallery Two Faces of Mars "Leong, Tan Wei" 2003 11 8 Spectrum Save Hubble! "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2003 11 10 Focal Point Gleanings from the Glass "Fisher, Richard" 2003 11 12 Letters "Goodbye, Galileo" "Criddle, Peter" 2003 11 12 Letters More Respect Due - II "Harrow, Alan G." 2003 11 12 Letters More Respect Due - I "Kirshner, Robert P." 2003 11 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2003 11 14 Letters An Old Galaxy Seen Anew - I "Jakiel, Richard" 2003 11 14 Letters Outreach Imperative "Greywords, Hanna" 2003 11 14 Letters Confessions of an Astronomer's Wife "Rosien, Mary Lou" 2003 11 14 Letters A Familiar Voice "Truax, Gary" 2003 11 16 Letters An Old Galaxy Seen Anew - III "Hood, Keith" 2003 11 16 Letters An Old Galaxy Seen Anew - II "Hart, Thomas A." 2003 11 18 News Notes Deciding the Fate of Hubble "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" "Tytell, David" 2003 11 20 News Notes New Light on Crucial Supernovae "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 11 21 News Notes A Glowing Ring of Iron "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 11 22 News Notes A Stone-Age Supernova's Legacies "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 11 24 News Notes Beyond the Local Bubble "Lucentini, Jack" 2003 11 24 News Notes Earliest Star-Forming Region "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 11 25 News Notes Women in Astronomy: Venus Rising "Kaisler, Denise" 2003 11 26 News Notes Small Asteroids = Small Threat? "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2003 11 26 News Notes A Recent Impact on Juno? "Tytell, David" 2003 11 27 News Notes Follow That Story: Rock and Ice in Pluto and Charon "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 11 27 News Notes Teaching Telescopes Reach First Light "Goldman, Stuart J." 2003 11 27 News Notes "Follow That Story: Lightest Free-Floating ""Planet""" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 11 27 News Notes New Life for the Palomar Schmidt "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 11 27 News Notes Follow That Story: Ring Around the Milky Way "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 11 28 Mission Update Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 11 28 Mission Update Phoenix "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 11 28 Mission Update Space Infrared Telescope Facility "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 11 30 Feature The 3rd Zone: Exploring the Kuiper Belt "Stern, S. Alan" 2003 11 38 Feature A Spirit of Place: Where the Modern Universe Was Born "DeVorkin, David H." 2003 11 54 S&T Test Report The Essence of Observing: Discovery's 12.5-inch Dobsonian "Ting, Ed" 2003 11 60 New Product Showcase "GEM Table, by AstroPro Products" 2003 11 60 New Product Showcase "Planetary Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector, by Adirondack Video Astronomy" 2003 11 60 New Product Showcase "Laser Star Finder, by Martron Electronics" 2003 11 62 Computers in Astronomy Sun Worship in Cambridge "Goldman, Stuart J." 2003 11 65 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: A League's Extraordinary Site "Goldman, Stuart J." 2003 11 66 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: StarStrider 2.5 "Ratledge, David" 2003 11 68 Software Showcase "Hubble's Universe, by PCs in Space" 2003 11 68 Software Showcase "hcAnywhere, by Astrogeeks.com" 2003 11 68 Software Showcase "SkyMap Lite 2003, by Chris Marriott" 2003 11 70 Books & Beyond "The Elegant Universe, PBS series" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2003 11 72 Books & Beyond "Celestial Delights, by Francis Reddy and Greg Walz-Chojnacki" "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2003 11 72 Books & Beyond "Touring the Universe, by Ken Graun" "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2003 11 75 Amateur Astronomers Astronomy From A to NZ "Hall, Lesley" 2003 11 79 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: Adventures with Mr. Schmidt's Telescopes "Levy, David H." 2003 11 85 Rambling Through the Skies Temporary Replacement "Krupp, E. C." 2003 11 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Unsung Autumn Stars "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 11 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2003 11 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: The Ghostly Helix Nebula "Seronik, Gary" 2003 11 93 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in November" "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 11 96 Small-Scope Sampler A Regal Treasure-Trove "French, Sue" 2003 11 98 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Island Universes "Bryant, Greg" 2003 11 101 Celestial Calendar November's Two Total Eclipses "Sinnott, Roger W." 2003 11 105 Celestial Calendar Five Asteroids Meet "Sinnott, Roger W." 2003 11 106 Celestial Calendar Mars Notebook: Smaller and Smaller "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2003 11 110 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Occultations 2003 11 110 Celestial Calendar The Near Sky: The Parhelic Circle and Its Planets "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 11 110 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: November Meteors 2003 11 113 Observer's Log Restoring Order to the Deep Sky "Gottlieb, Steve" 2003 11 119 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Galaxy Groups Near Markab "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2003 11 122 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Treasures of the Northeast "Wood, Charles A." 2003 11 124 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Milky Way over Manhattan? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2003 11 128 Telescope Techniques An Inexpensive Microflexed Newtonian Reflector "Pfannenschmidt, Ernie" 2003 11 132 Astro Imaging As the World Turns "BenDaniel, Matt" 2003 11 138 Gallery Horsehead Nebula "Williams, Bill" "Hallas, Tony" 2003 11 138 Gallery Canadian Aurora "Girard, Daniel" 2003 11 139 Gallery Nebula IC 426 in Orion "Schur, Chris" 2003 11 139 Gallery Spiral Galaxy NGC 6946 in Cepheus "Fera, Bob" "Fera, Janice" 2003 11 140 Gallery Antares-Rho Ophiuchi Region "Lorenzi, Marco" 2003 11 141 Gallery Moon Occults Mars "Clifton, John W." 2003 12 8 Spectrum "Goodbye, Mars!" "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2003 12 10 Focal Point Science and Religion: Can We Talk? "Coyne, George V." 2003 12 12 Letters Rowling Gets It Right "Krisciunas, Kevin" 2003 12 12 Letters Rowling Gets It Wrong "Pasachoff, Jay M." 2003 12 12 Letters Historical Contrails "Windross, Mike" 2003 12 14 Letters Missed Transits "Hripcsak, George" 2003 12 14 Letters The Beauty in a Blackout "Ryan, Jay" 2003 12 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2003 12 14 Letters Mars in 3-D "Danby, Otto L." 2003 12 16 Letters The Thrill of the Hunt "Ruszala, Fred" 2003 12 16 Letters A Bigger Family "Artemyeff, Eugene" 2003 12 18 News Notes Sound from a Black Hole "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 12 19 News Notes X-ray Flashes and Gamma-Ray Bursts "Roth, Joshua" 2003 12 20 News Notes A Star Eclipsed by a Planetary Ripple? "Gay, Pamela L." 2003 12 21 News Notes New Evidence for Dark Energy "Tytell, David" 2003 12 22 News Notes Planets for Nearly Every Star? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 12 22 News Notes "A ""Salty Scrambled Egg""" "Roth, Joshua" 2003 12 24 News Notes A Well-Hidden New Neighbor "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 12 24 News Notes Halley in the Distance "MacRobert, Alan M." 2003 12 25 News Notes Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy Spans the Sky "Roth, Joshua" 2003 12 26 News Notes Giant Eyes of the Future Take Shape "Schilling, Govert" 2003 12 27 News Notes The Rescue of the Moscow Planetarium "McCutcheon, Robert A." 2003 12 28 Mission Update SMART 1 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 12 28 Mission Update Galileo Orbiter "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 12 28 Mission Update Messenger "McDowell, Jonathan" 2003 12 30 Feature The New Face of Planetary Astronomy "di Cicco, Dennis" 2003 12 34 Feature Mineral Mysteries and Planetary Paradoxes "Bell, Jim" 2003 12 40 Feature Box: What If Mars Never Was Wet? "Hoffman, Nick" 2003 12 42 Feature Mars: The Inside Story "Zuber, Maria T." 2003 12 50 Images An Extended Cat's Eye "Goncalves, Denise Rocha" 2003 12 54 S&T Test Report TEC's 5-1/2-inch Apochromat "di Cicco, Dennis" 2003 12 65 New Product Showcase "Favorite Constellation Posters, by Star Finders" 2003 12 65 New Product Showcase "SkyShed, by NorthSheds" 2003 12 65 New Product Showcase "Spacecraft Films, by Fox Home Entertainment" 2003 12 67 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Space Update "Heafner, Joe" 2003 12 69 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Time Marches On "Goldman, Stuart J." 2003 12 70 Software Showcase "Planisphere, by Check-Tech Software" 2003 12 70 Software Showcase "Satscape 2.0, by Scott Hather" 2003 12 70 Software Showcase "RedShift 5, by Viva Media" 2003 12 72 Books & Beyond "Astrophotography, by H. J. P. Arnold" "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2003 12 74 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Photoshop for Astrophotographers, by Jerry Lodriguss" 2003 12 74 Books & Beyond "The Big Splat, by Dana Mackenzie" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2003 12 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Asteroids III, by Bottke, Cellino, Paolicchi, and Binzel" 2003 12 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Sky and Ocean Joined, by Steven J. Dick" 2003 12 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: A Complete Manual of Amateur Astronomy, by Sherrod and Koed" 2003 12 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Sundials at Greenwich, by Hester Higton" 2003 12 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Making Your Own Telescope, by Allyn J. Thompson" 2003 12 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Monthly Sky Guide, 6th Edition, by Ridpath and Tirion" 2003 12 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Mystery of the Moon Illusion, by Ross and Plug" 2003 12 79 Amateur Astronomers Akira Inaka's 3-D Universe "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2003 12 82 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: The AAVSO's Invariable Star "Levy, David H." 2003 12 87 Rambling Through the Skies Powered Flight "Krupp, E. C." 2003 12 90 Guide to the Evening Sky The Christmas Astronomy Count "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 12 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2003 12 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: Open Cluster M103 "Seronik, Gary" 2003 12 93 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in December" "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 12 96 Small-Scope Sampler File Under W "French, Sue" 2003 12 98 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Neighborhood Watch "Bryant, Greg" 2003 12 103 Celestial Calendar Saturn at Its Most Spectacular "Peach, Damian A." 2003 12 105 Celestial Calendar ALPO Observations of Saturn "Benton, Julius L." 2003 12 107 Celestial Calendar Mars Notebook: The Lost Island of Atlantis "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2003 12 110 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: December Meteors 2003 12 111 Celestial Calendar Light-Pollution Notes: England's New Dark-Sky Program "Schaaf, Fred" 2003 12 113 Observer's Log A Basket of Multiple Stars "Inglis, Mike" 2003 12 116 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Arzachel and Neighbors "Wood, Charles A." 2003 12 119 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: A Circlet of Galaxies in Pisces "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2003 12 122 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: Martian Mooning "di Cicco, Dennis" 2003 12 125 Telescope Techniques A Minimalist Travelscope "Seronik, Gary" 2003 12 131 Astro Imaging Deep-Sky Imaging with Integrating Video Cameras "Ashford, Adrian R." 2003 12 138 Gallery Moonset "Axelsen, Tom" 2003 12 139 Gallery Mars Close-up "Parker, Donald C." 2003 12 139 Gallery Mars over Poodle Rock "Pacholka, Wally" 2003 12 139 Gallery "Mars over Vienna, Austria" "Wienerroither, Peter" 2003 12 140 Gallery Nebula NGC 7023 in Cepheus "Baldwin, Dan" 2003 12 140 Gallery Nebula NGC 1579 in Perseus "Mishler, George" "Mishler, Laura" "Block, Adam" 2003 12 140 Gallery Southern Star Trails over Bolivia "Totten Espenak, Patricia" 2004 1 8 Spectrum The Sky Isn't Falling - Yet "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 1 10 Focal Point The Glory Days "Kircher, Travis K." 2004 1 12 Letters Martian Dispatches - I "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2004 1 12 Letters Putting Your Best Feature Forward "Busemeyer, Thomas P." 2004 1 12 Letters Martian Dispatches - II "Krupp, E. C." 2004 1 14 Letters Paying Respect "Kanipe, Jeff" 2004 1 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2004 1 14 Letters Seeing Mars in the Daytime "Rhoads, Samuel E." 2004 1 16 Letters The Tao of Astronomy "Dellinges, Bill" 2004 1 16 Letters Build Your Own Spacecraft "Doody, David F." 2004 1 16 Letters Obeying Speed Limits "Hlynka, Adrian" 2004 1 18 News Notes Cassini Proves Einstein Right - For Now "Schilling, Govert" 2004 1 19 News Notes Close-up on the Trapezium "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 1 20 News Notes A New Handle on the Active Early Sun "Roth, Joshua" 2004 1 22 News Notes Finding Extrasolar Saturns "Tytell, David" 2004 1 22 News Notes Finding Waterworlds "Tytell, David" 2004 1 24 News Notes "A Bizarro ""Cometoid""" "Chaikin, Andrew" 2004 1 24 News Notes Rusting Mars Without Water "Tytell, David" 2004 1 26 News Notes Sunlight Makes Asteroids Spin in Harmony "Tytell, David" 2004 1 28 News Notes Hermes Is Rediscovered - and Double! "Sinnott, Roger W." 2004 1 30 News Notes Follow That Story: Planets Migrate Outward Too "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 1 30 News Notes Follow That Story: More Uranian Moons "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 1 30 News Notes SUV Asteroid Whizzes By "Sinnott, Roger W." 2004 1 30 News Notes Follow That Story: Better Fix on Distant Transiting Planet "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 1 32 Mission Update STSat 1 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 1 32 Mission Update Target: Mars "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 1 32 Mission Update Shenzhou 5 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 1 32 Mission Update Stardust "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 1 34 Feature Hot New Products for 2004 "The editors of Sky and Telescope," 2004 1 44 Feature Mars Attacked! "Schilling, Govert" 2004 1 48 Feature Box: Nozomi: A Story of Hope "Tytell, David" 2004 1 50 Feature Box: Colorful Instruments "Tytell, David" 2004 1 52 Feature Magic Under the Dome "Deans, Paul" 2004 1 65 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Planisphere "Foust, Jeff" 2004 1 66 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Sounds of Space "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 1 70 Software Showcase "Night Sky Explorer, by SPACE.com" 2004 1 70 Software Showcase "Astronomer's Control Panel (ACP), by DC3 Dreams" 2004 1 70 Software Showcase DarkAdapted 2004 1 70 Software Showcase "Starry Night Pro Plus 4.5, by SPACE.com" 2004 1 72 Books & Beyond "A Traveler's Guide to Mars, by William K. Hartmann" "Bell, Jim" 2004 1 72 Books & Beyond "Magnificent Mars, by Ken Croswell" "Bell, Jim" 2004 1 73 Books & Beyond NOVA: Mars Dead or Alive "Tytell, David" 2004 1 74 Books & Beyond "The Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy, by Fulvio Melia" "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2004 1 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: A Practical Guide to Lightcurve Photometry and Analysis, by Brian D. Warner" 2004 1 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Worlds Beyond: The Thrill of Planetary Exploration, by S. Alan Stern" 2004 1 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Exploring Saturn, by Dan Bortolotti" 2004 1 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Century of Space Science, by Johan A. M. Bleeker and others" 2004 1 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Double Star Observer's Handbook, Second Edition, by Ronald C. Tanguay" 2004 1 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Fifth Edition, by Lutz D. Schmadel" 2004 1 80 Amateur Astronomers An Astronomer's Tale "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2004 1 82 Amateur Astronomers El Cyberastronomo "Castro, Edgar" 2004 1 84 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: Miracle at Birr Castle "Levy, David H." 2004 1 87 Rambling Through the Skies Baked to Perfection "Krupp, E. C." 2004 1 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Floating Down the River "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 1 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2004 1 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: Corralling the Hyades "Seronik, Gary" 2004 1 93 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in January" "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 1 96 Small-Scope Sampler Northern Nights "French, Sue" 2004 1 98 Southern Hemisphere's Sky A Midsummer's Hunt "Bryant, Greg" 2004 1 102 Celestial Calendar Lunar Occultation Highlights for 2004 "Dunham, David W." 2004 1 112 Celestial Calendar Light-Pollution Notes: England's Program Rolls On "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 1 112 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Delta-T for 2004 2004 1 112 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: January Meteors 2004 1 114 Observer's Log The Story of Jupiter's Egg Moons "Dobbins, Thomas A." "Sheehan, William" 2004 1 121 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Globular Clusters on the Outskirts "Whitman, Alan" 2004 1 124 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: The Aristarchus Plateau "Wood, Charles A." 2004 1 127 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: A Sunspot for the Record Books "di Cicco, Dennis" 2004 1 131 Telescope Techniques Three Basic Telescope Shelters: Sonoran Sky Observatory "Root, Nile" 2004 1 132 Telescope Techniques Three Basic Telescope Shelters: Canopy Carport Observatory "Tatum, Randy" 2004 1 134 Telescope Techniques Three Basic Telescope Shelters: The Mini-Max Observatory "Allevo, Bob" 2004 1 137 Astro Imaging Deep-Sky Imaging with Webcams "Chambers, Stephen" "Wainwright, Stephen J." 2004 1 144 Gallery North America Nebula Detail "Kussow, Kevin" "Kussow, Dave" 2004 1 144 Gallery "Crab Nebula, M1" "Croman, Russell" 2004 1 145 Gallery Spiral Galaxy NGC 2903 in Leo "Mategrano, Victor C." 2004 1 145 Gallery Cassiopeia over Thunderstorm "Roberts, Randall" 2004 1 146 Gallery IC 410 in Auriga "Schur, Chris" 2004 1 146 Gallery Messier 3 in Canes Venatici "Richmann, Michael" 2004 1 146 Gallery Stars over Table Mountain "Reese, Tom" 2004 2 8 Spectrum New Arrivals "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 2 10 Focal Point Two Hunts Partaken "Wehler, Randall" 2004 2 12 Letters Stars in the State House "Sherrod, P. Clay" 2004 2 12 Letters The New Cosmology "Waller, William H." 2004 2 12 Letters Scimitar Symbolism "Hazard, Evan B." 2004 2 12 Letters Astronomy with a Purpose "Morris, David J." 2004 2 14 Letters The Overlooked Crab "Kvamme, Todd" 2004 2 14 Letters For the Record 2004 2 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2004 2 14 Letters Calling All Aurora Watchers "Silverman, Sam" 2004 2 14 Letters Who is Number 2? "McKinnon, William" 2004 2 16 News Notes Fireworks (solar flares/sunspots) on the Sun "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 2 17 News Notes White Dwarfs as Ultrastable Clocks "Roth, Joshua" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 2 18 News Notes Refining the Cosmic Recipe "Schilling, Govert" 2004 2 20 News Notes The Biggest Thing Ever Found "Schilling, Govert" 2004 2 20 News Notes Keck Legal Update "Tytell, David" 2004 2 22 News Notes The Newest Closest Galaxy "Naeye, Robert" 2004 2 22 News Notes Did Another Galaxy Send Us Arcturus "Schilling, Govert" 2004 2 24 News Notes A Lunar Water Search Comes Up Dry "Tytell, David" 2004 2 26 Mission Update Stereo "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 2 26 Mission Update Small Explorers "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 2 26 Mission Update Swift "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 2 28 Feature "When the Sky Ran Red: The Story Behind ""The Scream""" "Olson, Donald W." "Doescher, Russell L." "Olson, Marilynn S." 2004 2 40 Feature Life on Mars? "DiGregorio, Barry Elliott" 2004 2 46 Feature The Transit of Venus: Tales From the 18th Century "Sheehan, William" 2004 2 50 Feature "Box: Horrocks, Crabtree, and the 1639 Transit" "Sheehan, William" 2004 2 52 Feature Box: Transit Details and Weather Prospects for 2004 "Espenak, Fred" "Anderson, Jay" 2004 2 54 Feature Box: Scaling the Solar System "Westfall, John E." 2004 2 56 Images Peering into the Cocoon "Herbig, G. H." 2004 2 60 S&T Test Report An Apochromat for the Masses "Ting, Ed" 2004 2 62 S&T Test Report Box: Another Outstanding Value "di Cicco, Dennis" 2004 2 67 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: Lite and Easy "Ratledge, David" 2004 2 69 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Master of Your Own Domain "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 2 72 Books & Beyond "Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes, by Michael Benson" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 2 74 Books & Beyond "Back to the Astronomical Cafe, by Sten Odenwald" "Johnston, Lisa R." 2004 2 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Handbook of Isotopes in the Cosmos: Hydrogen to Gallium, by Donald Clayton" 2004 2 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Stromlo: An Australian Observatory, by Tom Frame and Don Falkner" 2004 2 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Mirror Mirror, by Mark Pendergrast" 2004 2 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System, by Kenneth R. Lang" 2004 2 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The History of the Telescope, by Henry C. King" 2004 2 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: There Once Was A Sky Full of Stars, by Bob Crelin" 2004 2 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Hubble: The Mirror on the Universe, by Robin Kerrod" 2004 2 78 Amateur Astronomers America's Next Generation of Astronomers "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 2 82 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: In the Footsteps of Giants "Levy, David H." 2004 2 87 Rambling Through the Skies Current Astronomy "Krupp, E. C." 2004 2 90 Guide to the Evening Sky Heroes Above and Below "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 2 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2004 2 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: A Journey Along the Ecliptic "Seronik, Gary" 2004 2 93 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in February" "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 2 96 Small-Scope Sampler A Walk in Starry Mists "French, Sue" 2004 2 98 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Canine Tales and a Pup "Bryant, Greg" 2004 2 102 Celestial Calendar Seeking Thin Crescent Moons "Sinnott, Roger W." 2004 2 103 Celestial Calendar "Box: August 19, 2001" "Yazdi, Hamid-Reza Giahi" 2004 2 105 Celestial Calendar "Box: September 7, 2002" "Mirsaeed, Mohsen Ghazi" 2004 2 110 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Sky Coordinates 2004 2 110 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Variable-star Maxima 2004 2 110 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Accurate Time Signals 2004 2 110 Celestial Calendar Eye and I: Shadows Cast by Planets "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 2 110 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Jupiter's Red Spot 2004 2 110 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Angles in the Sky 2004 2 110 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Minima of Algol 2004 2 112 Observer's Log A Roster of Rich Open Clusters "Adler, Alan" 2004 2 116 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Two Prizes in Perseus "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2004 2 118 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Auzout: A Minor Crater and Some Big Ideas "Wood, Charles A." 2004 2 120 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: An Eclipse on Ice "di Cicco, Dennis" 2004 2 123 Telescope Techniques A Folding-Truss Dobsonian "Walton, Guy" 2004 2 129 Astro Imaging Creating a Rotating Mars "Matheson, Tom" 2004 2 132 Astro Imaging Galaxy Images Needed "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 2 134 Gallery Portrait of Totality "Ball, Jeff" 2004 2 134 Gallery Eclipse Sequence "Hyndman, Paul" 2004 2 135 Gallery Earth's Shadow "Danielsen, Arne" 2004 2 135 Gallery Lunar-Eclipse Trail "Pedit, Joe" 2004 2 136 Gallery Red Dawn "Brown, Mark A." 2004 2 137 Gallery Solar Portrait "Re, Pedro" 2004 3 8 Spectrum A New Approach to the Night Sky "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 3 10 Focal Point "The ""Wow"" Factor" "Leschak, Peter M." 2004 3 12 Letters Science and Religion - I "Robertson, William J." 2004 3 12 Letters Water on Mars! "Stiff, Thomas" 2004 3 12 Letters More Mars Mania "Heyn, Herman M." 2004 3 14 Letters Uniting the World with Sundials "Sullivan, Woodruff T." 2004 3 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2004 3 14 Letters What's in a Name? "Covington, Michael A." 2004 3 14 Letters Science and Religion - II "Clarke, Arthur C." 2004 3 16 Letters For the Record 2004 3 16 Letters The Narrowing Window "Wehler, Randall" 2004 3 16 Letters Fire in the Sky "Benicek, Keith" 2004 3 18 News Notes Spitzer Space Telescope Opens a Cold Eye "Smith, Bruce A." "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 3 19 News Notes The Secret History of the SMC "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 3 20 News Notes New Evidence for Common-Envelope Binaries "Roth, Joshua" 2004 3 20 News Notes "The Smallest, Nastiest Black Hole" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 3 22 News Notes New Binary Neutron Star Will Further Test Einstein "Naeye, Robert" 2004 3 23 News Notes Inflating the Crescent Nebula "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 3 24 News Notes Hubble in Limbo "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 3 26 News Notes The Mother of All Quadrantids "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 3 26 News Notes Prison Lights at Stellafane: A Happy Ending "di Cicco, Dennis" 2004 3 27 News Notes Follow That Story: Auger Observatory Passes a Milestone "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 3 27 News Notes Follow That Story: Constant Looks Constant "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 3 30 Mission Update Cancellation and Cutback "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 3 30 Mission Update Gravity Probe B "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 3 30 Mission Update XMM-Newton "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 3 32 Feature Catching Gamma-Ray Bursts on the Wing "Schilling, Govert" 2004 3 42 Feature The Anthropic Principle's Surprising Resurgence "Falk, Dan" 2004 3 47 Feature Box: The Anthropic Principle's Astronomical Roots "Schilling, Govert" 2004 3 52 Images A Turbulent Pelican "Bally, John" 2004 3 54 S&T Test Report Celestron's CGE 1400 Telescope "Horne, Johnny" 2004 3 62 New Product Showcase Lunawheel by Moonstick Co. 2004 3 62 New Product Showcase Soft Telescope Carrying Cases by Sirius Technologies 2004 3 62 New Product Showcase ToUcam to T-Mount Adapter by Peter Albrecht 2004 3 65 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: EquinoX 4.1 "Heafner, Joe" 2004 3 66 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Running Commentary "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 3 68 Software Showcase Real Time by CapellaSoft 2004 3 68 Software Showcase AstroCalculator 1.3 by Sunshine Design Engineering Services 2004 3 68 Software Showcase Mars24 by Robert B. Schmunk 2004 3 71 Books & Beyond "Galaxies and the Cosmic Frontier, by Willian H. Waller and Paul W. Hodge" "Tytell, David" 2004 3 72 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Chaos to Cosmos: A Space Odyssey, by Laura Danly, Leonard David, and Donald Goldsmith" 2004 3 72 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Edge of Infinity, by Fulvio Melia" 2004 3 72 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Lost Stars, by Morton Wagman" 2004 3 72 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Sojourner, by Andrew Mishkin" 2004 3 72 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Exploring Our Solar System, by Sally Ride and Tam O'Shaughnessy" 2004 3 73 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Orion Nebula: Where the Stars are Born, by C. Robert O'Dell" 2004 3 73 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Out-of-This World Astronomy, by Joe Rhatigan and Rain Newcomb" 2004 3 74 Books & Beyond "The Best of Amateur Telescope Making Journal, by William J. Cook" "Seronik, Gary" 2004 3 77 Amateur Astronomers Detecting Transiting Exoplanets "Castellano, Tim" 2004 3 82 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: A Tale of Two Eclipses "Levy, David H." 2004 3 87 Rambling Through the Skies Twilight Zone "Krupp, E. C." 2004 3 90 Guide to the Evening Sky "Winter Below, Spring Above" "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 3 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2004 3 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: Star Cluster M38 in Hydra "Seronik, Gary" 2004 3 93 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in March" "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 3 96 Small-Scope Sampler Perambulations in Puppis "French, Sue" 2004 3 98 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Touring Some Nearby Star Clusters "Bryant, Greg" 2004 3 102 Celestial Calendar Planetary Occultations for 2004 "Dunham, David W." 2004 3 112 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Lunar Occultations 2004 3 112 Celestial Calendar Eye and I: More Shadows from Planets "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 3 114 Observer's Log The Canals of Mars Revisited "Dobbins, Thomas A." "Sheehan, William" 2004 3 118 Observer's Log Deep-Sky Notebook: Nebulous Knots in Gemini "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2004 3 121 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Sunrise at Petavius and Vendelinus "Wood, Charles A." 2004 3 126 Astro Imaging Capturing Star Trails with a Digital Camera "Michaud, Peter" 2004 3 132 Telescope Techniques A Folded Herschelian Reflector "Dobbins, Thomas A." 2004 3 136 Gallery Full Moon Crossing "Licata, Tony" 2004 3 136 Gallery High-Altitude Solar Eclipse "Schechter, Eliot J." 2004 3 137 Gallery Lenticular Clouds "Michaud, Peter" 2004 3 137 Gallery Diamond Ring of Solar Eclipse "Duncan, Howard Anton" 2004 3 138 Gallery Austrian Aurora "Salzgeber, Philipp" 2004 3 138 Gallery Canadian Aurora "Taylor, Lance" 2004 3 139 Gallery Comet 2P/Encke and Andromeda Galaxy "Skorupa, Waldemar" 2004 3 140 Gallery Saturn "Higgins, Wes" 2004 4 8 Spectrum Change Is Good "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 4 10 Focal Point Breaking the Rules "Nelson, Douglas R." 2004 4 12 Letters Astronomical Music "Cooke, Antony" 2004 4 12 Letters Chinese Space Stamps "Xie, Renjiang" 2004 4 12 Letters Isn't It Ironic? "Russo, Steven L. J." 2004 4 12 Letters Where Credit Is Due "Binzel, Richard P." 2004 4 14 Letters Assigning Quadrants "van Gent, Robert H." 2004 4 14 Letters Celestial Sounds "Crelin, Bob" 2004 4 14 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2004 4 14 Letters Forgotten Flyer "Niederstasser, Hans P." 2004 4 16 News Notes Three Triumphs at Mars "Naeye, Robert" 2004 4 18 News Notes Snapshots of the Sun in Time "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 4 20 News Notes The Most Massive Star "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 4 20 News Notes A Stripped Galaxy "Naeye, Robert" 2004 4 21 News Notes Getting to Know Our Stellar Neighbors "Schilling, Govert" 2004 4 22 News Notes Seeing Yarkovsky at Last "Tytell, David" 2004 4 23 News Notes Ejecting the Kuiper Belt "Tytell, David" 2004 4 24 News Notes NASA Seeks to Give Hubble the Heave-Ho "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 4 26 News Notes Stardust Catches a Comet "Smith, Bruce A." 2004 4 26 News Notes "Follow That Story: ""Free-Floating Planet"" Not So Light" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 4 26 News Notes Follow That Story: How Far Is the LMC? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 4 26 News Notes Follow That Story: Double Neutron Star Is the First Double Pulsar "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 4 28 Mission Update Space Interferometry Mission "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 4 28 Mission Update Astro E2 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 4 28 Mission Update NeXT "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 4 30 Feature The Heat Is On "Tytell, David" 2004 4 36 Feature Picturing the Heavens: The Rise of Celestial Photography in the 19th Century "Hirshfeld, Alan W." 2004 4 40 Feature Box: Early Photographic Processes "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 4 44 Feature Imaging Exoplanets "Shiga, David" 2004 4 50 Feature Box: A Night Hunting Exoplanets at Keck "Schilling, Govert" 2004 4 52 Feature Box: Exoplanet False Alarm "Naeye, Robert" 2004 4 54 S&T Test Report Curing the Refractor Blues "Dobbins, Thomas A." 2004 4 60 New Product Showcase "Megrez II 80-mm Refractor, by William Optics" 2004 4 60 New Product Showcase "Astro-Glow Delineators, by Astronomy Shoppe" 2004 4 60 New Product Showcase "Eyelight Case, by The Right Stuff" 2004 4 63 Computers in Astronomy Screen Shot: RedShift 5 "Foust, Jeff" 2004 4 65 Computers in Astronomy Astronomy Online: Reaching Out for Help "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 4 68 Software Showcase "Celestial Explorer: Mars, by RITI" 2004 4 68 Software Showcase "Perseus, by ELItalia" 2004 4 68 Software Showcase "Virtual Moon Atlas 2.0, by Christian Legrand and Patrick Chevalley" 2004 4 70 Books & Beyond "Star Clusters, by Brent A. Archinal and Steven J. Hynes" "Whitman, Alan" 2004 4 72 Books & Beyond "David Levy's Guide to Observing and Discovering Comets, by David H. Levy" "Liller, William" 2004 4 74 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Lonely Planets, by David Grinspoon" 2004 4 74 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Cosmic Company: The Search for Life in the Universe, by Seth Shostak and Alex Barnett" 2004 4 74 Books & Beyond "Cometography: A Catalog of Comets, Vol. 2, by Gary W. Kronk" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 4 78 Amateur Astronomers The Texas Star Party: A Magic Elixir "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2004 4 83 Amateur Astronomers Star Trails: Totality Near the Bottom of the World "Levy, David H." 2004 4 87 Rambling Through the Skies Riding with the King "Krupp, E. C." 2004 4 90 Guide to the Evening Sky A Spring Evening's Hike "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 4 91 Guide to the Evening Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2004 4 92 Guide to the Evening Sky Binocular Highlight: The Engagement Ring "Seronik, Gary" 2004 4 93 Guide to the Evening Sky "Sun, Moon, and Planets in April" "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 4 96 Small-Scope Sampler Highlights of Hydra "French, Sue" 2004 4 98 Southern Hemisphere's Sky When to See the Southern Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2004 4 103 Celestial Calendar Venus at Its Highest "Flanders, Tony" 2004 4 106 Celestial Calendar Outer Planets in 2004 "Sinnott, Roger W." 2004 4 110 Celestial Calendar The Near Sky: Parry Arcs "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 4 110 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: April Meteors 2004 4 110 Celestial Calendar Calendar Notes: Partial Eclipse of the Sun 2004 4 113 Observer's Log Lunar Notebook: Introducing the Lunar 100 "Wood, Charles A." 2004 4 122 Observer's Log Observer's Notebook: More Stars Than You Can Count "di Cicco, Dennis" 2004 4 124 Telescope Techniques Daytime Telescope Testing "Pfannenschmidt, Ernie" 2004 4 128 Telescope Techniques Box: Remembering Ernie "Seronik, Gary" 2004 4 130 Astro Imaging Processing Webcam Images with RegiStax "Berrevoets, Cor" 2004 4 136 Gallery Moonrise over Old Cape Cod "Cook, Chris" 2004 4 136 Gallery Total Solar Eclipse Series from Antarctica "Numazawa, Shigemi" 2004 4 136 Gallery Sharpless 2-188 in Cassiopeia "Laina, Javier Gomez" 2004 4 138 Gallery Spanish Star Trails "Fernandez, Jesus Navas" 2004 4 139 Gallery Planetary Nebula Abell 43 in Ophiuchus "Walendowski, Edmund" "Block, Adam" 2004 5 8 Spectrum New and Improved! "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 5 12 Letters Glory Days - II "Steele, Dennis" 2004 5 12 Letters Living Legend "Duffy, Stephen" 2004 5 12 Letters Inspiration "Fleck, Carrie" 2004 5 12 Letters Glory Days - I "Engleman, Steve" 2004 5 13 Letters Learning Curves "Kier, Ruben" 2004 5 13 Letters For the Record 2004 5 16 News Notes SS 433: Anatomy of a Microquasar "Naeye, Robert" 2004 5 17 News Notes SS 433's Jets: The Movie "Naeye, Robert" 2004 5 18 News Notes No Planetary Nebula for Single Stars? "Schilling, Govert" 2004 5 18 News Notes A Freezing White Dwarf "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 5 19 News Notes Close-up of the Black Eye Galaxy "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 5 19 News Notes The Route to a Type Ia Supernova "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 5 22 News Notes The Andromeda Swarm "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 5 22 News Notes King of the Nebulae "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 5 23 News Notes Lensed Quasars Smash Record "Schilling, Govert" 2004 5 24 News Notes No Telescopes on the Moon "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 5 24 News Notes A Planet's Magnetic Footprint "Naeye, Robert" 2004 5 26 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2004 5 26 News Notes Blowin' in the Exoplanet Wind "Naeye, Robert" 2004 5 27 Mission Update SOFIA "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 5 27 Mission Update Mars 2009 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 5 27 Mission Update NASA Budget for Fiscal 2005 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 5 30 Spotlight On... Sombrero Galaxy in Virgo "Madore, Barry F." 2004 5 32 Feature The Transit of Venus: Tales from the 19th Century "Sheehan, William" 2004 5 37 Feature Box: Reanimating the 1882 Transit of Venus "Misch, Tony" 2004 5 38 Feature Pox Populi: A Commonsense Guide to Cosmic Nonsense "Plait, Philip C." 2004 5 44 Feature Red-Letter Days "Naeye, Robert" 2004 5 50 Rambling Through the Skies Looking Up to the Gold Standard "Krupp, E. C." 2004 5 58 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Springtime Visitors "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 5 59 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2004 5 60 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: M104 and the Great Beyond "Seronik, Gary" 2004 5 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: A True Blue Open Cluster "Dalrymple, Les" 2004 5 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2004 5 63 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Tails Across the Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2004 5 66 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Planets on Parade "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 5 70 Exploring the Moon The Whole of the Moon "Wood, Charles A." 2004 5 73 Celestial Calendar The Double Comet Show Begins! "Bryant, Greg" "Bortle, John E." "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 5 79 Celestial Calendar Box: Pairs of Comets Past "Bryant, Greg" 2004 5 80 Celestial Calendar The Moon Goes Dark "Sinnott, Roger W." 2004 5 81 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for May 2004 5 85 Eye on the Sky Jupiter and the Race Against Time "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2004 5 88 Deep-Sky Wonders Markarian's Chain "French, Sue" 2004 5 92 Observer's Log "Northern Eyes, Southern Skies" "Flanders, Tony" 2004 5 96 S&T Test Report Hardin Optical's 10-inch Deep Space Hunter "Seronik, Gary" 2004 5 102 S&T Test Report "Perseus 1.4, Level III" "Ratledge, David" 2004 5 104 Buyer's Guide 10-inch Dobsonian Reflectors "Seronik, Gary" 2004 5 106 New Product Showcase "Stump Pod and Post Pod, by FAR Laboratories" 2004 5 106 New Product Showcase "Active Region Explorer, by Raben Systems" 2004 5 106 New Product Showcase "I-Turret, by Telescope Engineering Co." 2004 5 108 New Product Showcase "Newton's Aquarium for Windows, by Living Graphs" 2004 5 108 New Product Showcase "MicroGlide Focuser, by Van Slyke Engineering" 2004 5 108 New Product Showcase "picoSky, by Bubba's Bits, Inc." 2004 5 108 New Product Showcase "Cosmic Decoders, by Astronomical Society of the Pacific" 2004 5 111 Books & Beyond "The Modern Moon: A Personal View, by Charles A. Wood" "Westfall, John E." 2004 5 112 Books & Beyond "Star Watch, by Philip S. Harrington" "French, Sue" 2004 5 115 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Rough Guide to the Universe, by John Scalzi" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 5 115 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Sunquakes, by J. B. Zirker" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 5 115 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Moons of Jupiter, by Kristin Leutwyler" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 5 115 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Stellar Alchemy, by Michel Casse" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 5 115 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Book Nobody Read, by Owen Gingerich" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 5 115 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Life and Science of Leon Foucault, by William Tobin" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 5 116 Astronomy Online Following Rover "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 5 119 The Astronomy Scene Destination: Antarctica "Flanders, Tony" 2004 5 123 The Astronomy Scene Light-Pollution Notes "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 5 126 Star Trails The Risky Path to Mars "Levy, David H." 2004 5 128 Amateur Telescope Making Improving the Thermal Properties of Newtonian Reflectors - Part 1 "Greer, Bryan" 2004 5 134 Hobby Q&A Can I Save Money by Making My Own Telescope? "Seronik, Gary" 2004 5 134 Hobby Q&A How Do I Clean Eyepieces Safely? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 5 134 Hobby Q&A How Do I Polar-align in the Daytime? "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 5 134 Hobby Q&A Can an Amateur Discover an Asteroid Using an 8-inch Telescope? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2004 5 137 Astrophotography Photographing the Transit of Venus "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 5 142 Gallery Waning Crescent Moon "Mehrani, Alireza" 2004 5 142 Gallery Helix Nebula in Aquarius "Goldman, Don S." 2004 5 143 Gallery Orion Nebula "Cannistra, Steve" 2004 5 144 Gallery Star Trails over Gemini Telescope "Mastroianni, Ernie" 2004 5 145 Gallery Spiral Galaxy NGC 7331 in Pegasus "Brewer, Randy" 2004 5 145 Gallery Greek Analemma "Ayiomamitis, Anthony" 2004 5 146 Gallery Tennessee Aurora "Work, Joey" 2004 5 146 Gallery Spiral Galaxy Messier 81 Ursa Major "Harrison, Tom W." 2004 5 147 Gallery Eta Carinae Nebula "Lorenzi, Marco" 2004 5 158 Focal Point Space Ghost "Calia, Charles Laird" 2004 6 8 Spectrum Lost in Space "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 6 12 Letters Magical Monsters "Marks, Joel" 2004 6 12 Letters A Predictable Scream? "Cotton, Mary" 2004 6 12 Letters Mars in Stereo "Fahrenbach, Wolf H." 2004 6 12 Letters The Name Game "Thibault, Patrick" 2004 6 12 Letters The Perfect Spot "Gingrich, Mark" 2004 6 13 Letters For the Record 2004 6 13 Letters Questions of Stability "Dobbins, Thomas A." 2004 6 14 News Notes Distant Planetoid Sedna Baffles Astronomers "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2004 6 16 News Notes Another Not-Quite-Pluto "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 6 16 News Notes New Light on Dark Energy "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 6 18 News Notes Smashing the Redshift Record "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 6 20 News Notes Opportunity's Watery Jackpot "Tytell, David" 2004 6 21 News Notes Martian Moons Transit the Sun "Naeye, Robert" 2004 6 21 News Notes Closest Asteroid in Near-Miss "Walker, Sean" 2004 6 22 News Notes Comet Cargo Heads for Earth "Tytell, David" 2004 6 24 News Notes Hubble Hangs On "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 6 24 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2004 6 25 Mission Update Ulysses "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 6 25 Mission Update Cassini "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 6 25 Mission Update Genesis "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 6 25 News Notes "Janet Mattei, 1943-2004" "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 6 28 Spotlight On... Orion's Depths "di Cicco, Dennis" 2004 6 30 Feature The Man on the Mountain: Behind the Scenes at Lick Observatory "Irion, Robert" 2004 6 40 Feature New Hope for Life Beyond Earth "Davies, Paul" 2004 6 48 Rambling Through the Skies Showgirl "Krupp, E. C." 2004 6 58 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Olcott's Summer Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 6 59 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2004 6 60 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: The Great Hercules Cluster "Seronik, Gary" 2004 6 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: Two Clusters Near the Square "Dalrymple, Les" 2004 6 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2004 6 63 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Winter's Altar "Bryant, Greg" 2004 6 64 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Venus Takes Center Stage "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 6 68 Exploring the Moon Impact Basins: Sculpting the Moon "Wood, Charles A." 2004 6 73 Celestial Calendar The June 8th Transit of Venus "Westfall, John E." 2004 6 78 Celestial Calendar Cytherean Rhythms "Gingerich, Owen" 2004 6 79 Celestial Calendar Timing the Transit "Sinnott, Roger W." 2004 6 80 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for June 2004 6 82 Eye on the Sky A Walk in the Night - Part 1 "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2004 6 84 Deep-Sky Wonders Follow the Arc "French, Sue" 2004 6 89 Targets HII Regions Galore in M101 "Gottlieb, Steve" 2004 6 92 Targets Eye and I: An Unforgettable Conjunction "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 6 94 S&T Test Report "Fluoro-Star FLT-110 Refractor, by William Optics" "Dyer, Alan" 2004 6 101 S&T Test Report "Celestial Explorer: Mars, by RITI" "Heafner, Joe" 2004 6 104 Buyer's Guide Portable 4-inch Apochromatic Refractors "Seronik, Gary" 2004 6 106 New Product Showcase "Pocket Stars, by Nomad Electronics" 2004 6 106 New Product Showcase "STAR Atlas:PRO, by SKYLab Astronomy Software" 2004 6 106 New Product Showcase "Spacecraft Models, by Space Craft International" 2004 6 106 New Product Showcase "Astrola 2x Barlow, by Hardin Optical" 2004 6 107 New Product Showcase "Glow Board, by David Butler" 2004 6 107 New Product Showcase "Minor Planet Software, by Sergio Foglia" 2004 6 107 New Product Showcase "To Touch the Stars CD, by Prometheus Music" 2004 6 107 New Product Showcase "S&T Mobile Sky Chart, by Sky Publishing" 2004 6 108 Books & Beyond "Hokuloa: The British 1874 Transit of Venus Expedition to Hawai'i, by Michael Chauvin" "Gingerich, Owen" 2004 6 108 Books & Beyond "The Transit of Venus, by William Sheehan and John Westfall" "Gingerich, Owen" 2004 6 109 Books & Beyond "Sky Vistas: Astronomy for Binoculars and Richest-Field Telescopes, by Craig Crossen and Gerald Rhemann" "Flanders, Tony" 2004 6 109 Books & Beyond "Venus in Transit, by Eli Maor" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 6 111 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Visual Astronomy in the Suburbs, by Antony Cooke" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 6 111 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Moon Observer's Guide, by Peter Grego" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 6 111 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Practical Astronomy, by Storm Dunlop" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 6 111 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Mapping the Sky, by Leila Haddad and Alain Cirou" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 6 111 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: A Year of Stars, by Fred Schaaf" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 6 111 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Gravity from the Ground Up, by Bernard Schutz" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 6 112 Astronomy Online Crossing Against the Light "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 6 114 The Astronomy Scene Unraveling the Mystery of McNeil's Nebula "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 6 120 Star Trails Save Hubble! "Levy, David H." 2004 6 122 Amateur Telescope Making Improving the Thermal Properties of Newtonian Reflectors - Part 2 "Greer, Bryan" 2004 6 128 Hobby Q&A Why Do Star Distances Vary in References? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2004 6 128 Hobby Q&A What Makes a Star Look Brighter in a Telescope? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 6 128 Hobby Q&A Why Do Bright Stars Look Bigger Than Faint Ones? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 6 128 Hobby Q&A Why Doesn't the Earliest Sunrise Occur on the Solstice? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2004 6 130 Astrophotography High-End Digital Cameras for Astro Imaging "Schedler, Johannes" 2004 6 140 Gallery Earthshine "Aasland, Jarle" 2004 6 140 Gallery Pleiades Star Cluster "Krejci, Rick" 2004 6 141 Gallery Flame and Horsehead Nebulae "Cannistra, Steve" 2004 6 142 Gallery Rosette Nebula "Cannistra, Steve" 2004 6 142 Gallery Spiral Galaxy Messier 33 "Krejci, Rick" 2004 6 158 Focal Point Parallel Universes "Meckler, Harold" 2004 7 8 Spectrum No Adjectives Necessary "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 7 12 Letters The Streaks of Mars "Hartmann, William K." 2004 7 12 Letters Making a Difference "Scott, Hunter" 2004 7 12 Letters Superachromat "Pepin, Barlow" 2004 7 12 Letters The Evil Eye "Head, James W." 2004 7 12 Letters Mystery Solved "Found, Bob" 2004 7 13 Letters For the Record 2004 7 13 Letters Everything Old Is New Again "Mellberg, Bill" 2004 7 14 News Notes The Peak of Cosmic Starbirth "Naeye, Robert" 2004 7 15 News Notes The Ring of Supernova 1987A Lights Up "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 7 16 News Notes Winking-Star Mystery Solved "Naeye, Robert" 2004 7 18 News Notes Planet Found by Gravitational Lensing "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 7 19 News Notes Two New Transiting Planets "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 7 19 News Notes Black Hole Rips Star Apart "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 7 19 News Notes Cometary Antifreeze "Tytell, David" 2004 7 20 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2004 7 20 News Notes The Infrared Flame Nebula "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 7 22 News Notes Relativity's Strongest Test Begins "Johnston, Lisa R." 2004 7 24 News Notes Martian Methane Mystery "Naeye, Robert" 2004 7 26 News Notes Follow That Story: No Moon for Sedna "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 7 26 News Notes Follow That Story: Mystery Supernova Explained "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 7 26 News Notes When Mars Had an Icy Equator "Tytell, David" 2004 7 27 Mission Update Wide Field Infrared Explorer "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 7 27 Mission Update Microvariability and Oscillations of Stars "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 7 27 Mission Update COROT "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 7 30 Spotlight On... "The Farthest, Faintest Galaxies" "Roth, Joshua" 2004 7 32 Feature Ringworld Rendezvous "Doody, David F." 2004 7 38 Feature Into Thick Air "Lebreton, Jean-Pierre" 2004 7 41 Feature Box: Huygen's Darkest Day "Doody, David F." 2004 7 42 Feature A Stab in the Dark "Cowen, Ron" 2004 7 50 Rambling Through the Skies Crash Landing "Krupp, E. C." 2004 7 58 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Vega on High "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 7 59 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2004 7 60 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight "Seronik, Gary" 2004 7 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2004 7 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight "Dalrymple, Les" 2004 7 63 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Hooked on Scorpius "Bryant, Greg" 2004 7 64 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Mercury Meets Mars "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 7 68 Exploring the Moon The Lunar Crater Main Sequence "Wood, Charles A." 2004 7 72 Celestial Calendar A New View of Mizar "Ondra, Leos" 2004 7 74 Celestial Calendar "Box: Mizar, Alcor, and Sidus Ludoviciana" "Ondra, Leos" 2004 7 76 Celestial Calendar The June Lyrids and James Joyce's Ulysses "Olson, Donald W." "Olson, Marilynn S." 2004 7 78 Celestial Calendar Will the June Bootids Return "Rao, Joe" 2004 7 80 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for July 2004 7 82 Eye on the Sky A Walk in the Night - Part 2 "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2004 7 85 Deep-Sky Wonders Stung by Beauty "French, Sue" 2004 7 89 Targets Some of My Favorite Double Stars "Mullaney, James" 2004 7 94 Observer's Log "One Planet, Two Moons, Three Shadows" "Flanders, Tony" 2004 7 95 Observer's Log Eye and I: The Near Sky: A Lunar Fogbow "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 7 96 S&T Test Report King of the Chips: SBIG's STL-11000M "di Cicco, Dennis" 2004 7 104 S&T Test Report Planet's Orbits 1.7 "Foust, Jeff" 2004 7 108 Buyer's Guide Low Cost Video Eyepieces "Seronik, Gary" 2004 7 110 New Product Showcase "MaxView DSLR Variable Projection Adapter, by ScopeTronix" 2004 7 110 New Product Showcase "Ricerca and Advanced Telescope Control, by Omega Lab" 2004 7 110 New Product Showcase Andreas Hafer's Planetarium Version 2.3 2004 7 112 New Product Showcase "RGB Filter Wheel, by Sirius Optics" 2004 7 112 New Product Showcase "Squid Light, by Montane" 2004 7 112 New Product Showcase Alan Chu's Photographic Moon Book 2004 7 115 Books & Beyond "The Herschel Partnership, by Michael Hoskin" "Wilson, Barbara" 2004 7 116 Books & Beyond "The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Sun, by Jay M. Pasachoff" "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2004 7 118 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Isaac Asimov's 21st Century Library of the Universe: The Solar System "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 7 118 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Exploring Mercury: The Iron Planet, by Strom and Sprague" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 7 118 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Once Upon a Starry Night, by Mitton and Balit" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 7 118 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Kids Book of the Night Sky, by Love and Drake" "Roth, Joshua" 2004 7 120 Astronomy Online Better Blogs "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 7 122 The Astronomy Scene Robotic Telescopes for Education Launched "Ashford, Adrian R." 2004 7 123 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Bradfield's 18th Comet "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 7 123 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Sky Survey Update "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 7 123 The Astronomy Scene Community News: 11 Million Observations and Counting "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 7 128 Star Trails Don't Let It Get to You "Levy, David H." 2004 7 130 Amateur Telescope Making A Novel Belt Drive for Telescopes "Britz, David" 2004 7 134 Hobby Q&A How do you determine true field of view? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 7 134 Hobby Q&A When is the next blue Moon? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2004 7 134 Hobby Q&A Is there optical-design software? "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 7 134 Hobby Q&A What size is best for making a first telescope mirror? "Seronik, Gary" 2004 7 137 Astrophotography Channel-Surfing to Better Solar Images "Weightman, James M." 2004 7 142 Gallery Twilight Spectacle "Catala, Paco Burguera" 2004 7 142 Gallery Double Shadow Transit on Jupiter "Go, Christopher" 2004 7 143 Gallery Hydrogen-Alpha Sun "Croman, Russell" 2004 7 144 Gallery NGC 2261 in Monoceros "Smith, John C." 2004 7 144 Gallery Moonrise at Surf City "Pope, Conrad" 2004 7 145 Gallery White-Light Solar Flare "Vercoutter, Philippe A. J." 2004 7 146 Gallery Galaxy Messier 82 in Ursa Major "Lula, Brian" 2004 7 158 Focal Point The Color of Space "Cooper, Andrew" 2004 8 8 Spectrum Milestones Overlooked and Not "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 8 12 Letters With a Southern Eye "Barreto, Paulo S. L. M." 2004 8 12 Letters Plait Again - I "Dickinson, David A." 2004 8 12 Letters New and Improved - III "Ewart, Scott" 2004 8 12 Letters New and Improved - V "Bermudez, Richard" 2004 8 12 Letters New and Improved - I "Appelbaum, Bruce" 2004 8 12 Letters New and Improved - VI "Edgar, James" 2004 8 12 Letters New and Improved - II "McDrury, Dayle" 2004 8 12 Letters New and Improved - IV "O'Hara, John" 2004 8 13 Letters Plait Again - III "Howard, Jim" 2004 8 13 Letters Plait Again - IV "Perfetti, Frank" 2004 8 13 Letters Plait Again - II "Fabian, Karl" 2004 8 14 Letters Plait Again - V "Cordova, Henry" 2004 8 14 Letters Plait Again - VII "Brown, Scott P." 2004 8 14 Letters Inspiration "Miller, Harvey" 2004 8 14 Letters For the Record 2004 8 14 Letters Plait Again - VI "Carter, Janet E." 2004 8 18 News Notes The Little Rovers That Could "Naeye, Robert" 2004 8 20 News Notes How to Build a Midsize Black Hole "Naeye, Robert" 2004 8 21 News Notes No Weird Cosmic Topology "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 8 21 News Notes A New Milky Way Spiral Arm? "Naeye, Robert" 2004 8 22 News Notes First Exoplanet Image...or Not? "Naeye, Robert" 2004 8 22 News Notes A Nearby Planet-Forming Disk "Naeye, Robert" 2004 8 24 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2004 8 24 News Notes Tracking Orion's Runaways "Gay, Pamela L." 2004 8 26 News Notes "Ground Zero for the ""Great Dying""?" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2004 8 28 News Notes Plan B for Saving Hubble "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 8 30 News Notes Follow That Story: More Dwarf Carbon Stars "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 8 30 News Notes SuperWASP: Magnitudes by the Millions "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 8 30 News Notes Follow That Story: Winking Star: Case Closed "Naeye, Robert" 2004 8 31 Mission Update Gravity Probe B "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 8 31 News Notes Heavy-Metal Frost on Venus "Tytell, David" 2004 8 31 Mission Update 2001 Mars Odyssey "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 8 31 Mission Update Galaxy Evolution Explorer "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 8 32 Spotlight On... An Old Friend in a New Light "Hodge, Paul W." 2004 8 36 Feature Smoking Supernovae and Dusty Galaxies "Eales, Stephen" 2004 8 44 Feature Starlight Detectives "Hirshfeld, Alan W." 2004 8 50 Feature The Enigma of Przybylski's Star "Worthy, Guy" "Cowley, Charles R." 2004 8 56 Rambling Through the Skies Close-up "Krupp, E. C." 2004 8 66 Northern Hemisphere's Sky The Archer and the Harp "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 8 67 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2004 8 68 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: M22: A Gem of a Globular "Seronik, Gary" 2004 8 69 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2004 8 69 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: The Closest Globular "Dalrymple, Les" 2004 8 71 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Surprises in the Milky Way "Bryant, Greg" 2004 8 72 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Nice Parings at Dawn and Dusk "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 8 76 Exploring the Moon Maria and the Rings "Wood, Charles A." 2004 8 78 Celestial Calendar An Excellent Year for the Perseids? "Rao, Joe" 2004 8 80 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for August "Sinnott, Roger W." 2004 8 85 Eye on the Sky Digging for Gold "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2004 8 88 Deep-Sky Wonders Leagues of Stars "French, Sue" 2004 8 92 Observer's Log The 2003 Apparition of Mars "Parker, Donald C." 2004 8 93 Observer's Log Box: Two Weeks on Mars "Flanders, Tony" 2004 8 98 S&T Test Report TMB Monocentric Eyepieces "Seronik, Gary" 2004 8 105 S&T Test Report "Pocket Stars, version 2.0" "Ratledge, David" 2004 8 108 Buyer's Guide High-Magnification Eyepieces "di Cicco, Dennis" 2004 8 110 New Product Showcase Kendrick Astro Instruments Digital Premier Controller 2004 8 110 New Product Showcase "Image Stacker 4.2 and AstroImager 3.1, by Keith Wiley" 2004 8 110 New Product Showcase "Lunar Map Pro, Version 3, by RITI" 2004 8 112 New Product Showcase ClubExpress Internet-based Club Manager 2004 8 112 New Product Showcase "SmartCase, by Smart Astronomy" 2004 8 112 New Product Showcase "2-inch Star Diagonal, by Vernonscope" 2004 8 115 Books & Beyond "Astronomy of the Milky Way, by Mike Inglis" "Gottlieb, Steve" 2004 8 117 Books & Beyond "Giant Telescopes, by W. Patrick McCray" "Maran, Stephen P." 2004 8 119 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Maunder Minimum and the Variable Sun-Earth Connection, by Soon and Yaskell" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 8 119 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: New Worlds in the Cosmos, by Michel Mayor and Pierre-Yves Frei" "Roth, Joshua" 2004 8 119 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Dear Visitor, Voices of McDonald Observatory, by Karen Stewart Winget" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 8 119 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Universe on a T-Shirt, by Dan Falk" "Roth, Joshua" 2004 8 120 Astronomy Online Telescopes by Wire "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 8 123 The Astronomy Scene Jay Brausch: Observer Extraordinaire "Wood, Charles A." 2004 8 124 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Young Astronomers Honored "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 8 124 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Telescopes in Education Facing Closure "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 8 124 The Astronomy Scene Community News: A Decade of Project ASTRO "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 8 127 The Astronomy Scene Light-Pollution Notes "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 8 130 Star Trails Acts of Terror "Levy, David H." 2004 8 133 Amateur Telescope Making Introducing the Tri-Dob "Bartels, Mel" 2004 8 138 Hobby Q&A What's the difference between nebula and light-pollution filters? "Roth, Joshua" 2004 8 138 Hobby Q&A Can there be a Jovian quadruple shadow transit? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2004 8 138 Hobby Q&A Will Mercury and Venus simultaneously transit the Sun? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2004 8 138 Hobby Q&A Why are views through two Plossl eyepieces different? "Seronik, Gary" 2004 8 138 Hobby Q&A How do I get my old German mount to hold a proper tilt? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2004 8 140 Gallery Comet NEAT C/2001 Q4 "Tan, Loke Kun" 2004 8 140 Gallery Galaxy NGC 3628 in Leo "Keller, Philipp" 2004 8 141 Gallery Gamma Cygni Panorama "Mannoff, Rainer" 2004 8 142 Gallery Lunar Halo "Moussette, Philippe" 2004 8 142 Gallery McNeil's Nebula in Orion "Fera, Bob" "Fera, Janice" 2004 8 143 Gallery Alaskan Aurora "Klensch, Michael" 2004 8 144 Gallery Lunar Crescent "Croman, Russell" 2004 8 145 Gallery Nebula Cederblad 214 "Carrico, Tom" 2004 8 145 Gallery Jupiter "Chavez, Rolando" 2004 8 158 Focal Point Celestial Networking "Smith, Michael S." 2004 9 1 Front-Cover Photo Milky Way Galaxy "Garlick, Mark A." 2004 9 8 Spectrum Spread the Word! "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 9 12 Letters Hubble Trouble - II "McConnell, Bill" 2004 9 12 Letters Hubble Trouble - I "Diaz, Eric F." 2004 9 12 Letters Johnny Astroseed "Meehan, Robert J." 2004 9 12 Letters Siting a Supernova "Rubin, Vera C." 2004 9 13 Letters For the Record 2004 9 13 Letters Another Convert "Desrouches-Walker, Michelle" 2004 9 16 News Notes Spotting the Very First Galaxies "Schilling, Govert" 2004 9 17 News Notes Early Hidden Holes "Schilling, Govert" 2004 9 18 News Notes The Asteroid with the Smallest Orbit "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 9 18 News Notes Confirming Dark Energy's Nature "Shiga, David" 2004 9 19 News Notes Remnant of a Nearby Gamma-Ray Burst? "Schilling, Govert" 2004 9 19 News Notes Explaining the Dwarf-Galaxy Shortage "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 9 20 News Notes Amateur Images Venus's Surface! "Shiga, David" 2004 9 20 News Notes Protoplanetary Disks Galore "Shiga, David" 2004 9 22 News Notes 50 & 25 Years ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2004 9 22 News Notes Astronomers Launch Pro-Am Meet-up Site "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2004 9 24 Mission Update Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 9 24 Mission Update Hayabusa "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 9 24 Mission Update Coriolis "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 9 28 Spotlight On... A Supernova's Echoes "Fesen, Robert A." 2004 9 30 Feature "Saturn's Phoebe: Small Moon, Grand Debut" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2004 9 34 Feature The Moon and the Marathon "Olson, Donald W." "Olson, Marilynn S." "Doescher, Russell L." 2004 9 42 Feature Astronomy and the New Neutrino "Semeniuk, Ivan" 2004 9 50 Feature Redesigning the Milky Way "Waller, William H." 2004 9 58 Rambling Through the Skies Bearing the Load "Krupp, E. C." 2004 9 66 Northern Hemisphere's Sky "Shine On, Harvest Moon" "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 9 67 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2004 9 68 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: Splendid Sagitta "Seronik, Gary" 2004 9 69 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: NGC 6752 Greets Spring "Dalrymple, Les" 2004 9 69 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2004 9 71 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Feathers and Crowns "Bryant, Greg" 2004 9 72 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Bright Planets at Dawn "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 9 76 Exploring the Moon Lava Rivers on the Moon "Wood, Charles A." 2004 9 78 Celestial Calendar Mercury in the Morning "Melillo, Frank J." 2004 9 81 Celestial Calendar Minima of Algol 2004 9 82 Celestial Calendar The Closest Whiz-by of Toutatis "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 9 84 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for September 2004 9 86 Eye on the Sky September Taurids Again? "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2004 9 88 Deep-Sky Wonders Summer's Bright Planetaries "French, Sue" 2004 9 92 Observer's Log The Venus Transit: A First Look "Flanders, Tony" 2004 9 93 Observer's Log Astronomical Lengths with Simple Instruments "Suits, Frank" 2004 9 94 Observer's Log The Lunar Parallax Demonstration Project "Lawrence, Peter" 2004 9 96 Observer's Log Eye and I: The Grandest Trio "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 9 96 Observer's Log Box: Calculating the Distance "Flanders, Tony" 2004 9 98 S&T Test Report "A Novel ""Astronomer's Watch""" "Morris, L. Robert" 2004 9 103 S&T Test Report "Shadows 2.0, by Francois Blateryon" "Heafner, Joe" 2004 9 106 Buyer's Guide SLR Camera Adapters "Seronik, Gary" 2004 9 108 New Product Showcase "Power X Switch, by Denkmeier Optical" 2004 9 108 New Product Showcase Howie Glatter's Self-Barlowed Laser Collimator 2004 9 108 New Product Showcase Shortcut PhotoZoom (Pro) 2004 9 110 New Product Showcase "Varobs, by Patrick Chevalley" 2004 9 110 New Product Showcase "20x Right-Angle Binoculars, by Apogee, Inc." 2004 9 110 New Product Showcase "Deep Sky Southwest Screen Saver, by Albuquerque Astronomical Society" 2004 9 112 Books & Beyond "Astronomically Speaking, by Carl C. Gaither and Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither" "Shiga, David" 2004 9 113 Books & Beyond "The Depths of Space, by Mark Wolverton" "Foust, Jeff" 2004 9 114 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Rise the Moon, by Eileen Spinelli" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 9 114 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Mars: The NASA Mission Reports, Vol. 2, by Robert Godwin" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 9 114 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Filling the Sky: The Modern Constellations, by Jim Fuchs" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 9 116 Astronomy Online Visual Impact "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 9 118 The Astronomy Scene A Rocket Pioneer's Legacy "Mellberg, William F." 2004 9 119 The Astronomy Scene Community News: SOHO Comets Abound "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 9 119 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Dark-Sky Advocates on the Rise "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 9 119 The Astronomy Scene Community News: S&T Contributors Honored "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 9 124 Star Trails Observing Earth "Levy, David H." 2004 9 127 Amateur Telescope Making An Elegant Rotating Secondary Cage "Tremoulet, O. L. ""Sonny""" 2004 9 132 Hobby Q&A How do you calculate the density of a black hole? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 9 132 Hobby Q&A Should I wear eyeglasses while observing? "Seronik, Gary" 2004 9 132 Hobby Q&A "How do you pronounce ""Vega""?" "Flanders, Tony" 2004 9 132 Hobby Q&A Why are the stars so far away? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 9 134 Astrophotography Lunar Mosaics Made Easy "Seronik, Gary" 2004 9 142 Gallery Corona Australis-Sagittarius Region "Tan, Loke Kun" 2004 9 144 Gallery Comet NEAT "Pacholka, Wally" 2004 9 144 Gallery Brilliant Pollux "Stuart, Adam" 2004 9 145 Gallery Comet LINEAR "Balfour, Pat" "Harris, Curt" "Block, Adam" 2004 9 145 Gallery Comet NEAT Close-up "Glivar, Andjelko" 2004 9 146 Gallery Virgo Galaxy Cluster "Cole, Michael" 2004 9 146 Gallery Butterfly Nebula "Rhemann, Gerald" "Jager, Michael" 2004 9 158 Focal Point A Boat in the Desert "Calia, Charles Laird" 2004 10 1 Front-Cover Photo Eta Carinae Nebula 2004 10 8 Spectrum From Venice to Venus "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 10 12 Letters Opportunities "Divietri, Nikolai" 2004 10 12 Letters Photographic Memory "Keene, George T." 2004 10 12 Letters A Match Made Under the Dome "Benedetti, Harry" "Benedetti, Suzy" 2004 10 12 Letters Almighty Dad "LaFlamme, Stephen" 2004 10 13 Letters A Little Light Politics "Porter, Jim" 2004 10 13 Letters The Name Game "Meeus, Jean" 2004 10 14 News Notes Cassini at Saturn: An Early Report "Tytell, David" 2004 10 15 News Notes Cassini Peeks at Titan "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2004 10 16 News Notes Mars Rovers Find More Evidence of Water "Naeye, Robert" 2004 10 18 News Notes Sleuthing Out the Light-Echo Star "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 10 20 News Notes Free-Floating Planet Claims Bolstered "Naeye, Robert" 2004 10 20 News Notes Celestron and Meade End Litigation "di Cicco, Dennis" 2004 10 22 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2004 10 22 News Notes Binary Sheds Light on Brown Dwarf Formation "Naeye, Robert" 2004 10 24 News Notes The Solar System's Tumultuous Birth "Thomas, Vanessa" 2004 10 26 News Notes Aging Asteroids Get Sunburned "Shiga, David" 2004 10 26 News Notes Follow That Story: No Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy? 2004 10 26 News Notes Panel Endorses Hubble Servicing "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 10 26 News Notes Follow That Story: Polaris's Pulse Picks Up 2004 10 27 Mission Update Mars Express "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 10 27 Mission Update James Webb Space Telescope "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 10 27 Mission Update Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 10 30 Spotlight On... A Crescent in Cygnus "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2004 10 32 Feature Tracing the Milky Way's History "Chiappini, Christina" 2004 10 42 Feature Eta Carinae: Galactic Superstar "Naeye, Robert" 2004 10 50 Rambling Through the Skies Doctoring the Stars "Krupp, E. C." 2004 10 58 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Moons and Horns Aplenty "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 10 59 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2004 10 60 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: Open Cluster M39 in Cygnus "Seronik, Gary" 2004 10 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: Golden Doubles in Grus "Dalrymple, Les" 2004 10 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2004 10 63 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Spring's Fab Four "Bryant, Greg" 2004 10 64 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Jupiter's Early-Morning Comeback "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 10 70 Exploring the Moon Getting Old on the Moon "Wood, Charles A." 2004 10 72 Celestial Calendar October's Ideal Lunar Eclipse "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 10 75 Celestial Calendar Minima of Algol 2004 10 75 Celestial Calendar October Meteors 2004 10 75 Celestial Calendar Pacific Partial Solar Eclipse "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 10 75 Celestial Calendar Catching Toutatis at Closest Approach "Bryant, Greg" 2004 10 76 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for October 2004 10 78 Eye on the Sky Dark Shadows? "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2004 10 80 Deep-Sky Wonders Navigating North America "French, Sue" 2004 10 84 Observer's Log Tales of Three Comets "Dalrymple, Les" 2004 10 85 Observer's Log Eye and I: Transit of Venus "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 10 86 S&T Test Report StellaCam II: Taking Video into the Deep Sky "Horne, Johnny" 2004 10 91 S&T Test Report MaxIm DL/CCD 4.01 "Walker, Sean" 2004 10 96 Buyer's Guide Compact Wide-Field Reflectors "Seronik, Gary" 2004 10 98 New Product Showcase "Telguide, by ActonAstro" 2004 10 98 New Product Showcase Solarscope 2004 10 98 New Product Showcase "PleiadAtlas, by Brian Tung" 2004 10 100 New Product Showcase "AstroYacker, by Rod Kennedy" 2004 10 100 New Product Showcase "Lunar Calculator, by Alister Ling" 2004 10 100 New Product Showcase "Eyepiece Carousel, by Ray's Astro Stuff" 2004 10 103 Books & Beyond "Visions of the Cosmos, by Carolyn Collins Petersen and John C. Brandt" "Gay, Pamela L." 2004 10 104 Books & Beyond "Children's Night Sky Altas, by Robin Scagell" "Schatz, Dennis" 2004 10 106 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Urban Astronomy, by Dennis Berthier" "Roth, Joshua" 2004 10 106 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Blowing Bubbles in the Cosmos by Hartquist, Dyson, and Ruffle" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 10 106 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: A Visitor's Guide to the Kitt Peak Observatories, by Leslie Sage and Gail Aschenbrenner" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 10 108 Astronomy Online Going to the Source "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 10 111 The Astronomy Scene A Trio of Supernova Hunters "Mobberley, Martin P." 2004 10 114 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Jack Horkheimer Award Winners "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 10 114 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Comet Award Winners "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 10 114 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Finland Joins ESO "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 10 114 The Astronomy Scene Community News: S&T Astronomy Day Award Winners "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 10 115 The Astronomy Scene Box: Other Supernova Hunters 2004 10 121 Star Trails Harvester of Comets "Levy, David H." 2004 10 125 Amateur Telescope Making Exploring Low-Power Limits "Seronik, Gary" 2004 10 130 Hobby Q&A Can you see astronauts on the Moon? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 10 130 Hobby Q&A How can you claim that a telescope never increases surface brightness? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2004 10 130 Hobby Q&A Where can I find stars corresponding to SAO numbers? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2004 10 130 Hobby Q&A Do you get the same number of daylight hours per year no matter where you live? "Flanders, Tony" 2004 10 132 Astrophotography How to Capture October's Lunar Eclipse "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 10 140 Gallery Venus Transit at Sunrise "Watters, Robert" 2004 10 141 Gallery Hydrogen-Alpha Venus Transit "Dantowitz, Ron" 2004 10 142 Gallery Venus Transit from Maine "Howell, Paul" "Rogers, Kirk" "Whitney, George" 2004 10 142 Gallery Venus Transit Sequence "Schedler, Johannes" 2004 10 143 Gallery Venus Transit's Ring of Light "Comolli, Lorenzo" 2004 10 143 Gallery Venus and Space Station Transit "Maruska, Tomas" 2004 10 143 Gallery Venus Transit from Empire State Building "Perrine, Robert" 2004 10 144 Gallery Venus Transit Third Contact "Vandebergh, Ralf" 2004 10 144 Gallery Venus Transit from Argentina "Jones, Matias" 2004 10 145 Gallery Venus Transit from New Jersey Shore "Maher, Raymond P." 2004 10 158 Focal Point Astronomy and the Homeless "Reade, Gordon" 2004 11 8 Spectrum Don't Forget to Look Up! "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 11 12 Letters "The ""June 7th"" Transit of Venus - I" "Weferling, Bernd" 2004 11 12 Letters Unexpected Encounters "Berry, Richard" 2004 11 13 Letters "The ""June 7th"" Transit of Venus - II" "Gorman, Ross" 2004 11 13 Letters For the Record 2004 11 14 News Notes Stringy Holes: Behind Stephen Hawking's Bet "Naeye, Robert" 2004 11 15 News Notes Starbirth Scenery in the LMC "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 11 16 News Notes Most-Massive Binaries Measured "Naeye, Robert" 2004 11 16 News Notes Least-Massive Binaries Measured "Naeye, Robert" 2004 11 18 News Notes Three Neptune-Mass Exoplanets "Naeye, Robert" 2004 11 20 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2004 11 20 News Notes "An ""Impossibly"" Young Planet?" "Shiga, David" 2004 11 22 News Notes Locking in Mercury's Spin "Tytell, David" 2004 11 22 News Notes Solar Spicule Mystery Solved "Shiga, David" 2004 11 24 News Notes Why No SETI Signals Yet? "Beatty, J. Kelly" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 11 25 Mission Update Hubble Space Telescope "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 11 25 Mission Update Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 11 25 Mission Update Messenger "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 11 28 Spotlight On... Sculptor's Splendid Spiral "Dressler, Alan M." 2004 11 30 Feature Galaxy Train Wrecks "Charlton, Jane C." "Gallagher, Sarah C." "Palma, Christopher" 2004 11 37 Feature Box: Scrutinizing Stephan's Quintet "Gottlieb, Steve" 2004 11 38 Feature NASA's Ringmaster "Tytell, David" 2004 11 44 Rambling Through the Skies Bottled Messages "Krupp, E. C." 2004 11 50 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Savoring a Season of Dimmer Stars "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 11 51 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2004 11 52 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: Three Cygnus Doubles "Seronik, Gary" 2004 11 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: Nearby Galaxy NGC 55 "Dalrymple, Les" 2004 11 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky 2004 11 55 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Flocks of Toucans "Bryant, Greg" 2004 11 56 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Venus and Jupiter Rendezvous "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 11 63 Exploring the Moon Ghost Craters and Lava Lakes "Wood, Charles A." 2004 11 66 Celestial Calendar A Daytime Occultation of Jupiter "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 11 67 Celestial Calendar Minima of Algol 2004 11 68 Celestial Calendar Spot Vesta and Uranus "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 11 69 Celestial Calendar November Meteors 2004 11 69 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for November 2004 11 72 Eye on the Sky The Vampires of Venus - Part I "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2004 11 74 Deep-Sky Wonders The Starred Lizard "French, Sue" 2004 11 78 Observer's Log A Most Agreeable Spectacle "Westfall, John E." 2004 11 80 Observer's Log Box: Unusual Observations "Flanders, Tony" 2004 11 82 Observer's Log Box: Transit Research in the 21st Century "Pasachoff, Jay M." 2004 11 84 Observer's Log Eye and I: The Near Sky: The Cheshire Cat Rainbow "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 11 84 Observer's Log Bootes and Space Junk "Flanders, Tony" 2004 11 86 S&T Test Report Orion's SkyQuest XT IntelliScope "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 11 92 S&T Test Report "2sky 2.8, by Zerpec, Inc." "Foust, Jeff" 2004 11 94 Buyer's Guide Digital Setting Circles "Seronik, Gary" 2004 11 98 New Product Showcase "Solar-4 Telescope, by Sirius Optics" 2004 11 98 New Product Showcase "XEphem 3.6, by Clear Sky Institute, Inc." 2004 11 98 New Product Showcase "Diamond Constellation Jewlery, by A. G. A. Correa & Son" 2004 11 100 New Product Showcase "SkyORB'03, by Realtech VR" 2004 11 100 New Product Showcase "1rpd Diagonal, by Astrobuffet" 2004 11 100 New Product Showcase "SkyGazer Emphemeris, AstroPhoto, and MessierLog, by John Biondo" 2004 11 103 Books & Beyond "The Clementine Altas of the Moon, by Ben Bussey and Paul Spudis" "Seronik, Gary" 2004 11 103 Books & Beyond "Discover the Moon, by Jean Lacroux and Christian Legrand" "Wood, Charles A." 2004 11 105 Books & Beyond "Origins: a PBS miniseries directed by Paula S. Apsell; Origins, by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith" "Tytell, David" 2004 11 106 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Way Cool Science: Space Trekkers, by Thinkeroo" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 11 106 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Beginner's Observing Guide, 5th edition, by Leo Enright" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 11 106 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Celestron - The Earth Years, by Robert Piekiel" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2004 11 106 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Faraway Worlds by Paul Halpern "Naeye, Robert" 2004 11 108 Astronomy Online Internet Anniversary "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 11 110 The Astronomy Scene The Midwest's Hidden Treasure-Trove "Miles, Fiske" 2004 11 119 Star Trails A Not-So-Transitory Success "Levy, David H." 2004 11 122 Amateur Telescope Making A Trio of Personal Observatories "Seronik, Gary" 2004 11 122 Amateur Telescope Making A Trio of Personal Observatories I: A Classic Dome "Honnecke, Marcus" 2004 11 124 Amateur Telescope Making A Trio of Personal Observatories II: A Storage-Tank Observatory "Wehler, Randall" 2004 11 126 Amateur Telescope Making A Trio of Personal Observatories III: A Hexagonal Observatory "Stowbridge, Marc" 2004 11 130 Hobby Q&A How can I keep my finder from dewing? "French, Sue" 2004 11 130 Hobby Q&A What's the phase of the Moon during next year's Perseids? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2004 11 130 Hobby Q&A How can I find my naked-eye magnitude limit? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2004 11 130 Hobby Q&A Why don't the error bars on a graph always match up to the best-fit line? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 11 134 Gallery Hydrogen-Alpha Venus Transit "Badin, Jean-Louis" 2004 11 134 Gallery Comet NEAT and Beehive Cluster "Diana, Tom" 2004 11 135 Gallery Moonrise Over San Diego "O'Leary, Michael J." 2004 11 136 Gallery Galaxy NGC 891 in Andromeda "Block, Adam" 2004 11 136 Gallery Dumbbell Nebula "Smith, John C." 2004 11 137 Gallery Saturn "Honis, Gary J." 2004 11 137 Gallery Green Flash "Danielsen, Arne" 2004 11 138 Gallery Medieval Star Trails "Dimijian, Gregory G." 2004 11 138 Gallery The Straight Wall "Edlin, James" 2004 11 139 Gallery A Star-Forming Region in Ara "Rhemann, Gerald" 2004 11 150 Focal Point "Let's Kill the ""f/number""" "Gordon, Barry" 2004 12 1 Front-Cover Photo Galaxy Cluster Abel 1689 2004 12 8 Spectrum Good Stuff Cheap "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2004 12 12 Letters I Spy an Eye "Incaminato, Claudio" 2004 12 12 Letters A Point to Harp On "Duffy, Stephen" 2004 12 12 Letters Reliving the Wonder Years "Dempsey, Johanna" 2004 12 12 Letters Transit Marching "Cugnini, Aldo G." 2004 12 13 Letters Crash and Burn "Ulivi, Paolo" 2004 12 13 Letters For the Record 2004 12 13 Letters Overstatement? "Brewer, Gene" 2004 12 14 News Notes Pale Red Dot: The First Exoplanet Image? "Shiga, David" 2004 12 15 News Notes Ripples in the Cat's-Eye Pool "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 12 16 News Notes Fossil Supernova Jets "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 12 16 News Notes Lensing Star Resolved and Weighed "Shiga, David" 2004 12 18 News Notes Tiny Telescope Finds Big Planet "Naeye, Robert" 2004 12 19 News Notes A Star Without Planets "Naeye, Robert" 2004 12 20 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2004 12 20 News Notes Sedna's Dark Origin "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 12 22 News Notes New Evidence for Mars Oceans (and Life?) "Naeye, Robert" 2004 12 24 News Notes A Giant Radio Telescope Takes Shape "Schilling, Govert" 2004 12 26 Mission Update Genesis "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 12 26 Mission Update Double Star "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 12 26 Mission Update Beagle 2 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2004 12 30 Spotlight On... Starbirth in Cassiopeia: NGC 281 "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2004 12 32 Feature Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters "Donahue, Megan" 2004 12 42 Feature Mapping the Moon's Shadow "Maor, Eli" 2004 12 46 Feature Box: The Hybrid Solar Eclipse of April 2005 "Espenak, Fred" "Anderson, Jay" 2004 12 50 Rambling Through the Skies Inner Glow "Krupp, E. C." 2004 12 58 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Christmas Coincidences "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 12 59 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2004 12 60 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: Ancient Cluster NGC 752 "Seronik, Gary" 2004 12 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2004 12 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: Exploring the SMC "Dalrymple, Les" 2004 12 63 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Achernar and the Sculptor Group "Bryant, Greg" 2004 12 64 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Attention Turns to Saturn "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 12 71 Exploring the Moon Floor-Fractured Craters "Wood, Charles A." 2004 12 75 Celestial Calendar A Late-Night Jupiter Occultation "MacRobert, Alan M." 2004 12 78 Celestial Calendar December Meteors 2004 12 78 Celestial Calendar Saturn Meets Flora and Herculina "Bryant, Greg" 2004 12 79 Celestial Calendar Minima of Algol 2004 12 80 Celestial Calendar A Line of Planets "Sinnott, Roger W." 2004 12 80 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for December 2004 12 83 Eye on the Sky The Vampires of Venus - Part II "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2004 12 86 Deep-Sky Wonders Unsung Star Clusters "French, Sue" 2004 12 92 Targets Digging Deep in M33 "Whitman, Alan" 2004 12 94 Targets Box: What's in a Name "Flanders, Tony" 2004 12 97 Observer's Log The Green Flash Observed "Flanders, Tony" 2004 12 99 Observer's Log The Near Sky: Nacreous Clouds - Part 1 "Schaaf, Fred" 2004 12 100 Observer's Log Perseids Peak as Predicted "Flanders, Tony" 2004 12 102 S&T Test Report Tele Vue's TV-60 "di Cicco, Dennis" 2004 12 108 S&T Test Report TheSky 6 Professional Edition "Ratledge, David" 2004 12 112 Buyer's Guide Compact Wide-Field Refractors "Seronik, Gary" 2004 12 116 New Product Showcase "NightStar Flashlight, by Applied Innovative Technologies" 2004 12 116 New Product Showcase "Astronomer's VersaTool, by Orion" 2004 12 116 New Product Showcase "Starry Night Complete Space & Astronomy Pack Deluxe Edition, by Imaginova " 2004 12 117 New Product Showcase "MacAstronomica, by Artistic Techworks" 2004 12 117 New Product Showcase "Deepsky Astronomy Software, by Steven S. Tuma" 2004 12 117 New Product Showcase Acculap Synthetic Polymer 2004 12 119 Books & Beyond "Astronomy: A Visual Guide, by Mark A. Garlick" "Deans, Paul" 2004 12 120 Books & Beyond "The NextStar User's Guide, by Michael Swanson" "Parker, Samantha" 2004 12 122 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The ETX Telescope Guide, by Lilian Hobbs" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 12 122 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Beginner's Guide to the Meade LX200 GPS, by Patrick Harrold" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 12 122 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Celestial Objects for Modern Telescopes, by Michael A. Covington" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 12 122 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: How to Use a Computerized Telescope, by Michael A. Covington" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 12 124 Astronomy Online Having Good FITS "Goldman, Stuart J." 2004 12 127 The Astronomy Scene A Ring Eclipse over Panama "Earle, Tony" 2004 12 130 The Astronomy Scene Community News: A New Comet Machholz "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 12 130 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Famous Paintings Stolen "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 12 130 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Fred L. Whipple (1906-2004) "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 12 131 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Xingming Zhou (1965-2004) "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2004 12 132 Star Trails "Stargazing at 12,500 Feet" "Levy, David H." 2004 12 136 Amateur Telescope Making Telescope Making Highlights from Two Western Star Parties "Seronik, Gary" 2004 12 142 Hobby Q&A My mirror looks dusty. What should I do? "French, Sue" 2004 12 142 Hobby Q&A I observed three satellites traveling in a near-perfect equilateral triangle. What were they? "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2004 12 142 Hobby Q&A How did astronomers calculate the positions for the Moon and planets before the computer age? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2004 12 142 Hobby Q&A How do you create diffraction spikes on photographs without using a Newtonian reflector? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2004 12 144 Gallery Orion in the Desert "Orman, Joe" 2004 12 145 Gallery "Black Eye Galaxy, M64" "Beiter, Anne" "Shallop, Jon" "Block, Adam" 2004 12 145 Gallery Van den Bergh 142 "Cannistra, Steve" 2004 12 146 Gallery Pacific Northwest Aurora "Clark Jr., Wade B." 2004 12 147 Gallery Galaxy IC 342 in Camelopardalis "Greaney, George" 2004 12 148 Gallery Milky Way "van der Velden, Erwin" 2004 12 148 Gallery Venus in Twilight "Licchelli, Domenico" 2004 12 149 Gallery "Deep View of Ring Nebula, M57" "Hallas, Tony" "Hallas, Daphne" 2004 12 166 Focal Point "Star Hustling, Reconsidered" "Mollise, Rod" 2005 1 8 Spectrum It's All in Your Head "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 1 12 Letters Stellar Act "Sisson, Mark D." 2005 1 12 Letters A Timely Test Report "Rukrigl, Robert" 2005 1 12 Letters Proper Credit "Eisenhardt, Peter" 2005 1 12 Letters Texan Stars "Marcy, Geoffrey" 2005 1 13 Letters Low-Power Problems "Dilworth, Donald C." 2005 1 13 Letters A Third Interior Asteroid "Meeus, Jean" 2005 1 16 News Notes A Planet for Beta Pic "Schilling, Govert" 2005 1 17 News Notes Terrestrial Planets Galore "MacRobert, Alan M." "Roth, Joshua" 2005 1 18 News Notes When the Very Biggest Things Collide "Naeye, Robert" 2005 1 20 News Notes "Titan: ""A World Apart""" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2005 1 21 News Notes The Naked-Eye Globular You've Never Seen "Roth, Joshua" 2005 1 22 News Notes Procyon's Vibrations Go Missing "Shiga, David" 2005 1 24 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2005 1 24 News Notes Asteroids Tell Tale of Jupiter's Migration "Naeye, Robert" 2005 1 26 News Notes Follow That Story: Frame Dragging Found Early? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 1 26 News Notes Follow That Story: The Pulsar Planet in M4 "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 1 26 News Notes Martian Mudcake? "Naeye, Robert" 2005 1 28 Mission Update Astrostat "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 1 28 Mission Update Genesis "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 1 28 Mission Update New Horizons "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 1 32 Spotlight On... A Galaxy's Evolution "Mateo, Mario" 2005 1 34 Feature Anomalous X-ray Pulsars: Mystery Solved? "Duncan, Robert C." 2005 1 44 Feature Planetary Harmony "Naeye, Robert" 2005 1 52 Rambling Through the Skies Star Tails "Krupp, E. C." 2005 1 58 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Seven Sisters on High "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 1 59 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 1 60 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: Kemble's Cascade "Seronik, Gary" 2005 1 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 1 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: Really Red R Doradus "Dalrymple, Les" 2005 1 63 Southern Hemisphere's Sky On First Sighting Dorado "Bryant, Greg" 2005 1 64 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Dueling Morning Stars "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 1 73 Exploring the Moon Ideal Orientale "Wood, Charles A." 2005 1 77 Celestial Calendar Lunar Occultation Highlights for 2005 "Dunham, David W." 2005 1 84 Celestial Calendar Comet Machholz in the Evening Sky "Bryant, Greg" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 1 86 Celestial Calendar Box: Finding Machholz "Bryant, Greg" 2005 1 88 Celestial Calendar January Meteors 2005 1 88 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for January 2005 1 93 Eye on the Sky The Lost Jewel of Orion "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2005 1 96 Deep-Sky Wonders Cruising Down the River "French, Sue" 2005 1 100 Targets Double Stars for the New Year "Mullaney, James" 2005 1 106 New Product Showcase Hot New Products for 2005 2005 1 116 New Product Showcase Trend Watch 2005 1 118 Books & Beyond "Via Lactea: Milky Way in the History and in the Heavens, by Francesco Bertola " "Raymo, Chet" 2005 1 119 Books & Beyond "Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars, by Bob Argyle" "Jaworski, Richard" 2005 1 120 Books & Beyond Astronomy Textbooks by Cambridge University Press "Shiga, David" 2005 1 121 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Stonehenge: Earth and Sky "Deans, Paul" 2005 1 124 Astronomy Online Happy Nerd Year "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 1 127 The Astronomy Scene Exploring the Radio Sky "Lichtman, Jeffrey M." 2005 1 129 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Asteroids Named after S&T Contributors "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 1 129 The Astronomy Scene Community News: S&T Contributor Wins Award "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 1 132 The Astronomy Scene Amateurs Catch Exoplanet Transit "Naeye, Robert" 2005 1 133 The Astronomy Scene Light-Pollution Notes "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 1 137 Star Trails Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9: The Saga Continues "Levy, David H." 2005 1 140 Hobby Q&A "Why are ""sundogs"" called by that name?" "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 1 140 Hobby Q&A How far are the faintest stars I see in my 4-inch reflector? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 1 140 Hobby Q&A How do I build a replica of Galileo's telescope? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 1 142 Astrophotography A New Way of Looking at the Moon "Metsavainio, J.-P." 2005 1 145 Astrophotography Box: Correcting Lunar Close-Ups "Wood, Charles A." 2005 1 148 Gallery Nebula NGC 6559 "Connor, John" "Connor, Christie" "Block, Adam" 2005 1 149 Gallery Nebula Complex in Sagittarius "Mandel, Steve" 2005 1 149 Gallery Moon and Venus Conjunction "Spencer, Ken" 2005 1 150 Gallery Perseus Double Cluster "Gendler, Robert" 2005 1 150 Gallery Tropical Star Trails "Szymanek, Nik" 2005 1 151 Gallery The Cocoon Nebula "Faworski, Sheldon" "Walker, Sean" 2005 1 152 Gallery Nebula NGC 7380 in Cepheus "Lula, Brian" 2005 1 153 Gallery Southern Nebulae and Globular Cluster "Rhemann, Gerald" "Jager, Michael" 2005 1 153 Gallery Waning Crescent Moon "Galvan, Anthony" 2005 1 166 Focal Point Breath of the Northern World "Leschak, Peter M." 2005 2 1 Front-Cover Photo Sloan Digital Sky Survey Telescope "Long, Daniel C." 2005 2 8 Spectrum Ups and Downs "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 2 12 Letters Plate Mail "Jacob, Duane ""Jake""" 2005 2 12 Letters Cookout Under the Sun "Mathews, Jeremy" 2005 2 12 Letters Star Splitter "Pope, Tom" "Mosher, Jim" 2005 2 12 Letters Citing Sources "Karlson, Dick" 2005 2 13 Letters Fire in the Sky "Flippo, Dale" 2005 2 16 News Notes Uranus: Kicking Up a Storm "Naeye, Robert" 2005 2 17 News Notes "Laser ""Guide Stars"" on the Rise" "Roth, Joshua" 2005 2 18 News Notes Pressing Toward the Cosmic Dawn "Naeye, Robert" 2005 2 19 News Notes A Too-Early Black Hole "Shiga, David" 2005 2 19 News Notes No Redshift-10 Galaxy "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 2 20 News Notes Two Starbirth Eras for an Old Dwarf "Roth, Joshua" 2005 2 22 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2005 2 22 News Notes Tycho's Supernova: The Culprit Found? "Johnston, Lisa R." 2005 2 24 News Notes The Kernel of a Star Stripped Bare "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 2 24 News Notes A Rock's Life "Tytell, David" 2005 2 26 News Notes The Dwindling Kuiper Belt "Naeye, Robert" 2005 2 28 Mission Update SOFIA "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 2 28 Mission Update SMART-1 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 2 28 Mission Update Gravity Probe B "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 2 32 Spotlight On... A Study in Contrasts "French, Sue" 2005 2 34 Feature The Sloan Digital Sky Survey "Strauss, Michael A." "Knapp, Gillian R." 2005 2 38 Feature Box: Scanning the Sky: A Sloan Observer's Tale "Kleinman, Scot J." 2005 2 44 Feature The Universe in the Mirror "Hirshfeld, Alan W." 2005 2 50 Feature Box: The Life of the Great Melbourne Reflector "Dobbins, Thomas A." 2005 2 52 Rambling Through the Skies Dome Wrecker "Krupp, E. C." 2005 2 58 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Three Starry Guardians "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 2 59 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 2 60 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: Auriga's Messier Clusters "Seronik, Gary" 2005 2 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemipshere's Sky Chart 2005 2 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: Colorful Cluster NGC 2451 "Dalrymple, Les" 2005 2 63 Southern Hemisphere's Sky The Distant Night Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2005 2 64 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Giant Planets Rule the Night "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 2 72 Exploring the Moon In and Around Imbrium "Wood, Charles A." 2005 2 75 Celestial Calendar Young-Moon Hunting in 2005 "MacRobert, Alan M." "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 2 77 Celestial Calendar Comet Machholz on Track for Fine Show "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 2 78 Celestial Calendar Occultations by Asteroids "Dunham, David W." 2005 2 80 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for February 2005 2 82 Eye on the Sky The Emerald Tiara "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2005 2 86 Deep-Sky Wonders The Giant's Shield "French, Sue" 2005 2 90 Targets Through Taurus to the Anticenter "Kaler, James B." 2005 2 94 Targets The Near Sky: Nacreous Clouds - Part 2 "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 2 96 S&T Test Report Coronado's PST: Hydrogen-Alpha Viewing on a Budget "Walker, Sean" 2005 2 100 S&T Test Report MacAstronomica 2.0.5 "Heafner, Joe" 2005 2 102 Buyer's Guide White-Light Solar Filters "Seronik, Gary" 2005 2 104 New Product Showcase "Digital Setting Circles, by JMI Telescopes" 2005 2 104 New Product Showcase "OptiCalculator 1.1, by Joe Cahak" 2005 2 104 New Product Showcase "Deep Space Observing Log 2.0, by M42 Technology Concepts" 2005 2 106 New Product Showcase "CCDAutoPilot 1.0, by CCDWare" 2005 2 106 New Product Showcase "CromixSun, by Marcello Lugli" 2005 2 106 New Product Showcase "Micro Edge Focuser, by Land, Sea & Sky" 2005 2 109 Books & Beyond "Futures: 50 Years in Space, by David A. Hardy and Partrick Moore" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 2 110 Books & Beyond "Measuring the Cosmos, by David H. Clark and Matthew D. H. Clark" "Birriel, Jennifer" 2005 2 112 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: Moonwatch "Seronik, Gary" 2005 2 112 Books & Beyond Briefly Noted: The Transit of Venus by Peter Aughton "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 2 112 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Great Beyond, by Paul Haplern" "Roth, Joshua" 2005 2 114 Astronomy Online Celestial Watch "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 2 116 The Astronomy Scene Combat Astronomers in Iraq "Pelletier, Mike" 2005 2 118 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Mount Stromlo Observatory Reopens "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 2 118 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Damage from Japan Earthquakes Reported "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 2 123 Star Trails The Marathon Man "Levy, David H." 2005 2 127 Amateur Telescope Making A Folded Maksutov-Herschelian "Jones, Ed" 2005 2 132 Hobby Q&A What is the farthest object I can see with my 5-inch reflector? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 2 132 Hobby Q&A Can February contain no full Moons? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 2 132 Hobby Q&A How do I know when my telescope needs re-aluminizing? "Seronik, Gary" 2005 2 132 Hobby Q&A What was the moving fuzzy cloud I saw? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2005 2 132 Hobby Q&A How could someone on the Moon verify that Earth exists? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 2 134 Gallery Coppery Moon "Reese, Tom" 2005 2 135 Gallery October Lunar Eclipse "Martinez, Patrick" "Bonnet, Michel" 2005 2 135 Gallery False Moon "Hahn, Hermann-Michael" 2005 2 136 Gallery North America Nebula "Thomas, Matthew" 2005 2 137 Gallery Eta Carinae Nebula "Voltmer, Sebastian" 2005 2 137 Gallery Stellar Bubble "Kelly, Al" 2005 2 138 Gallery A Red-Letter Eclipse "Cook, Chris" 2005 2 150 Focal Point "Remembering Tech Pan, 1977-2004" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2005 3 1 Front-Cover Photo Mars Rover Spirit's View of Mars 2005 3 8 Spectrum G'day to S&T Down Under "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 3 12 Letters Dark Legacy "Maor, Eli" 2005 3 12 Letters Candid Camera Commentary "Allen, Randy" 2005 3 12 Letters Historical Completeness "Schou, Ole" 2005 3 12 Letters Teaching by Moonlight "Barnes, Joshua E." 2005 3 13 Letters "Turning ""Trash"" into Treasure" "Lehman, Dale E." 2005 3 13 Letters For the Record 2005 3 16 News Notes A Flood of Cassini Discoveries "Naeye, Robert" 2005 3 18 News Notes Hubble Gets a Shot in the Arm "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 3 19 News Notes Yerkes on the Block "Roth, Joshua" 2005 3 19 News Notes Magellan's Monster Mirror "Naeye, Robert" 2005 3 20 News Notes Martian Methane = Martian Life? "Naeye, Robert" 2005 3 22 News Notes Debris Disks on Display "Roth, Joshua" 2005 3 22 News Notes A New Chapter in the Life of Planets? "Roth, Joshua" 2005 3 24 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2005 3 24 News Notes Amateur Discovers Variable Star in Cepheus "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 3 26 News Notes Follow That Story: A Magnetar Missing-Link Puzzle "Naeye, Robert" 2005 3 26 News Notes Follow That Story: Another Resonant Exoplanetary System "Naeye, Robert" 2005 3 26 News Notes Dark-Matter Discrepancy "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 3 27 Mission Update Constellation-X "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 3 27 Mission Update Rosetta "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 3 27 Mission Update Swift "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 3 30 Spotlight On... A Dance of Light and Shadow "Walker, Sean" 2005 3 32 Feature Dark Energy and The Preposterous Universe "Carroll, Sean" 2005 3 40 Feature In Search of Martian Seas "Bell, Jim" 2005 3 44 Feature Box: Things Are Looking Up "Wolff, Michael J." "Smith, Michael D." 2005 3 48 Rambling Through the Skies Bear Watching "Krupp, E. C." 2005 3 50 Northern Hemisphere's Sky A Night When Opposites Attract "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 3 51 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 3 52 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: M50 in a Stream of Starlight "Seronik, Gary" 2005 3 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Southern Binocular Highlight: False Cross Cluster, NGC 2516" "Dalrymple, Les" 2005 3 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 3 55 Southern Hemisphere's Sky A Tour of Argo Navis "Bryant, Greg" 2005 3 56 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Mercury Pops Up "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 3 64 Exploring the Moon Color and History on the Aristarchus Plateau "Wood, Charles A." 2005 3 67 Celestial Calendar The Moon Occults Fiery Antares "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 3 70 Celestial Calendar Asteroid Occultations for March-July 2005 "Dunham, David W." 2005 3 74 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for March 2005 3 78 Eye on the Sky M102: Mystery Solved "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2005 3 80 Deep-Sky Wonders The Flight of the Unicorn "French, Sue" 2005 3 84 Observer's Log Lunar Eclipse Science "Flanders, Tony" 2005 3 85 Observer's Log Eye and I: Easiest Daytime Venus "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 3 86 Observer's Log Editors Observe "Flanders, Tony" 2005 3 88 S&T Test Report Denkmeier Optical's Binocular Viewer "Dyer, Alan" 2005 3 95 S&T Test Report Kagayaki 4.1 "Foust, Jeff" 2005 3 98 Buyer's Guide Binocular Viewers "Walker, Sean" 2005 3 100 New Product Showcase "Little Joe: Mercury's First Steps DVD, by Rocket.aero" 2005 3 100 New Product Showcase "Telescope Simulator, by Matt Wier" 2005 3 100 New Product Showcase "Network Telescope Control, by Trefach Astronomy Centre" 2005 3 102 New Product Showcase Universal Astronomics Telescope Tripods 2005 3 102 New Product Showcase StarGazers Inn and Observatory 2005 3 102 New Product Showcase "Astro IIDC, by Aupperie Service and Contracting" 2005 3 105 Books & Beyond "The Hubble Space Telescope, by David DeVorkin and Robert W. Smith" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 3 106 Books & Beyond "National Geographic Encyclopedia of Space, by Linda K. Glover" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 3 106 Books & Beyond "The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades, by Munya Andrews" "Krupp, E. C." 2005 3 108 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Icy Worlds of the Solar System, by Pat Dasch" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 3 108 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Privileged Planet, by Gullermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards" "Tytell, David" 2005 3 108 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Night Sky Month-by-Month 2005, by Jean-Louis Heudier" "Roth, Joshua" 2005 3 110 Astronomy Online "So Much to Read, So Little Time" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 3 112 Star Trails Eclipse Tales "Levy, David H." 2005 3 114 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Pierre Cugnon (1940-2004) "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 3 114 The Astronomy Scene Community News: The Demise of Kodak's Slide Projector "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 3 114 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Alfred L. Woods (1911-2004) "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 3 119 Amateur Telescope Making Mirror-Cell Design with Plop "Holm, Mark" 2005 3 124 Hobby Q&A Can a sundial be used accurately at different latitudes? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 3 124 Hobby Q&A What ISO setting for a digital camera should be used for a planetary grouping in twilight? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2005 3 124 Hobby Q&A How is the date of Easter determined? "Bryant, Greg" 2005 3 124 Hobby Q&A Are machine-made telescope mirrors better than those made by hand? "Seronik, Gary" 2005 3 127 Astrophotography Resurrecting an Old Astrophoto "Jewell, Milke" 2005 3 132 Gallery October Total Lunar Eclipse "Bernier, Martin" 2005 3 132 Gallery Mount Rushmore and Big Dipper "Schechter, Daniel S." 2005 3 133 Gallery Andromeda's Great Galaxy "Christensen, Jon" 2005 3 134 Gallery "Trifid Nebula, M20, in Sagittarius" "Wendel, Volker" "Flach-Wilken, Bernd" 2005 3 135 Gallery Globular Cluster Omega Centauri "Hoppe, Michael" 2005 3 135 Gallery Canadian Aurora "Irvine, Steve" 2005 3 136 Gallery Eclipsed Moon Setting "Karrer, Michael" 2005 3 136 Gallery Nebula NGC 281 in Cassiopeia "Promper, Wolfgang" 2005 3 137 Gallery "Bubble Nebula, NGC 7635" "Misti, Jim" 2005 3 137 Gallery Saturn "Phillips, Jim" 2005 3 150 Focal Point If Telescopes Could Talk "Kany, Jessica" 2005 4 1 Front-Cover Photo Titan 2005 4 8 Spectrum Evolution: We Can't Sit Idly By "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 4 12 Letters The Name Game Continued "Offutt, Joe" 2005 4 12 Letters The Vampire's Bite "Barbetti, Susan" 2005 4 12 Letters "Star Hustling, Reviled - I" "Haggath, Neil M." 2005 4 12 Letters "Star Hustling, Reviled - II" "Falconer, Thomas H." 2005 4 12 Letters Heavens Filled with Hope "Kurlancheek, Brad" 2005 4 12 Letters Shot Down "Lyons, Robert D." 2005 4 13 Letters Sundogs Defined? - II "Jones, Bob" 2005 4 13 Letters For the Record 2005 4 13 Letters Sundogs Defined? - I "Henbest, Nigel" 2005 4 16 News Notes Iapetus Encountered "Naeye, Robert" 2005 4 18 News Notes Active Volcanoes on Mars? "Naeye, Robert" 2005 4 19 News Notes Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On "Tytell, David" 2005 4 19 News Notes Opportunity Gets into Heavy Metal "Naeye, Robert" 2005 4 20 News Notes Supernova in a Spiral Arm "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 4 20 News Notes The Nightmare Before Christmas "Tytell, David" 2005 4 22 News Notes Exoplanet Image Confirmed? "Shiga, David" 2005 4 22 News Notes Newfound Star Sparks Debate "Roth, Joshua" 2005 4 24 News Notes Disk Demolition Derby "Shiga, David" 2005 4 26 News Notes Spitzer's Trifid "Shiga, David" 2005 4 26 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2005 4 26 News Notes Still No Planets in 47 Tucanae "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 4 28 News Notes The Very Biggest Stars "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 4 28 News Notes A Black-Hole Swarm "Schilling, Govert" 2005 4 29 Mission Update Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 4 29 Mission Update Mars Science Laboratory "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 4 32 Spotlight On... A Flaming Runaway Star "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 4 34 Feature Titan: A Whole New World "Tytell, David" 2005 4 42 Feature Supermassive Black Holes: Shaping Their Surroundings "Miller, M. Coleman" "Reynolds, Christopher S." "Krishnamurthi, Anita" 2005 4 50 Feature The Astronomy of Robert Frost "Calia, Charles Laird" 2005 4 54 Rambling Through the Skies Sky Hybrid "Krupp, E. C." 2005 4 58 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Leo Springs into View "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 4 59 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 4 60 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: Two Doubles in Cancer "Seronik, Gary" 2005 4 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: An Overlooked Jem "Dalrymple, Les" 2005 4 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 4 63 Southern Hemisphere's Sky A First-Class Night "Bryant, Greg" 2005 4 64 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Jupiter at Its Annual Best "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 4 70 Exploring the Moon Basins of the Southwestern Limb "Wood, Charles A." 2005 4 73 Celestial Calendar The April 8th Partial Solar Eclipse "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 4 74 Celestial Calendar The April 24th Penumbral Eclipse "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 4 74 Celestial Calendar Pallas in the Realm of the Galaxies "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 4 76 Celestial Calendar April Meteors "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 4 76 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for April "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 4 78 Eye on the Sky The Secret Corona - Part I "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2005 4 80 Deep-Sky Wonders A Bear's Bunch "French, Sue" 2005 4 83 Targets Comet Chasing "Crinklaw, Greg" 2005 4 88 S&T Test Report Orion SkyView Pro 3.6CA EQ "Seronik, Gary" 2005 4 95 S&T Test Report "JupSat Pro, by Gary Nugent" "Ratledge, David" 2005 4 98 Buyer's Guide 90-mm Astronomical Maksutovs "Seronik, Gary" 2005 4 100 New Product Showcase "The Stars at a Click, by Maxfactory" 2005 4 100 New Product Showcase "Tele-Station, by Pier-Tech Inc." 2005 4 100 New Product Showcase Starlight Xpress M Series CCD Cameras 2005 4 102 New Product Showcase "StarLITE, by SKY:Lab Astronomy Software" 2005 4 102 New Product Showcase "AstroStack 3, by Robert Stekelenburg" 2005 4 102 New Product Showcase Agena AstroProducts Solar Filters 2005 4 104 Books & Beyond "A Child's Introduction to the Night Sky, by Michael Driscoll" "Flanders, Tony" 2005 4 105 Books & Beyond "Sun Observer's Guide, by Pam Spence" "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 4 106 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Exploring the Starry Sky, by Robert Burnham and Wil Tirion" "Flanders, Tony" 2005 4 106 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Cosmos, by Sylvia Arditi and Marc Lachieze-Rey" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 4 107 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Mike Lynch's Minnesota Starwatch, by Mike Lynch" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 4 108 Astronomy Online Applet Power "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 4 110 The Astronomy Scene Namibian Nights: The Adventure Continues "Binnewies, Stefan" "Bocker, Dietmar" "Popsel, Josef" 2005 4 114 The Astronomy Scene Community News: A Sun Book for the Visually Impaired "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 4 115 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Amateur Observatory Opens in Chile "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 4 116 The Astronomy Scene Light-Pollution Notes "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 4 118 Star Trails Fellowship Under Southern Skies "Levy, David H." 2005 4 121 Amateur Telescope Making A Simple Altazimuth Tripod Adapter "Adler, Alan" 2005 4 124 Hobby Q&A What do we mean when we say a galaxy is 300 million light-years away? "Roth, Joshua" 2005 4 124 Hobby Q&A Are parsecs or light-years a better measurement of large distances? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 4 124 Hobby Q&A Where did the 1.25-inch standard size for eyepiece barrels come from? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 4 124 Hobby Q&A Did the tsunami-causing earthquake of 2004 alter Earth's tilt or rotation? "Tytell, David" 2005 4 126 Astrophotography In Pursuit of the Ultimate Image "Walker, Sean" 2005 4 132 Gallery Planetary Nebula Shapley 1 in Norma "Sparenberg, Rainer" "Binnewies, Stefan" "Robering, Volker" 2005 4 132 Gallery Moon Occults Jupiter "Coretti, Becky" "Williams, Bill" 2005 4 133 Gallery Helix Nebula "Popsel, Josef" 2005 4 134 Gallery Twin-Tailed Comet Machholz "Block, Adam" 2005 4 134 Gallery Planetary Nebula IC 5148 in Grus "Popsel, Josef" 2005 4 135 Gallery Comet Machholz Close-Up "Ito, Akihiko" 2005 4 136 Gallery Crab Nebula "Jacobs, Richard" 2005 4 136 Gallery Nebula RCW 57 in Carina "Sparenberg, Rainer" "Binnewies, Stefan" "Robering, Volker" 2005 4 150 Focal Point A Changing Point of View "Baird-Chleborad, Dawn" 2005 5 1 Front-Cover Photo Brown Dwarf Star "Simpson, Steven" 2005 5 8 Spectrum Missed Opportunities "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 5 12 Letters Don't Believe the Hype "Maor, Eli" 2005 5 12 Letters Phantom Comet "Pearce, Andrew" 2005 5 12 Letters Cartography Credit "van Gent, Robert H." 2005 5 12 Letters A Flash in the Pan - I "Kaplan, George" 2005 5 12 Letters A Flash in the Pan - II "de Celis, John" 2005 5 12 Letters Skylab Repellent "Reade, Gordon" 2005 5 13 Letters Dome Wreckers "Steier, Sandy" 2005 5 13 Letters A Flash in the Pan - III "Young, Andy" 2005 5 16 News Notes Asteroid 2004 MN4: A Really Near Miss "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 5 17 News Notes "Say ""Cheese!""" "Tytell, David" 2005 5 18 News Notes Galaxy Maps Reveal Long-Sought Waves "Schilling, Govert" "Roth, Joshua" 2005 5 18 News Notes Catching a Breeze "Tytell, David" 2005 5 19 News Notes A Bonanza of Exoplanet Discoveries "Naeye, Robert" 2005 5 20 News Notes A Star Flung Out of the Milky Way "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 5 20 News Notes Hubble Takes a Hit "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 5 20 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2005 5 22 Mission Update Mars Express/Beagle-2 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 5 22 Mission Update Deep Impact "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 5 22 News Notes "Follow that Story: Supernovae Are not Round, Continued" "Naeye, Robert" 2005 5 22 Mission Update Swift "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 5 26 Spotlight On... A Puzzling Polar-Ring Galaxy "Rubin, Vera C." 2005 5 28 Feature Fireworks from the Far Side of the Galaxy "Naeye, Robert" 2005 5 31 Feature Box: The Birth of Magnetars "Naeye, Robert" 2005 5 32 Feature Box: Amateurs Detect Effects on Earth "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 5 34 Feature A Decade of Brown Dwarfs "Basri, Gibor" 2005 5 42 Feature Astronomy's Matriarch "Hoskin, Michael A." 2005 5 48 Rambling Through the Skies Outsourcing the Light "Krupp, E. C." 2005 5 50 Northern Hemisphere's Sky The Magic of May "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 5 51 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 5 52 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: Steady on Galaxy M94 "Seronik, Gary" 2005 5 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 5 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: A Jewel Among Jewels "Dalrymple, Les" 2005 5 55 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Modern Star Groups of the South "Bryant, Greg" 2005 5 56 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Jupiter & Saturn: After-Dinner Treats "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 5 64 Exploring the Moon The Naked-Eye Moon "Wood, Charles A." 2005 5 67 Celestial Calendar Dynamic Jupiter: An Observing Guide "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 5 71 Celestial Calendar May Meteors "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 5 72 Celestial Calendar Two Stellar Opposites "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 5 72 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for May "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 5 75 Eye on the Sky The Secret Corona - Part II "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2005 5 78 Deep-Sky Wonders Bowled Over in Ursa Major "French, Sue" 2005 5 83 Targets 3C 273: Catch the Brightest Quasar "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 5 84 Targets "The Near Sky: Hevelius, Huygens, and Halos" "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 5 86 S&T Test Report A Preview of Meade's RCX400 "di Cicco, Dennis" 2005 5 91 S&T Test Report "HNSky 2.3, by Han Kleijn" "Heafner, Joe" 2005 5 94 New Product Showcase "Cosmic Debris, by John Schilling" 2005 5 94 New Product Showcase "RegiStax 3, by Cor Berrevoets" 2005 5 94 New Product Showcase "MacroGlide Focuser, by Van Slyke Engineering" 2005 5 96 New Product Showcase "Astromist, by Cyrille Thieullet" 2005 5 96 New Product Showcase "HD Abbe Orthoscopic Eyepieces, by University Optics" 2005 5 96 New Product Showcase "Glow-in-the-Dark Star Posters, Star Finders, Inc." 2005 5 99 Books & Beyond "Archives of the Universe, by Marcia Bartusiak, ed." "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2005 5 101 Books & Beyond "The Real Mars, by Michael Hanlon" "Naeye, Robert" 2005 5 102 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Lunar Exploration, by Paolo Ulivi and David M. Harland" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 5 102 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Star Lore, by William Tyler Olcott" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 5 102 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Observing the Universe, by Andrew J. Norton, ed." "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 5 102 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: NASA's Voyager Mission, by Ben Evans and David M. Harland" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 5 102 Books & Beyond "Mars: A Warmer, Wetter Planet, by Jeffrey S. Kargel" "Naeye, Robert" 2005 5 103 Books & Beyond "Destination Mars, by Alain Dupas" "Naeye, Robert" 2005 5 103 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Universe and Beyond, 4th ed., by Terence Dickinson" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 5 104 Astronomy Online Landscapes on Titan: Amateurs Scoop the Pros "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 5 107 The Astronomy Scene The Human Orrery: Putting the Solar System in Perspective "Bailey, Mark E." "Asher, David J." "Christou, Apostolas A." 2005 5 112 The Astronomy Scene Community News: AAVSO's New Director Named "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 5 112 The Astronomy Scene Community News: SOHO Comet No. 900 Discovered "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 5 112 The Astronomy Scene Community News: David Lunt (1942-2005) "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 5 112 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Orion Telescopes Sold to Imaginova "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 5 113 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Biosphere 2 on the Block "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 5 113 The Astronomy Scene Community News: New Planetarium Opens in China "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 5 114 Star Trails The Man with Radar Eyes "Levy, David H." 2005 5 116 Hobby Q&A Why does Titan have an atmosphere and Jupiter's large moons do not? "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2005 5 116 Hobby Q&A Can I upgrade my 4.5-inch Newtonian f/7.7 spherical mirror with a f/8 paraboloidal mirror? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 5 116 Hobby Q&A Why are some stars big and others small in photographs? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 5 118 Astrophotography Hybrid Composite Imaging "Gendler, Robert" 2005 5 126 Gallery Moon and Pleiades Conjunction "Pacholka, Wally" 2005 5 126 Gallery "Eagle Nebula, M16" "Sparenberg, Rainer" "Binnewies, Stefan" "Robering, Volker" 2005 5 127 Gallery "Whirlpool Galaxy, M51" "Jurasevich, Dave" 2005 5 128 Gallery Machholz Meets the Seven Sisters "Skorupa, Waldemar" 2005 5 128 Gallery Rosette Nebula Detail "Crawford, Ken" 2005 5 129 Gallery Sunset Glory "Meyers, Charlene M." 2005 5 129 Gallery Icelandic Aurora "Potts, Jay E." 2005 5 142 Focal Point One of Those Nights "Anderson, Peter" 2005 6 1 Front-Cover Photo Deep Impact "Rawlings, Pat" 2005 6 8 Spectrum Watts Up with Laser Pointers? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 6 12 Letters A Tribute: Kodak Technical Pan Film "Liller, William" 2005 6 12 Letters Dome-estic Violence - II "Zollner, Philip" 2005 6 12 Letters Dome-estic Violence - I "Jawad, Ala'a H." 2005 6 12 Letters Seeing the Light "Trueblood, Mark" 2005 6 12 Letters Support Your Friends "Cox, Richard D." 2005 6 13 Letters For the Record 2005 6 13 Letters Historical Perspective "Craig, Donald I." 2005 6 13 Letters Memories for Sale "Smith, Bill R." 2005 6 16 News Notes "Enceladus's ""Invisible Atmosphere""" "Tytell, David" 2005 6 17 News Notes Saturn Lights "Johnston, Lisa R." 2005 6 18 News Notes A Controversial Equatorial Martian Sea "Tytell, David" 2005 6 18 News Notes White Dwarf Planets? "Naeye, Robert" 2005 6 19 News Notes Exoplanets: The Heat Is On "Naeye, Robert" 2005 6 20 News Notes Pulsar Jackpot "Schilling, Govert" 2005 6 20 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2005 6 22 News Notes Glimpsing Starbirth with Spitzer "Roth, Joshua" 2005 6 22 News Notes Thick Disks Discerned Beyond Milky Way "Roth, Joshua" 2005 6 24 News Notes Astro News Brief: Magellanic Magnetism 2005 6 24 News Notes "Astro News Brief: Giant Planet, Tiny Star" 2005 6 24 News Notes Astro News Brief: Solar-System Supernova? 2005 6 24 News Notes Astro News Brief: Upper Mass Limit for Stars? 2005 6 24 News Notes Astro News Brief: Meteor Crater Mystery 2005 6 24 News Notes Procyon Pulsations Found? "Shiga, David" 2005 6 24 News Notes Astro News Brief: Lopsided Giants? 2005 6 24 News Notes Astro News Brief: M33's Motion Measured 2005 6 26 Mission Update New Horizons "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 6 26 News Notes Big Bang Material Brewed? "Naeye, Robert" 2005 6 26 Mission Update JIMO "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 6 26 Mission Update Rosetta "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 6 30 Spotlight On... Mars's Hale Crater "Naeye, Robert" 2005 6 34 Feature Rendezvous with an Asteroid "Clark, Beth Ellen" "Grant, Kelli B." 2005 6 40 Feature Deep Impact: Our First Look Inside a Comet "Warner, Elizabeth M." "Redfern, Greg" 2005 6 46 Rambling Through the Skies Complete Set "Krupp, E. C." 2005 6 50 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Eye of the Dragon "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 6 51 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 6 52 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: M101 in the Mind's Eye "Seronik, Gary" 2005 6 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 6 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: King of the Globulars "Dalrymple, Les" 2005 6 55 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Exploring Lacaille's Deep Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2005 6 56 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Three Planets Meet "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 6 63 Exploring the Moon Bumps on the Moon "Wood, Charles A." 2005 6 67 Celestial Calendar Targeting Comet Tempel 1 "Bryant, Greg" 2005 6 69 Celestial Calendar Comet Lost and Found "Bryant, Greg" 2005 6 70 Celestial Calendar Amateurs and the Deep Impact Mission "Warner, Elizabeth M." "Redfern, Greg" 2005 6 71 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for June "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 6 72 Celestial Calendar Outer Planets in 2005 "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 6 74 Celestial Calendar Porrima at Periastron "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 6 76 Eye on the Sky The Mercury Challenge "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2005 6 78 Deep-Sky Wonders Embracing Edasich "French, Sue" 2005 6 83 Observer's Log Comet Machholz's Fine Performance "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 6 86 Observer's Log Eye and I: Tighter Than Mizar-Alcor "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 6 88 S&T Test Report Adirondack Video Astronomy's Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector "Dobbins, Thomas A." 2005 6 92 S&T Test Report Orbitron 3.14 "Foust, Jeff" 2005 6 96 New Product Showcase "ATM Foucault Test - Miror Surface Profiler, by Larry Gilstrap" 2005 6 96 New Product Showcase "Binary Maker 3.0, by Contact Software" 2005 6 96 New Product Showcase "Super Abbe Ortho Eyepieces, by Apogee Inc." 2005 6 98 Buyer's Guide Specialized Planetary Filters "Walker, Sean" 2005 6 102 Books & Beyond "The Firefly Encyclopedia of Astronomy, by Paul Murdin and Margaret Penston" "Gay, Pamela L." 2005 6 103 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Taki's Online Star Atlas, by Tashimi Taki" "Deans, Paul" 2005 6 103 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: NGC, by Daryl West" "Deans, Paul" 2005 6 103 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Sharing the Night Sky, by John York" "Deans, Paul" 2005 6 103 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Finder Charts of Deep Sky Objects, by Walter E. Thomas" "Deans, Paul" 2005 6 106 Astronomy Online A Decade of Daily Delights "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 6 108 Star Trails Clyde Tombaugh's Rich Legacy "Levy, David H." 2005 6 110 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Charles R. Hammond (1915-2004) "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 6 110 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Tombaugh Telescope Dedicated "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 6 110 The Astronomy Scene Community News: New Zealand's Stonehenge Exhibit Opens "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 6 114 Amateur Telescope Making A Lightweight Composite Dob "Highe, Albert" 2005 6 118 Hobby Q&A How can I run BASIC programs featured in past issues of S&T? "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 6 118 Hobby Q&A What would our Sun look like among the constellations from another star? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 6 118 Hobby Q&A Are meteor showers enhanced when viewed from an aircraft? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 6 120 Gallery Stellar Nursery in Monoceros "Guthmiller, Allan" 2005 6 121 Gallery Equinox Sun "Orman, Joe" 2005 6 121 Gallery Our Daytime Star in Hydrogen-Alpha Light "Piepol, Greg" 2005 6 122 Gallery Hubble's Variable Nebula "Crawford, Ken" 2005 6 122 Gallery Auroraland Delight "Potts, Jay E." 2005 6 123 Gallery The Ghost of Jupiter "Sparenberg, Rainer" "Binnewies, Stefan" "Robering, Volker" 2005 6 123 Gallery Thor's Helmet "Misti, Jim" 2005 6 124 Gallery Desert Tapestry "Hann, Al" 2005 6 124 Gallery Hairy Encounter "Voltmer, Sebastian" 2005 6 125 Gallery The Big Bear's Owl "Keller, Philipp" "Fuchs, Christian" 2005 6 125 Gallery A Heavenly Pairing "Schur, Chris" 2005 6 142 Focal Point What's in a Name? "Robbins, Randy S." 2005 7 1 Front-Cover Photo Albert Einstein 2005 7 8 Spectrum Einstein Forever? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 7 12 Letters The Right Tools for the Job "Lederman, Russ" 2005 7 12 Letters Discovered Treasure - I "Denton, Stephen" 2005 7 12 Letters Naked-Eye Comets in 2004 "Kammerer, Andreas" 2005 7 12 Letters Discovered Treasure - II "Burdell, Ed" 2005 7 12 Letters Inappropriate "Marler, Larry P." 2005 7 13 Letters For the Record 2005 7 13 Letters Hybrid Eclipse "Meeus, Jean" 2005 7 13 Letters Science in Iraq "Abed, Abdulkader M." 2005 7 16 News Notes Meet the Milky Way's Newfound Neighbors "Naeye, Robert" 2005 7 18 News Notes A New Exoplanet Imaged? "Naeye, Robert" 2005 7 18 News Notes Deposits Point to Evaporated Water on Mars "Tytell, David" 2005 7 19 News Notes A Truly Ancient Relic Star "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 7 19 News Notes Auroras Aren't Mirror Images "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 7 19 News Notes Dark-Matter Developments "Roth, Joshua" 2005 7 20 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2005 7 20 News Notes One Super Star Cluster "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 7 22 News Notes Astro News Brief: Eta Carinae Twin 2005 7 22 News Notes Astro News Brief: A New Way To Find E.T. 2005 7 22 News Notes Astro News Brief: Ancient Novae 2005 7 22 News Notes Astro News Brief: Mars Rovers Extended 2005 7 22 News Notes Ancient Star Catalog Found "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 7 24 Mission Update Hard Times for Space Science "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 7 28 Spotlight On... Sagittarius's Stellar Playgrounds "Bryant, Greg" 2005 7 32 Feature Putting Einstein to the Test "Gefter, Amanda" 2005 7 39 Feature Box: Test Einstein at Home "Allen, Bruce" 2005 7 42 Feature Hidden in Plain Sight: Finding Martian Landers "Malin, Michael C." 2005 7 48 Rambling Through the Skies Great Expectations "Krupp, E. C." 2005 7 50 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Starry Skies to Count On "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 7 51 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 7 52 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: Globular Cluster Season "Seronik, Gary" 2005 7 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 7 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: The Southern Pointers "Dalrymple, Les" 2005 7 55 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Pointers to the Night's Diversity "Bryant, Greg" 2005 7 56 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Mars Returns to the Stage "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 7 62 Exploring the Moon Polar Pleasures "Wood, Charles A." 2005 7 65 Celestial Calendar Meteors in the Telescope "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 7 66 Celestial Calendar A Fine Antares Occultation "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 7 68 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for July "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 7 69 Celestial Calendar Minima of Algol "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 7 72 Eye on the Sky Haidinger's Brush - Part I "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2005 7 75 Deep-Sky Wonders Scuttling Around the Scorpion "French, Sue" 2005 7 79 Targets The Seven Messier Globulars of Ophiuchus "Dalrymple, Les" 2005 7 83 Targets Light-Pollution Notes "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 7 84 S&T Test Report "Vixen's Sphinx ""Go To"" Mount" "Dyer, Alan" 2005 7 91 S&T Test Report "The Stars at a Click, by Maxfactory" "Ratledge, David" 2005 7 94 New Product Showcase Finger Lakes Instrumentation's Precision Digital Focuser 2005 7 94 New Product Showcase Lynkeos 2005 7 94 New Product Showcase Shoestring Astronomy's Guide Port Interface Adapter 2005 7 96 New Product Showcase "PixInsight LE, Pleiades Astrophoto" 2005 7 96 New Product Showcase "Starry Night Pro Plus 5.0, by Imaginova" 2005 7 96 New Product Showcase Ideal Astronomy's Sight Saver 2005 7 98 Buyer's Guide "German Equatorial ""Go To"" Mounts" "Walker, Sean" 2005 7 101 Books & Beyond "The New Amateur Astronomer, by Martin Mobberley" "Medkeff, Jeff" 2005 7 102 Books & Beyond On the Shoulders of Giants "Roth, Joshua" 2005 7 103 Books & Beyond "Navigating the Night Sky, by Guilherme de Almeida" "Roth, Joshua" 2005 7 103 Books & Beyond "A Walk through the Heavens, by Milton D. Heifetz and Wil Tirion" "Roth, Joshua" 2005 7 105 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: The Mount Wilson Observatory, by Allan Sandage" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2005 7 106 Astronomy Online This Software Club Wants You "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 7 108 Star Trails Seeing Einstein's Gravity Lens "Levy, David H." 2005 7 113 Amateur Telescope Making Automate Your Backyard Observatory "Capon, Robert" 2005 7 118 Hobby Q&A Does stopping down your telescope to a smaller aperture produce sharper images? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 7 118 Hobby Q&A Why is Uranus considered to have a retrograde spin? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 7 118 Hobby Q&A Why do astrophotographers stack exposures? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2005 7 120 Astrophotography Capturing the Colors of the Moon "Alves, Filipe" 2005 7 126 Gallery Milky Way Panorama "Pacholka, Wally" 2005 7 126 Gallery Yosemite in Moonlight "Martinez, Alvaro" 2005 7 127 Gallery Orion Rising "Tough, Alan C." 2005 7 128 Gallery Sun Pillar "Pikhard, Alexander" 2005 7 128 Gallery Starlight Through My Window "Ramotowski, Becky" 2005 7 128 Gallery Mock Sun "Mason, Euan" 2005 7 129 Gallery Heavenly Pirouette "Evans, Drew J." 2005 7 129 Gallery Digital Star Trails "Wienerroither, Peter" 2005 7 142 Focal Point Thy Neighbor's Scope "Jones, Paul B." 2005 8 1 Front-Cover Photo Sun-Scorched Comets "Reed, Casey B." 2005 8 8 Spectrum Paradigm Shift "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 8 12 Letters Taking a Stand - III "Nicolaisen, Curtis" 2005 8 12 Letters Taking a Stand - V "Richards, David P." 2005 8 12 Letters Taking a Stand - I "Brown, David" 2005 8 12 Letters Taking a Stand - II "Suskin, Greg" 2005 8 12 Letters Taking a Stand - IV "DeCristofano, Carolyn" 2005 8 13 Letters Taking a Stand - VII "Morris, Steven" 2005 8 13 Letters Taking a Stand - VI "Wilke, John" 2005 8 13 Letters For the Record 2005 8 16 News Notes Short Gamma-Ray Burst Nailed at Last "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 8 17 News Notes Shreds of a Swallowed Spiral "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 8 18 News Notes A Bigger Andromeda Galaxy "Naeye, Robert" 2005 8 19 News Notes The Milky Way's Youngest Globular "Johnston, Lisa R." 2005 8 20 News Notes Lakes on Titan Found? "Tytell, David" 2005 8 20 News Notes 13 New Saturnian Moons "Naeye, Robert" 2005 8 22 News Notes Scattered Planet "Naeye, Robert" 2005 8 22 News Notes An Exo-Asteroid Belt "Naeye, Robert" 2005 8 24 News Notes Follow That Story: One-Sided Superflare "Naeye, Robert" 2005 8 24 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2005 8 24 News Notes Follow That Story: Big Bang Brew "Naeye, Robert" 2005 8 24 News Notes Follow That Story: Chandra Observes Supernova 1987A "Naeye, Robert" 2005 8 25 Mission Update Solar-B "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 8 25 News Notes Hubble's Prospects Brighten "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 8 25 Mission Update Astro-F "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 8 25 Mission Update Astro-E2 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 8 28 Spotlight On... A Cavity in Cassiopeia "Rector, Travis A." 2005 8 32 Feature The Booming Science of Sungrazing Comets "Hoffman, Tony" "Marsden, Brian G." 2005 8 38 Feature Extrasolar Planets: Pictured at Last? "Naeye, Robert" 2005 8 46 Rambling Through the Skies Hole in One "Krupp, E. C." 2005 8 50 Northern Hemisphere's Sky The Starry Scorpion "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 8 51 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 8 52 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: M57 and Expectations "Seronik, Gary" 2005 8 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 8 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: NGC 6124 in Scorpius "Dalrymple, Les" 2005 8 55 Southern Hemisphere's Sky A Shielded Arm "Bryant, Greg" 2005 8 56 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Red Planet Rising "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 8 62 Exploring the Moon Pyroclastics on the Moon "Wood, Charles A." 2005 8 65 Celestial Calendar Fine Year for a Perseid Watch "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 8 66 Celestial Calendar Collision Course "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 8 67 Celestial Calendar Eye and I: Awesome Augusts "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 8 68 Celestial Calendar Planetary Occultations for August-December "Dunham, David W." 2005 8 72 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for August "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 8 74 Eye on the Sky Haidinger's Brush - Part II "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2005 8 77 Deep-Sky Wonders More Summer Planetaries "French, Sue" 2005 8 82 S&T Test Report "Celestron's Advanced Series ""Go To"" Mount" "Dyer, Alan" 2005 8 88 New Product Showcase TeleGizmos Solar Scope Covers 2005 8 88 New Product Showcase ScopeRoller 2005 8 88 New Product Showcase Gravity Simulator 2.0 2005 8 91 Books & Beyond "Exploring Ancient Skies, by David H. Kelley and Eugene F. Milone" "Gingerich, Owen" 2005 8 93 Books & Beyond "Mathematical Astronomy Morsels III, by Jean Meeus" "Heafner, Joe" 2005 8 94 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Meteorites, by Robert Hutchison" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 8 94 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Pathways to the Planets, by John R. Strand" "Tytell, David" 2005 8 94 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Astro Turf, by M. G. Lord" "Tytell, David" 2005 8 94 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Jupiter, by Fran Bagenal, Timothy Dowling, and William McKinnon, eds." "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 8 96 Astronomy Online Comet Grazing "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 8 99 The Astronomy Scene Greenwich: Center of Space and Time "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 8 102 The Astronomy Scene Community News: America's Young Astronomers Recognized "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 8 102 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Universo Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 8 107 Star Trails A Crimson Ring "Levy, David H." 2005 8 110 Hobby Q&A Why wouldn't a GPS receiver display zero longitude at Greenwich Observatory? "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 8 110 Hobby Q&A "If I lived on Saturn, would the rings be visible?" "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 8 110 Hobby Q&A How bright is the combined magnitude of all visible stars? "Flanders, Tony" 2005 8 110 Hobby Q&A Why not list the name of the question writers in the Hobby Q&A column? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 8 112 Astrophotography Narrowband Imaging in Color? "Crisp, Richard" 2005 8 118 Gallery Partial Darkness "Williams, Bill" 2005 8 118 Gallery Totality at Sea "Dyer, Alan" 2005 8 119 Gallery Diamond Ring "Whiddon, William B." 2005 8 120 Gallery Solar Eruption "Palmer, Gary" 2005 8 121 Gallery The Calm Before the Storm "Williams, Bill" 2005 8 122 Gallery Nebula NGC 7129 in Cepheus "Misti, Jim" 2005 8 123 Gallery Rosette Nebula "Gendler, Robert" 2005 8 134 Focal Point The 14-degree Twitch "Ryan, Bill" 2005 9 1 Front-Cover Photo Whirlpool Galaxy 2005 9 8 Spectrum Eyesight Insight "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 9 12 Letters Ice Breaker "Castellano, Joseph A." 2005 9 12 Letters Solar Power "Kerste, Alexander" 2005 9 12 Letters Keats's Steadfast Star "Sheehan, William" 2005 9 13 Letters For the Record 2005 9 13 Letters Spitzer Response "Werner, Michael" "Soifer, B. Thomas" 2005 9 16 News Notes A Record-Setting Solar Flare "Roth, Joshua" 2005 9 17 News Notes GALEX Sees Ultraviolet Explosion "Johnston, Lisa R." 2005 9 18 News Notes Chaos and Capture "Naeye, Robert" 2005 9 19 News Notes A Low-Mass Exoplanet "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 9 20 News Notes Gamma-Ray Re-Bursts "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 9 20 News Notes Echoes of a Black Hole's Feisty Past "Roth, Joshua" 2005 9 20 News Notes Tuning In to Cosmic Rays "Roth, Joshua" 2005 9 22 News Notes Revising Asteroid Warnings "Tytell, David" 2005 9 22 News Notes Astro News Brief: Opportunity Unstuck 2005 9 22 News Notes Astro News Brief: Voyager Crosses Boundary 2005 9 22 News Notes Astro News Brief: Martian Sky Shows 2005 9 22 News Notes Astro News Brief: Binary Going Berserk 2005 9 24 Mission Update Solar-B "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 9 24 Mission Update Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 9 24 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2005 9 24 Mission Update Juno "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 9 28 Feature Vision Quest: Optimizing Your Eyes for Astronomy "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 9 30 Feature Spectacles for Spectacular Skies "Roth, Joshua" 2005 9 36 Feature LASIK Eye Surgery for the Amateur Astronomer "Wanjek, Christopher" 2005 9 44 Feature Hubble's Anniversary Present "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 9 48 Rambling Through the Skies Generation Gap "Krupp, E. C." 2005 9 50 Northern Hemisphere's Sky A Tangle of Triangles "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 9 51 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 9 52 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: M27 in Vulpecula "Seronik, Gary" 2005 9 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 9 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: Watching Kappa Pavonis "Dalrymple, Les" 2005 9 55 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Stellar Sights in Sagittarius "Bryant, Greg" 2005 9 56 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Pairings at Dusk and Dawn "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 9 63 Exploring the Moon A Basin Too Big to Believe "Wood, Charles A." 2005 9 67 Celestial Calendar The Great Mars Apparition of 2005 "MacRobert, Alan M." "Troiani, Daniel M." 2005 9 70 Celestial Calendar Box: A Mars Observing Forecast "Beish, Jeffrey D." 2005 9 72 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for September "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 9 77 Eye on the Sky Twisted Meteors "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2005 9 81 Deep-Sky Wonders The Towering Eagle "French, Sue" 2005 9 87 Observer's Log April's Unique Solar Eclipse "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 9 91 Observer's Log The Near Sky: The Countersun Revisited "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 9 96 S&T Test Report JMI Telescope's RB-66 Reverse Binoculars "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 9 100 New Product Showcase JMI Telescopes' NGF-XTc Focuser 2005 9 100 New Product Showcase "ImagesPlus 2.5, by MLUnsold Digital Imaging" 2005 9 100 New Product Showcase "GradientXTerminator, by Russell Croman Astrophotography" 2005 9 103 Books & Beyond "Empire of the Stars, by Arthur I. Miller" "Bobra, Monica" 2005 9 105 Books & Beyond "Observing Variable Stars, Novae, and Supernovae, by Gerald North" "Isles, John" 2005 9 106 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The New Quotable Einstein, Alice Calaprice, ed." "Tytell, David" 2005 9 106 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Lunar Prospector, by Alan B. Binder" "Tytell, David" 2005 9 106 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: From Eudoxus to Einstein, by C. M. Linton" "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 9 108 Astronomy Online Seeing the Big Pictures "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 9 113 Star Trails In Praise of Penumbral Eclipses "Levy, David H." 2005 9 116 Hobby Q&A How would Earth look to a Martian observer? "Tytell, David" 2005 9 116 Hobby Q&A How is the time of new Moon defined? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 9 116 Hobby Q&A Do Saturn's moons cast observable shadows on that planet? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 9 116 Hobby Q&A Can the lunar crescent be seen in a telescope at new Moon when the Moon is at its greatest inclination? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 9 120 Gallery Panamanian Ring of Fire "Deans, Paul" 2005 9 120 Gallery Eclipse Diamond Ring "Duncan, Howard Anton" 2005 9 121 Gallery Total Solar Eclipse "Druckmuller, Miloslav" 2005 9 122 Gallery Scimitar Sun "Patching, Richard" 2005 9 122 Gallery Eclipse Chromosphere "Blackwell, Kent" 2005 9 122 Gallery Pinhole Solar Crescents "Sanchez, Anthony G." 2005 9 123 Gallery Total Solar Eclipse "Espenak, Fred" 2005 9 134 Focal Point Observing by Ear "Livingston, Andrew" 2005 10 1 Front-Cover Photo Deep Impact on Comet Tempel 1 2005 10 8 Spectrum E-Publish or Perish "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 10 12 Letters Second Chances "Syed, Andy" 2005 10 12 Letters Never Seen? "Simpson, Janet P." 2005 10 12 Letters Symbol Formerly Known As . . . "Poole, Rowen" 2005 10 12 Letters Science Lost "Alsip, Mark" 2005 10 12 Letters Shaky Ground "Magnuson, Bob" 2005 10 13 Letters Showing the Way "Kalix, Eric" 2005 10 13 Letters For the Record 2005 10 13 Letters Importing Astronomy "Guzman Sanz, Tomas" 2005 10 16 News Notes One Big Ball of Rock "Naeye, Robert" 2005 10 18 News Notes The Planet-Disk Connection "Naeye, Robert" 2005 10 18 News Notes Prospecting for Martian Ice "Naeye, Robert" 2005 10 20 News Notes Supernova in the Whirlpool "Naeye, Robert" 2005 10 20 News Notes M82 Has Spiral Arms "Naeye, Robert" 2005 10 22 News Notes Astro News Brief: Cosmic-Ray Milestone 2005 10 22 News Notes Astro News Brief: Titan Lake Imaged? 2005 10 22 News Notes Dating the Milky Way "Croswell, Ken" 2005 10 22 News Notes Astro News Brief: Leap Second 2005 10 24 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2005 10 24 Mission Update Spitzer Space Telescope "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 10 24 Mission Update Cosmos-1/Volna "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 10 28 Feature The New Kings of the Kuiper Belt "Tytell, David" 2005 10 34 Feature Deep Impact's Hammer Throw "Tytell, David" 2005 10 38 Feature Box: Amateur Sightings: Watching History Happen "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 10 39 Feature Box: Deep Impact: The Sequel "Tytell, David" 2005 10 40 Feature "Ansel Adams and an ""Autumn Moon""" "Olson, Donald W." "Doescher, Russell L." "Mitte Honor Students, the" 2005 10 46 Rambling Through the Skies On the Air "Krupp, E. C." 2005 10 50 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Think Outside the Great Square "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 10 51 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 10 52 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: Magnificent Mu Cephei "Seronik, Gary" 2005 10 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 10 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: M75: The Loneliest Globular "Dalrymple, Les" 2005 10 55 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Contrasts in Capricornus "Bryant, Greg" 2005 10 56 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Mars at Its Biggest and Best "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 10 62 Exploring the Moon The Straight Story on Linear Rilles "Wood, Charles A." 2005 10 64 Celestial Calendar The October 3rd Annular Eclipse "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 10 65 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for October "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 10 66 Celestial Calendar The October 17th Partial Lunar Eclipse "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 10 68 Eye on the Sky Shadow Play "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2005 10 71 Deep-Sky Wonders A Cygnus Sampler "French, Sue" 2005 10 76 S&T Test Report Meade DSI Color CCD Camera "Horne, Johnny" 2005 10 79 S&T Test Report Box: And Science Too "Henden, Arne A." 2005 10 82 S&T Test Report "Binary Maker 3.0, by Contact Software" "Heafner, Joe" 2005 10 86 New Product Showcase Meade Instruments' ETX Premier Edition Series 2005 10 86 New Product Showcase Rigel Systems' RS-Spectroscope 2005 10 86 New Product Showcase "Feather Touch Focusers, by Starlight Instruments" 2005 10 88 New Product Showcase "Lunar Map Pro 4.0 Deluxe, by RITI" 2005 10 88 New Product Showcase Burgess/TMB Multi-Reticle Finder 2005 10 88 New Product Showcase Tele Vue Optics' Dioptrx Eyepieces 2005 10 90 Books & Beyond "Night Sky Atlas, by Robin Scagell" "Flanders, Tony" 2005 10 90 Books & Beyond "Deep Sky Observer's Guide, by Neil Bone" "Flanders, Tony" 2005 10 90 Books & Beyond "Stargazing with a Telescope, by Robin Scagell" "Flanders, Tony" 2005 10 92 Books & Beyond "Atlas of the Moon, by Antonin Rukl" "Grego, Peter" 2005 10 94 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Voyage to the Planets and Beyond, by Tim Haines and Christopher Riley; Video by BBC Video/Warner Home Video" "Naeye, Robert" 2005 10 94 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Norton's Star Atlas and Reference Handbook, by Ian Ridpath, ed." "Tytell, David" 2005 10 94 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Grand Tour, by Ron Miller and William K. Hartmann" "Naeye, Robert" 2005 10 96 The Astronomy Scene Amateurs Help Discover Exoplanet "Naeye, Robert" "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 10 98 The Astronomy Scene Canadian Amateurs Access Big Hawaiian Scopes "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 10 100 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Constellation Stamps to Be Issued "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 10 100 The Astronomy Scene Community News: S&T Executive Editor Honored "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 10 100 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Comet Discoverers Recognized "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 10 101 The Astronomy Scene Light-Pollution Notes "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 10 104 Star Trails A Master Storyteller "Levy, David H." 2005 10 107 Amateur Telescope Making Image-Stabilize Your Binoculars "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 10 112 Hobby Q&A Will a 12- or 14-inch scope dramatically improve my view of nebulae and galaxies over my 6-inch telescope? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 10 112 Hobby Q&A When was the last time the two stars of Alpha Centauri were closest? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 10 112 Hobby Q&A "What happened to Saturn's ring ""spokes"" that were revealed by the 1979 Voyager spacecraft? " "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2005 10 115 Astrophotography Planetary Masters "Walker, Sean" 2005 10 120 Gallery Fox Fur Nebula "Croman, Russell" 2005 10 120 Gallery Tropical Jupiter "Leroi, Teiva" 2005 10 121 Gallery Gamma Cygni Complex "Ito, Akihiko" 2005 10 122 Gallery Cygnus Supernova Remnant "Goldman, Don S." 2005 10 122 Gallery Rho Ophiuchi Region "Candy, Paolo" 2005 10 123 Gallery Fly Me to the Moon "Seip, Stefan" 2005 10 123 Gallery Hercules Galaxy Cluster "Crawford, Ken" 2005 10 134 Focal Point Conversation with a Wizard "Lockhart, Forrest" 2005 11 1 Front-Cover Photo Inflation Theory Illustration "Reed, Casey B." 2005 11 8 Spectrum Planetary Plasticity "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 11 12 Letters A Brush with Success - I "Macrae, Bill" 2005 11 12 Letters Evolution in the Classroom - I "Stienmier, Richard" 2005 11 12 Letters Celestial Growing Pains "Ayiomamitis, Anthony" 2005 11 12 Letters Evolution in the Classroom - II "Hynes, Steven J." 2005 11 12 Letters A Brush with Success - II "Van Dyke, Donald" 2005 11 13 Letters Evolution in the Classroom - III "Sharp, Christopher" 2005 11 13 Letters Young Einstein "Solomon, Mark" 2005 11 13 Letters For the Record 2005 11 16 News Notes Enceladus's Frozen Volcanoes? "Tytell, David" 2005 11 17 News Notes "The ""Death Star"" Revisited" "Tytell, David" 2005 11 18 News Notes The Comet That Doesn't Quit "Tytell, David" 2005 11 18 News Notes Red Planet Roundup "Naeye, Robert" 2005 11 20 News Notes Survivor Planets "Naeye, Robert" 2005 11 20 News Notes The Dominatrix Planet "Naeye, Robert" 2005 11 22 News Notes World's Largest Scope Takes Shape "Naeye, Robert" 2005 11 22 News Notes Weighing a Monstrous Black Hole "Roth, Joshua" 2005 11 24 News Notes "Astro News Brief: ""10th"" Planet Bigger Than Thought?" 2005 11 24 News Notes Astro News Brief: Dark-Matter Galaxy? 2005 11 24 News Notes Early Universe Shows Signs of Life "Johnston, Lisa R." 2005 11 24 News Notes Astro News Brief: Supernova Stardust 2005 11 24 News Notes Astro News Brief: An Asteroid with Two Moons 2005 11 26 Mission Update Suzaku "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 11 26 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2005 11 26 Mission Update Space Shuttle Return to Flight "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 11 30 Spotlight On... A Swan Song in Aquarius "Kwitter, Karen B." 2005 11 32 Feature Sizing Up Inflation "Nadis, Steve" 2005 11 40 Feature Discovery Among the Disks "Madore, Barry F." "de Paz, Armando Gil" 2005 11 46 Rambling Through the Skies Skin Deep "Krupp, E. C." 2005 11 50 Northern Hemisphere's Sky A Really Big Story "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 11 51 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 11 52 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: Two Lacerta Clusters "Seronik, Gary" 2005 11 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 11 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: A Cluster in the Wrong Spot "Dalrymple, Les" 2005 11 55 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Migrating South "Bryant, Greg" 2005 11 56 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Mars in Full Glory "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 11 62 Exploring the Moon Mysteries of the Eastern Limb "Wood, Charles A." 2005 11 64 Celestial Calendar Solved: The Mars-Crater Mystery "Gordon, Rodger W." "Sheehan, William" 2005 11 68 Celestial Calendar November Meteors "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 11 68 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for November "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 11 70 Eye on the Sky Seeing Red? "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2005 11 75 Deep-Sky Wonders Cygnus Sampler - Part II "French, Sue" 2005 11 81 Targets Planetary Pretzels "Gingerich, Owen" "Henry, Richard C." 2005 11 82 Targets Eye and I: Conquering Kuma "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 11 84 S&T Test Report Canon's Astrocamera: The EOS 20Da "Dyer, Alan" 2005 11 90 S&T Test Report Coronado's SolarMax CaK Calcium-Light Solar Telescope "Walker, Sean" 2005 11 92 New Product Showcase Denkmeier Optical's PST Bino-Corrector Adapter 2005 11 92 New Product Showcase SkyAlign for Celestron's CPC Schmidt-Cassegrain Go To Telescopes 2005 11 92 New Product Showcase StarChartGL 2005 11 93 New Product Showcase "A Sidewalk Astronomer, by Jacobs Entertainment" 2005 11 93 New Product Showcase Yankee Robotics' Trifid-2 CCD Cameras 2005 11 93 New Product Showcase StellarCAT's ServoCAT Jr. 2005 11 96 Books & Beyond "Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope, by Fred Watson" "Tytell, David" 2005 11 97 Books & Beyond "Year of the Comets: A Journey from Sadness to the Stars, by Jan DeBlieu" "Roth, Joshua" 2005 11 98 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Infinite Worlds, by Ray Villard and Lynette R. Cook" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2005 11 98 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Hubble: 15 Years of Discovery, by the European Space Agency" "Naeye, Robert" 2005 11 101 The Astronomy Scene Amateur Team Finds 100 Supernovae "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 11 102 The Astronomy Scene Why Are Supernovae Important? "Filippenko, Alexei V." 2005 11 103 The Astronomy Scene German Amateur's Supernova in M51 "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2005 11 104 Star Trails Earth Strikes Back "Levy, David H." 2005 11 107 Amateur Telescope Making Remote Collimation for a Big Dob "VanderBrugge, John" 2005 11 112 Hobby Q&A Is there another planet whose moon(s) would fit over the Sun producing a perfect fit for a total eclipse? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 11 112 Hobby Q&A How can giant stars in a binary system have an orbital period of a few days? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 11 112 Hobby Q&A How do I convert equinox 1950.0 celestial coordinates to the current standard 2000.0? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 11 114 Astrophotography Digicam Astrophotography "Adler, Alan" 2005 11 120 Gallery Gibbous Moon "Davoodian, Shahriar" 2005 11 120 Gallery Pipe Nebula in Ophiuchus "Schur, Chris" 2005 11 121 Gallery Trailed Lunar Eclipse "Ebone, Sandro" 2005 11 121 Gallery Canadian Sundogs "Heggie, Stuart" 2005 11 122 Gallery Orion Nebulosity "Comolli, Lorenzo" 2005 11 123 Gallery Horsehead Nebula "GaBany, R. Jay" 2005 11 124 Gallery Digital Milky Way "Ayiomamitis, Anthony" 2005 11 134 Focal Point Night Flight "Reade, Gordon" 2005 12 1 Front-Cover Photo Perspective View from Mars Express 2005 12 8 Spectrum Parallel Universes "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 12 12 Letters Big Binos Bounce Back "Johnston, Tom" 2005 12 12 Letters Sky Vision - II "Miller, Mike" 2005 12 12 Letters Sky Vision - III "Krajci, Tom" 2005 12 12 Letters Sky Vision - I "Deman, Chris" 2005 12 13 Letters Capturing the Moment "Pedreira, Tom" 2005 12 16 News Notes Deep Impact Revisited "Tytell, David" 2005 12 17 News Notes Hayabusa Arrives at Asteroid Itokawa "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2005 12 18 News Notes Understanding Titan's Terrain "Tytell, David" 2005 12 18 News Notes They're Back! "Tytell, David" 2005 12 20 News Notes Extreme Pulsars "Naeye, Robert" 2005 12 20 News Notes Binary Dwarf Bagged "Roth, Joshua" 2005 12 21 News Notes Short GRBs Linked to Mergers "Naeye, Robert" 2005 12 21 News Notes Giant African Scope Sees First Light "Naeye, Robert" 2005 12 22 News Notes Setback for Alternative Cosmology "Roth, Joshua" 2005 12 22 News Notes Sloan Survey Extended "Roth, Joshua" 2005 12 24 News Notes Astro News Brief: Cygnus X-1's Dark Jet 2005 12 24 News Notes Astro News Brief: Dusty White Dwarf 2005 12 24 News Notes Astro News Brief: No Kuiper Belt Jupiters 2005 12 24 News Notes Homeless Black Hole? "Roth, Joshua" 2005 12 24 News Notes Astro News Brief: Icy Ceres? 2005 12 24 News Notes "Astro News Brief: A Moon for the ""10th Planet""" 2005 12 26 Mission Update Messenger "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 12 26 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2005 12 26 Mission Update Venus Express "McDowell, Jonathan" 2005 12 30 Feature Europe's Eye on Mars "Naeye, Robert" 2005 12 38 Feature E. E. Barnard's Milky Way "Sheehan, William" 2005 12 46 Rambling Through the Skies Buttermilk Sky "Krupp, E. C." 2005 12 50 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Putting Taurus Together "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 12 51 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 12 52 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: Andromeda's Companions "Seronik, Gary" 2005 12 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: NGC 288 in Sculptor "Dalrymple, Les" 2005 12 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2005 12 55 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Deep-Sea Nights "Bryant, Greg" 2005 12 56 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Venus Blooms as Mars's Fire Fades "Schaaf, Fred" 2005 12 63 Exploring the Moon Ancient Lunar Faults "Wood, Charles A." 2005 12 66 Celestial Calendar Seeking the Crescent of Venus "Hostetter, Clyde" 2005 12 67 Celestial Calendar The Christmas-Morning Spica Occultation "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 12 68 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for December "Sinnott, Roger W." 2005 12 74 Eye on the Sky Mercury by Day "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2005 12 77 Deep-Sky Wonders Island Universe "French, Sue" 2005 12 80 Targets Introducing the Levy List "Levy, David H." 2005 12 84 Observer's Log Perseids 2005: Right on Schedule "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 12 86 S&T Test Report Low-Cost Starter Scopes "Seronik, Gary" 2005 12 94 S&T Test Report Planetary Processing with RegiStax 3 "Walker, Sean" 2005 12 98 New Product Showcase "ZenithStar 66 Petzval ED Semi-APO Refractor, by William Optics" 2005 12 98 New Product Showcase Orion 6-inch Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescope 2005 12 98 New Product Showcase Meade Instruments' Series 5000 Plossl Eyepieces 2005 12 98 New Product Showcase "MaxDSLR, by Diffraction Limited" 2005 12 101 Books & Beyond "Evolving Cosmos, by Govert Schilling" "Johnston, Lisa R." 2005 12 102 Books & Beyond "The Violent Universe, by Kimberly Weaver" "Johnston, Lisa R." 2005 12 103 Books & Beyond "The Backyard Stargazer: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Skywatching with and without a Telescope, by Pat Price" "Raymo, Chet" 2005 12 104 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Astronomy with a Home Computer, by Neale Monks" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 12 104 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Art of Collecting Meteorites, by Kevin Kichinka" "Tytell, David" 2005 12 104 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Sky Phenomena, by Norman Davidson" "Raymo, Chet" 2005 12 106 Astronomy Online A Classic Book Reborn "Goldman, Stuart J." 2005 12 108 The Astronomy Scene To Mars by Way of Noto "Sheehan, William" 2005 12 112 The Astronomy Scene Renowned Japanese Mars Observers "Sheehan, William" "Minami, Masatsugu" 2005 12 114 Star Trails A Voyage to Remember "Levy, David H." 2005 12 116 Hobby Q&A What percentage of our galaxy's stars move in retrograde orbits? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2005 12 116 Hobby Q&A Why aren't the Magellanic Clouds included on deep-sky-object lists? "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2005 12 116 Hobby Q&A Is it possible to see the crescent of Venus naked-eye? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2005 12 118 Astrophotography Resolution Realities "Bruns, Donald" 2005 12 122 Gallery Gibbous Mars "Higgins, Wes" 2005 12 122 Gallery North America and Pelican Nebulae "Ito, Akihiko" 2005 12 123 Gallery Spiral Galaxy NGC 7331 "Hallas, Tony" "Hallas, Daphne" 2005 12 124 Gallery Northern Nebula Complex "Pierce, John G." 2005 12 124 Gallery Magellanic Clouds "Totten Espenak, Patricia" 2005 12 134 Focal Point Save the Leap Second! "Steyaert, Christian" 2006 1 1 Front-Cover Photo Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant 2006 1 8 Spectrum Space Race Against Time "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2006 1 14 Letters What Is a Planet? - II "Sorrells, Bill" 2006 1 14 Letters What Is a Planet? - IV "Sheppard, Scott" 2006 1 14 Letters What Is a Planet? - I "Gehrels, Tom" 2006 1 14 Letters What is a Planet? - III "De Silva, Rex I." 2006 1 14 Letters The Adams Family "Garfinkle, Robert A." 2006 1 15 Letters Lose the Jiggle "Echeverria, Gerardo" 2006 1 15 Letters Cosmos 1 Jr.? "Meeus, Jean" 2006 1 15 Letters Backyard Maestro "Thibault, Patrick" 2006 1 15 Letters For the Record 2006 1 18 News Notes Too Big Too Soon? "Naeye, Robert" 2006 1 19 News Notes Cratering Culprits Identified "Naeye, Robert" 2006 1 19 News Notes A Crater-Free Asteroid "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2006 1 20 News Notes Saturn's Sponge Rock "Tytell, David" 2006 1 20 News Notes The Best Transiting Exoplanet Yet "Naeye, Robert" 2006 1 22 News Notes The Missing Martian Carbonates "Tytell, David" 2006 1 22 News Notes Mars Polar Lander Still Missing "Tytell, David" 2006 1 24 News Notes Ring Around a Black Hole "Johnston, Lisa R." 2006 1 24 News Notes Lasering the Galactic Center "Roth, Joshua" 2006 1 26 News Notes Seeing the Milky Way Take Shape "Johnston, Lisa R." 2006 1 26 News Notes Violence Within Virgo "Roth, Joshua" 2006 1 27 News Notes Yerkes Bidders Go Public "Roth, Joshua" 2006 1 27 News Notes A Speedy Star's New Birthplace "Roth, Joshua" 2006 1 27 News Notes Astro News Briefs: Relativity Mission Completed 2006 1 27 News Notes Astro News Briefs: A New Herschel Comet? 2006 1 27 News Notes Astro News Briefs: Detecting Extrasolar Comets 2006 1 28 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2006 1 28 Mission Update Apollo Again? "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 1 32 Spotlight On... The Best Bar in the Neighborhood "Knezek, Patricia" 2006 1 34 Feature NASA's Other Space Telescopes "Roth, Joshua" 2006 1 36 Feature Chandra: Taking the Universe's X-ray "Naeye, Robert" 2006 1 40 Feature "Galex: Seeing Starbirth, Near and Far" "Roth, Joshua" 2006 1 44 Feature Spitzer: Living Life to the Fullest "Tytell, David" 2006 1 48 Feature Swift: The Satellite That's Always On Call "Johnston, Lisa R." 2006 1 52 Rambling Through the Skies Fluid Drive "Krupp, E. C." 2006 1 54 Rambling Through the Skies Fresh Looks at Taurus "Schaff, Fred" 2006 1 55 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 1 56 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: Watching the Demon Star "Seronik, Gary" 2006 1 57 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 1 57 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: Summer Globular NGC 1851 "Dalrymple, Les" 2006 1 59 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Tales of the Bull "Bryant, Greg" 2006 1 60 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Mars Makes Way for Saturn "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 1 67 Exploring the Moon Why Are Crater Rays Bright? "Wood, Charles A." 2006 1 71 Celestial Calendar Lunar Occultation Highlights for 2006 "Dunham, David W." 2006 1 74 Celestial Calendar Box: Chasing a Graze of Antares "Dunham, David W." 2006 1 76 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for January "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 1 79 Eye on the Sky "Great Jupiter's ""Ghost""!" "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2006 1 83 Deep-Sky Wonders Winter Wonders "French, Sue" 2006 1 87 Targets Searching for Vulcanoids "Noll, Landon Curt" 2006 1 93 Observer's Log An Ansel Adams Encore "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 1 94 Observer's Log A Hyperactive Sunspot "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 1 95 Observer's Log Light-Pollution Notes "Schaff, Fred" 2006 1 98 S&T Test Report Hot New Products for 2006 "Sky & Telescope, the Editors of" 2006 1 108 Books & Beyond "The Scientific Legacy of Fred Hoyle, by Douglas Gough, ed." "Robinson, Leif J." 2006 1 108 Books & Beyond "Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life in Science, by Simon Mitton" "Robinson, Leif J." 2006 1 109 Books & Beyond "Astronomy Hacks: Tips & Tools for Observing the Night Sky, by Robert Bruce Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 1 110 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Night Wonders, by Jane Ann Peddicord" "Tytell, David" 2006 1 110 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Moon, by Steve Tomecek" "Tytell, David" 2006 1 110 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Big Bang, by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano" "Tytell, David" 2006 1 110 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Mac Goes to Mars, by Jeffrey Bennett" "Tytell, David" 2006 1 111 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Pieces of Another World, by Mara Rockliff" "Tytell, David" 2006 1 111 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Zula Patrol, aired on PBS" "Tytell, David" 2006 1 112 Astronomy Online Try to Find Saturn "Goldman, Stuart J." 2006 1 115 The Astronomy Scene The Great Total Eclipse of 2006 "Espenak, Fred" "Anderson, Jay" 2006 1 121 Star Trails Tsutomu Seki and the Great Comet of 1965 "Levy, David H." 2006 1 125 Amateur Telescope Making Building a Simplified Yolo "Anderson, Carl" 2006 1 132 Hobby Q&A Why are there two peaks in a extoplanet system's light curve? "Naeye, Robert" 2006 1 132 Hobby Q&A Was the brightening of Comet Tempel 1 after Deep Impact the most-distant human caused event? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 1 132 Hobby Q&A What does a periodic error in a telescope drive mean? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2006 1 132 Hobby Q&A How large an asteroid could a person jump off? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 1 136 Gallery Partial Face "Ayiomamitis, Anthony" 2006 1 136 Gallery Return of the Red Planet "Melka, Jim" 2006 1 137 Gallery A String of Solar Crescents "Jacquot, Philippe" 2006 1 138 Gallery Gemini's Miniature Veil Nebula "Gendler, Robert" 2006 1 139 Gallery White-Light Ring "Staiger, Olivier R." 2006 1 139 Gallery Hydrogen-Alpha Ring "Seip, Stefan" 2006 1 150 Focal Point There's Mister Moon! "Green, Terry" 2006 2 1 Front-Cover Photo Understanding Comets 2006 2 8 Spectrum Astronomy in the Spotlight "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2006 2 12 Letters Deep Impact - II "Goldberg, Eric M." 2006 2 12 Letters Shadow Boxing "Dobbins, Thomas" "Parker, Donald" "Beish, Jeffrey" 2006 2 12 Letters Deep Impact - I "Alpiar, Ronald" 2006 2 16 News Notes Magnetar Magnificence "Naeye, Robert" 2006 2 17 News Notes Snapshot of the First Stars? "Roth, Joshua" 2006 2 18 News Notes The Face of Copernicus? "Naeye, Robert" 2006 2 18 News Notes Pluto Adds Two New Moons "Tytell, David" 2006 2 18 News Notes The Best-Ever Pluto Picture "Tytell, David" 2006 2 20 News Notes Neutron Stars Flying Pole-First "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 2 20 News Notes Exploding Stars Explained? "Naeye, Robert" 2006 2 22 News Notes Eta Carinae: Nasty Neighbors "Naeye, Robert" 2006 2 24 News Notes Astro News Brief: LBT Sees First Light 2006 2 24 Mission Update Venus Express "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 2 24 News Notes Astro News Brief: Discovery Channel Telescope 2006 2 24 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2006 2 24 Mission Update Hubble Space Telescope "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 2 24 News Notes Astro News Brief: Tugboat Can Save Earth 2006 2 28 Feature Unveiling Distant Worlds "Seager, Sara" 2006 2 34 Feature The Amateur Contribution "Laughlin, Gregory P." 2006 2 36 Feature A Comet Tale "Weissman, Paul R." 2006 2 43 Rambling Through the Skies Gold Dust "Krupp, E. C." 2006 2 46 Northern Hemisphere's Sky The Night's Brightest Star "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 2 47 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 2 48 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: Orion's Sword "Seronik, Gary" 2006 2 49 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: The Magnificent Tarantula "Dalrymple, Les" 2006 2 49 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 2 51 Southern Hemisphere's Sky A Lifetime in Orion "Bryant, Greg" 2006 2 52 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" "Mars Says Goodbye, and Giants Say Hello" "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 2 58 Exploring the Moon Weird Crater Rays "Wood, Charles A." 2006 2 60 Celestial Calendar Crescent Moons in 2006 "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 2 62 Celestial Calendar A Backyard Guide to Saturn "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 2 64 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for February "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 2 66 Eye on the Sky Scattered Pearls "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2006 2 69 Deep-Sky Wonders Icy Blue Diamonds "French, Sue" 2006 2 73 Observer's Log Measuring the Distance to Teegarden's Star "Stafford, Tom" 2006 2 74 Observer's Log The Near Sky: Return of the Venus Green Flashes - Part 1 "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 2 78 S&T Test Report Meade's RCX400 "di Cicco, Dennis" 2006 2 86 New Product Showcase Orion StarBlast 4.5 EQ 2006 2 86 New Product Showcase F50 finder by Stellarvue 2006 2 86 New Product Showcase Atik Instruments' Manual Filter Wheel 2006 2 86 New Product Showcase Motofocus focuser by JMI Telescopes 2006 2 88 Books & Beyond "The Stargazing Year, by Charles Laird Calia" "Sadler, Bud" 2006 2 89 Books & Beyond "The Universal Book of Astronomy, by David Darling" "Roth, Joshua" 2006 2 90 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Firefly Astronomy Dictionary, by Ian Ridpath and John Woodruff, eds." "Roth, Joshua" 2006 2 90 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Astronomy On Ice, by Martin A. Pomerantz" "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2006 2 90 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Oxford Dictionary of Astronomy, by Ian Ridpath" "Roth, Joshua" 2006 2 93 Star Trails A Ringside Seat "Levy, David H." 2006 2 96 Hobby Q&A When will the last ever total solar eclipse occur? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2006 2 96 Hobby Q&A "If the asteroid 99942 Apophis ever strikes Earth, how big would the crater be?" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2006 2 96 Hobby Q&A "Can an O III nebula filter be referred to an ""oh-two"" filter because of double ionized oxygen atoms?" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 2 96 Hobby Q&A Why do we need a hydrogen-alpha filter to see solar prominences? "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 2 99 Astrophotography Measuring Skyglow with Digital Cameras "Flanders, Tony" 2006 2 104 Astrophotography Box: The Sky Quality Meter "Flanders, Tony" 2006 2 106 Gallery "October 3, 2005, annular solar eclipse" "Comolli, Lorenzo" 2006 2 107 Gallery Star Cluster NGC 2264 "Ito, Akihiko" 2006 2 107 Gallery "Black Eye Galaxy, M64" "Domaracki, Charles E." 2006 2 108 Gallery Mars's South Polar Cap "Peach, Damian A." 2006 2 108 Gallery "Elephant Trunk Nebula, van den Bergh 142" "Misti, Jim" 2006 2 109 Gallery "Iris Nebula, NGC 7023" "Goldman, Don S." 2006 2 118 Focal Point Death of a Streetlight "Lehman, Dale E." 2006 3 8 Spectrum The Camera Always Lies "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2006 3 12 Letters Desert Visions "Browning, Michael C." 2006 3 12 Letters For the Record 2006 3 12 Letters "Mars Bigger, But Not Better" "Glasgow, Rod" 2006 3 16 News Notes Titan Revisited "Naeye, Robert" "Tytell, David" 2006 3 17 News Notes Mars: From Above and Below "Tytell, David" 2006 3 18 News Notes A New Type of Neutron Star "Naeye, Robert" 2006 3 20 News Notes More Einstein Rings "Johnston, Lisa R." 2006 3 20 News Notes Evidence Mounts for Brown-Dwarf Planets "Naeye, Robert" 2006 3 22 News Notes Detecting Deuterium "Roth, Joshua" 2006 3 22 News Notes A Short-Lived Spiral? "Roth, Joshua" 2006 3 22 News Notes "Radio Array Finds a High, Dry Home" "Roth, Joshua" 2006 3 24 News Notes Hayabusa Mission Gets Long Delay "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2006 3 24 News Notes Dark Matter in Ellipticals? "Naeye, Robert" 2006 3 26 Mission Update Webb Space Telescope "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 3 26 News Notes Sirius B's Mass Measured "Naeye, Robert" 2006 3 26 Mission Update Dawn "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 3 26 News Notes "75, 50 & 25 Years Ago" "Robinson, Leif J." 2006 3 28 Spotlight On... Monoceros's Many Wonders "Telis, Gisela" 2006 3 30 Feature Deciphering the Globular-Cluster Code "Pulliam, Christine" 2006 3 38 Feature Frosting Saturn's Moons "Tytell, David" 2006 3 43 Rambling Through the Skies The Bowl of Night "Krupp, E. C." 2006 3 46 Northern Hemisphere's Sky When Spring Blooms in Cancer "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 3 47 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 3 48 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: Golden Betelgeuse "Seronik, Gary" 2006 3 49 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: A Cluster in Search of Nature "Dalrymple, Les" 2006 3 49 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 3 51 Southern Hemisphere's Sky An Enjoyable Latitude "Bryant, Greg" 2006 3 52 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Saturn at Its Most Inviting "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 3 58 Exploring the Moon Looking Between Craters "Wood, Charles A." 2006 3 60 Celestial Calendar Europe's Partial Solar Eclipse "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 3 61 Celestial Calendar Upcoming Asteroid Occultations "Dunham, David W." 2006 3 62 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for March "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 3 64 Eye on the Sky Charon's Canal "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2006 3 66 Deep-Sky Wonders Dog-and-Pony Show "French, Sue" 2006 3 69 Observer's Log The Outer Limits: Observing Quasars at High Redshifts "McGaha, James" 2006 3 72 Observer's Log The Near Sky: Return of the Venus Green Flashes - Part 2 "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 3 74 S&T Test Report Celestron CPC 800 GPS "Ashford, Adrian R." 2006 3 78 New Product Showcase "The Rouge, by Astrodon" 2006 3 78 New Product Showcase Olivon Sky Sweeper Ulta-Wide Eyepieces 2006 3 78 New Product Showcase "Stark Tracker Chair, by Universal Astronomics" 2006 3 80 New Product Showcase "SpicaEyes SlipStream Telescopes, by Equatorial Platforms" 2006 3 80 New Product Showcase ScopeBuggy 2006 3 80 New Product Showcase "CCDINspector and CCDStack, by CCDWare" 2006 3 83 Books & Beyond "Introducton to Digital Astrophotography, by Robert Reeves" "Walker, Sean" 2006 3 84 Books & Beyond "Astronomical Enigmas, by Mark Kidger" "Robinson, Leif J." 2006 3 85 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: What's Out There, by Mary K. Baumann, Will Hopkins, Loralee Nolletti, and Michael Soluri" "Tytell, David" 2006 3 85 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Atlas of the Universe, by Patrick Moore" "Tytell, David" 2006 3 85 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Universe, by Martin Rees, ed." "Tytell, David" 2006 3 86 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Great Observatories of the World, by Serge Brunier and Anne-Marie Lagrange" "Tytell, David" 2006 3 86 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: NASA: The Complete Illustrated History, by Michael Gorn" "Tytell, David" 2006 3 88 Astronomy Online The Plurality of Worlds "Goldman, Stuart J." 2006 3 91 Star Trails Four Decades of Comet Hunting "Levy, David H." 2006 3 92 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Historic Observatory's Fund Drive a Success "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 3 92 The Astronomy Scene Community News: SOHO Celebrates a Milestone "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 3 96 Amateur Telescope Making A Modern Long-Focus Newtonian "Lockwood, Michael" 2006 3 100 Hobby Q&A "What does ""true color"" mean in a deep-space photograph?" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 3 100 Hobby Q&A Is there a good test for a telescope's optical quality? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 3 100 Hobby Q&A What is the faintest object imaged by ground-based telescopes? "Roth, Joshua" 2006 3 103 Astrophotography Deep-Sky Astrophotography 2005 "Walker, Sean" 2006 3 106 Gallery Spiral Galaxy NGC 247 "Verschatse, Daniel" 2006 3 107 Gallery Van den Bergh 141 in Cepheus "Fera, Bob" "Fera, Janice" 2006 3 107 Gallery Antarctic Solar Halo Display "Gerboc, John" 2006 3 108 Gallery "Craters Clavius D, C, N, and J" "Peach, Damian A." 2006 3 108 Gallery Lunar Crater Schiller "Higgins, Wes" 2006 3 109 Gallery Crescent Moon and Venus above Croatia "Kis, Miljenko" 2006 3 118 Focal Point What Star Is That? "Frederick, Richard" 2006 4 1 Front-Cover Photo Sun's Coronal Plasma 2006 4 8 Spectrum Clouded Vision "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2006 4 12 Letters Moon Illusion "Engstrom, Lars" 2006 4 12 Letters GALEX Lives "Friedman, Peter G." "Erickson, Kerry" "Martin, D. Christopher" 2006 4 12 Letters For the Record 2006 4 12 Letters Lowell's Legacy "Putnam, William L." 2006 4 16 News Notes Vega Mystery Solved "Naeye, Robert" 2006 4 17 News Notes Probing Polaris "Tytell, David" 2006 4 17 News Notes The Helix Exposed "Tytell, David" 2006 4 18 News Notes Uranus's New Rings "Tytell, David" 2006 4 18 News Notes A Colder Pluto "Tytell, David" 2006 4 18 News Notes One Weird Kuiper Belt Object "Tytell, David" 2006 4 20 News Notes "Cosmic ""Twister""" "Naeye, Robert" 2006 4 20 News Notes Reionization Revealed "Roth, Joshua" 2006 4 22 News Notes Extreme Parallax "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 4 22 News Notes Binary-Star Planets Common "Naeye, Robert" 2006 4 23 News Notes Einsteinian Energy Bolstered "Roth, Joshua" 2006 4 23 News Notes Elliptical Mergers: Caught in the Act "Roth, Joshua" 2006 4 24 Mission Update Stardust "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 4 24 Mission Update New Horizons "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 4 24 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2006 4 28 Feature The Science Behind the Solar Corona "Schrijver, Carolus J." 2006 4 36 Feature A New Breed of Black Hole "Castelvecchi, Davide" 2006 4 41 Feature Box: A Black Hole Hive? "Naeye, Robert" 2006 4 43 Rambling Through the Skies Fooled by the Moon "Krupp, E. C." 2006 4 46 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Secrets of the Lion's Heart "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 4 47 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 4 48 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: The Beehive Cluster "Seronik, Gary" 2006 4 49 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: NGC 3532: Best of the Best? "Dalrymple, Les" 2006 4 49 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 4 51 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Sailing Along the Galactic Plane "Brant, Greg" 2006 4 52 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Planets Flirt with Star Clusters "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 4 58 Exploring the Moon Little Lunar Volcanoes "Wood, Charles A." 2006 4 61 Celestial Calendar A Spectacular Pleiades Occulation "Dunham, David W." 2006 4 61 Celestial Calendar Box: Predicting Your Events "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 4 62 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for April "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 4 64 Eye on the Sky An Eclipse Timetable "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2006 4 67 Deep-Sky Wonders Leo's 11th Hour "French, Sue" 2006 4 70 Observer's Log A Look Back at Mars in 2005 "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 4 74 S&T Test Report Canon 10 x 42 L IS WP Image-Stabilized Binoculars "Seronik, Gary" 2006 4 74 S&T Test Report Apogee RA-88-SA Right-Angle Binoculars "Seronik, Gary" 2006 4 78 S&T Test Report Starry Night Pro Plus 5 by Imaginova "Ratledge, David" 2006 4 82 Books & Beyond "The Next Step: Finding and Viewing Messier's Objects, by Ken Graun" "Flanders, Tony" 2006 4 83 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Comets II, by Michel C. Festou, H. Uwe Keller, and Harold A. Weaver, eds." "Tytell, David" 2006 4 83 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Transits of Venus, by Don Kurtz, ed." "Tytell, David" 2006 4 83 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Pluto and Charon, by S. Alan Stern and Jacqueline Mitton" "Tytell, David" 2006 4 85 The Astronomy Scene Solar Exlipses on Stamps "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 4 90 Star Trails Asteroid Alerts: A Risky Business "Levy, David H." 2006 4 92 Hobby Q&A When will (or did) the galactic equator intersect the ecliptic at the solstice points? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 4 92 Hobby Q&A Fast Fact: The Universal Constant Pi "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 4 92 Hobby Q&A How well definied is a meteor-shower radiant? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 4 92 Hobby Q&A "What does the term ""lignes"" mean?" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2006 4 94 Astrophotography Of Color and Composition "Hallas, Tony" 2006 4 98 Gallery Texas Star Trails "Williams, Bill" 2006 4 98 Gallery Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius "Chen, Alan" 2006 4 99 Gallery Horsehead Nebula "Verschatse, Daniel" 2006 4 100 Gallery Andromeda Galaxy "Hallas, Tony" "Hallas, Daphne" 2006 4 101 Gallery Iridium Flare in Orion "Staiger, Olivier R." 2006 4 101 Gallery Full Moon over Sierra Nevada Range "Royer, Ronald E." 2006 4 110 Focal Point Here's Dirt in Your Eye "Lester, Dan" 2006 5 1 Front-Cover Photo Population III Star "Reed, Casey B." 2006 5 8 Spectrum My Trip to the Moon "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2006 5 12 Letters Galileo's Pride and Prejudice "Graney, Chris" 2006 5 12 Letters Wanton Destruction? "Faber, Thomas" 2006 5 12 Letters Observers Wanted "Mellander, Peter" 2006 5 16 News Notes Milky Way Roundup "Johnston, Lisa R." "Naeye, Robert" 2006 5 17 News Notes Surprise! Most Star Systems Are Single "Naeye, Robert" 2006 5 18 News Notes Brown-Dwarf Enigma "Naeye, Robert" 2006 5 19 News Notes Peering into a Planetary Graveyard "Tytell, David" 2006 5 19 News Notes A New Low-Mass Exoplanet "Naeye, Robert" 2006 5 20 News Notes Sizing Distant Worlds "Tytell, David" "Naeye, Robert" 2006 5 20 News Notes Trojans from the Kuiper Belt "Naeye, Robert" 2006 5 20 News Notes An Asteroidal Dust Shower "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2006 5 22 News Notes Seeing Not-So-Ancient Supernovae "Tytell, David" 2006 5 22 News Notes Andromeda's Satellite Plane "Naeye, Robert" 2006 5 24 News Notes Pulsar Spin Record Smashed 2006 5 24 News Notes Black-Hole News "Naeye, Robert" 2006 5 25 News Notes Going Deep in Virgo "Naeye, Robert" 2006 5 25 News Notes Creator Calling Card? "Naeye, Robert" 2006 5 26 Mission Update AGILE "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 5 26 Mission Update Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 5 26 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2006 5 28 Spotlight On... The Moon's North Pole "Seronik, Gary" 2006 5 30 Feature Out of the Dark Ages: The First Stars "Bromm, Volker" 2006 5 38 Feature Reflections on Edvard Munch's Girls on the Pier "Olson, Donald W." "Robertson, Beatrice" "Doescher, Russell L." 2006 5 43 Rambling Through the Skies Antagonized by Poets "Krupp, E. C." 2006 5 46 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Tales of Charles's Heart "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 5 47 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 5 48 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Binocular Highlight: A Pair of Leo Doubles "Seronik, Gary" 2006 5 49 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 5 49 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Binocular Highlight: See a Seyfert "Dalrymple, Les" 2006 5 51 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Beacons of the Night "Bryant, Greg" 2006 5 52 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Nights of the Giant Planets "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 5 58 Exploring the Moon Extreme Basinology "Wood, Charles A." 2006 5 60 Celestial Calendar A Very Close Comet Flyby "Bryant, Greg" 2006 5 64 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for May "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 5 66 Celestial Calendar Outer Planets in 2006 "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 5 68 Eye on the Sky Spirits of the Air "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2006 5 71 Deep-Sky Wonders Dear Chara "French, Sue" 2006 5 76 S&T Test Report ZenithStar 66 Refractors "di Cicco, Dennis" 2006 5 82 New Product Showcase Meade LightBridge Dobsonians 2006 5 82 New Product Showcase "Digital Starlab, by Learning Technologies" 2006 5 82 New Product Showcase "Explore the Planets CD-ROM, by Tasa Graphic Arts" 2006 5 82 New Product Showcase Tele Vue Optics TV-60is Astrograph 2006 5 83 New Product Showcase Orion GoScope 350 2006 5 83 New Product Showcase Porter Garden Telescope 2006 5 83 New Product Showcase "Deepsky Astronomy Software v.2006.01.01, but Steven Tuma" 2006 5 84 Books & Beyond "Roving Mars, by Steve Squyres" "Tytell, David" 2006 5 85 Books & Beyond "The Planets, by Dava Sobel" "Tytell, David" 2006 5 86 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing, by Richard Berry and James Burnell" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2006 5 86 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Patrick Moore, by Patrick Moore" "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 5 86 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Deep Sky Objects, by David H. Levy" "Tytell, David" 2006 5 88 Astronomy Online "Look, Up in the Sky!" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2006 5 90 The Astronomy Scene Where Amateurs and Professionals Come Together "Mais, Dale E." 2006 5 91 The Astronomy Scene Community News: London Planetarium to Close "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 5 91 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Martian Crater Named After Japanese Amateur "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 5 91 The Astronomy Scene Light Pollution Notes "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 5 91 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Manufacturers Cut Back Film-Camera Production "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 5 96 Star Trails Headed for Pluto and Beyond "Levy, David H." 2006 5 98 Hobby Q&A Does advanced technology make diffraction theory obsolete? Is obstruction of less consequence for photography than observing? "Flanders, Tony" 2006 5 98 Hobby Q&A What is the best guess for the number of stars in the Milky Way? "Roth, Joshua" 2006 5 98 Hobby Q&A Why have recent Kuiper Belt discoveries been made while the objects are at aphelion? "Tytell, David" 2006 5 100 Astrophotography Unmasking Eclipse Details with Photoshop "Hamilton, Maurice" 2006 5 106 Gallery Edge-on Galaxy NGC 4631 "Jurasevich, Dave" 2006 5 106 Gallery Planetary Nebula NGC 7662 "Wendel, Volker" "Flach-Wilken, Bernd" 2006 5 107 Gallery Orion Nebula "Chen, Alan" 2006 5 108 Gallery Aurora Near Arctic Circle "Gudmundsson, Snaevarr" 2006 5 108 Gallery Star Trails through Trees "Gale, Jim" 2006 5 109 Gallery Nebula NGC 1977 in Orion "Gendler, Robert" 2006 5 109 Gallery Jupiter Approaches Occultation "Simoes Correa, Odilon" 2006 5 110 Gallery Nebula M78 in Orion "Christensen, Jon" 2006 5 118 Focal Point Rose-Colored Glasses "Dalrymple, Les" 2006 7 8 Spectrum House of Wax "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2006 7 12 Letters Rethinking Resources "White, Bruce" 2006 7 12 Letters Wonders Beyond the 10th Planet "Marts, Donald K." 2006 7 12 Letters Seeing Slivers "Owen, Bill" 2006 7 12 Letters Child's Play "Moore, Patrick" 2006 7 16 News Notes Weird Disks "Shiga, David" "Naeye, Robert" 2006 7 17 News Notes Another Exoplanet Direct Detection "Naeye, Robert" 2006 7 18 News Notes Saturn's Millions of Moonlets "Tytell, David" 2006 7 18 News Notes NASA's New Sharp Eye on Mars "Naeye, Robert" 2006 7 20 News Notes Pioneer Anomaly Mystery Narrows "Hellemans, Alexander" 2006 7 20 News Notes Lessons from an Odd KBO "Tytell, David" 2006 7 22 News Notes 10th Planet Downsized "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2006 7 22 News Notes Sculpting Cosmic Hourglasses "Naeye, Robert" 2006 7 24 News Notes RAVE Releases First Star-Motion Data "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 7 24 News Notes Dawn Reprieve "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2006 7 24 News Notes How the Milky Way Got Its Tilt "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 7 26 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2006 7 26 Mission Update Venus Express "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 7 26 Mission Update Chang'e 1 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 7 30 Feature The Cartographic Legacy of John Flamsteed "Kanas, Nick" 2006 7 40 Feature A Quasar in Every Galaxy? "Irion, Robert" 2006 7 50 Rambling Through the Skies Second Place "Krupp, E. C." 2006 7 54 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Overlooked Gems in Hercules "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 7 55 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 7 56 Northern Binocular Highlight "M92: The ""Other"" Globular" "Seronik, Gary" 2006 7 57 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 7 57 Southern Binocular Highlight NGC6067 on a Magic Carpet "Dalrymple, Les" 2006 7 59 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Fireworks in Lupus "Bryant, Greg" 2006 7 60 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Dancing with the Stars "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 7 63 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" The Moons of Jupiter "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 7 65 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Jupiter's Two Red Spots! "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 7 66 Exploring the Moon False Volcanoes on the Moon "Wood, Charles A." 2006 7 68 Celestial Calendar A Pleiades Occultation Before Dawn "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 7 70 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for July "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 7 72 Eye on the Sky M44: What's the Buzz? Part II "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2006 7 75 Deep-Sky Wonders The Galactic Dark Horse "French, Sue" 2006 7 78 Observer's Log Unraveling the Mystery of the Milky Way's Giant Dust Clouds "Mandel, Steve" 2006 7 82 S&T Test Report ImagesPlus v2.75 "Dyer, Alan" 2006 7 88 New Product Showcase Celestron SkyScout 2006 7 88 New Product Showcase Orion SkyView Pro IntelliScope Upgrade Kit 2006 7 88 New Product Showcase Takahashi TSA-1025 refractor 2006 7 90 New Product Showcase Great Red Spot red LED flashlight 2006 7 90 New Product Showcase William Optics EZTouch altazimuth mount 2006 7 90 New Product Showcase Meade Instruments' Series 5000 ED refractors 2006 7 93 Books & Beyond "The Day Without Yesterday, by John Farrell" "Robinson, Leif J." 2006 7 94 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Copernicus and Modern Astronomy, by Angus Armitage" "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 7 94 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Sundials of the British Isles, by Mike Cowham" "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 7 94 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Celestial Images, by Boston University Art Gallery" "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 7 94 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Aristarchus of Samos, by Thomas Heath" "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 7 96 Astronomy Online Keep Looking Down "Goldman, Stuart J." 2006 7 99 The Astronomy Scene The Nebraska Star Party's Cherry Skies "Zubenel, Doug" 2006 7 101 The Astronomy Scene Light-Pollution Notes "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 7 106 Star Trails Further Adventures with Mr. Schmidt's Telescope "Levy, David H." 2006 7 108 Hobby Q&A Why doesn't Sky & Telescope produce a star atlas with mirror-image charts? "Deans, Paul" 2006 7 108 Hobby Q&A Is it possible to use a 12-inch reflector at f/42? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2006 7 108 Hobby Q&A Will all eight major planets ever be in a straight line on the same side of the Sun? "Flanders, Tony" 2006 7 108 Hobby Q&A Is the Andromeda Galaxy blueshifted and moving toward Earth? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 7 110 Astrophotography Peering Through the Dust "Goldman, Don S." 2006 7 112 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Saturn: A New View, by Laura Lovett, Joan Horvath, and Jeff Cuzzi" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2006 7 114 Gallery Earthshine during total solar eclipse "Alves, Filipe" 2006 7 115 Gallery "March 29, 2006, Total Solar Eclipse sequence" "Tezel, Tunc" 2006 7 115 Gallery NGC 281 in Cassiopeia "Talbot, Jon" 2006 7 116 Gallery Sundogs "Passas, Stelios" 2006 7 116 Gallery Solar corona "Buell, Jeff" 2006 7 116 Gallery Spiral Galaxy M101 "Rowe, Dean" 2006 7 126 Focal Point The Joy of (Just) Looking "Rensvold, Roger" 2006 8 8 Spectrum Sensory Overload "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2006 8 12 Letters Starry Memories Lost "Brown, Thomas E." 2006 8 12 Letters Perfect Timing "Brown, Thomas E." 2006 8 12 Letters Friends in High Places "Brown, Thomas E." 2006 8 16 News Notes Black Hole Monster Mash "Naeye, Robert" 2006 8 17 News Notes Peculiar Pulsar "Naeye, Robert" 2006 8 18 News Notes Peru's Oldest Astronomical Temple "Goldman, Stuart J." 2006 8 18 News Notes Mars Rovers Hunker Down for Winter "Tytell, David" 2006 8 20 News Notes Two Big New Steps for SETI "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 8 20 News Notes Main-Belt Comets "Cull, Selby" 2006 8 22 News Notes Battle of the Galaxies: Milky Way vs. Andromeda "Naeye, Robert" 2006 8 22 News Notes New Hidden Milky Way Satellites "Coffey, Valerie C." 2006 8 24 News Notes Saturn Spins Slower? "Tytell, David" 2006 8 24 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2006 8 24 Mission Update Akari (Astro F) "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 8 24 Mission Update SMART-1 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 8 26 Feature Hubble Zooms In on Jupiter's New Red Spot "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 8 28 Feature Box: Jupiter's Two Red Spots to Merge? "MacRobert, Alan M." "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 8 30 Feature Dissecting the Bursts of Doom "Naeye, Robert" 2006 8 35 Feature Box: Using GRBs for Cosmology "Friedman, Andrew Samuel" 2006 8 40 Feature Backyard Astronomy from Mars "Bell, Jim" 2006 8 47 Rambling Through the Skies Kidnapped "Krupp, E. C." 2006 8 50 Northern Hemisphere's Sky The Backbone of the Night "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 8 51 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 8 52 Northern Binocular Highlight Seeking Barnard's Star "Seronik, Gary" 2006 8 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 8 53 Southern Binocular Highlight Watching R Centauri "Dalrymple, Les" 2006 8 55 Southern Hemisphere's Sky The Heart of the Scorpion "Bryant, Greg" 2006 8 56 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Dance of the Planets "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 8 62 Exploring the Moon Lunar Half Craters "Wood, Charles A." 2006 8 66 Celestial Calendar Three Night Crawlers "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 8 67 Celestial Calendar Variable Stars for August "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 8 70 Eye on the Sky Saharan Solar Surprises "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2006 8 73 Deep-Sky Wonders Hazy Gleams and Starry Streams "French, Sue" 2006 8 73 Deep-Sky Wonders Snake Wrangler "French, Sue" 2006 8 77 Observer's Log A Comet's Spectacular Breakup "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 8 79 Observer's Log A Total Eclipse That'll Be Hard to Beat "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 8 81 Observer's Log The Near Sky: Pioneers of the Near Sky - Part 1 "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 8 86 S&T Test Report Celestron's New C6-SGT "Ashford, Adrian R." 2006 8 90 New Product Showcase Knightware's Deep-Sky Planner 4 2006 8 90 New Product Showcase Tele Vue Focusmate Driver 2006 8 92 New Product Showcase Eclipse Telescopes' MakView Series 2006 8 92 New Product Showcase Meade LX200R Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope 2006 8 92 New Product Showcase ProDigital Software's Astronomy Tools 2006 8 94 Books & Beyond "Cosmic Collisions, at the American Museum of Natural History " "Maran, Stephen P." 2006 8 95 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Teaching and Learning Astronomy, by Jay Pasachoff and John Percy" "Gay, Pamela L." 2006 8 95 Books & Beyond "Epic of Evolution, by Eric Chaisson" "Gay, Pamela L." 2006 8 96 Star Trails The Double Eclipse of March "Levy, David H." 2006 8 100 Amateur Telescope Making The Trackball Telescope "Oltion, Jerry" 2006 8 102 Hobby Q&A Would meteors coming in at a shallow angle creal an oval crater on the Moon and planets? "Tytell, David" 2006 8 104 Hobby Q&A How crucial is optical quality for deep-sky objects? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 8 104 Hobby Q&A At what atmospheric pressure does a planet's sky become so bright that you can't see stars when the Sun is up? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2006 8 104 Hobby Q&A How would the night sky appear from near the center of M13? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 8 104 Hobby Q&A Why don't oddly shaped nebulae either disperse into nothingness or collapse? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2006 8 105 Gallery "Transit of Mercury on November 8, 2006" "Parker, Donald C." 2006 8 106 Gallery "March 29, 2006, eclipse sequence" "Seip, Stefan" 2006 8 106 Gallery "March 29, 2006, eclipse flash spectrum" "Slobins, Robert B." 2006 8 107 Gallery "March 29, 2006, total solar eclipse" "Morgan, Greg" 2006 8 108 Gallery Comet Schwassmann-Wachman 3 and Ring Nebula "Schedler, Johannes" 2006 8 108 Gallery North America and Pelican nebulae in Cygnus "Erdman, Peter" 2006 8 109 Gallery Rho Ophiuchi Region "Ballauer, Jay R." "Jones, Phil" "Block, Adam" 2006 8 118 Focal Point "Oh, Now I Get It!" "Rosenfeld, Sue" 2006 9 8 Spectrum The Times They Are A-Changing "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2006 9 12 Letters Godless Cosmology "Branscome, Chris" 2006 9 12 Letters Dark Ages? - IV "Moore, Chad" 2006 9 12 Letters Dark Ages? - III "Searcy, Jerry T." 2006 9 12 Letters Dark Ages? - II "Vidsens, Charles" 2006 9 12 Letters Quoth the Raven "Brust Jr., Raymond W." 2006 9 12 Letters Dark Ages? - I "Diaz, Eric F." 2006 9 16 News Notes Super-Earths "Coffey, Valerie C." 2006 9 17 News Notes The Birth of Carbon Planets? "Cull, Selby" 2006 9 17 News Notes Ancient American Supernova Art? "Cull, Selby" 2006 9 18 News Notes Triton Kidnap Caper "Naeye, Robert" 2006 9 19 News Notes Pluto's New Moons Named "Cull, Selby" 2006 9 19 News Notes How Moon Mass Is Maintained "Naeye, Robert" 2006 9 19 News Notes The Amazing Somersaulting Satellite "Cull, Selby" 2006 9 20 News Notes Uranus's Blue Ring "Naeye, Robert" 2006 9 20 News Notes A Nova Unlike Any Other "Naeye, Robert" 2006 9 22 News Notes Agreement Reached on Yerkes Sale "Naeye, Robert" 2006 9 22 News Notes Fine Seeing in a Frozen Spot "Cull, Selby" 2006 9 24 Mission Update Rosetta "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 9 24 Mission Update Solar-B "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 9 24 News Notes "75, 50 & 25 Years Ago" "Robinson, Leif J." 2006 9 28 Feature Heaven on Earth "Schilling, Govert" 2006 9 34 Feature The Falcon's Wild Flight "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2006 9 40 Rambling Through the Skies Lost in Space "Krupp, E. C." 2006 9 42 Northern Hemisphere's Sky The Summer Sky's Seventh Glow "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 9 43 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 9 45 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 9 45 Southern Binocular Highlight M55 High in Sagittarius "Dalrymple, Les" 2006 9 47 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Springtime Surprises in Pavo "Bryant, Greg" 2006 9 57 Celestial Calendar An Atlantic Solar Eclipse "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 9 58 Celestial Calendar T Ursae Minoris: Star at a Tipping Point "Templeton, Matthew" 2006 9 61 Celestial Calendar A Very Partial Lunar Eclipse "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 9 62 Eye on the Sky Mechain's Unsung Discovery "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2006 9 65 Deep-Sky Wonders Foxfire Nights "French, Sue" 2006 9 69 Targets More of My Favorite Double Stars "Mullaney, James" 2006 9 72 Targets The Near Sky: Pioneers of the Near Sky - Part II "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 9 76 S&T Test Report Meade's DSI II CCD Cameras "Horne, Johnny" 2006 9 82 New Product Showcase Neumann EOS adapters 2006 9 82 New Product Showcase Tele Vue Paracorr for fast Newtonians 2006 9 82 New Product Showcase Stellarvue 90-millimeter apochromats 2006 9 82 New Product Showcase Orion 2x Barlow lens 2006 9 85 Books & Beyond "Photoshop Astronomy, by R. Scott Ireland" "Walker, Sean" 2006 9 88 Astronomy Online Club Critiques "Goldman, Stuart J." 2006 9 90 The Astronomy Scene Amateurs Help Discover a Transiting Exoplanet "Naeye, Robert" 2006 9 92 The Astronomy Scene Community News: America's Young Astronomers Honored "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 9 96 Star Trails Moonlight Sonata "Levy, David H." 2006 9 97 Gallery Iris Nebula "Schur, Chris" 2006 9 98 Gallery "M82, M81, and NGC 3077 " "Hetlage, Zack" 2006 9 98 Hobby Q&A How can you make an unobstructed system with a telescope cap? "Seronik, Gary" 2006 9 98 Hobby Q&A When will tidal forces stabilize with one side of the Earth always facing the Moon? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2006 9 98 Hobby Q&A Is it possible to do a spectroscopic observing and analysis with backyard telescopes? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2006 9 98 Hobby Q&A Where are von Gruithuisen's city and temple on the surface of the Moon? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2006 9 100 Astrophotography Capture the Sun with Your PST "Walker, Sean" 2006 9 106 Gallery Gum Nebula "Mellinger, Axel" 2006 9 106 Gallery Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 "Rhemann, Gerald" "Jager, Michael" 2006 9 107 Gallery Lunar South "Lazzarotti, Paolo" 2006 9 108 Gallery Venus over Turkey "Tenzel, Tunc" 2006 9 108 Gallery Zodiacal Light "Yuferev, Alexander" 2006 9 109 Gallery IC 4592 in Scorpius "Mize, Joe" 2006 9 118 Focal Point Stars of the Show "Green, Jane A." 2006 10 8 Spectrum You Get What You Pay For "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2006 10 12 Letters Quasar Conclusions "Silver, Stephen A." 2006 10 12 Letters Possible Meteor Source "Zubenel, Doug" 2006 10 12 Letters Satellite Symmetry "Meeus, Jean" 2006 10 12 Letters Not-So-Dark Parks "Lazowska, Lazlo" 2006 10 12 Letters Inside a Globular Cluster "Wolfe, Ted" 2006 10 16 News Notes Great Lakes on Titan "Cull, Selby" 2006 10 17 News Notes Predicting Solar Eruptions "Cull, Selby" 2006 10 18 News Notes New Concept for Imaging Life-Bearing Planets "Naeye, Robert" 2006 10 18 News Notes Nova RS Ophiuchi: Confusion Reigns Supreme "Naeye, Robert" 2006 10 19 News Notes Multiple Type la Supernova Progenitors? "Naeye, Robert" 2006 10 20 News Notes Minor Planets Stick Together "Cull, Selby" 2006 10 20 News Notes Amatuers Catch a Near-Earth Flyby "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 10 20 News Notes Saturn's Ring Arcs "Cull, Selby" 2006 10 22 News Notes Record-Breaking Gravitational Lens "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 10 22 News Notes Black Hole-Galaxy Relation Extended "Naeye, Robert" 2006 10 24 Mission Update SIM PlanetQuest "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 10 24 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2006 10 24 Mission Update SOFIA "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 10 26 Spotlight On... The Blue Witch "Croswell, Ken" 2006 10 26 Feature The Supernova Menace "Garlick, Mark A." 2006 10 26 Spotlight On... The North America and Pelican Nebulae "Walker, Sean" 2006 10 30 Feature The Great Milky Way-Andromeda Collision "Dubinski, John" 2006 10 38 Feature Virtual Planet Sleuths "Laughlin, Gregory P." 2006 10 46 Rambling Through the Skies Moving Mountains "Krupp, E. C." 2006 10 50 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Who Shot Sagitta? "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 10 51 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 10 52 Northern Binocular Highlight Pretty Capricornus Pairs "Seronik, Gary" 2006 10 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 10 53 Southern Binocular Highlight Planet Number 100 "Dalrymple, Les" 2006 10 55 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Epsilon Indi Up Close "Bryant, Greg" 2006 10 56 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" October Sights Bright and Dim "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 10 60 Exploring the Moon Weird Lunar Domes "Wood, Charles A." 2006 10 63 Celestial Calendar A Bright-Moon Pleiades Occultation "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 10 64 Celestial Calendar Dark Nights for the Orionid Meteors "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 10 66 Celestial Calendar R Aquilae: Under the Eagle's Wing "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 10 68 Eye on the Sky I See Nothing! "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2006 10 70 Deep-Sky Wonders Return of the Little Fox "French, Sue" 2006 10 75 Targets Observing Uranus and Its Moons "Schmude Jr., Richard" "Melillo, Frank J." 2006 10 80 S&T Test Report Meade's LightBridge Truss Tube Dobsonians "di Cicco, Dennis" 2006 10 86 New Product Showcase Astrodon's TAKometer 2006 10 86 New Product Showcase Yankee Robotics Trifid Gold series 2006 10 86 New Product Showcase Adam Block's Making Every Pixel Count DVD 2006 10 86 New Product Showcase Astro Systeme Austria Astrograph N series 2006 10 87 New Product Showcase Luc Coiffier's DeepSkyStacker software 2006 10 87 New Product Showcase TMB Signature Series refractor 2006 10 87 New Product Showcase Zhumell Dobsonian telescopes 2006 10 90 Books & Beyond "Double and Multiple Stars and How to Observe Them, by James Mullaney" "Robinson, Leif J." 2006 10 91 Books & Beyond "The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design, by Leonard Susskind" "Gay, Pamela L." 2006 10 93 Star Trails My First Meteor "Levy, David H." 2006 10 94 Star Trails Light-Pollution Notes "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 10 97 Amateur Telescope Making A Portable Large-Aperture Cassegrain "Lockwood, Michael" 2006 10 102 Hobby Q&A "How is the ""total exposure time"" for Gallery photographs determined?" "Walker, Sean" 2006 10 102 Hobby Q&A Might Uranus have been discovered the same way Neptune was? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 10 102 Hobby Q&A Does Venus forms a pentacle as it moves across the sky? "Coffey, Valerie C." 2006 10 102 Hobby Q&A How can you tell the focal length needed to photograph star patterns at the same scale as star atlases? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 10 104 Gallery Vallis Alpes "Wirths, Mike" 2006 10 104 Gallery IC 1396A in Cepheus "Janusz, Jim" "Cook, Chris" 2006 10 105 Gallery Brocchi's Cluster in Vulpecula "Best, Richard" 2006 10 106 Gallery December Solstice Sun Sequence "Pivato, Danilo" 2006 10 106 Gallery Saturn "Owens, Larry" 2006 10 107 Gallery Spiral Galaxy M83 "Sidonio, Michael" 2006 10 108 Gallery Young Moon and Earthshine "Cook, Chris" 2006 10 108 Gallery IC 410 in Auriga "Crawford, Ken" 2006 10 118 Focal Point Requiem for an Observatory "Sheehan, William" 2006 11 8 Spectrum Pluto Doesn't Care "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2006 11 12 Letters Senses Reconnected "Baca, Michael" 2006 11 12 Letters Trackball Tales "Lemay, Pierre" 2006 11 12 Letters "Local ""Lights Out""" "Slezak, James" 2006 11 12 Letters Hauling Tail "Mouli, Chandra" 2006 11 14 News Notes A Trip Through a Star "Naeye, Robert" 2006 11 15 News Notes Pollux Planet "Naeye, Robert" 2006 11 15 News Notes "Hot, Heavy, and Highly Eccentric" "Cull, Selby" 2006 11 15 News Notes The Lowest-Mass Binary Ever Found "Naeye, Robert" 2006 11 16 News Notes Help NASA Find Stardust "Cull, Selby" 2006 11 16 News Notes Twinkling Gives Inkling of Tiny Ice Balls "Naeye, Robert" 2006 11 18 News Notes Slow-Poke Neutron Star "Naeye, Robert" 2006 11 18 News Notes MACHO Prediction Challenged "Coffey, Valerie C." 2006 11 20 News Notes Astro News Brief: Black Hole Booted from Galaxy 2006 11 20 News Notes Astro News Brief: Feeblest Dwarf 2006 11 20 News Notes Astro News Brief: Proxima Bound 2006 11 20 News Notes Astro News Brief: A New Four-Planet System 2006 11 20 News Notes Astro News Brief: Neptune Trojans 2006 11 20 News Notes Martian Jets "Naeye, Robert" 2006 11 20 News Notes Astro News Brief: New Solar Cycle Under Way 2006 11 22 Mission Update Gaia "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 11 22 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2006 11 22 Mission Update Deep Space Station 63 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 11 26 Spotlight On... The Perseus Double Cluster "Janes, Kenneth" 2006 11 28 Feature The Most Dangerous Asteroid Ever Found "Durda, Daniel D." 2006 11 34 Feature The Inside Story of Pluto's Demotion "Gingerich, Owen" 2006 11 40 Rambling Through the Skies The Transit Business "Krupp, E. C." 2006 11 42 Rambling Through the Skies Sauntering Among the Stars "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 11 43 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 11 44 Northern Binocular Highlight Star-Mist Cluster NGC 7789 "Seronik, Gary" 2006 11 45 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 11 45 Southern Binocular Highlight The Queen of Globulars "Dalrymple, Les" 2006 11 47 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Renamed and Reborn "Bryant, Greg" 2006 11 48 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" "A Transit of Mercury, and More" "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 11 54 Exploring the Moon Imbrium Mayhem "Wood, Charles A." 2006 11 57 Celestial Calendar The November 8-9 Transit of Mercury "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 11 58 Celestial Calendar Leonid Meteors: A Last Hurrah? "Rao, Joe" 2006 11 60 Celestial Calendar A Binocular Comet for Fall "Bryant, Greg" 2006 11 65 Eye on the Sky The Sound of Silence "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2006 11 69 Deep-Sky Wonders Sovereign Splendors "French, Sue" 2006 11 71 Deep-Sky Wonders Eye and I "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 11 72 S&T Test Report Celestron's SkyScout "di Cicco, Dennis" 2006 11 76 New Product Showcase Starlight Xpress SXVF-H16 CCD camera 2006 11 76 New Product Showcase TeleGizmos telescope covers 2006 11 76 New Product Showcase Tele Vue TV-NP101is 2006 11 78 Books & Beyond "Life as We Do Not Know It, by Peter Ward" "Gay, Pamela L." 2006 11 79 Books & Beyond "Simon Newcomb, by Bill Carter and Merri Sue Carter" "Robinson, Leif J." 2006 11 80 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Denver's Great Telescope, by Claire M. Stencel and Robert E. Stencel" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2006 11 80 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Aurora's Winter Waltz, by Michael Klensch" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2006 11 80 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: CCD Astrophotography, by Adam M. Stuart" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2006 11 80 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Pattern Asterisms, by John A. Chiravalle" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 11 82 Astronomy Online Singularity Sensation "Goldman, Stuart J." 2006 11 85 The Astronomy Scene A New Vision for an Old Society "Gay, Pamela L." 2006 11 88 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Comet Discoverers Honored "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 11 91 Star Trails Falling Free "Levy, David H." 2006 11 94 Hobby Q&A Would any constellations in our night sky be recognizable from the planet of another star? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 11 94 Hobby Q&A Where can one find a portable sidereal clock? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2006 11 94 Hobby Q&A How many photons of visible light enter the eye per second when viewing a 6th-magnitude star? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 11 97 Astrophotography Going Deep with a DSLR "Vaughn, Chuck" 2006 11 104 Gallery Noctilucent Clouds "Olholm, Tina" 2006 11 104 Gallery Milky Way "Cook, Chris" 2006 11 105 Gallery Milky Way "Beinert, Ulrich C." 2006 11 105 Gallery Veil Nebula NGC 6992 "Lodriguss, Jerry" 2006 11 106 Gallery Milky Way "Schur, Chris" 2006 11 106 Gallery Magellanic Clouds "Schur, Chris" 2006 11 118 Focal Point When to Say When "Sundem, Garth" 2006 12 8 Spectrum What's in the Sky Tonight? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2006 12 12 Letters Planetary Turmoil - V "Bourque, Kevin" 2006 12 12 Letters Planetary Turmoil - IV "Hanner, Gerald P." 2006 12 12 Letters Planetary Turmoil - III "Moritz, Harold" 2006 12 12 Letters Planetary Turmoil - II "Butler, Hadyn" 2006 12 12 Letters Planetary Turmoil - I "Craig Jr., Donald I." 2006 12 14 Letters Cirque du Soleil "Killgore, Tom" 2006 12 14 Letters Never Too Late "Whitaker, Ewen A." 2006 12 14 Letters Ancient Andromeda "Schaefer, Bradley E." 2006 12 18 News Notes When Galaxies Assembled "Naeye, Robert" 2006 12 19 News Notes Four New Milky Way Satellites "Naeye, Robert" 2006 12 19 News Notes New Galaxy Survey Bolsters Standard Cosmology "Naeye, Robert" 2006 12 20 News Notes The Moon's Wild Youth "Cull, Selby" 2006 12 20 News Notes SMART 1's Grand Finale "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2006 12 22 News Notes New Transiting Exoplanets "Naeye, Robert" 2006 12 22 News Notes "Former ""10th Planet"" Formally Named" "Tytell, David" 2006 12 24 News Notes Black Hole Blasts Neighbor "Naeye, Robert" 2006 12 24 News Notes "An ""Impossible"" Supernova?" "Naeye, Robert" 2006 12 26 News Notes Magnetar Radio Transmitter "Naeye, Robert" 2006 12 26 News Notes Bursts Without Blasts "Naeye, Robert" 2006 12 28 News Notes Astro News Brief: Stuff of Life Found 2006 12 28 News Notes Astro News Brief: Sun Innocent in Global Warming 2006 12 28 News Notes Astro News Brief: High Martian Clouds 2006 12 28 News Notes Astro News Brief: Disk Brakes 2006 12 28 News Notes Astro News Brief: Avoiding Pluto's Rings 2006 12 28 News Notes Astro News Brief: Nine New Saturnian Satellites 2006 12 28 News Notes Astro News Brief: Pluto Assigned Asteroid Number 2006 12 28 News Notes Uranus Satellite Shadow Transit "Walker, Sean" 2006 12 30 News Notes "75, 50 & 25 Years Ago" "Robinson, Leif J." 2006 12 30 Mission Update Herschel Space Observatory "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 12 30 Mission Update Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter "McDowell, Jonathan" 2006 12 32 Spotlight On... Stardust in the Large Magellanic Cloud "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2006 12 36 Feature Where Did it All Come From "Aguirre, Anthony" 2006 12 36 Feature Where Did It All Come From? "Aguirre, Anthony" 2006 12 39 Feature Box: Defying Common Sense "Naeye, Robert" 2006 12 42 Feature Messages from the Dark Side "Schilling, Govert" 2006 12 46 Feature "Box: ""Proof"" of Dark Matter?" "Naeye, Robert" 2006 12 48 Feature Sleep and the Amatuer Astronomer "Caton, Daniel B." "Roberts, Joan E." 2006 12 51 Feature Box: Medical Sleep Aids "Roberts, Joan E." 2006 12 53 Feature Box: The Night's Wakeful Watch "Wehler, Randall" 2006 12 54 Rambling Through the Skies Raising Hell "Krupp, E. C." 2006 12 59 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 12 60 Northern Binocular Highlight Magnificent M31 "Seronik, Gary" 2006 12 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2006 12 61 Southern Binocular Highlight Perfect Galaxy NGC 300 "Dalrymple, Les" 2006 12 63 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Galaxy Season "Bryant, Greg" 2006 12 64 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" A Challenging Planetary Grouping "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 12 68 Exploring the Moon Lunar Tectonics "Wood, Charles A." 2006 12 71 Celestial Calendar Iris: The Season's Brightest Asteroid "Bryant, Greg" 2006 12 72 Celestial Calendar The Geminids: Best Meteors of the Year? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 12 74 Celestial Calendar R Geminorum and Cubic Zirconia "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 12 74 Celestial Calendar Two Bright-Moon Pleiades Occultations "MacRobert, Alan M." 2006 12 79 Eye on the Sky Observing on the Edge "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2006 12 83 Deep-Sky Wonders A Whale of a Tale "French, Sue" 2006 12 86 Observer's Log Jupiter's Mini Red Spot Survives Encounter "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 12 88 Observer's Log Chi Cygni's Unusually Bright Maximum "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 12 90 S&T Test Report The Bigha StarSeeker "di Cicco, Dennis" 2006 12 93 S&T Test Report Mira AL "Heafner, Joe" 2006 12 96 New Product Showcase Fingers Lakes Instrumentation ProLine imaging system 2006 12 96 New Product Showcase Paragon 40-mm 2-inch Orthoscopic Super-Wide eyepiece 2006 12 96 New Product Showcase Lazzarotti Optics Gladio series reflectors 2006 12 98 New Product Showcase Where is M13 software 2006 12 98 New Product Showcase Scope Armor Telescope Protector 2006 12 98 New Product Showcase Astro-Physics binoculars 2006 12 100 Books & Beyond "The Rock from Mars, by Kathy Sawyer" "Cull, Selby" 2006 12 101 Books & Beyond "Parallel Worlds, by Michio Kaku" "Coffey, Valerie C." 2006 12 102 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Chronologers' Quest, by Patrick Wyse Jackson" "Cull, Selby" 2006 12 102 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandries, by Neil deGrasse Tyson" "Cull, Selby" 2006 12 102 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Miss Leavitt's Stars, by George Johnson" "Cull, Selby" 2006 12 104 The Astronomy Scene Detwinkling Starlight on Mauna Kea "Wainscoat, Richard J." 2006 12 108 The Astronomy Scene Light-Pollution Notes: The Globe at Night "Schaaf, Fred" 2006 12 108 The Astronomy Scene Community News: Amateur Achievement Awards "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 12 110 Star Trails What Is a Planet? "Levy, David H." 2006 12 113 Amateur Telescope Making A Bent Rich-Field Refractor "Ayers, Robert M." 2006 12 118 Hobby Q&A Where is the best place to store a 12-inch Dobsonian? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 12 118 Hobby Q&A "If a rocket traveled away from Earth at 1,000 mph, why couldn't it escape Earth's gravitational pull?" "Sinnott, Roger W." 2006 12 118 Hobby Q&A When has one planet occulted or transited another? "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2006 12 118 Hobby Q&A What is producing the shadow seen on photograph of asteroid Itokawa? "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2006 12 121 Astrophotography Bicolor Narrowband Astrophotography "Cannistra, Steve" 2006 12 128 Gallery Crescent Moon and Venus "Wienerroither, Peter" 2006 12 129 Gallery Herbig-Haro 555 "Crisp, Richard" 2006 12 129 Gallery Jupiter "Olivetti, Tiziano" 2006 12 130 Gallery Nebula NGC 6559 "Mize, Joe" 2006 12 130 Gallery Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 "GaBany, R. Jay" 2006 12 131 Gallery North America and Pelican Nebulae "Kimball, Brian" 2006 12 131 Gallery Fracastorius Crater "Mengoli, Giorgio" 2006 12 142 Focal Point Stop Renaming the Sky "Allison, Mark" 2007 2 8 Spectrum What Would George and Henri Do? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2007 2 8 Spectrum A Moving Experience "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2007 2 12 Letters More Pleas for Pluto - V "Weissman, Paul R." 2007 2 12 Letters More Pleas for Pluto - IV "Frey, Steve" 2007 2 12 Letters More Pleas for Pluto - III "Bjornstad, David M." 2007 2 12 Letters More Pleas for Pluto - II "Brescia, Keith" 2007 2 12 Letters More Pleas for Pluto - I "Miller, Charlie" 2007 2 12 Letters The Sound of Silence "Hanner, Gerald" 2007 2 12 Letters Planet Madness "Echols, Patton" 2007 2 12 Letters Conservative Claims "Montani, Joseph L." 2007 2 14 Letters Las Campanas Correction "Phifer, Arnold" 2007 2 14 Letters A Very Special Star "Comeron, Fernando" "Pasquali, Anna" 2007 2 14 Letters Uranus No Accident "Vines, Ken" 2007 2 14 News Notes "Good Times, Bad Times for Astronomy" "Naeye, Robert" 2007 2 15 News Notes Hubble Gets a New Lease on Life "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2007 2 16 News Notes 16 New Transiting Planet Candidates "Putney, Margaret" 2007 2 16 News Notes Little Red Spot Winds Strengthen "Coffey, Valerie C." 2007 2 16 News Notes Titan: Assembling the Puzzle "Tytell, David" 2007 2 17 News Notes A Planet that Runs Hot and Cold "Naeye, Robert" 2007 2 17 News Notes Nearest Exoplanet Orbits in a Disk "Schilling, Govert" 2007 2 18 News Notes Supernova Impostor "Naeye, Robert" 2007 2 18 News Notes Saturn Ring Takes a Hit "Tytell, David" 2007 2 18 News Notes Doubt Cast on Lunar Ice "Naeye, Robert" 2007 2 18 News Notes A Kuiper Belt Family "Tytell, David" 2007 2 20 News Notes Why Venus Has No Moon "Tytell, David" 2007 2 20 News Notes Hubble Sees Dark Cloud on Uranus "Coffey, Valerie C." 2007 2 20 News Notes Looking Through a Gas Onion "Naeye, Robert" 2007 2 20 News Notes Andromeda Makes a Splash "Schilling, Govert" 2007 2 22 News Notes Astro News Brief: Galactic Glow Gleaned 2007 2 22 News Notes Astro News Brief: Nasty Neighbor 2007 2 22 News Notes How Pure Are Comets? "Cull, Selby" "Tytell, David" 2007 2 22 News Notes Old Star Unleashes Monster Flare "Becker, Kate" 2007 2 22 News Notes Plethora of Puffy Planets "Naeye, Robert" 2007 2 24 News Notes Rejuvenating Ancient Stars "Becker, Kate" 2007 2 24 News Notes Hot News on Cool Dwarfs "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 2 24 News Notes Bucking the Metallicity Trend "Naeye, Robert" 2007 2 24 News Notes The Widening Monoceros Light Echo "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 2 26 News Notes M87 Black Hole Blasts the Virgo Cluster "Naeye, Robert" 2007 2 26 News Notes Historic Supernova Linked to Remnant "Schilling, Govert" 2007 2 26 Mission Update Hinode "McDowell, Jonathan" 2007 2 26 Mission Update Stereo "McDowell, Jonathan" 2007 2 26 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2007 2 28 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2007 2 28 Mission Update Planck "McDowell, Jonathan" 2007 2 28 Mission Update Hubble Space Telescope "McDowell, Jonathan" 2007 2 28 Spotlight On... The Face on Mars "Plait, Philip C." 2007 2 30 Feature Martian Photo Opportunity "Cull, Selby" 2007 2 32 Feature Ringworld Revelations "Tiscareno, Matthew S." 2007 2 34 Feature Reverse Panspermia: Seeding Life in the Solar System "Cull, Selby" 2007 2 40 Feature Resolving the Faces of Stars "Berger, David H." "Aufdenberg, Jason P." "Turner, Nils H." 2007 2 42 Feature How Black Holes Helped Build the Universe "Wanjek, Christopher" 2007 2 47 Rambling Through the Skies Preparation for Landing "Krupp, E. C." 2007 2 48 Feature The Moon's Far Side: Nearly a New World "Wood, Charles A." 2007 2 50 Northern Hemisphere's Sky A Sirius Celebration "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 2 51 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2007 2 52 Northern Binocular Highlight The Crab Nebula "Seronik, Gary" 2007 2 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2007 2 53 Southern Binocular Highlight The Pi Puppis Cluster "Dalrymple, Les" 2007 2 55 Rambling Through the Skies Heavenly Reward "Krupp, E. C." 2007 2 55 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Hopping Around the Hare "Bryant, Greg" 2007 2 56 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Saturn Rules the Evening Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 2 58 Northern Hemisphere's Sky A Star for Three Seasons "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 2 59 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2007 2 60 Northern Binocular Highlight Wonderful Mira "Seronik, Gary" 2007 2 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2007 2 61 Southern Binocular Highlight Beta Pictoris Plus "Dalrymple, Les" 2007 2 62 Exploring the Moon Hidden Maria and Dusty Debris "Wood, Charles A." 2007 2 63 Southern Hemisphere's Sky The River of the Night "Bryant, Greg" 2007 2 64 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Venus and Saturn Adorn the Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 2 64 Celestial Calendar Upcoming Asteroid Occultations "Dunham, David W." 2007 2 65 Celestial Calendar Crescent Moons in 2007 "Sinnott, Roger W." 2007 2 67 Celestial Calendar Chased by the Little Dog "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 2 68 Celestial Calendar Eye and I: Star Colors - II "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 2 70 Eye on the Sky "The ""Black Aurora""" "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2007 2 71 Exploring the Moon Concentric Fractures and Craters "Wood, Charles A." 2007 2 73 Deep-Sky Wonders Hazy Gleams and Starry Streams "French, Sue" 2007 2 75 Celestial Calendar Lunar Occultation Highlights for 2007 "Dunham, David W." 2007 2 76 S&T Test Report STF Mirage 7 Mak "Walker, Sean" 2007 2 78 Celestial Calendar A Fire on Orion's Club "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 2 80 Celestial Calendar A Great Asteroid Occultation "Dunham, David W." 2007 2 80 New Product Showcase Lucam Recorder 2007 2 80 New Product Showcase JMI Telescopes Event Horizon focusers 2007 2 80 New Product Showcase Think Astronomy Solar-Spotters solar filters 2007 2 82 New Product Showcase Gotostar retrofit kit 2007 2 82 New Product Showcase Yankee Robotics Trifid Nugget 2007 2 82 New Product Showcase Agena AstroProducts ScoutCase 2007 2 83 Eye on the Sky Something Nu in Andromeda "O'Meara, Stephen James" 2007 2 84 Books & Beyond "The Last of the Great Observatories, by George H. Rieke" "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2007 2 85 Books & Beyond "Human Vision and the Night Sky, by Michael P. Borgia" "Flanders, Tony" 2007 2 85 Books & Beyond "The Urban Astronomer's Guide, by Rod Mollise" "Flanders, Tony" 2007 2 87 Deep-Sky Wonders Chasing the Starry Cetus "French, Sue" 2007 2 88 Astronomy Online Personal Celestial Alerts "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 2 91 Observer's Log Measuring the Astronomical Unit from Your Backyard "Vanderbei, Robert J." "Belikov, Ruslan" 2007 2 91 Star Trails Old Telescopes Should Never Die "Levy, David H." 2007 2 94 Star Trails Community News: Star Gazer Turns 30 "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2007 2 95 Observer's Log A South American Ring Eclipse "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2007 2 96 Observer's Log The Eye and I: Star Colors - I "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 2 97 Amateur Telescope Making Tips for Shipping Equipment Safely "Bonandrini, Dave" 2007 2 100 S&T Test Report Hot New Products for 2007 "Sky & Telescope, the Editors of" 2007 2 102 Hobby Q&A Doesn't Earth's motion interfere with measuring stellar radial velocities? "Flanders, Tony" 2007 2 102 Hobby Q&A Wouldn't oblique meteorite impacts cause oval craters? "Tytell, David" 2007 2 102 Hobby Q&A What are the best settings to take a scenic picture of a full or crescent Moon? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2007 2 102 Hobby Q&A Does the Moon experience annual meteor showers? "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2007 2 104 Gallery Nebula NGC 6357 "Promper, Wolfgang" 2007 2 104 Gallery "November 8, 2006, Transit of Mercury" "Parker, Donald C." 2007 2 104 Gallery Sun "Piepol, Greg" 2007 2 105 Gallery Pipe Nebula "Jung, Manuel" 2007 2 106 Gallery Nebula IC 1396 "Flemming, Neil" 2007 2 110 Books & Beyond "Revolutionaries of the Cosmos, by Ian S. Glass" "Robinson, Leif J." 2007 2 111 Books & Beyond "Walking Zero, by Chet Raymo" "Gay, Pamela L." 2007 2 112 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Little Moon Phase Book, by Noreen Grice" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 2 112 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: NightWatch, by Terence Dickinson" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 2 112 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Saturn: A New View, by Lovett, Horvath, and Cuzzi" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 2 112 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Hubble: 15 Years of Discovery, by Lars Lindberg and Bob Fosbury" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 2 114 Astronomy Online Visit to a Namesake "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 2 116 The Astronomy Scene Robert Evans: Supernova Champ "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2007 2 118 Focal Point "Set It Up, and They Will Come" "Pijawka, John" 2007 2 120 The Astronomy Scene Community News: A New Comet Levy "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2007 2 123 Star Trails On the Shoulders of a Giant "Levy, David H." 2007 2 126 Hobby Q&A Lingering questions about the International Astronomical Union's new planet definition "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 2 126 Hobby Q&A When was the last time a professional astronomer actually looked into an eyepiece at an observatory such as Palomar? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2007 2 126 Hobby Q&A Why do Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes have focal ratios of f/10? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2007 2 129 Astrophotography How to Process Planetary Images "Parker, Donald C." 2007 2 134 Gallery Pleiades above Volcano "Taschler, Patrick" 2007 2 134 Gallery Analemma Eclipse "Tezel, Tunc" "Tezel, Tunc" 2007 2 135 Gallery "Arzachel, Alpetragius, and Alphonsus craters" "Higgins, Wes" 2007 2 136 Gallery Solar Features "Ashraf, Cameran" 2007 2 136 Gallery Partial Solar Eclipse at Sunrise "Debuchy, Arnaud" 2007 2 137 Gallery "Crux, the Southern Cross" "Chung, Simon" 2007 2 138 Gallery "Lagoon Nebula, M8" "Promper, Wolfgang" 2007 2 138 Gallery "Dumbbell Nebula, M27" "Ware, Jason" 2007 2 150 Focal Point Life On the Main Sequence "Russell, Pamela J." 2007 3 8 Spectrum Lost in Translation "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2007 3 12 Letters RC or Not RC: That Is the Question - II "Gordon, Rodger W." 2007 3 12 Letters RC or Not RC: That Is the Question - I "Haberman, Joe" 2007 3 12 Letters Godless Cosmology "Branscome, Chris" 2007 3 12 Letters More Than One Everything? "Kilgore, Chuck" 2007 3 14 Letters RC or Not RC: That Is the Question - VII "Durusau, Patrick" 2007 3 14 Letters RC or Not RC: That Is the Question - VI "Stiles, John" 2007 3 14 Letters RC or Not RC: That Is the Question - V "Dalrymple, Les" 2007 3 14 Letters RC or Not RC: That Is the Question - IV "Curley, Donald" 2007 3 14 Letters RC or Not RC: That Is the Question - III "Aranda, Ted" 2007 3 16 News Notes A Millennium Ahead of Its Time "Naeye, Robert" 2007 3 17 News Notes Flowing Water on Today's Mars? "Naeye, Robert" 2007 3 18 News Notes An Ancient Building Block of Life "Tytell, David" 2007 3 18 News Notes Moon Shows Signs of Life "Naeye, Robert" 2007 3 20 News Notes Living with a Red Dwarf "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 3 20 News Notes Hubble Confirms a Cosmic Jerk "Coffey, Valerie C." 2007 3 22 News Notes Astro News Brief: Negative Molecule in Space 2007 3 22 News Notes Astro News Brief: New Solar Neighbors 2007 3 22 News Notes Astro News Brief: Baby Galaxies Weighed 2007 3 22 News Notes Astro News Brief: New Telescope in Mexico 2007 3 22 News Notes A Nearby Superbubble "Naeye, Robert" 2007 3 24 News Notes "75, 50 & 25 Years Ago" "Robinson, Leif J." 2007 3 24 Mission Update Mars Global Surveyor "McDowell, Jonathan" 2007 3 26 Feature The Supernova Menace "Garlick, Mark A." 2007 3 29 Feature Box: The Creative Side of Supernovae "Naeye, Robert" 2007 3 32 Feature Cosmic Code Breakers "Savin, Daniel Wolf " "McCall, Benjamin J." "Kirby, Kate" 2007 3 39 Rambling Through the Skies Minor League "Krupp, E. C." 2007 3 42 Northern Hemisphere's Sky In Praise of Pollux "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 3 43 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2007 3 44 Northern Binocular Highlight NGC 2403 in the Wilderness "Seronik, Gary" 2007 3 45 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2007 3 45 Southern Binocular Highlight A Vela Binocular Duo "Dalrymple, Les" 2007 3 47 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Sirius Blazes Forth "Bryant, Greg" 2007 3 48 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Mercury Leaps Up Down Under "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 3 51 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" The Moons of Saturn and Jupiter "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 3 55 Exploring the Moon Odd Lunar Domes "Wood, Charles A." 2007 3 60 Celestial Calendar March's Twilight Lunar Eclipse "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 3 62 Celestial Calendar Detecting the Penumbra "Weixelman, Dave" 2007 3 64 Celestial Calendar Pluto to Occult a Star 2007 3 64 Celestial Calendar Mira in the Sunset "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 3 66 Deep-Sky Wonders Bark with the Overdog "French, Sue" 2007 3 70 Observer's Log Tiny Planet Crosses Huge Star "Flanders, Tony" 2007 3 71 Observer's Log Light-Pollution Notes: Release from Prison "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 3 72 Targets A Bundle of Wonders in Puppis "Dalrymple, Les" 2007 3 75 Targets The Lives of Open Clusters "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 3 76 S&T Test Report The Starry Night BlueStar Telescope Adapter "Dyer, Alan" 2007 3 80 New Product Showcase Backyard Observatories 2007 3 80 New Product Showcase William Optics FLT-132 f/7 triplet apochromatic refractor 2007 3 83 Books & Beyond "Parting the Cosmic Veil, by Kenneth R. Lang" "Robinson, Leif J." 2007 3 84 Books & Beyond "New Atlas of the Moon, by Thierry Legault and Serge Brunier" "Seronik, Gary" 2007 3 86 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: 300 Astronomical Objects, by Jamie Wilkins and Robert Dunn" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 3 86 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Parks After Dark, by Rick Shaffer" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 3 86 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Robber Baron, by John Franch" "Robinson, Leif J." 2007 3 88 Gallery C/2006 P1 "McNaught, Robert H." 2007 3 88 Star Trails My Yom Kippur Comet "Levy, David H." 2007 3 92 Hobby Q&A Is it better to get a wedge or a field de-rotator for CCD imaging? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2007 3 92 Hobby Q&A What is the farthest star that one can see without optical aid? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2007 3 92 Hobby Q&A "How is it possible for us to see a 2,000-year-old supernova that is 10,000 light-years away?" "Naeye, Robert" 2007 3 94 Gallery Planetary Nebula NGC 7293 "Gendler, Robert" 2007 3 94 Gallery "Eagle Nebula, M16" "Crawford, Ken" 2007 3 95 Gallery "Bubble Nebula, NGC 7635" "Fulbright, Michael" 2007 3 95 Gallery Spiral Galaxy M77 "Crawford, Ken" 2007 3 96 Gallery Fogbow "Zinkova, Mila" 2007 3 96 Gallery Deslandres crater "Higgins, Wes" 2007 3 97 Gallery Iris Nebula "Schur, Chris" 2007 3 97 Gallery Pelican Nebula "Hammonds, Scott" 2007 3 98 Gallery "Galaxies M81, M82, and NGC 3077" "Hetlage, Zack" 2007 3 98 Gallery Comet SWAN "Schur, Chris" 2007 3 110 Focal Point Found in the Phases of the Moon "Currin, Brenda" 2007 4 8 Spectrum The Other Side of the Story "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2007 4 12 Letters Lookin' Good "Campbell, Lyle" 2007 4 12 Letters Arthritis and the Sleepy Amateur "Cassidy, Susan" 2007 4 12 Letters Confounded Craters "Pohnan Jr., Bill" 2007 4 14 News Notes Superduper Supernova "Naeye, Robert" 2007 4 15 News Notes Kepler Saw a White Dwarf Explode "Naeye, Robert" 2007 4 16 News Notes Titan's Sierras "Naeye, Robert" 2007 4 16 News Notes Deep Survey Yields First Results "Naeye, Robert" 2007 4 18 News Notes The First Triple Quasar "Naeye, Robert" 2007 4 18 News Notes Nearby-Star News "Naeye, Robert" 2007 4 20 News Notes Orion Binary Makes No Sense "Naeye, Robert" 2007 4 20 News Notes Milky Way Black Hole Has a Snack "Naeye, Robert" 2007 4 22 News Notes Follow That Story: Mars Underground "Naeye, Robert" 2007 4 22 News Notes Follow That Story: Kuiper Belt Counts "Naeye, Robert" 2007 4 22 News Notes Follow That Story: Surplus of Stardust Results "Naeye, Robert" 2007 4 22 News Notes Follow That Story: A Dry Enceladus? "Naeye, Robert" 2007 4 24 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2007 4 24 Mission Update COROT "McDowell, Jonathan" 2007 4 26 Spotlight On... The Blue Witch "Croswell, Ken" 2007 4 30 Feature Battlefield Galactica: Dark Matter vs. MOND "Schilling, Govert" 2007 4 35 Feature A Particle Physicist's Perspective on Dark Matter "Hooper, Dan" 2007 4 38 Feature Global Surveyor's Last Hurrah "Chaikin, Andrew" 2007 4 42 Feature Count Light Pollution Out! "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 4 47 Rambling Through the Skies Private Astronomy "Krupp, E. C." 2007 4 50 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Layers of Constellations "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 4 51 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2007 4 52 Northern Binocular Highlight M67: Cancer's Other Cluster "Seronik, Gary" 2007 4 53 Southern Binocular Highlight Underappreciated NGC 3201 "Dalrymple, Les" 2007 4 55 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Clustered Along the Milky Way "Bryant, Greg" 2007 4 56 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Planets of Dusk and Dawn "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 4 63 Exploring the Moon Mystery Maria "Wood, Charles A." 2007 4 66 Celestial Calendar Two Dark-Side Occultations of Regulus "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 4 67 Celestial Calendar The Lyrid Meteors "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 4 69 Deep-Sky Wonders The Lion's Lair "French, Sue" 2007 4 72 S&T Test Report Smarter Observing with Deep-Sky Planner 4 "Ratledge, David" 2007 4 76 New Product Showcase Shoestring Astronomy USB adapters 2007 4 76 New Product Showcase "Omega Optical NPB, VHT, HPOIII, and GCE filters" 2007 4 76 New Product Showcase Tri-Pier 2 tripod pier 2007 4 78 Books & Beyond "The Amateur Astronomer's Introduction to the Celestial Sphere, by William Millar" "Gay, Pamela L." 2007 4 79 Books & Beyond Is Pluto a Planet? by David A. Weintraub "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2007 4 81 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Meteors Showers and Their Parent Comets, by Peter Jenniskens" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 4 81 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Meteors and Meteorites, by Martin Beech" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 4 81 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Illustrated Timeline of the Universe, by Richard Sanderson and Philip Harrington" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 4 81 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Postcards from Mars, by Jim Bell" "Tytell, David" 2007 4 81 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Sun, by Steele Hill and Michael Carlowicz" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 4 82 Astronomy Online High-Definition Living "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 4 84 Star Trails Sharing the Sky "Levy, David H." 2007 4 86 Hobby Q&A Is there a handy astronomical indicator that could identify a point in the near or distant past? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2007 4 86 Hobby Q&A Where can one find a 0.965-inch-diameter eyepiece for a Tasco telescope? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2007 4 86 Hobby Q&A How can one determine a sunspot's size compared to that of Earth? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2007 4 86 Hobby Q&A How would the Milky Way Galaxy look from a planet in the Large Magellanic Cloud? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 4 88 Gallery Comet McNaught by McNaught "McNaught, Robert H." 2007 4 89 Gallery Comet McNaught and the Morning Mists "Kronk, Gary W." 2007 4 89 Gallery Comet McNaught Daylight Tail "Karrer, Michael" 2007 4 90 Gallery Comet McNaught in Poland "Kaluzny, Michal" 2007 4 90 Gallery Comet McNaught in Sweden "Heden, P-M" 2007 4 91 Gallery Comet McNaught in Daylight "Johnson, Ed" 2007 4 91 Gallery Comet McNaught in South Africa "Thomson, Revere" 2007 4 102 Focal Point A Lesson in What We Don't Know "Shaberman, Ben A." 2007 5 8 Spectrum Around the World with S&T "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2007 5 12 Letters Sun Guilty in Global Warming "Meeus, Jean" 2007 5 12 Letters Cold Comfort "Genovese, Charles" 2007 5 12 Letters Renaming the Sky "Polakis, Jennifer" 2007 5 12 Letters Bluetooth Blues "Pattillo, Monroe" 2007 5 15 News Notes A Magnetically Lit Brown Dwarf "Naeye, Robert" 2007 5 15 News Notes Dwarf Spheroidals: Mystery Solved? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 5 16 News Notes No Cosmic Neutrinos Found...Yet "Naeye, Robert" 2007 5 16 News Notes Seeking the Origins of Cosmic Rays "Bryant, Greg" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 5 16 News Notes Astronomers Unearth a Cataclysmic Corpse "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 5 18 News Notes Globular Cluster News "Becker, Kate" 2007 5 18 News Notes A Solar System's Wreckage in the Helix's Heart "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 5 20 News Notes Update on Massive Black Holes "Naeye, Robert" 2007 5 20 News Notes Clash of the Photons "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 5 22 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2007 5 22 Mission Update Hubble's Main Camera Dies "McDowell, Jonathan" 2007 5 24 Feature Moonbows over Yosemite "Olson, Donald W." "Doescher, Russell L." "Mitte Honors Students, The" 2007 5 32 Feature McNaught's Passing Fancy "Beatty, J. Kelly" "Bryant, Greg" 2007 5 39 Rambling Through the Skies Designated Driver "Krupp, E. C." 2007 5 42 Northern Hemisphere's Sky The Long and Short of It "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 5 43 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2007 5 44 Northern Binocular Highlight Treasures in Canes Venatici "Seronik, Gary" 2007 5 45 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2007 5 45 Southern Binocular Highlight A Gem of a Cluster "Dalrymple, Les" 2007 5 47 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Our Nearest Stellar Neighbors "Bryant, Greg" 2007 5 48 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Venus at Its Height "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 5 55 Exploring the Moon Pits of Contention "Wood, Charles A." 2007 5 59 Celestial Calendar Tracking Spots on Saturn "Vandebergh, Ralf" 2007 5 60 Celestial Calendar Porrima's Grand Opening "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 5 62 Celestial Calendar The Warring Pulses of V Bootis "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 5 65 Deep-Sky Wonders V Is for Virgo "French, Sue" 2007 5 69 Targets My Favorite Double Stars of Spring "Mullaney, James" 2007 5 70 Targets The Foldout Star Chart "Flanders, Tony" 2007 5 73 Targets The Near Sky: Twinned Rainbows "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 5 75 S&T Test Report Megrez 90 Apo: First-Class Glass "Dyer, Alan" 2007 5 77 S&T Test Report William Optics FLT-132 Apo: When Aperture Matters "Walker, Sean" 2007 5 80 New Product Showcase Scope Armor thermal underwear 2007 5 80 New Product Showcase RC Optical Systems 10RCA 2007 5 80 New Product Showcase Bob's Knobs' LightBridge collimation knobs 2007 5 82 Books & Beyond "A Year in the Life of the Universe, by Robert Gendler" "Bonnell, Jerrry T." 2007 5 83 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Deep Space, by Stephen Whitfield" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 5 83 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Mars, by Robert Godwin" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 5 83 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Hubble Space Telescope, by Steve Whitfield" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 5 83 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Patterns in the Sky, by Ken Hewitt-White" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 5 83 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Real Astronomy with Small Telescopes, by Michael K. Gainer" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 5 84 Star Trails Our Memorable Mercury Transit "Levy, David H." 2007 5 86 Hobby Q&A Does the Sun's closer proximity to the Earth have any connection to global warming? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2007 5 86 Hobby Q&A Whatever became of comet photographer Alan McClure? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2007 5 86 Hobby Q&A How far apart are the icy particles comprising Saturn's main rings? "Naeye, Robert" 2007 5 88 Gallery Moon and Saturn Conjunction "Patel, Rishi N." 2007 5 88 Gallery Galaxy NGC 2146 "Manner, Mark" 2007 5 88 Gallery Orion's Belt and Sword "Mazlin, Steve" "Misti, Jim" 2007 5 90 Gallery Sun "Badin, Jean-Louis" 2007 5 90 Gallery Star Trails Above Fog "Stromar, Boris" 2007 5 91 Gallery Iris Nebula "Keller, Warren A." 2007 5 102 Focal Point Build Bridges Through the Sky "Simmons, Mike" 2007 6 8 Spectrum Our Golden Opportunity "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2007 6 12 Letters Godless Cosmology Explained - I "Graham, Donald M." 2007 6 12 Letters Young (Astronomers) at Heart "Horwitz, Richard" 2007 6 12 Letters Phase the Facts - IV "Cob, Brian" 2007 6 12 Letters Phase the Facts - III "Blom, Jorgen" 2007 6 12 Letters Phase the Facts - II "Duvieusart, Jerome" 2007 6 12 Letters Phase the Facts - I "Morris, L. Robert" 2007 6 14 Letters Godless Cosmology Explained - III "Ryan, Jack" 2007 6 14 Letters Godless Cosmology Explained - II "Gross, Karl F." 2007 6 16 News Notes Postcards from Mars and Jupiter "Tytell, David" 2007 6 17 News Notes The Big Bright Galaxy You've Never Seen "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 6 18 News Notes An Exoplanet-Measuring Feat "Schilling, Govert" 2007 6 18 News Notes "Exoplanet Atmospheres: Dry, Dusty?" "Schilling, Govert" 2007 6 20 News Notes Geysers on Dione Too? "Tytell, David" 2007 6 20 News Notes Understanding Enceladus "Tytell, David" 2007 6 22 News Notes Yerkes' Fate: Again Unknown "Naeye, Robert" 2007 6 22 News Notes Transit of Luna "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 6 24 News Notes "75, 50 & 25 Years Ago" "Robinson, Leif J." 2007 6 24 Mission Update Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter "McDowell, Jonathan" 2007 6 24 Mission Update THEMIS "McDowell, Jonathan" 2007 6 26 Feature Stellar Origins: From the Cold Depths of Space "Shepherd, Debra" 2007 6 32 Feature From Here to Eternity: The Fate of the Sun and the Earth "Laughlin, Gregory P." 2007 6 39 Rambling Through the Skies Public Astronomy "Krupp, E. C." 2007 6 42 Northern Hemisphere's Sky New Facts About Old Friends "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 6 43 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2007 6 44 Northern Binocular Highlight A Trio of Bootes Duos "Seronik, Gary" 2007 6 45 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2007 6 45 Southern Binocular Highlight The Coalsack Nebula "Dalrymple, Les" 2007 6 47 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Constellations Big and Small "Bryant, Greg" 2007 6 48 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Watch Saturn March on Venus "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 6 56 Celestial Calendar The Crescent Moon Occults Regulus "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 6 57 Celestial Calendar Vesta Shines Its Brightest in 18 Years "Bryant, Greg" 2007 6 58 Celestial Calendar If the Ancients Had Known... "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 6 61 Deep-Sky Wonders Where Virgo Walks "French, Sue" 2007 6 64 S&T Test Report Apogee's Alta U9000 CCD Camera "di Cicco, Dennis" 2007 6 68 New Product Showcase MaxFactory's Stars at a Click: Master AutoStar CD-ROM 2007 6 68 New Product Showcase SmartAstronomy EF eyepieces 2007 6 68 New Product Showcase Orion 180-mm Maksutov-Cassegrain 2007 6 70 Books & Beyond "Brave New Universe, by Paul Halpern and Paul Wesson" "Gay, Pamela L." 2007 6 70 Books & Beyond "In Search of Dark Matter, by Ken Freeman and Geoff McNamara" "Gay, Pamela L." 2007 6 70 Books & Beyond "Dark Cosmos, by Dan Hooper" "Gay, Pamela L." 2007 6 71 Books & Beyond "The Finest Atlas of the Heavens, by Robert H. van Gent" "Schilling, Govert" 2007 6 72 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Russian Planetary Exploration, by Brian Harvey" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2007 6 72 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Binocular Highlights, by Gary Seronik" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 6 72 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses, by Fred Espenak and Jean Meeus" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 6 74 Astronomy Online The World of Widgets "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 6 76 Star Trails Under Adirondack Skies "Levy, David H." 2007 6 80 Amateur Telescope Making Build a Tracking Platform for Your Camera "Seronik, Gary" 2007 6 84 Astrophotography Comets Enter the Digital Age "Walker, Sean" 2007 6 88 Hobby Q&A How do you build a small observatory for a Dobsonian that sits at ground level? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2007 6 88 Hobby Q&A Will using Adobe Photoshop call into question the authenticity of composite images? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2007 6 88 Hobby Q&A "When a telescope is wet with condensation, should you keep the lens caps on or off while the scope warms up?" "Seronik, Gary" 2007 6 90 Gallery Van den Bergh 14 and 15 "Puckett, Tim" "Block, Adam" 2007 6 91 Gallery Comet McNaught in Scotland "Urwin, Peter" 2007 6 91 Gallery "Pleiades, M45" "Stare, Jurij" 2007 6 92 Gallery Witch Head Nebula "Hetlage, Chris" 2007 6 92 Gallery Comet McNaught in Cape Town "Brink, Janus" 2007 6 102 Focal Point Astronomy in Popular Culture "Fraknoi, Andrew" 2007 7 8 Spectrum Pluto on My Mind "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2007 7 12 Letters "Another Way to Define ""Planet""" "Augusto, Pedro" 2007 7 12 Letters Big Praise for Big Binos "Hallas, Tony" 2007 7 14 News Notes Catching Orion's Bullets "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 7 15 News Notes Black Hole Spins as Fast as It Can "Naeye, Robert" 2007 7 16 News Notes Double-Sun Planetary Systems Leave Telltale Signs "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 7 16 News Notes A Dwarf Nova's Spectacular Past "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 7 18 News Notes "Earth's Temporary ""Second Moon""" "Sinnott, Roger W." 2007 7 18 News Notes The Best Way to Find Exoplanets "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 7 20 News Notes Follow that Story: Hot-Jupiter Water After All! "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 7 20 News Notes Follow that Story: Barren Red-Dwarf Planets? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 7 20 News Notes "A ""Habitable"" Super-Earth?" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2007 7 22 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2007 7 22 Mission Update NASA Moon-Program Peril "McDowell, Jonathan" 2007 7 22 Mission Update SELENE: Japan Shoots for the Moon "McDowell, Jonathan" 2007 7 24 Feature Solar Forecast: Storm Ahead "James, C. Renee" 2007 7 27 Feature Sun-Earth Science Goes Global "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2007 7 32 Feature A Bigger Bang "Stevenson, David S." 2007 7 39 Rambling Through the Skies Altaring Direction "Krupp, E. C." 2007 7 42 Northern Hemisphere's Sky A Constellation Not Like Orion "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 7 43 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2007 7 44 Northern Binocular Highlight Draco Doubles "Seronik, Gary" 2007 7 45 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2007 7 45 Southern Binocular Highlight The Fly's Globular "Dalrymple, Les" 2007 7 47 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Changes in Scorpius "Bryant, Greg" 2007 7 48 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Planet Pair Widens in Twilight "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 7 55 Exploring the Moon Oblique Impacts "Wood, Charles A." 2007 7 58 Celestial Calendar Help Track a Fast Eclipsing Binary "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 7 62 Deep-Sky Wonders Heavenly Hero "French, Sue" 2007 7 66 S&T Test Report Tele Vue NP127 Refractor "di Cicco, Dennis" 2007 7 69 S&T Test Report Dioptrx: Prescription for Perfection "di Cicco, Dennis" 2007 7 73 Books & Beyond "Galaxies and How to Observe Them, by Wolfgang Steinicke and Richard Jakiel" "French, Sue" 2007 7 73 Books & Beyond "Nebulae and How to Observe Them, by Steven R. Coe" "French, Sue" 2007 7 74 Books & Beyond "Encyclopedia of the Solar System, Second Edition, by Lucy-Ann McFadden, Paul R. Weissman, and Torrence V. Johnson" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2007 7 76 Books & Beyond "Cosmic Jackpot, by Paul Davies" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 7 76 Books & Beyond "Introduction to Webcam Astrophotography, by Robert Reeves" "Walker, Sean" 2007 7 76 Books & Beyond "The Jumbo Book of Space, by Cynthia Pratt Nicolson and Paulette Bourgeois" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 7 76 Books & Beyond "Distant Worlds, by Peter Bond" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 7 77 Books & Beyond "The Monthly Sky Guide, by Jan Ridpath and Wil Tirion" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 7 77 Books & Beyond "Cassini at Saturn, by David M. Harland" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 7 78 Star Trails New Friends in New Zealand "Levy, David H." 2007 7 82 Backyard Basics Observing Logbooks: How and Why "Markov, Paul" 2007 7 86 Backyard Basics What Computers Do Best "Flanders, Tony" 2007 7 88 Hobby Q&A Who is Stock? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2007 7 88 Hobby Q&A "Why does the Earth rotate west to east, even though its precession is in the opposite direction?" "Sinnott, Roger W." 2007 7 88 Hobby Q&A Why is Mars the only planet to have a well-defined color when viewed with an 8-inch scope? "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 7 90 Gallery "March 3-4, 2007, total lunar eclipse" "Comolli, Lorenzo" 2007 7 90 Gallery "March 19, 2007, Partial Solar Eclipse" "Martinfar, Ali" 2007 7 91 Gallery Lunar Eclipse on Cape Cod "Cook, Chris" 2007 7 92 Gallery "NGC 2070, Tarantula Nebula" "GaBany, R. Jay" 2007 7 92 Gallery M31 in Andromeda "Stare, Jurij" 2007 7 102 Focal Point Waiting for the Big One "Odenwald, Sten" 2007 8 8 Spectrum Denying Doomsday "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2007 8 8 Spectrum Denying Doomsday "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2007 8 12 Letters Echoes of the Past "Kjer, Torben" 2007 8 12 Letters Going Deep "Lang, Phyllis K." 2007 8 12 Letters Higher Technology "Molnar, Michael R." 2007 8 13 Letters Book Betterment "Millar, William" 2007 8 13 Letters A Bridge Too Far "Schilling, Govert" 2007 8 14 News Notes A Galaxy Core's Shadow Play "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 8 15 News Notes New Worlds Roundup "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 8 16 News Notes Measuring a Black Hole's Energy Efficiency "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 8 16 News Notes An Exoplanet's Very Hot Afternoon "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 8 18 News Notes An Ancient Martian Volcanic Blast "Tytell, David" 2007 8 18 News Notes Mercury's Mystery Core "Grifantini, Kristina" 2007 8 19 News Notes The Wrong Earth-Like Planet "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 8 19 News Notes Mars Rover Update "Tytell, David" 2007 8 19 News Notes Volcanic Vents on Mars? "Tytell, David" 2007 8 20 News Notes SOFIA Takes Flight "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2007 8 20 News Notes Proxima's Puzzling Activity Cycle "Schilling, Govert" 2007 8 22 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2007 8 22 Mission Update AGILE "McDowell, Jonathan" 2007 8 24 Feature Carina's Stellar Cauldron "Villard, Ray" 2007 8 28 Feature Hinode Reveals the Sun "Bobra, Monica" 2007 8 32 Rambling Through the Skies Diamond in the Sky "Krupp, E. C." 2007 8 34 Northern Hemisphere's Sky The Double Allure of Ophiuchus "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 8 35 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2007 8 36 Northern Binocular Highlight The Fox's Coathanger "Seronik, Gary" 2007 8 37 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2007 8 37 Southern Binocular Highlight Pole Position "Dalrymple, Les" 2007 8 39 Southern Hemisphere's Sky South of Scorpius "Bryant, Greg" 2007 8 40 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" "Jupiter at Dusk, Mars at Dawn" "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 8 47 Exploring the Moon Secrets of Descartes and Ina "Wood, Charles A." 2007 8 50 Celestial Calendar A Lunar Eclipse in the Dawn "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 8 51 Celestial Calendar A Naked-Eye Timing Project "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 8 52 Celestial Calendar Dark Nights for the Perseids! "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 8 54 Deep-Sky Wonders Return of the Hero "French, Sue" 2007 8 59 Targets In Caroline Herschel's Footsteps "Hoskin, Michael A." 2007 8 62 Targets See Caroline's Objects as She Saw Them "Flanders, Tony" 2007 8 64 S&T Test Report Parks Optical 8-inch Astrolight Reflector "Seronik, Gary" 2007 8 68 New Product Showcase SkyShed Observatories' POD 2007 8 68 New Product Showcase Microprojects' Equinox Image software 2007 8 68 New Product Showcase m1 OASYS 2007 8 70 Books & Beyond "The Future of the Universe, by A. J. Meadows" "Johnson, Rebecca A." 2007 8 70 Books & Beyond "Origins, by Stephen Eales" "Kanipe, Jeff" 2007 8 72 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Early Career of Alvan Clark, by Antique Telescope Society" "Sinnott, Roger W." 2007 8 72 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Supernovae and How to Observe Them, by Martin Mobberley" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 8 72 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Sun Kings, by Stuart Clark" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 8 72 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Complete CD Atlas of the Universe, by Richard Harshaw" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 8 74 Astronomy Online Dragging the Stars Around "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 8 76 The Astronomy Scene An Innovative Open-Air Planetarium "Schlom, David" 2007 8 78 Star Trails Visions of Lynette "Levy, David H." 2007 8 82 Hobby Q&A What is the relationship between the cost and the quality of a CCD camera? "Walker, Sean" 2007 8 82 Hobby Q&A How much of the universe's mass has been consumed by black holes? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 8 82 Hobby Q&A How big is the biggest single galaxy in the known universe? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2007 8 82 Hobby Q&A "Did the Greeks, in Homer's time, name a constellation or asterism after Achilles?" "Flanders, Tony" 2007 8 84 Astrophotography Good Moons from Bad Locations "Friedman, Alan J." 2007 8 88 Astrophotography Box: Solar-System Imaging and the PC "Walker, Sean" 2007 8 90 Gallery Edge-on Galaxy NGC 4013 "GaBany, R. Jay " 2007 8 90 Gallery Galaxy Messier 94 "Henry, Edward" 2007 8 91 Gallery Rosette Nebula in Monoceros "Puckett, Tim" "Block, Adam" 2007 8 92 Gallery Comet McNaught from Argentina "Druckmuller, Miloslav" 2007 8 93 Gallery Moon craters "Bosman, Richard" 2007 8 93 Gallery Venus and crescent Moon "Claro, Miguel" 2007 8 102 Focal Point We Are Stardust: Spread the Word "Hudon, Daniel" 2007 9 8 Spectrum Full-Moon Fever "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2007 9 12 Letters Bodies in Motion "Rowland, John" 2007 9 12 Letters The Myth Stops Here "Benoit, Gabe" 2007 9 12 Letters Lord of the Rings "Reade, Gordon" 2007 9 14 News Notes Why Monster Black Holes Stay Put "Naeye, Robert" 2007 9 16 News Notes "Planets of Hot, Massive Stars" "Deans, Paul" 2007 9 16 News Notes "A Weird ""Hot Neptune""" "Naeye, Robert" 2007 9 17 News Notes Comet McNaught's Iron Tail "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2007 9 17 News Notes Weighing the Kupier Belt "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 9 17 News Notes It's Official: Eris Outweighs Pluto "Tytell, David" 2007 9 18 News Notes Saturn's Smoking Guns "Grifantini, Kristina" 2007 9 18 News Notes After We Merge with Andromeda "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 9 20 News Notes "75, 50 & 25 Years Ago" "Robinson, Leif J." 2007 9 20 Mission Update Messenger "McDowell, Jonathan" 2007 9 22 Feature From Chaos to the Kuiper Belt "Littmann, Mark" 2007 9 30 Feature Roger Hayward: Forgotten Artist of Optics "Bell, Trudy E." 2007 9 39 Rambling Through the Skies Green Cheese "Krupp, E. C." 2007 9 42 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Flights of Fancy "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 9 43 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2007 9 44 Northern Binocular Highlight Wild Duck Chase "Seronik, Gary" 2007 9 45 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2007 9 45 Southern Binocular Highlight Pretty Globular NGC 6541 "Dalrymple, Les" 2007 9 47 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Toward the South Celestial Pole "Bryant, Greg" 2007 9 48 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" "Evening Star, Morning Star" "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 9 54 Exploring the Moon Tempting Tranquillity "Wood, Charles A." 2007 9 56 Celestial Calendar Earth to Hit Aurigid Meteors? "Rao, Joe" 2007 9 58 Celestial Calendar Chi Cygni Rises Again "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 9 61 Deep-Sky Wonders The Graceful Swan "French, Sue" 2007 9 64 S&T Test Report Adirondack's StellaCam3 "Horne, Johnny" 2007 9 67 S&T Test Report Box: StellaCam3 wireless controller 2007 9 68 New Product Showcase Fishcamp Engineering Starfish camera 2007 9 68 New Product Showcase Baader Planetarium Hyperion 68 deg. Modular Eyepieces 2007 9 68 New Product Showcase Takahashi FSQ-106ED astrograph 2007 9 70 New Product Showcase Imaging Source DMK series webcams 2007 9 70 New Product Showcase Meade mySky 2007 9 70 New Product Showcase Vixen Optics VMC260L Cassegrain 2007 9 73 Books & Beyond "Seeing in the Dark, by Timothy Ferris" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 9 74 Books & Beyond "The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, by Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb" "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2007 9 76 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Why the Sky is Blue, by Gotz Hoeppe" "Grifantini, Kristina" 2007 9 78 Star Trails A Second Look at Norman Davidson's Imagination "Levy, David H." 2007 9 83 Backyard Basics Cosmic Perspectives "Kane, Phillip" 2007 9 88 Hobby Q&A What causes the green and violet arcs along the blue edge of a bright rainbow? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2007 9 88 Hobby Q&A Does the jet stream above an observer cause good or bad seeing for lunar and planetary observing? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2007 9 88 Hobby Q&A How do you know what you're supposed to see in a 80-mm telescope? "Walker, Sean" 2007 9 90 Gallery Southern MIlky Way over Mount Kinabalu in East Malaysia "Chin, William L." 2007 9 90 Gallery Moon Occults Saturn "Fiorentino, Luigi" 2007 9 91 Gallery Geminid Fireball "Grigore, Valentin" 2007 9 91 Gallery Thackeray's Globules in IC 2944 "Gilbert, Rick" "Harvey, Jack" "Verschatse, Daniel" "Reichart, Daniel E." 2007 9 92 Gallery Lyra over Temple of Poseidon "Chen, PK" 2007 9 92 Gallery Messier 104 "Talbot, Jon" 2007 9 92 Gallery "March 3, 2007, Total Lunar Eclipse" "Ratledge, David" 2007 9 93 Gallery Jupiter and Red Spot Jr. "Salway, Mike" 2007 9 93 Gallery Mars "Salway, Mike" 2007 9 93 Gallery Mercury "Boudreau, John" 2007 9 93 Gallery Saturn "Phillips, Jim" 2007 9 93 Gallery Venus "Lazzarotti, Paolo" 2007 9 102 Focal Point Maintaining Relevance "Watson, Thomas T." 2007 10 8 Spectrum Back to the Future "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2007 10 8 Spectrum No Laughing Matter "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2007 10 10 Letters More than Just Dots "Slezak, James" 2007 10 10 Letters Which Came First? "Cramer, Zak" 2007 10 10 Letters No Starchild Left Behind "Krumenaker, Lawrence" 2007 10 10 Letters Moon Madness "Policansky, David" 2007 10 10 Letters "Putting the ""No"" in Nobel" "Hunter, Tim" 2007 10 10 Letters Save Our Skies (and Ten Bucks) "Gent, Robert L." 2007 10 10 Letters Driver Education "Cowan, Alton" 2007 10 12 Uncategorized On the Web 2007 10 12 On the Web On the Web 2007 10 14 Skyscape The Hercules Cluster of Galaxies "Hallas, Tony" 2007 10 14 Skyscape Short-Lived Sunspot "Lodriguss, Jerry" 2007 10 16 News Notes New Infrared All-Sky Survey 2007 10 16 News Notes Sunny with a Chance of Mercury Clouds 2007 10 16 News Notes Bound for the Martian Pole - Again 2007 10 16 News Notes Planet/Brown-Dwarf Confusion 2007 10 16 News Notes New Galaxy Redshift Record 2007 10 16 News Notes Great-Grandfather Star 2007 10 16 News Notes Ringside View of Uranus 2007 10 16 News Notes Stars that Smoke 2007 10 16 News Notes A Very Puffed-Up Planet 2007 10 16 News Notes Hubble Penetrates the Veil 2007 10 16 News Notes Nearby Neutron Star 2007 10 16 News Notes Monster Galaxy Void 2007 10 16 News Notes Monster Galaxy Mashup 2007 10 17 Mission Update Stardust "McDowell, Jonathan" 2007 10 17 Mission Update Deep Impact "McDowell, Jonathan" 2007 10 17 News Notes Coolest Dwarf 2007 10 17 News Notes Walnut-Shaped Moon 2007 10 17 Mission Update "Kepler Dodges Axe, Aims for Alien Earths" "McDowell, Jonathan" 2007 10 17 News Notes Thirty Meter Telescope 2007 10 18 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2007 10 18 News Notes World's Largest Telescope 2007 10 18 News Notes Ice Geysers Everywhere? 2007 10 18 News Notes Return of the Sponge Moon 2007 10 18 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2007 10 18 News Notes Geysers Not a Cassini Threat 2007 10 18 News Notes Enceladus: Geysers Without Water? 2007 10 18 News Notes Risky Meteorite Recovery 2007 10 20 Feature The Hunt for the Missing Dwarf Galaxies "Naeye, Robert" 2007 10 20 Feature The Great Mars Chase of 1907 "Sheehan, William" "Misch, Anthony" 2007 10 23 Feature "Box: Mars, Mars, Mars - and an Annular Eclipse" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2007 10 24 Feature Taking Science Back to the Moon "Villard, Ray" 2007 10 26 Feature Dark Beasts of the Trans-Neptunian Zoo "Littmann, Mark" 2007 10 30 Feature Project Moonwatch "Pulliam, Christine" 2007 10 30 Feature Destination: Mars "Grifantini, Kristina" 2007 10 32 S&T Test Report Traveling Through the Solar System "Heafner, Joe" 2007 10 36 S&T Test Report A New Planetary Camera "Walker, Sean" 2007 10 36 S&T Test Report Quick Look: Helio Pod Solar Finder "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2007 10 36 S&T Test Report Quick Look: Atik Instruments ATK-16IC "Walker, Sean" 2007 10 38 New Product Showcase Stellarvue SV102ED 2007 10 38 New Product Showcase Clear Sky Clock Gadget 2007 10 38 New Product Showcase iOptron Cube 2007 10 40 Books & Beyond "A Buyer's and User's Guide to Astronomical Telescopes and Binoculars, by James Mullaney" "Birriel, Jennifer" 2007 10 40 Books & Beyond "Contact with Alien Civilizations, by Michael A. G. Michaud" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 10 41 S&T Test Report A Triple-Digit Field of View "di Cicco, Dennis" 2007 10 41 Books & Beyond "Lives of the Planets, by Richard Corfield" "Grifantini, Kristina" 2007 10 42 Books & Beyond "Creating and Enhancing Digital Astro Images, by Grant Privett" "Walker, Sean" 2007 10 42 Books & Beyond "Voyages, by Greg Mort" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 10 42 Books & Beyond "Planetary Rings, by Larry Esposito" "Tytell, David" 2007 10 44 New Product Showcase Astronomy-Shoppe Bino-Brac 2007 10 44 New Product Showcase FAR Laboratories Look Here Device 2007 10 44 New Product Showcase GSW AstroProducts Planisphere 2 2007 10 44 Astronomy Online Exploring Earth at Night "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 10 46 Books & Beyond "The Haunted Observatory, by Richard Baum" "Robinson, Leif J." 2007 10 47 Books & Beyond "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stars, by James B. Kaler" "Birriel, Jennifer" 2007 10 47 Rambling Through the Skies Going Like Sixty "Krupp, E. C." 2007 10 48 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Moon, by Michael Carlowicz" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 10 48 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Stargazing with Jack Horkeimer, by Jack Horkheimer with Stephen James O'Meara" "Grifantini, Kristina" 2007 10 49 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Astronomical Sketching, by R. Handy, D. B. Moody, J. Perez, E. Rix, and S. Robbins" "Flanders, Tony" 2007 10 50 Astronomy Online Two Nighttime Helpers "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 10 50 Sky at a Glance November 2007 Sky at a Glance 2007 10 52 Rambling Through the Skies Down to Earth "Krupp, E. C." 2007 10 52 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Novelties of November "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 10 53 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2007 10 54 Uncategorized October 2007 Sky at a Glance 2007 10 54 Northern Binocular Highlight Seeking Stock 2 "Seronik, Gary" 2007 10 55 Suburban Star Hop Snowball Sighting "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2007 10 56 Northern Hemisphere's Sky "Stars, Stars, Stars" "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 10 57 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2007 10 57 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2007 10 58 Northern Binocular Highlight IC 1396 in Cepheus "Seronik, Gary" 2007 10 58 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" A Month for Planets "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 10 59 Suburban Star Hop A Tale of Two Globulars "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2007 10 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2007 10 61 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Saturn and Its Many Moons "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 10 62 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Two Planets Dance with Regulus "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 10 63 Exploring the Moon Reading the Moon "Wood, Charles A." 2007 10 66 Exploring the Moon A Trio of Lunar Mysteries "Wood, Charles A." 2007 10 66 Feature Your Telescopic Guide to Mars "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 10 68 Celestial Calendar Challenges Await at Uranus and Neptune "Walker, Sean" 2007 10 69 Celestial Calendar Find the Moons of Neptune and Uranus "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 10 70 Celestial Calendar Moon Amid the Pleiades "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 10 70 Celestial Calendar Watch the Moon Occult Regulus "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 10 72 Deep-Sky Wonders Unsung Marvels in Cygnus "French, Sue" 2007 10 72 Celestial Calendar A Symbiotic Star 2007 10 74 Deep-Sky Wonders The Winged Horse "French, Sue" 2007 10 76 Feature Spotting Sputniks "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2007 10 78 Star Trails Flight to the Future "Levy, David H." 2007 10 82 Star Trails Tales of Two Comets "Levy, David H." 2007 10 82 Telescope Workshop ATMentoring "Seronik, Gary" 2007 10 84 Hobby Q&A What was the flashing object that never moved? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2007 10 84 Hobby Q&A When can you detect Jupiter's satellites with unaided eyes? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2007 10 84 Hobby Q&A "Why do outer, gas-giant planets rotate faster than the inner, terrestrial planets?" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2007 10 86 Feature How to Choose Binoculars for Stargazing "Seronik, Gary" 2007 10 87 Astrophotography Focusing Your DSLR on the Sky "Dyer, Alan" 2007 10 92 Telescope Workshop Telescope String Theory "Seronik, Gary" 2007 10 92 Gallery Venus series "Schrantz, Rick" 2007 10 92 Gallery 2-day-old Moon over Teton Mountains "Fleming, Tom" 2007 10 93 Gallery Sigma Scorpii and Messier 4 "Salman, Dean" 2007 10 94 Hobby Q&A "Will we ever see a mirror image of the conjunction of Venus and crescent Moon, as depicted on the Turkish flag?" "Grifantini, Kristina" 2007 10 94 Hobby Q&A "What is the reddest star visible in amateur telescopes, and how red will it look?" "Sinnott, Roger W." 2007 10 94 Hobby Q&A Will it ever be possible to observe Halley's Comet around its entire orbit? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2007 10 94 Hobby Q&A What would happen if antimatter was fed into a black hole? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 10 94 Gallery Comet LINEAR and Messier 3 "Jager, Michael" "Rhemann, Gerald" 2007 10 94 Gallery California Nebula NGC 1499 "Karbal, Bruce" 2007 10 96 Feature Revealing the Clouds of Venus "Walker, Sean" 2007 10 100 Gallery North America Nebula "Drelling, Bill" "Hoy, Paul" 2007 10 101 Gallery Spiral Galaxy Messier 101 "Talbot, Jon" 2007 10 101 Gallery Solar Active Region 10960 "Valentini, Gianluca" 2007 10 102 Gallery Wolfe Creek Crater in Western Australia "Dravins, Dainis" 2007 10 102 Gallery IC 443 and 444 "Ratto, Gimmi" 2007 10 103 Gallery "Lagoon Nebula, Messier 8" "Henry, Edward" 2007 10 103 Gallery Moon and Venus conjunction "Fletcher, Scott" 2007 10 104 Focal Point Channeling the Big Bang "Lago, Don" 2007 10 112 Focal Point Becoming Spacefarers "Chaikin, Andrew" 2007 12 10 Spectrum Master of the Occult "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2007 12 12 Letters "Been There, Done That" "Gordon, Rodger W." 2007 12 12 Letters The Dynamics of Dynamic Range "Kidd, Simon" 2007 12 12 Letters More Moon Madness "Rodger, David A." 2007 12 12 Letters Armstrong on the Moon "Mellberg, William F." 2007 12 16 News Notes The Sun Shakes the Earth 2007 12 16 News Notes The Sun's Hot Corona: Mystery Deepens 2007 12 16 News Notes A Starry Chemical Imbalance 2007 12 16 News Notes Measuring Neutron Stars Precisely 2007 12 17 Mission Update Life and Death of FUSE "McDowell, Jonathan" 2007 12 17 Mission Update Kaguya: To the Moon! "McDowell, Jonathan" 2007 12 17 News Notes The Source of the Dinosaurs' Asteroid 2007 12 17 News Notes "Neptune's ""Warm"" Pole" 2007 12 18 News Notes "75, 50 & 25 Years Ago" "Robinson, Leif J." 2007 12 18 News Notes A Root of Amateur Astronomy Unearthed 2007 12 18 News Notes Sharpening the 200-Inch 2007 12 20 Feature Mira's Marvelous Tail "Schilling, Govert" 2007 12 22 Feature "Mirror, Mirror" "Lowe, Jonathan" 2007 12 24 Feature Box: First LBT Science "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2007 12 26 Feature "Science, Scholarship, & Bethlehem's Starry Night" "Adair, Aaron Michael" 2007 12 30 Feature Celebrating Cassini "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2007 12 34 S&T Test Report Celestron's Grab-'n'-Go 6-inch "Dyer, Alan" 2007 12 37 S&T Test Report Staying on Track "di Cicco, Dennis" 2007 12 42 New Product Showcase Orion TeleTrack 2007 12 42 New Product Showcase SBIG AO-8 active-optics system 2007 12 42 New Product Showcase Diffraction Limited's Boltwood Portable Cloud Sensor 2007 12 45 Books & Beyond "Sirius, by Jay B. Holberg" "Deans, Paul" 2007 12 45 Books & Beyond "Dark Side of the Universe, by Iain Nicolson" "Bobra, Monica" 2007 12 46 Books & Beyond "Of Firebirds and Moonmen, by Norman J. James" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2007 12 46 Books & Beyond "But It Was Fun, by Felix J. Lockman, Frank D. Ghigo, and Dana S. Balser, eds." "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 12 46 Books & Beyond "The Sky Is Your Laboratory, by Robert K. Buchheim" "Birriel, Jennifer" 2007 12 48 Astronomy Online Realizing Virtual-Sky Dreams "Goldman, Stuart J." 2007 12 51 Rambling Through the Skies The Four Seasons "Krupp, E. C." 2007 12 54 Sky at a Glance December 2007 Sky at a Glance 2007 12 56 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Orion Arrives on the Scene "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 12 57 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere Sky Chart 2007 12 58 Northern Binocular Highlight Ghostly Galaxy M33 "Seronik, Gary" 2007 12 59 Suburban Star Hop Clusters Fit for a Queen "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2007 12 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2007 12 62 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Mars Madness "Schaaf, Fred" 2007 12 65 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" The Moons of Mars and Saturn "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 12 67 Exploring the Moon Decoding Mare Imbrium "Wood, Charles A." 2007 12 71 Feature The Glorious Geminids "Flanders, Tony" 2007 12 77 Celestial Calendar Moon and Pleiades Meet "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 12 78 Celestial Calendar Bright Red Variable Near a Nebula "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 12 80 Deep-Sky Wonders Square Dancing "French, Sue" 2007 12 85 Feature Pacific Eclipse Impressions "Walker, Sean" 2007 12 88 Feature "Fireworks at 50,000 Feet" "Dantowitz, Ron" 2007 12 92 Telescope Workshop The Easy-Go-Round Bino Mount "Seronik, Gary" 2007 12 96 Hobby Q&A Would a large concave mirror suffice for low-power views of extended deep-sky objects? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2007 12 96 Hobby Q&A Were stars artistically depicted with diffraction spikes before the Newtonian reflector was invented? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2007 12 96 Hobby Q&A Where was the Big Bang located? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2007 12 98 Gallery Barnard 72 in Ophiuchus "Khan, Tim" 2007 12 98 Gallery Sharpless 2-129 in Cepheus "Salman, Dean" 2007 12 99 Gallery Sunrise Eclipse over Iran "Tafreshi, Babak A." 2007 12 99 Gallery Vesta "Medugno, Antonello" 2007 12 99 Gallery Venus and Saturn conjunction "Tezel, Tunc" 2007 12 100 Gallery Messier 28 "Kelly, Al" 2007 12 100 Gallery IC 1318 "Karbal, Bruce" 2007 12 112 Focal Point Two Journeys Back in Time "Wehler, Randall" 2008 1 10 Spectrum Star Trails at 20 "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2008 1 12 Letters New Use for Old Books 2008 1 12 Letters Where Are They Now? "Sufitchi, Ciprian" 2008 1 12 Letters Astronomy's Image Problem "Peterson, Mark B." 2008 1 18 News Notes Pluto Family Portrait 2008 1 18 News Notes Mystery Pulse 2008 1 18 News Notes Too Many Planets! 2008 1 18 News Notes Students to Hunt Pulsars 2008 1 18 News Notes Titan's Frigid Shores 2008 1 19 Mission Update NuSTAR Revived "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 1 19 Mission Update Dawn: Bound for Vesta and Ceres "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 1 19 News Notes Automated Lunar Impacts 2008 1 19 News Notes Imaging Mercury 2008 1 19 News Notes Skylights into Martian Caves 2008 1 20 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2008 1 20 News Notes Aurora Stamps 2008 1 20 News Notes "Dunlap Observatory, RIP" 2008 1 20 News Notes Site Picked for Giant Magellan Telescope 2008 1 22 Feature Alien Earths from A to Z "Seager, Sara" 2008 1 26 Feature A Hawaiian Galaxy Garden "Lomberg, Jon" 2008 1 31 Feature Hipparcos's Star Distances Get Better "Sinnott, Roger W." 2008 1 34 Feature The Arctic-Asian Solar Eclipse of August 2008 "Espenak, Fred" "Anderson, Jay" 2008 1 38 Feature Hot New Products for 2008 "Sky & Telescope, the Editors of" 2008 1 45 Books & Beyond "Spectroscopy, by Keith Robinson" "Peterson, Carolyn C." 2008 1 45 Books & Beyond "Understanding Variable Stars, by John R. Percy" "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2008 1 48 Astronomy Online Lunar Roundup "Goldman, Stuart J." 2008 1 51 Rambling Through the Skies Priming the Meridian "Krupp, E. C." 2008 1 55 Sky at a Glance Sky at a Glance 2008 1 56 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Winter's Sky of All Seasons "Schaaf, Fred" 2008 1 57 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2008 1 59 Suburban Star Hop The Andromeda Strain "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2008 1 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2008 1 62 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Jupiter and Venus Dance at Dawn "Schaaf, Fred" 2008 1 69 Exploring the Moon The Rings of Imbrium "Wood, Charles A." 2008 1 73 Celestial Calendar The Southward Plunge of Comet Tuttle "Bryant, Greg" 2008 1 76 Celestial Calendar Lunar Occultation Highlights for 2008 "Dunham, David W." 2008 1 80 Deep-Sky Wonders Perseus's Flying Mantle "French, Sue" 2008 1 84 Star Trails Is a Small Scope Better? "Levy, David H." 2008 1 87 Telescope Workshop Cooldown Confusion "Seronik, Gary" 2008 1 90 Hobby Q&A Why are Earth's skies so boring? "Flanders, Tony" 2008 1 90 Hobby Q&A Why are there no green stars? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2008 1 90 Hobby Q&A How would the sky look through 1 x 50 binoculars? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2008 1 93 Feature Mastering Your Finderscope "Flanders, Tony" 2008 1 98 Gallery NGC 2237 "Khan, Tim" 2008 1 98 Gallery Jupiter and Antares in Scorpius "Beletsky, Yuri" 2008 1 98 Gallery Van den Bergh 14 and 15 "Davis, Thomas V." 2008 1 99 Gallery "Milky Way Vista with M16, M17, and M24" "Noble, John" 2008 1 99 Gallery Mars Dust Storm "Melka, Jim" 2008 1 100 Gallery "Moon above stone circle at Stenness, Scotland" "Privett, Grant" 2008 1 100 Gallery Stephan's Quintet and Deerlick Group "Hager, Dietmar" 2008 1 112 Focal Point "Pluto, Science, and Death" "Shuster, Joe" 2008 2 10 Spectrum Countdown to 2009 "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2008 2 12 Letters DSLR Focusing Aids "Shell, Richard D." 2008 2 12 Letters An Accidental Right Answer "O'Dell, C. Robert" 2008 2 12 Letters A Simple Explanation "Meeus, Jean" 2008 2 12 Letters Eyeballing Eclipses "Fischer, Daniel" 2008 2 18 News Notes Our Sun's Closest Twin 2008 2 18 News Notes A Star with Five Planets 2008 2 18 News Notes Betelgeuse: Star in a Shell 2008 2 18 News Notes New Route to a Supernova 2008 2 18 News Notes The Record Stellar-Mass Black Hole 2008 2 19 Mission Update Stepping to the Moon "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 2 19 Mission Update Satellite Practice "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 2 19 Mission Update China's First Interplanetary Spacecraft "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 2 19 News Notes Do We Really Need Jupiter? 2008 2 20 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2008 2 20 News Notes Rosetta Attacks! 2008 2 20 News Notes The Meteor Showers of Mars 2008 2 22 Feature The Exoplanet and the Amateurs "Naeye, Robert" 2008 2 24 Feature The Astounding Comet Holmes "Bortle, John E." 2008 2 30 Feature Le Verrier and the Discovery of Sirius B "Holberg, Jay B." 2008 2 34 S&T Test Report iOptron's Capable Cube "Seronik, Gary" 2008 2 38 New Product Showcase Shelyak Instruments' LHIRES III Spectrograph 2008 2 38 New Product Showcase Astronomy-Shoppe's Meade Rescue Kit 2008 2 38 New Product Showcase StarShoot Deep Space Color Imager II 2008 2 40 New Product Showcase Baader Planetarium's Narrowband Filters 2008 2 40 New Product Showcase Orion Premium 102mm F/7 ED Refractor 2008 2 40 New Product Showcase Smart Astronomy's Clear-View Portable Observatory Tent 2008 2 42 Books & Beyond "The Telescope, by Geoff Andersen" "Bobra, Monica" 2008 2 42 Books & Beyond "Aurora, by Neil Bone" "Deans, Paul" 2008 2 43 Books & Beyond Science Educators Under the Stars "Goldman, Stuart J." 2008 2 43 Books & Beyond "Race to Mars, by Dana Berry" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2008 2 43 Books & Beyond "Kaleidoscope Sky, by Tim Herd" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2008 2 43 Books & Beyond "Conceptions of Cosmos, by Helge S. Kragh" "Gay, Pamela L." 2008 2 44 Astronomy Online Reaching Out "Goldman, Stuart J." 2008 2 47 Rambling Through the Skies Driving at Night "Krupp, E. C." 2008 2 65 Exploring the Moon Lunar Rilles of Mystery "Wood, Charles A." 2008 2 68 Feature February's Ideal Eclipse of the Moon "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 2 74 Deep-Sky Wonders Starry Nights "French, Sue" 2008 2 78 Star Trails The Accidental Comet "Levy, David H." 2008 2 84 Telescope Workshop A Great Big Yolo "Seronik, Gary" 2008 2 86 Hobby Q&A "What is the ""star"" in Johnny Horne's Horsehead Nebula image?" "Horne, Johnny" 2008 2 86 Hobby Q&A "Wouldn't a 300-meter asteroid be able to eclipse the Moon, if it should pass in front of it?" "Sinnott, Roger W." 2008 2 86 Hobby Q&A Shouldn't a perfectly reflecting full Moon be as bright as the Sun? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2008 2 88 Feature The Time-Travel Project "Schedler, Johannes" 2008 2 92 Gallery Spiral Galaxy NGC 6946 "Quattrocchi, Keith B." 2008 2 92 Gallery Messier 42 "Hetlage, Chris" 2008 2 92 Gallery Veil Nebula "Wood, Kent" 2008 2 93 Gallery Spiral Galaxy NGC 253 "Gendler, Robert" 2008 2 94 Gallery Open Cluster NGC 1893 "Quattrocchi, Keith B." 2008 2 94 Gallery IC 5134 in Cepheus "Janusz, Jim" 2008 2 104 Focal Point Teenage Girl Beats Hubble! "McFarlane, Gil" 2008 3 10 Spectrum Lights Out! "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2008 3 12 Letters How Science Works "DeCanio, Thomas" 2008 3 12 Letters Finders Peepers "Hazlet, John" 2008 3 12 Letters Planetary Pilot "Taylor, Tony" 2008 3 20 News Notes Dust in a Hot Jupiter 2008 3 20 News Notes "The Orion Nebula, Exactly" 2008 3 20 News Notes 200 Million Hydrogen Emitters 2008 3 20 News Notes Saturn's Flying-Saucer Moons 2008 3 21 Mission Update Swift Restored to Service "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 3 21 Mission Update GLAST at Last "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 3 21 News Notes Europa's Bitter Sea 2008 3 22 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2008 3 22 News Notes Thirty Meter Telescope Moves Ahead 2008 3 22 News Notes Deep Impact Retargeted 2008 3 22 News Notes Lightning on Venus 2008 3 24 Feature Cosmic Superparticle Mystery: Solved? "Schilling, Govert" 2008 3 26 Feature Origin of the Elements of Life "Beers, Timothy C." 2008 3 32 Feature Where Did You Come From? "James, C. Renee" 2008 3 36 Feature Gaia's Mission to the Milky Way "Dambeck, Thorsten" 2008 3 40 S&T Test Report Borg Oasis Studio 77EDII and 101ED Refractors "Dyer, Alan" 2008 3 44 New Product Showcase Canon DSLR Filters 2008 3 44 New Product Showcase Smart Astronomy Solar System Planetary Long Eye-Relief Eyepieces 2008 3 44 New Product Showcase Orion Extra Narrowband Hydrogen-Alpha Imaging Filter 2008 3 47 Rambling Through the Skies A Day at the Races "Krupp, E. C." 2008 3 51 Sky at a Glance March 2008 Sky at a Glance 2008 3 52 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Walking a Different Dog "Schaaf, Fred" 2008 3 53 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2008 3 54 Northern Binocular Highlight "M41, the Big Dog's Cluster" "Seronik, Gary" 2008 3 55 Suburban Star Hop A Chariot Full of Clusters "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2008 3 57 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2008 3 64 Exploring the Moon Imbrium's Impact "Wood, Charles A." 2008 3 66 Feature Polestars of the Future: A Journey in a Celestial Time Machine "Bordeleau, Andre G." 2008 3 74 Deep-Sky Wonders By Jiminy! "French, Sue" 2008 3 78 Star Trails Dreaming of Midsummer Nights "Levy, David H." 2008 3 81 Books & Beyond "The Birth of Stars and Planets, by John Bally and Bo Reipurth" "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2008 3 81 Books & Beyond "Digital Astrophotography, by David Ratledge" "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2008 3 82 Books & Beyond "The Planet Hunter, by Elizabeth Rusch" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2008 3 82 Books & Beyond "Star Ware, 4th Edition, by Philip S. Harrington" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2008 3 82 Books & Beyond "Mathematical Astronomy Morsels IV, by Jean Meeus" "Sinnott, Roger W." 2008 3 82 Books & Beyond "Star Maps, by Nick Kanas" "Sinnott, Roger W." 2008 3 85 Astronomy Online The New Slooh "Goldman, Stuart J." 2008 3 88 Telescope Workshop Of Telescopes and Tomatoes "Seronik, Gary" 2008 3 90 Hobby Q&A Why don't we on Earth see an angled view of Comet Holmes' tail? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2008 3 90 Hobby Q&A Has anyone ever calculated the combined tonnage of meteroids and space debris falling into our atmosphere yearly? "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2008 3 90 Hobby Q&A How does the Moon's phase affect the skyglow of any given location? "Flanders, Tony" 2008 3 90 Hobby Q&A What are the chances of turning an astronomy hobby into a career? "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2008 3 104 Focal Point My Murphy's Law Marathon "Zander, Jon" 2008 4 10 Spectrum Glass Menagerie "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2008 4 12 Letters National Leaguer's Lament "Fisher, James R." 2008 4 12 Letters Highly Reflective Tech "Chiravalle, John" 2008 4 12 Letters Not So Prime "Bellessort, Jacques" 2008 4 16 News Notes Monster Black Holes Soon to Merge? 2008 4 16 News Notes A Double Einstein Ring 2008 4 16 News Notes Reunion with Mercury 2008 4 17 Mission Update Shaping Up the Moon "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 4 17 Mission Update The Lumps in Our Planet "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 4 17 News Notes Tunguska Blast Revised Downward 2008 4 17 News Notes Stars Born in the Middle of Nowhere 2008 4 18 News Notes Capen Gets a Martian Crater 2008 4 18 News Notes Big Plans for Hubble 2008 4 18 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2008 4 20 Feature Next Light: Tomorrow's Monster Telescopes "Lowe, Jonathan" 2008 4 26 Feature Parched Planet "Robertson, Donald F." 2008 4 32 S&T Test Report Orion StarShoot Deep Space Color Imager II "Horne, Johnny" 2008 4 36 S&T Test Report Quick Look: Nikon D300 Digital SLR "di Cicco, Dennis" 2008 4 38 New Product Showcase Orion StarShoot AutoGuider 2008 4 38 New Product Showcase Imaginova's Starry Night Apollo 2008 4 38 New Product Showcase Night Ize LED Upgrade Kit 2008 4 38 New Product Showcase Celestron FAR-Sight SkyScout Mount 2008 4 38 New Product Showcase StarShoot AstroGuider 2008 4 41 Books & Beyond "Wonderful World of Space, by Andrew Fraknoi" "Gay, Pamela L." 2008 4 41 Books & Beyond "Space Art, by Michael Carroll" "Reed, Casey B." 2008 4 42 Books & Beyond "State of the Universe 2008, by Martin Ratcliffe" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2008 4 42 Books & Beyond "Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, by Thomas Hockey" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2008 4 42 Books & Beyond "Planets, Stars, and Galaxies, by David A. Aguilar" "Birriel, Jennifer" 2008 4 44 Rambling Through the Skies Backpack to the Future "Krupp, E. C." 2008 4 47 Sky at a Glance April 2008 Sky at a Glance 2008 4 48 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Changing of the Guard "Schaaf, Fred" 2008 4 49 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2008 4 50 Northern Binocular Highlight A Pair of Puppis Clusters "Seronik, Gary" 2008 4 51 Suburban Star Hop Big Bear Pair "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2008 4 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2008 4 54 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" The Ringed Planet Rules "Schaaf, Fred" 2008 4 61 Exploring the Moon The Big (Basin) Picture "Wood, Charles A." 2008 4 64 Feature Hinode's Solar Wonderland "Pasachoff, Jay M." 2008 4 66 Feature Savor Saturn in 2008 "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 4 73 Deep-Sky Wonders Bear Toes "French, Sue" 2008 4 77 Star Trails A Friend Indeed "Levy, David H." 2008 4 80 Telescope Workshop Highe's Telescope Odyssey "Seronik, Gary" 2008 4 82 Hobby Q&A Are you able to see the light of cities on Earth from Mars using a modest-size telescope? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2008 4 82 Hobby Q&A How and who decided that January 1st at midnight is the moment a new year begins? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2008 4 82 Hobby Q&A How much extra aperture does a telescope need to produce the same aesthetic impact as certain binoculars? "Flanders, Tony" 2008 4 96 Focal Point Bastions of Science "Reade, Gordon" 2008 5 10 Spectrum Out to Launch "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2008 5 12 Letters "All Hail, Comet Holmes!" "Licht, A. Lewis" "Ramsey, John T." 2008 5 12 Letters Beginner's Lucklessness "Creedon, Lew" 2008 5 14 News Notes "A Really Fast Star from Far, Far Away" 2008 5 14 News Notes Standard-Candle Supernova Confusion 2008 5 14 News Notes "An Ingenious, Super-Good Cepheid Distance" 2008 5 14 News Notes Meteorites from Mercury? 2008 5 15 Mission Update Space-Station Astronomy "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 5 15 Mission Update Voyager 2 at the Edge "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 5 15 News Notes A Neutron Star's Hard Core 2008 5 16 News Notes Can Dunlap Observatory Be Saved? 2008 5 16 News Notes Telescope Companies Bury Hatchet 2008 5 16 News Notes A Stardust-Free Comet 2008 5 16 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2008 5 18 Feature Decoding the Oldest Light in the Universe "Hinshaw, Gary" "Naeye, Robert" 2008 5 24 Feature Reunion with Mercury "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2008 5 28 Feature The Mystery of the Million-Mass Cloud "Schilling, Govert" 2008 5 31 S&T Test Report Meade mySKY "di Cicco, Dennis" 2008 5 34 S&T Test Report Quick Look: FAR-Sight Binocular Mount "Seronik, Gary" 2008 5 36 New Product Showcase Pier-Tech Star Traveler Mobile Observatory 2008 5 36 New Product Showcase Meade Deep Sky Imager III and DSI III Pro CCD cameras 2008 5 36 New Product Showcase Celestron SkyScout Scope 90 2008 5 39 Books & Beyond "Astrophysics Is Easy!, by Mike Inglis" "Birriel, Jennifer" 2008 5 39 Books & Beyond "Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders, by Bruce Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson" "Seronik, Gary" 2008 5 40 Books & Beyond "The Far Side of the Moon, by Charles J. Byrne" "Wood, Charles A." 2008 5 41 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Night Sky Companion, by Tammy Plotner" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2008 5 41 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Cambridge Illustrated Dictionary of Astronomy, by Jacqueline Milton" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2008 5 43 Rambling Through the Skies Theatrical Lighting "Krupp, E. C." 2008 5 47 Sky at a Glance May 2008 Sky at a Glance 2008 5 48 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Exploring the Great Bear "Schaaf, Fred" 2008 5 49 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2008 5 50 Northern Binocular Highlight Galaxy Whirlpool "Seronik, Gary" 2008 5 51 Suburban Star Hop "Cluster Near, Cluster Far" "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2008 5 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2008 5 54 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Twilight Spectacle "Schaaf, Fred" 2008 5 63 Exploring the Moon Hide-and-Seek Basin "Wood, Charles A." 2008 5 66 Feature Glimpse the Moon's Far Side "Schilling, Govert" 2008 5 70 Celestial Calendar Springtime Asteroids "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 5 72 Celestial Calendar Mars Meets the Beehive "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 5 74 Deep-Sky Wonders The Immortal Beast "French, Sue" 2008 5 78 Telescope Workshop The Hollimon Secondary Holder "Seronik, Gary" 2008 5 80 Hobby Q&A When is the next visible gathering of five bright planets? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2008 5 80 Hobby Q&A "If you find something new in the sky, whom do you contact?" "Sinnott, Roger W." 2008 5 80 Hobby Q&A Are there plans to look at the Apollo landing sites with the Japanese Kaguya spacecraft? "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2008 5 82 Feature Earth and Sky United "Tafreshi, Babak A." "Simmons, Mike" 2008 5 96 Focal Point Science or Spacemen? "Weinberg, Steven" 2008 6 10 Spectrum Yesterday and Today "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2008 6 12 Letters A Summer Observation "Upgren, Arthur" 2008 6 12 Letters Dark Illumination "Kniffen, Doug" 2008 6 12 Letters "Drop Dead, Please" "Rupel, Pat" 2008 6 14 News Notes Rings Around a Saturn Moon? 2008 6 14 News Notes A Magnetar in Sheep's Clothing 2008 6 14 News Notes A New Day in Precision Cosmology 2008 6 15 Mission Update Looking for Dark Matter "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 6 15 Mission Update Ulysses Says Goodbye "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 6 15 News Notes Mare Mercury 2008 6 15 News Notes Four Martian Landslides Caught in the Act 2008 6 16 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2008 6 16 News Notes First-First Light-Light for the Large Binocular Telescope 2008 6 16 News Notes Triple Asteroid 2008 6 18 Feature NASA's New Gamma-Ray Trailblazer "Naeye, Robert" 2008 6 24 Feature A Bump in the Night "Schilling, Govert" 2008 6 27 Feature Box: The Incredible Shrinking Planet "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2008 6 28 Feature How to Hunt for Supernova Fossils in the Milky Way "Welch, Douglas L." 2008 6 34 S&T Test Report Double-Barreled Observing "Seronik, Gary" 2008 6 37 S&T Test Report Quick Look: Speedy Austrian Astrograph "Fera, Bob" 2008 6 38 S&T Test Report Quick Look: Smart Astronomy's Planetary Eyepieces "Walker, Sean" 2008 6 40 Books & Beyond "Observing the Moon, by Gerald North" "Wood, Charles A." 2008 6 40 Books & Beyond "James Van Allen, by Abigail Foerstner" "Garfinkle, Robert A." 2008 6 43 Rambling Through the Skies Weathering the Stars "Krupp, E. C." 2008 6 47 Sky at a Glance June 2008 Sky at a Glance 2008 6 48 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Lost Lore of the Little Dipper "Schaaf, Fred" 2008 6 49 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2008 6 50 Northern Binocular Highlight Messiers Near and Far "Seronik, Gary" 2008 6 51 Suburban Star Hop Binaries in Your Bootes "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2008 6 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2008 6 54 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" A Marvelous Midsummer Night "Schaaf, Fred" 2008 6 55 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Box: Not-So-Universal Time "Flanders, Tony" 2008 6 63 Exploring the Moon The Crater Main Sequence "Wood, Charles A." 2008 6 67 Celestial Calendar Pluto's Slow Departure "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 6 68 Celestial Calendar Scope Test "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 6 68 Celestial Calendar Dawn Moon in the Pleiades "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 6 70 Deep-Sky Wonders Flying off the Handle "French, Sue" 2008 6 72 Star Trails February's Lunar Eclipse "Levy, David H." 2008 6 75 Telescope Workshop Taming a Monster Scope "Seronik, Gary" 2008 6 78 Hobby Q&A How much farther will the Sun move out of the plane to the Milky Way before diving back in? "French, Sue" 2008 6 78 Hobby Q&A How should you focus a digital camera if you have progressive-correction eyeglasses? "di Cicco, Dennis" 2008 6 78 Hobby Q&A By what factor (if any) should you convert the field-of-view angle of a 1 1/4-inch eyepiece to the that for a 2-inch eyepiece? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2008 6 80 Feature Trying to Touch the Stars "Brunier, Serge" 2008 6 84 Gallery Sun Pillar over Texas "Stine, Mark" "Fraley, Ken" 2008 6 84 Gallery Green Flecks on Solar Limb "Zubenel, Doug" 2008 6 85 Gallery Planetary Nebula NGC 246 "Comolli, Lorenzo" 2008 6 85 Gallery Trailed February 2008 Lunar Eclipse "Cook, Chris" 2008 6 85 Gallery International Space Station "Vandebergh, Ralf" 2008 6 86 Gallery Planetary Nebula M76 "Hager, Dietmar" 2008 6 86 Gallery IC 1848 in Cassiopeia "Quattrocchi, Keith B." 2008 6 86 Gallery NCG 2359 Thor's Helmet "Peterson, Brian" 2008 6 96 Focal Point The Perfect Star Party "Elliott, Ted" 2008 7 10 Spectrum Out with the Old "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2008 7 10 Spectrum Out with the Old "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2008 7 12 Letters Why We Bother "Trotta, Steve" 2008 7 12 Letters Ancient Eye Test Tested "Bohigian, MD, George" 2008 7 14 News Notes A Naked-Eye Gamma-Ray Burst 2008 7 14 News Notes A Rich Protoplanetary Soup 2008 7 14 News Notes A Raft of New Planets in Silhouette 2008 7 14 News Notes Naked-Eye Gamma-Ray Burst 2008 7 15 Mission Update A Russian Phoenix Rises "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 7 15 Mission Update Akari Warms Up "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 7 15 News Notes Titan's Free-Floating Crust 2008 7 15 News Notes What Is Inside Enceladus? 2008 7 16 News Notes "75, 50 & 25 Years Ago" "Robinson, Leif J." 2008 7 16 News Notes Genesis: Earth Is Weird 2008 7 16 News Notes A Tiny Whiff of Moon Water 2008 7 16 News Notes Comet Hale-Bopp Lives On 2008 7 18 Skyscape Fiery Infants "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 7 20 Feature Tuning In to the Universe "Lazio, Joseph" "Kramer, Michael" "Gaensler, Bryan" 2008 7 26 Feature Solving a Halloween Mystery "Patterson, Joseph" 2008 7 32 S&T Test Report Sky Voyager "Heafner, Joe" 2008 7 36 S&T Test Report Quick Look: Astro-Tech Voyager Mount "di Cicco, Dennis" 2008 7 38 New Product Showcase Foster Systems AstroMC observatory control hub 2008 7 38 New Product Showcase Unihedron Sky Quality Meter 2008 7 38 New Product Showcase Astro-Tech AT111EDT f/7 ED triplet apochromatic refractor 2008 7 40 New Product Showcase Vixen Optics Newtonian Replica 2008 7 40 New Product Showcase Tele Vue Universal Paracorr 2008 7 40 New Product Showcase Software Bisque TheSkyX Student Edition 2008 7 43 Books & Beyond "Women Astronomers, by Mabel Armstrong" "Gay, Pamela L." 2008 7 43 Books & Beyond "Observing the Sun with Coronado Telescopes, by Philip Pugh" "Tresch Fienberg, Richard" 2008 7 44 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images, by Greg Parker" "Walker, Sean" 2008 7 44 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Digital SLR Astrophotography, by Michael A. Covington" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2008 7 44 Books & Beyond "The History of Astronomy, by Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest" "Kanipe, Jeff" 2008 7 47 Rambling Through the Skies Getting the Picture "Krupp, E. C." 2008 7 51 Sky at a Glance July 2008 Sky at a Glance 2008 7 52 Northern Hemisphere's Sky "Apart, Yet Joined" "Schaaf, Fred" 2008 7 53 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere Sky Chart 2008 7 54 Northern Binocular Highlight Hercules Messiers "Seronik, Gary" 2008 7 55 Suburban Star Hop Star Cluster Wars "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2008 7 57 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere Sky Chart "Bryant, Greg" 2008 7 58 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Evening Encounters "Schaaf, Fred" 2008 7 62 Feature Tiny Players on Jupiter's Stage "Wood, Charles A." "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 7 69 Exploring the Moon Counting Craters "Wood, Charles A." 2008 7 72 Feature A Multi-Hued Palette "Rao, Joe" 2008 7 75 Feature Box: Our Readers Measure Earth's Shadow "Sinnott, Roger W." 2008 7 78 Deep-Sky Wonders The 12 Labors of Hercules "French, Sue" 2008 7 82 Star Trails The Vail Astronomy Unclub "Levy, David H." 2008 7 86 Telescope Workshop Two Focusing Tools for Astrophotography "Seronik, Gary" 2008 7 88 Feature Layer Magic for Your Astrophotos "Ireland, R. Scott" 2008 7 92 Gallery Color-Enhanced Moon "Johnson, Tim" 2008 7 93 Gallery Solar Halo and Sundogs "Szabototh, Charles" 2008 7 93 Gallery "Flaming Star Nebula, IC 405" "Goldman, Don S." 2008 7 94 Gallery Comet Holmes and California Nebula "Astreoud, Jerome" 2008 7 94 Gallery Jupiter with Red Spot "Salway, Mike" 2008 7 104 Focal Point Flash Astronomy "Rifkin, Alan" 2008 8 10 Spectrum Vital Signs "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2008 8 12 Letters Shocking Truth "Ulivi, Paolo" 2008 8 12 Letters Divinity Divide "Miller, Grant" 2008 8 12 Letters Amateur Glass Only Half Full "Ilovaisky, Sergio" 2008 8 14 News Notes Gallery of Colliding Galaxies 2008 8 14 News Notes Looking Down the Throat of a Black-Hole Jet 2008 8 15 Mission Update Collecting Interstellar Atoms "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 8 15 Mission Update Nanosatellites Reach Orbit "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 8 16 News Notes 50 & 25 years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2008 8 16 News Notes Is Mercury's Orbit Unstable? 2008 8 18 Feature Caesar's Invasion of Britain "Olson, Donald W." "Doescher, Russell L." Texas State Honors Students 2008 8 24 Feature Clear(er) Skie Ahead "Creed, Phillip J." 2008 8 30 Feature The Quest for Dark Matter "Panek, Richard" 2008 8 36 Feature Gearheads in Paradise "di Cicco, Dennis" "Walker, Sean" 2008 8 40 Books & Beyond "Jupiter and How to Observe It, by John W. McAnnaly" "Birriel, Jennifer" 2008 8 40 Books & Beyond "Cosmological Engmas, by Mark Kidger" "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2008 8 43 Rambling Through the Skies Dinner Date "Krupp, E. C." 2008 8 48 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Judge Your Sky with Draco "Schaaf, Fred" 2008 8 61 Exploring the Moon Unseen Seas "Wood, Charles A." 2008 8 65 Celestial Calendar Dodge the Moon the Perseids "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 8 66 Celestial Calendar Solar Eclipse over Eurasia "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 8 67 Celestial Calendar August 208's Partial Lunar Eclpse "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 8 69 Celestial Calendar Three Blood Drops on the Swan's Wing "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 8 73 Deep-Sky Wonders Stars Unnumbered "French, Sue" 2008 8 77 Star Trails European AstroFest 2008 "Levy, David H." 2008 8 81 Telescope Workshop Milsom's Terrific Travelscope "Seronik, Gary" 2008 8 96 Focal Point Street-level Stargazing "Frybarger, Duane" 2008 9 10 Spectrum A Fond Farewell "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2008 9 12 Letters Jonesing for Pharaohs "Laber, Bernd" 2008 9 12 Letters Space Priorities - II "Isaacs, Julian" 2008 9 12 Letters Space Priorities - I "Wilkinson, Clint" 2008 9 14 News Notes The Most Recent Milky Way Supernova 2008 9 14 News Notes Supernova Caught in the Act 2008 9 14 News Notes The Milky Way Remapped 2008 9 15 Mission Update GLAST Reaches Orbit "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 9 15 Mission Update Faster Solar Snapshots "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 9 15 Mission Update Hinode Has a Hitch "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 9 15 News Notes Jupiter's Three Red Spots 2008 9 15 News Notes More Supernovae: A White Dwarf's Messy Blowup 2008 9 16 News Notes Anticipating Epsilon Aurigae 2008 9 16 News Notes 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2008 9 16 News Notes Plutoids? 2008 9 16 News Notes Amateur Finds Fastest-Spinning Asteroid 2008 9 16 News Notes "Little Red Dwarf, Great Big Flare" 2008 9 20 Skyscape A Historic Descent 2008 9 22 Feature Polar Prospector "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2008 9 26 Feature Box: Planet Quests "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2008 9 26 Feature Planetary Peculiarities "Croswell, Ken" 2008 9 30 Feature Box: Death of Amateur Astronomy ... or New Birth? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 9 30 Feature The Coming Giant Sky Patrols "Jedicke, Peter" "Jedicke, Robert" 2008 9 36 S&T Test Report A Bigger Blast for the Buck "Seronik, Gary" 2008 9 39 S&T Test Report Quick Look: Astro-Tech AT80EDT Refractor "di Cicco, Dennis" 2008 9 42 Books & Beyond "The de Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies, by Ronald J. Buta, Harold G. Corwin Jr., and Stephen C. Odewahn" "Garfinkle, Robert A." 2008 9 42 Books & Beyond "Setting-up a Small Observatory, by David Arditti" "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2008 9 43 Books & Beyond "Stars & Planets, by Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion" "Burchell, Tania" 2008 9 44 Astronomy Online Microsoft's Cosmic Marvel "Goldman, Stuart J." 2008 9 47 Sky at a Glance September 2008 Sky at a Glance 2008 9 48 Northern Hemisphere's Sky The Sagittarius Crazy Quilt "Schaaf, Fred" 2008 9 49 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2008 9 50 Northern Binocular Highlight Lagoon and Trifid "Seronik, Gary" 2008 9 51 Suburban Star Hop Lyra's Dandy Doughnut "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2008 9 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2008 9 54 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Twilight Threesome "Schaaf, Fred" 2008 9 60 Exploring the Moon A Colorful Moon? "Wood, Charles A." 2008 9 63 Celestial Calendar Uranus and Neptune After Dark "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 9 64 Celestial Calendar Moon Crosses the Pleiades "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 9 65 Celestial Calendar The Year's Best Asteroid Occultation "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 9 69 Deep-Sky Wonders Magic Nights of Stars "French, Sue" 2008 9 73 Rambling Through the Skies Labor Day "Krupp, E. C." 2008 9 77 Star Trails Not the Stellafane Way "Levy, David H." 2008 9 80 Telescope Making Selections from My Bookshelf "Seronik, Gary" 2008 9 82 Hobby Q&A Why do emission nebulae look red in photographs but greenish gray in the eyepiece? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 9 82 Hobby Q&A Why isn't the Moon always oriented the same way in the sky? "Tytell, David" 2008 9 82 Hobby Q&A "How long after sunset is the sky truly ""dark""?" "Sinnott, Roger W." 2008 9 82 Hobby Q&A "Has a ""blue Moon"" ever occurred on February 29th (leap day)?" "Sinnott, Roger W." 2008 9 84 Gallery "Stars over Poulnabrone Dolman, Ireland" "Ryan Jr., Frank" 2008 9 85 Gallery Zodiacal Light "Beletsky, Yuri" 2008 9 85 Gallery Yearly Saturn images "Gasparri, Daniele" 2008 9 85 Gallery Galaxy NGC 4565 in Coma Berenices "Fera, Bob" "Fera, Janice" 2008 9 86 Gallery Nebula IC 5146 in Cygnus "Yaney, David S." 2008 9 86 Gallery Star Trails over El Torcal "Fernandez, Jesus Navas" 2008 9 96 Focal Point Red Planet Resolve "Bos, Brent J." 2008 10 10 Spectrum Taking the Helm "Naeye, Robert" 2008 10 12 Letters Looking Back and Ahead - III "Allum, Andrew" 2008 10 12 Letters Looking Back and Ahead - II "Black, Larry" 2008 10 12 Letters Record Moons "Hoffman, Roy" 2008 10 12 Letters Looking Back and Ahead - I "Reade, Gordon" 2008 10 14 Letters Looking Back and Ahead - IV "Tyson, Richard" 2008 10 14 Letters "75, 50 & 25 Years Ago" "Robinson, Leif J." 2008 10 16 News Notes Brown Dwarfs Weigh In Too 2008 10 16 News Notes The Most Massive Star Yet? 2008 10 16 News Notes Mars Too Salty for Life? 2008 10 16 News Notes Mars's Ancient Water Works 2008 10 17 News Notes "Few Jupiters, Lots of Earths?" 2008 10 17 News Notes "SOHO Comets: 1,500 and Counting" 2008 10 17 News Notes Why Mars Is Two-Faced 2008 10 17 News Notes Saturn's Crash-Ridden F Ring 2008 10 17 News Notes The Secret Companion of Regulus 2008 10 17 News Notes Black Holes Shape Spiral Galaxy Arms 2008 10 18 News Notes Dark-Sky Park in Pennsylvania 2008 10 18 News Notes How Little Asteroids Go Double 2008 10 18 Mission Update Rosetta's First Asteroid "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 10 18 Mission Update Messenger Returns to Mercury "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 10 18 News Notes The Sun Twists its Pitches 2008 10 22 Feature A Martian Wonderland "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2008 10 23 Feature Box: Countown 2 Landing "Levy, David H." 2008 10 23 Feature Sidebar: Countdown 2 Landing "Levy, David H." 2008 10 26 Feature Fixing Hubble One Last Time "Blades, J. Chris" 2008 10 32 Feature Touching the Stars Without Leaving Home "Garcia, Ruben" "Notkin, Geoffrey" 2008 10 36 Feature Box: They Came from Mars "Naeye, Robert" 2008 10 38 S&T Test Report Following the Stars "Seronik, Gary" 2008 10 42 New Product Showcase StarShoot Pro Deep Space CCD Color Imaging Camera 2008 10 42 New Product Showcase Deep Sky Instruments TrueRC astrographs 2008 10 42 New Product Showcase North Star Systems Dob Tracker II 2008 10 44 Books & Beyond "Empire of the Stars, by Arthur I. Miller" "Petersen, Carolyn Collins" 2008 10 44 Books & Beyond "Lights in the Sky, by Michael Maunder" "Kanipe, Jeff" 2008 10 45 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Lunar Exploration Scrapbook, by Robert Godwin" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2008 10 45 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Rejuvenating the Sun, by Martin Beech" "Tytell, David" 2008 10 45 Books & Beyond "Stargazing with Binoculars, by Robin Scagell" "Flanders, Tony" 2008 10 47 Sky at a Glance October 2008 Sky at a Glance 2008 10 48 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Summer's Swan Song "Schaaf, Fred" 2008 10 49 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2008 10 50 Northern Binocular Highlight Planetary Nebula M27 "Seronik, Gary" 2008 10 51 Suburban Star Hop Coy Cluster in Capricornus "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2008 10 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2008 10 54 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Venus and Jupiter Light the Dusk "Schaaf, Fred" 2008 10 63 Exploring the Moon A Swim in Mare Humorum "Wood, Charles A." 2008 10 67 Celestial Calendar October Meteors "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 10 68 Celestial Calendar East Coast Asteroid Occultation 2008 10 71 Deep-Sky Wonders Arion's Dolphin "French, Sue" 2008 10 75 Rambling Through the Skies Space Opera "Krupp, E. C." 2008 10 78 Telescope Workshop Baffle Your Scope's Focuser "Seronik, Gary" 2008 10 80 Feature Improving Your DSLR Photos "Lodriguss, Jerry" 2008 10 84 Gallery NGC 4725 and NGC 4448 "Kelly, Al" 2008 10 84 Gallery Nebula IC 1848 "Fera, Bob" "Fera, Janice" 2008 10 85 Gallery NGC 6559 and IC 1274 "Rhemann, Gerald" 2008 10 86 Gallery Jupiter with Three Red Spots "Hease, Paul" 2008 10 86 Gallery 12-hour Star Trails "Comolli, Lorenzo" 2008 10 96 Focal Point Game Plan "Watson, Thomas T." 2008 11 8 Spectrum An Unforgettable Night on Mount Wilson "Naeye, Robert" 2008 11 11 Letters Why Spend on Astronomy? - II "Durrell, Mark W." 2008 11 11 Letters Keep on Tinkering! "Habas, Gregory" 2008 11 11 Letters Why Spend on Astronomy? - I "Skoch, Bernard K." 2008 11 11 Letters Superior Celestial Eye Exam "Gordon, Rodger W." 2008 11 12 Letters Blame Sagan "Maor, Eli" 2008 11 12 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2008 11 19 News Notes Moon Transits Earth 2008 11 19 News Notes Weighing Black Holes by High-School Gas Laws 2008 11 19 News Notes Titan Lakes Nailed at Last 2008 11 19 News Notes Zooming in on Enceladus's Cracks 2008 11 20 News Notes Third Plutoid Named 2008 11 20 News Notes Largest Known Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) 2008 11 20 News Notes Eta Carinae Prepares for X-ray Crash 2008 11 20 News Notes A Galaxy's Dead Zone 2008 11 20 News Notes Dark Energy's Early Fingerprints 2008 11 22 Mission Update International X-ray Observatory "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 11 22 Mission Update Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Delayed "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 11 22 News Notes "Our ""Goldilocks"" Solar System" 2008 11 24 Feature Totality 2008: First Look "Walker, Sean" 2008 11 26 Feature X Rays Mark the Spot: A Newborn Supernova "Soderberg, Alicia" 2008 11 30 Feature Box: Red Giant Shock Breakout "Naeye, Robert" 2008 11 32 Feature Building Planets in Disks of Chaos "Weinberger, Alycia J." 2008 11 38 Feature Pioneering Telescope Turns 100 "Misch, Tony" "Sheehan, William" 2008 11 43 S&T Test Report Guiding on a Budget "Dyer, Alan" 2008 11 48 New Product Showcase Astro-Tech AT16D Dobsonian 2008 11 48 New Product Showcase Astrodon Narrowband Filters 2008 11 48 New Product Showcase HoTech SCA Laser Collimator 2008 11 52 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Writing in the Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2008 11 53 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2008 11 54 Northern Binocular Highlight Autumn Globulars "Seronik, Gary" 2008 11 55 Suburban Star Hop Contrasting Cass Clusters "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2008 11 57 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart "Bryant, Greg" 2008 11 64 Exploring the Moon The Big Picture "Wood, Charles A." 2008 11 67 Celestial Calendar Vesta Circles the Whale's Head "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 11 68 Celestial Calendar Three Asteroid Occultations "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 11 71 Deep-Sky Wonders Frederick's Glory "French, Sue" 2008 11 77 Books & Beyond "Ice, Rock, and Beauty, by David Brodie" "Burchell, Tania" 2008 11 77 Books & Beyond "Total Solar Eclipses and How To Observe Them, by Martin Mobberley" "Garfinkle, Robert A." 2008 11 78 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Total Solar Eclipse of 2009 July 22, by Fred Espenak and Jay Anderson" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2008 11 78 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Keep Watching the Skies, by W. Patrick McCray" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2008 11 78 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Eleven Planets, by David A. Aguilar" "Carlisle, Camille M." 2008 11 78 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites, by O. Richard Norton and Lawrence A. Chitwood" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2008 11 80 Astronomy Online Delving into Hubble's Hoard "Goldman, Stuart J." 2008 11 83 Rambling Through the Skies Astronomical Wonders "Krupp, E. C." 2008 11 87 Telescope Workshop Meet the Chief "Seronik, Gary" 2008 11 91 Hobby Q&A Fast Fact: Sirius and January 1st "Sinnott, Roger W." 2008 11 91 Hobby Q&A Is it good or bad to have an infrared-blocking feature on a camera? "Walker, Sean" 2008 11 91 Hobby Q&A Would a light-pollution filter help find Puto with a 10-inch reflector? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 11 92 Gallery "Pelican Nebula, IC 5070" "Van Vleet, Larry" 2008 11 93 Gallery Moon wide-field portrait "Bareket, Ido" 2008 11 93 Gallery Solar Granulation "Usatov, Maxim" 2008 11 93 Gallery Galaxy M82 "Kloehr, Wolfgang" 2008 11 94 Gallery Setting Crescent Moon "Kohlhauf, Franz Xaver" 2008 11 94 Gallery Dwarf galaxy IC 2574 "Winder, Martin" "Hager, Dietmar" 2008 11 95 Gallery August 2008 Solar Eclipse over Mongolia "Sims, Geoff" 2008 11 104 Focal Point There's No Place Like Dome "Illig, Leona" 2008 12 8 Spectrum What's Earth's Closest Relative? "Naeye, Robert" 2008 12 10 Letters Of Plutoids and Planets - II "Caldwell, Robert B." 2008 12 10 Letters Early All-Sky Surveys - II "Steinicke, Wolfgang" 2008 12 10 Letters Critical Galaxy Guide "Diaz, Eric F." 2008 12 10 Letters Of Plutoids and Planets - I "Unger, Rebecca" 2008 12 10 Letters Early All-Sky Surveys - I "Ferrio, Michael" 2008 12 12 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2008 12 12 Letters Don't Be Dirty "Lewis, Barbara-Ann" 2008 12 15 News Notes Milky Way's Central Monster Weighed Anew 2008 12 15 News Notes Rosetta's Diamond in the Sky 2008 12 16 News Notes "GLAST Begins Work, Gets New Name" 2008 12 16 News Notes Exoplanet Search Strategies 2008 12 16 News Notes Perseids on the Moon 2008 12 16 News Notes Black Hole View: Almost Sharp Enough! 2008 12 16 News Notes Star-Studded Holes 2008 12 18 Mission Update The Infrared Eye of WISE "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 12 18 Mission Update Phoenix Races the Calendar "McDowell, Jonathan" 2008 12 18 News Notes Low-Polluting Streetlights 2008 12 18 News Notes For Carl 2008 12 26 Feature Titan: Earth in Deep Freeze "Barnes, Jason" 2008 12 34 Feature Still Debating Pluto's Fate "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2008 12 36 Feature Palomar's Big Eye "Mason, Todd" "Mason, Robin" 2008 12 43 S&T Test Report Celestron's Omni XLT 127 Schmidt-Cassegrain "Ashford, Adrian R." 2008 12 44 S&T Test Report Quick Look: HoTech SCA Laser Collimator "Walker, Sean" 2008 12 48 S&T Test Report Quick Look: iOptron's MiniTower "di Cicco, Dennis" 2008 12 50 New Product Showcase Telescope Atlanta T1 series Dobsonian telescopes 2008 12 50 New Product Showcase Tele Vue Ethos eyepieces 2008 12 50 New Product Showcase Garrett Optical Signature 20 x 110 and 28 x 110 HD-WP Bincoulars 2008 12 52 Astronomy Online Gallery Hopping "Goldman, Stuart J." 2008 12 54 Sky at a Glance Celestial and Terrestrial Lights "Cook, Chris" 2008 12 55 Sky at a Glance December 2008 Sky at a Glance 2008 12 55 Sky at a Glance December 2008 Sky at a Glance 2008 12 56 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Let a Comet Be Your Guide "Schaaf, Fred" 2008 12 57 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2008 12 58 Northern Binocular Highlight Treasures in Cass "Seronik, Gary" 2008 12 59 Suburban Star Hop Aries and Beyond "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2008 12 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky Chart "Bryant, Greg" 2008 12 62 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Close Encounters "Schaaf, Fred" 2008 12 67 Celestial Calendar Europe's Occultation of Venus "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 12 68 Celestial Calendar Pleiades Occultation 2008 12 68 Celestial Calendar Bright Peak for Chi Cygni? 2008 12 68 Celestial Calendar Moonlight Geminids 2008 12 69 Celestial Calendar More Asteroid Occultations "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 12 71 Exploring the Moon What the Astronauts Saw "Wood, Charles A." 2008 12 74 Feature The Great Total Eclipse of 2009 "Espenak, Fred" "Anderson, Jay" 2008 12 79 Deep-Sky Wonders The Darkling Fish "French, Sue" 2008 12 85 Rambling Through the Skies Voice in the Wilderness "Krupp, E. C." 2008 12 89 Books & Beyond "The International Atlas of Lunar Exploration, by Philip J. Stooke" "Robertson, Donald F." 2008 12 89 Books & Beyond "Titan Unveiled, by Ralph Lorenz and Jacqueline Mitton" "Tytell, David" 2008 12 90 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Hubble, by David DeVorkin and Robert W. Smith" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2008 12 90 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: The Sun and the Moon, by Matthew Goodman" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2008 12 90 Books & Beyond "Digital Astrophotography, by Stefan Seip" "Aguirre, Edwin L." 2008 12 92 Hobby Q&A How many stars are discretely visible to the unaided eye at one time on a dark night? "Flanders, Tony" 2008 12 92 Hobby Q&A How can the Gaia spacecraft measure star positions to 7 microarcseconds? "Sinnott, Roger W." 2008 12 92 Hobby Q&A What's the greatest distance at which it is practical to detect extrasolar planets? "Naeye, Robert" 2008 12 93 Hobby Q&A Fast Fact: Largest Solar-System Model on Earth "MacRobert, Alan M." 2008 12 94 Telescope Workshop A Single-Strut Wonderscope "Seronik, Gary" 2008 12 96 Feature Data Mining for Astro-Gold "Mortfield, Paul" 2008 12 100 Gallery "Diamond Rings of August 1, 2008, Total Solar Eclipse" "Tuner, Nick" 2008 12 100 Gallery "August 16, 2008, Partial Lunar Eclipse" "Ayiomamitis, Anthony" 2008 12 101 Gallery Milky Way Above Mitikas Peak on Mount Olympus "Athanasiadis, Tilemachos" 2008 12 102 Gallery "August 1, 2008, Total Solar Eclipse" "Druckmuller, Miloslav" 2008 12 102 Gallery Bubble-like Nebula in Cygnus "Quattrocchi, Keith B." 2008 12 103 Gallery "NGC 6960, Veil Nebula" "Mortfield, Paul" 2008 12 103 Gallery International Space Station "Boudreau, John" 2008 12 112 Focal Point Misinterpreting the Magi "Molnar, Michael R." 2009 1 8 Spectrum IYA: A Call to Action! "Naeye, Robert" 2009 1 10 Letters "Exceptions, Exceptions" "Jackson, Pete" 2009 1 10 Letters Planetary Preferences "Knecht, Dan" 2009 1 10 Letters Amateur Showcase at NASA "Wolfe, Ted" 2009 1 10 Letters What's That Scope? "Gillespie, Guy" 2009 1 12 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2009 1 15 News Notes Is This an Alien Planet? 2009 1 15 News Notes "Gamma-Ray-Only Pulsar, A" 2009 1 15 News Notes Going With a Cosmic Flow? 2009 1 15 News Notes "New Face of Mercury, The" 2009 1 16 News Notes Saturn's Southern Swirl 2009 1 16 News Notes Opportunity's Long Dash 2009 1 16 News Notes "Shape of the Sun, The" 2009 1 16 News Notes "Deep (Impact) Mystery, A" 2009 1 16 News Notes Haumea and a Dwarf-Planet Name Game 2009 1 16 News Notes "Very Loopy Trans-Neptunian Object, A" 2009 1 18 Mission Update MAVEN and Mars's Dwindling Atmosphere "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 1 18 Mission Update Mars Science Laboratory: Landing Sites "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 1 18 News Notes Little Asteroid Makes a Big Splash 2009 1 21 Cosmic Relief "Through the Glass, Darkly?" "Grinspoon, David" 2009 1 28 Feature "Race to Find Alien Earths, The" "Carlisle, Camille M." 2009 1 34 Feature "Brightest Burst, The" "Fox, Derek" "Racusin, Judith" 2009 1 42 Feature Hot Products for 2009 2009 1 51 Books & Beyond "People and the Sky, by Anthony Aveni" "Birriel, Jennifer" 2009 1 51 Books & Beyond "Death from the Skies, by Philip Plait" "Bobra, Monica" 2009 1 52 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Cosmos in the Classroom 2007, by Andrew Fraknoi, ed." "Goldman, Stuart J." 2009 1 52 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Cosmic Imagery, by John D. Barrow" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2009 1 52 Books & Beyond "The Oxford Companion to Cosmology, by Andrew Liddle and Jon Loveday" "Carlisle, Camille M." 2009 1 54 Sky at a Glance Cold Fire "Klensch, Michael" 2009 1 55 Sky at a Glance January 2009 Sky at a Glance 2009 1 56 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Ringing in the New Year "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 1 57 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2009 1 58 Northern Binocular Highlight Touring Clusterland "Seronik, Gary" 2009 1 59 Suburban Star Hop Associate with Perseus "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2009 1 61 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2009 1 62 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" How Brightly Shines the Evenstar "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 1 64 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Planetary Almanac 2009 1 67 Exploring the Moon Revelations in a Shallow Sea "Wood, Charles A." 2009 1 71 Celestial Calendar The Peekaboo Quadrantids "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 1 72 Celestial Calendar Lunar Occultation Highlights for 2009 "Dunham, David W." 2009 1 74 Celestial Calendar Indian Ocean Annular Eclipse 2009 1 77 Deep-Sky Wonders "Segment of Perseus, The" "French, Sue" 2009 1 82 Feature "Year to Celebrate Astronomy, The" "Cesarsky, Catherine" "Russo, Pedro" "Christensen, Lars Lindberg" 2009 1 85 Feature Box: The American Effort "Isbell, Douglas" 2009 1 89 Telescope Workshop Pushing Glass "Seronik, Gary" 2009 1 92 Feature Galaxy Archaeology with Amateurs "Martinez-Delgado, David" "GaBany, R. Jay " 2009 1 100 Gallery Wind Farm in Oregon at Night "Andreasen, Larry" 2009 1 100 Gallery NGC 7023 in Cepheus "Wood, Kent" 2009 1 101 Gallery Milky Way as Waterfall "Andreasen, Larry" 2009 1 102 Gallery "Double Corona at Sunset, Lac Seul, Ontario" "Stankiewicz, Rick" 2009 1 102 Gallery Rho Ophiuchi "Noble, John" 2009 1 112 Focal Point Prized Lunar Mystique "Cokinos, Christopher" 2009 2 8 Spectrum Has S&T Been Dumbed Down? "Naeye, Robert" 2009 2 10 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2009 2 10 Letters Historic Sketch Found "Hollberg, Jay B." 2009 2 12 Letters Scope Pride - II "Ryan, Dan" 2009 2 12 Letters Scope Pride - I "Larcombe, Dennis" 2009 2 14 News Notes Imaging Planets . . . This Time for Sure 2009 2 14 News Notes New Close-ups of Enceladus 2009 2 15 Mission Update XMM-Newton Dodges a Bullet "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 2 15 Mission Update Chandrayaan-1 at the Moon "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 2 15 Mission Update iBEX Begins Work "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 2 16 News Notes Clear Sky Forecasts for All 2009 2 16 News Notes Telescope Mirrors of Antifreeze? 2009 2 16 News Notes Hubble Repair Mission Reset 2009 2 16 News Notes "Mars Phoenix Chills Out, Mission Ends" 2009 2 20 Cosmic Relief Living Dangerously "Grinspoon, David" 2009 2 22 Feature Box: Is Dark Energy Bad for Astronomy? "Naeye, Robert" 2009 2 22 Feature Going Over the Dark Side "Panek, Richard" 2009 2 29 Feature "Moon, the Telescope, and the Birth of the Modern World, The" "Maran, Stephen P." "Marschall, Laurence A." 2009 2 30 Feature Box: What Galileo Really Saw "Fedeli, Damiano" 2009 2 34 S&T Test Report Powerful Performer: Orion's StarShoot Pro "Horne, Johnny" 2009 2 38 S&T Test Report Quick Look: Obsession's 12 1/2-inch Truss-tube Dob "Seronik, Gary" 2009 2 41 New Product Showcase Diffraction Limited Maxlm DL Version 5 2009 2 41 New Product Showcase Sky Instruments' Twist-Lock Eyepiece Adapter 2009 2 41 New Product Showcase Sky-Watcher U.S.A.'s SW 90Mak MultiMount 2009 2 43 Books & Beyond "Black Hole War, by Leonard Susskind" "Gay, Pamela L." 2009 2 43 Books & Beyond "Passion for Mars, by Andrew Chaikin" "Garfinkle, Robert A." 2009 2 44 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Pluto Files, by Neil deGrasse Tyson" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2009 2 44 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Mars 3-D, by Jim Bell" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2009 2 44 Books & Beyond "Brightest Stars, by Fred Schaaf" "Deans, Paul" 2009 2 46 Sky at a Glance Twilight Tranquility "Tafreshi, Babak A." 2009 2 47 Sky at a Glance February 2009 Sky at a Glance 2009 2 48 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky 2009 2 49 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2009 2 50 Northern Binocular Highlight "Cetus Seyfert, The" "Seronik, Gary" 2009 2 51 Suburban Star Hop Crusing the Orion Beltway "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2009 2 53 Southern Hemisphere's Sky Southern Hemisphere's Sky "Bryant, Greg" 2009 2 54 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" "Planets of Dusk, Night, and Dawn" "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 2 56 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Planetary Almanac 2009 2 59 Exploring the Moon "Ghosts of Mare Nubium, The" "Wood, Charles A." 2009 2 62 Feature Living with Light Pollution "Flanders, Tony" 2009 2 68 Celestial Calendar Epsilon Aurigae Poised on the Brink "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 2 72 Celestial Calendar "Moon and the Pleiades, The" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 2 75 Deep-Sky Wonders Copeland's Lost Trigon "French, Sue" 2009 2 81 Hobby Q&A Has Canon or any other maker come out with a replacement for its 20Da camera? "Walker, Sean" 2009 2 81 Hobby Q&A What are the most common kind of photons in the universe? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 2 81 Hobby Q&A Why don't globular star clusters collapse in on themselves? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 2 83 Telescope Workshop A Slippery Slope "Seronik, Gary" 2009 2 84 Gallery First-Quarter Moon "Colognato, Emanuele" 2009 2 84 Gallery Moondogs and Moon Pillar over Yukon "Cartier, David" 2009 2 85 Gallery "Pleaides, M45" "Hammonds, Scott" 2009 2 86 Gallery Trifid Nebula (M20) and M21 "Villadsen, Peter" 2009 2 86 Gallery Strange Clouds over Michigan "Yaroch, Ronald" 2009 2 87 Gallery "NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula" "Reid, Michael" 2009 2 87 Gallery Big and Little Dippers over Great Wall "Chen, P. K." 2009 2 96 Focal Point Talking with Civilians "Shuster, Joe" 2009 3 8 Spectrum Humans to the Moon? "Naeye, Robert" 2009 3 10 Letters Star of Controversy - II "Jenkins, Rod" 2009 3 10 Letters Star of Controversy - I "Adair, Aaron" 2009 3 10 Letters Pluto: When Will It End? - III "Perry, Phil" 2009 3 10 Letters Pluto: When Will It End? - II "Krieger, Jeffrey B." 2009 3 10 Letters Pluto: When Will It End? - I "Honnecke, Marcus" 2009 3 10 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2009 3 16 News Notes Betelgeuse Making Waves 2009 3 16 News Notes Watching Tycho's Supernova 2009 3 17 News Notes Mineral Evolution on a Living Planet 2009 3 17 News Notes Martian Mega-Rover Delayed 2009 3 17 News Notes ...and Buried Glaciers Hidden in Plain Sight 2009 3 17 News Notes Mars's Oceanic Past... 2009 3 17 News Notes A Very Oddball Comet 2009 3 18 News Notes New Eyes on the Cosmic-Ray Sky 2009 3 18 Mission Update HST Servicing Mission "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 3 18 Mission Update Dawn on Track to Asteroids "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 3 18 Mission Update Juno: Return to Jupiter "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 3 20 Cosmic Relief This is Not a Planet? "Grinspoon, David" 2009 3 22 Feature Exoplanets Imaged At Last "Naeye, Robert" 2009 3 26 Feature Mercury Gets a Second Look "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2009 3 30 Feature Solar Impact "Grifantini, Kristina" 2009 3 36 S&T Test Report TMB-92 Refractor "Dyer, Alan" 2009 3 38 S&T Test Report Quick Look: Meade's LightSwitch Technology "di Cicco, Dennis" 2009 3 40 New Product Showcase Vixen Optics Foresta Binoculars 2009 3 40 New Product Showcase Celestron CGEM German Equatorial Mount 2009 3 40 New Product Showcase Universal Astronomics EasyView Arm 2009 3 42 Sky at a Glance "Conjunction, with Ducks" "Walker, Sean" 2009 3 43 Sky at a Glance March 2009 Sky at a Glance 2009 3 44 Northern Hemisphere's Sky The Best of March "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 3 45 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2009 3 46 Northern Binocular Highlight Orion Extras "Seronik, Gary" 2009 3 47 Suburban Star Hop "Chilly Face in Space, A" "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2009 3 50 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" All Eyes on Venus and Saturn "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 3 52 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Planetary Almanac 2009 3 55 Exploring the Moon Filling Up Copernicus "Wood, Charles A." 2009 3 58 Celestial Calendar Venus at Its 8-Year Best "Flanders, Tony" 2009 3 60 Celestial Calendar Binocular Comet Lulin "Bryant, Greg" 2009 3 60 Celestial Calendar Our Best-Ever Opposition of Ceres "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 3 63 Deep-Sky Wonders In Starry Skies "French, Sue" 2009 3 66 Books & Beyond "Unmasking Europa, by Richard Greenberg" "Irion, Robert" 2009 3 66 Books & Beyond "Observing the Night Sky With Binoculars, by Stephen James O'Mearaa" "Flanders, Tony" 2009 3 68 Feature Abraham Lincoln's Celestial Connections "Olson, Donald W." "Jasinski, Laurie E." 2009 3 72 Telescope Workshop A Travelscope Challenge "Seronik, Gary" 2009 3 74 Astrophotography Lucky Deep-Sky Imaging "Serpell, Ricardo" "Verschatse, Daniel" 2009 3 77 Astrophotography Box: Lucky Imaging with Intensified Video "Moore, Stan" "Schillings, Benoit" 2009 3 78 Gallery M33 "Paquette, Andre" 2009 3 79 Gallery Bipolar Nebula NGC 6164/6165 in Norma "Crouch, Steve" 2009 3 79 Gallery Sunset Colors from Volcano Kasatochi "Zubenel, Doug" 2009 3 80 Gallery Cassiopeia H-Alpha Nebulosity "Hetlage, Chris" 2009 3 88 Focal Point "Universe Factory, The" "Reade, Gordon" 2009 4 8 Spectrum Changes to S&T "Naeye, Robert" 2009 4 10 Letters "75, 50 & 25 Years Ago" "Robinson, Leif J." 2009 4 10 Letters Depth Perception "Heydon, Alex" 2009 4 10 Letters Lights Out! "Guzauskas, Bob" 2009 4 10 Letters Before Galileo "Sutherland, Paul" 2009 4 12 Letters Cosmic Fictionalization? "Bashian, Ronald S." 2009 4 16 News Notes Dark Energy: Real and Overwhelming 2009 4 16 News Notes New Cosmic Background Found 2009 4 17 Mission Update Stardust Revived "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 4 17 Mission Update J-MAPS: Next Step for Astrometry "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 4 17 News Notes Surprising Trove of Gamma-Ray Pulsars 2009 4 17 News Notes "Milky Way Doubles its Mass, The" 2009 4 18 News Notes Not So Many Brown Dwarfs 2009 4 18 News Notes Exoplanets in the Same Plane 2009 4 18 News Notes Fast-Forming Planets 2009 4 18 News Notes Two-Part Supernova 2009 4 20 Cosmic Relief Mars: Feel the Vibe "Grinspoon, David" 2009 4 22 Feature Shedding New Light on Dark Matter "Schilling, Govert" 2009 4 26 Feature Cosmic Cataclysms "Zimmerman, Robert" 2009 4 34 S&T Test Report FLI MicroLine ML8300 "Walker, Sean" 2009 4 38 S&T Test Report TheSkyX Student Edition "Heafner, Joe" 2009 4 40 Books & Beyond "Universe in a Mirror, by Robert Zimmerman" "Gay, Pamela L." 2009 4 40 Books & Beyond "Georgian Star, by Michael D. Lemonick" "Garfinkle, Robert A." 2009 4 41 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Planetology, by Tom Jones and Ellen Stofan" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2009 4 41 Books & Beyond "Briefly Noted: Chosing and Using a New CAT, by Rod Mollise" "Goldman, Stuart J." 2009 4 41 Books & Beyond "Backyard Astronomer's Guide, Third Edition, by Terence Dickinson and Alan Dyer" "Walker, Sean" 2009 4 42 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Patterns in the Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 4 43 Sky at a Glance Sky at a Glance April 2009 2009 4 44 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere Sky Chart 2009 4 45 Northern Binocular Highlight M48 in the Desert "Seronik, Gary" 2009 4 46 Planetary Almanac Planetary Almanac 2009 4 48 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Five Planets Grace the Sky "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 4 50 Exploring the Moon Naming Names "Wood, Charles A." 2009 4 53 Celestial Calendar Challenges on Saturn "Vandebergh, Ralf" 2009 4 54 Celestial Calendar "Mimas Challenge, The" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 4 55 Celestial Calendar Titan and Its Shadow 2009 4 56 Celestial Calendar Crescent Moon Occults Venus 2009 4 58 Suburban Star Hop Two-Thirds of a Trio "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2009 4 61 Deep-Sky Wonders "Dry Bear, The" "French, Sue" 2009 4 66 Feature Imaging the Orion-Eridanus Superbubble "Walker, Sean" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2009 4 72 Feature "Worldwide Astronomy Marathon, A" "Simmons, Mike" 2009 4 74 Telescope Workshop "Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3..." "Seronik, Gary" 2009 4 76 Gallery Keyhole Nebula in NGC 3324 "Serpell, Ricardo" 2009 4 76 Gallery "Venus, Jupiter, and Moon over L.A." "Jurasevich, David" 2009 4 77 Gallery "Flaming Star Nebula, IC 410" "Tucker, Scott" "Terry, Dale" 2009 4 77 Gallery "Bernard's Galaxy, NGC 6822" "Harrison, Tom" 2009 4 78 Gallery "Autumn Conjunction, Take 2" "Willmarth, Daryl" 2009 4 78 Gallery "Double Cluster, NGC 869 and 884" "Ritter, Roth" 2009 4 86 Focal Point Space on the Plane "Williams, Darren" 2009 5 8 Spectrum One Man's Battle Against Light Pollution "Naeye, Robert" 2009 5 10 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2009 5 10 Letters Dumbed Down or Not?-I "Campbell, Joseph" 2009 5 10 Letters Quirk of Nature "Becker, Hal Byron" 2009 5 10 Letters Cosmic Distance Matters "Beyvers, Gottfried" 2009 5 10 Letters Makes You Think "Weitz, Stephen L." 2009 5 12 Letters Dumbed Down or Not?-IV "Galle, John" 2009 5 12 Letters Dumbed Down or Not?-III "Cabrera, Blas" 2009 5 12 Letters Dumbed Down or Not?-II "Hull, Tony" 2009 5 14 Letters Dumbed Down or Not?-VIII "Townsend, Gene" 2009 5 14 Letters Dumbed Down or Not?-VII "Davis, Bob" 2009 5 14 Letters Dumbed Down or Not?-VI "Taylor, Kirk" 2009 5 14 Letters Dumbed Down or Not?-V "Horwitz, Richard" 2009 5 16 News Notes Exoplanet Hothead 2009 5 16 News Notes New Binary Black Hole? 2009 5 16 News Notes "Black Holes First, Galaxies Second" 2009 5 18 News Notes Pro-Am Achievement Award 2009 5 18 News Notes Hayabusa Heads Home 2009 5 18 News Notes Chinese Astronomers Think Big 2009 5 18 News Notes News from Titan's Lakes 2009 5 20 Mission Update Koronas-Foton: From Russia to Watch the Sun "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 5 20 Mission Update Spirit and Opportunity "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 5 22 Cosmic Relief Monkeying with the World "Grinspoon, David" 2009 5 24 Feature Planck Readies to Dissect the Big Bang "Dambeck, Thorsten" 2009 5 30 Feature "1st Earth-Size Exoplanet, The" "Tingley, Brandon" 2009 5 34 S&T Test Report Sky-Watcher 12-inch Truss-Tube Dob "Seronik, Gary" 2009 5 37 S&T Test Report Quick Look: Garrett Optical Signature 20x110 Binoculars "di Cicco, Dennis" 2009 5 38 New Product Showcase Apogee Instruments Alta U8300 2009 5 38 New Product Showcase Howie Glatter tuBlug collimation tool 2009 5 38 New Product Showcase Celestron CGE Pro Mount 2009 5 40 Books & Beyond "Guide to Observing Meteors, by David Levy" "Deans, Paul" 2009 5 40 Books & Beyond "400 Years of the Telescope, by Kris Koenig" "Walker, Sean" 2009 5 42 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Corvus Takes Center Stage "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 5 42A Sky at a Glance Sky at a Glance May 2009 2009 5 42B Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere Sky Chart 2009 5 42C Northern Binocular Highlight Difficult Dipper Finds "Seronik, Gary" 2009 5 42D Planetary Almanac Planetary Almanac 2009 5 44 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" "All-Planet Month, An" "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 5 46 Celestial Calendar Two Asteroid Sisters "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 5 48 Deep-Sky Wonders As the Crow Flies "French, Sue" 2009 5 52 Going Deep Probing NGC 5746 "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2009 5 54 Astronomy Online Excuse Me While I Touch the Sky "Goldman, Stuart J." 2009 5 56 Telescope Workshop Making a Good Dob Better "Seronik, Gary" 2009 5 58 Feature "Very Long Mystery of Epsilon Aurigae, The" "Stencel, Robert E." 2009 5 63 Feature Box: A Variable Star for Everyone "Price, Aaron" 2009 5 64 Feature "Day the Moon Stood Still, The" "Morris, L. Robert" 2009 5 67 Feature "Box: Making of a Painting, The" "Connolly, Don" "Morris, L. Robert" 2009 5 70 Hobby Q&A Ephemeral Constellations "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 5 70 Hobby Q&A Naked-eye Temperature Extremes "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 5 72 Gallery "Perseus Galaxy Cluster, NGC 1275" "Wood, Kent" 2009 5 72 Gallery "Lower's Nebula, Sharpless 2-261" "Cook, Chris" 2009 5 73 Gallery NGC 2170 Nebula "Davis, Thomas V." 2009 5 73 Gallery Mountaintop Iridescence "Ossola, Alberto" 2009 5 74 Gallery Descending Annular Eclipse "Lok, Gradient" 2009 5 74 Gallery Messier 3 "Kerschhuber, Gunter" 2009 5 82 Focal Point "Gravity of Law, The" "Freedman, Ian" 2009 6 8 Spectrum Where Astronomy Is Alive and Well "Naeye, Robert" 2009 6 10 Letters Lincoln's Moon "Gingrich, Mark" 2009 6 10 Letters Sun and Global Warming - I "Mihelich, Edward D." 2009 6 10 Letters Sun and Global Warming - II "Gordon, Robert W." 2009 6 12 Letters Divided American Dreams - I "Duval, Andre" 2009 6 12 Letters Divided American Dreams - II "Schreiner, Rick" 2009 6 12 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2009 6 14 News Notes Gamma-Ray Burst Hints of Space-time Foam 2009 6 14 News Notes Lost Siblings of the Sun 2009 6 15 News Notes A Sun-Behind-Earth Diamond Ring 2009 6 15 News Notes Saturn's Newest Moon is a Ringer 2009 6 15 News Notes Did the Moon Do a Face Flip? 2009 6 15 News Notes "Moon's Thick Far Side, The" 2009 6 15 News Notes Stolen Meteorite Found After 41 Years 2009 6 16 Mission Update The Life and Death of Chang'e 1 "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 6 16 Mission Update JWST Under Cosntruction "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 6 18 Cosmic Relief "Earth-Size World Next Door, The" "Grinspoon, David" 2009 6 20 Feature Lunar Fireworks "Redfern, Greg" 2009 6 20 Feature Box: Will Amateurs See It? "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2009 6 26 Feature Ice Worlds of the Ringed Planet "Lakdawalla, Emily" 2009 6 36 S&T Test Report "CCDelightful QSI 540wsg, The" "Fienberg, Richard Tresch" 2009 6 40 New Product Showcase "SBIG SG-4 Stand-Alone ""Smart"" Autoguider" 2009 6 40 New Product Showcase Farpoint Astronomical Research dovetail mounting accessories 2009 6 40 New Product Showcase iOptron CubePro 2009 6 41 New Product Showcase Quantum Scientific Imaging QSI 583 2009 6 41 New Product Showcase Skyhound SkyTools 3 2009 6 41 New Product Showcase Sky-Watcher 10-Inch Go To 2009 6 42 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Stars for the People! "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 6 43 Sky at a Glance Sky at a Glance June 2009 2009 6 44 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere Sky Chart 2009 6 45 Northern Binocular Highlight Spring Globular M3 "Seronik, Gary" 2009 6 46 Planetary Almanac Planetary Almanac 2009 6 48 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" "Month for Early Risers, A" "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 6 50 Exploring the Moon "Ends of the Moon, The" "Wood, Charles A." 2009 6 52 Celestial Calendar Nearly-Full Moon Hides Antares "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 6 53 Celestial Calendar Toughening Pluto Challenge "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 6 54 Celestial Calendar Porrima Pulls Apart "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 6 55 Deep-Sky Wonders Whorls of Stars "French, Sue" 2009 6 59 Books & Beyond "Guidebook for the Scientific Traveler, by Duane S. Nickell" "Birriel, Jennifer" 2009 6 59 Books & Beyond "Let There Be Night, by Paul Bogard" "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2009 6 60 Books & Beyond "Stargazing Basics, by Paul E. Kinzer" "Garfinkle, Robert A." 2009 6 62 Telescope Workshop "Bigger, Faster, Better?" "Seronik, Gary" 2009 6 64 Feature Great Imaging Tools for Eclipse Chasers "Walker, Sean" 2009 6 70 Feature Herald of the Summer Milky Way "Flanders, Tony" 2009 6 76 Gallery Waning Crescent Moon and Jupiter "Chin, Wei Loon" 2009 6 76 Gallery Titan's shadow on Saturn "Go, Christopher" 2009 6 77 Gallery Nebula Sharpless 2-160 in Cepheus "Martin, Mel" 2009 6 78 Gallery "NGC 4712, NGC 4725, and NGC 4747" "Good, Daniel C." 2009 6 79 Gallery "Moon's craters Clavius, Moretus, and Maginus" "Byerly, Max" 2009 6 79 Gallery Comet Lulin C/2007 N3 "Jones, Phil" 2009 6 86 Focal Point Who Will Be Next on the Moon? "Wolfe, Robert" 2009 7 8 Spectrum Visit This Exhibit! "Naeye, Robert" 2009 7 10 Letters Neighborhood Activism "Cowan, Alton" 2009 7 10 Letters Hottest Mix-Up "Zell, Mark" 2009 7 10 Letters Cosmic Fictionalication: Part II - A "Needham, Dr. Alan" 2009 7 10 Letters Cosmic Fictionalication: Part II - B "Privett, Grant" 2009 7 10 Letters Cosmic Fictionalication: Part II - C "Mulders, Barry" 2009 7 12 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2009 7 14 News Notes "Sum of All Starlight, The" 2009 7 14 News Notes Sculpting the Asteroid Belt 2009 7 16 News Notes Best-Yet Southern Galaxy Survey 2009 7 16 News Notes Orbiting Pulsars @ Home 2009 7 16 News Notes Very Fresh Martian Ice Craters 2009 7 16 News Notes Fomalhaut's Disk and Spin 2009 7 18 Mission Update Kepler Opens Up "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 7 18 Mission Update Chandra Going Strong "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 7 20 Cosmic Relief "My God, It's Full of Moonlets!" "Grinspoon, David" 2009 7 22 Feature Uncovering Mars's Secret Past "Bell, Jim" 2009 7 28 Feature Box: Water Droplets on Mars? "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2009 7 30 Feature Searching for Exoplanet Moons "Kipping, David" 2009 7 34 S&T Test Report "Smart 12-inch Dob, A" "Seronik, Gary" 2009 7 40 New Product Showcase Celestron FirstScope Telescope 2009 7 40 New Product Showcase Orion StarShoot Solitaire AutoGuider 2009 7 40 New Product Showcase "Star Vistas, by Greg Parker and Noel Carboni" 2009 7 41 New Product Showcase "Prelude Lake, by Bryan Rich White" 2009 7 41 New Product Showcase "The Moon that Wasn't, by Helge Kragh" 2009 7 41 New Product Showcase Explore Scientific 80-mm f/6 Air-Spaced Triplet ED Apochromatic Refractor 2009 7 42 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Highway in the Heavens "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 7 43 Sky at a Glance Sky at a Glance July 2009 2009 7 44 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere Sky Chart 2009 7 45 Northern Binocular Highlight Antares Globulars "Seronik, Gary" 2009 7 46 Planetary Almanac Planetary Almanac 2009 7 48 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Mismatched Planetary Pairs "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 7 51 Celestial Calendar Moons in Each Others' Way "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 7 53 Celestial Calendar "China-Pacific Solar Eclipse, The" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 7 57 Deep-Sky Wonders Magical Things "French, Sue" 2009 7 61 Going Deep "Herculean Galaxy Cluster, A" "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2009 7 64 Feature Who Invented the Telescope? "Van Helden, Albert" 2009 7 70 Telescope Workshop "Bigger, Faster, Better!" "Seronik, Gary" 2009 7 72 Feature Searching for Supernovae on a Shoestring "Tan, Thiam-Guan" 2009 7 76 Gallery "Messier 1, the Crab Nebula" "Schur, Chris" 2009 7 76 Gallery Lenticular Clouds over Mount Rainier "Dyer, Alan" 2009 7 77 Gallery "NGC 1499, the California Nebula" "Metsavainio, Jukka-Pekka" 2009 7 78 Gallery Mare Humboldtianum on Full Moon "Militello, Jim" 2009 7 78 Gallery IC 2948 in Carina "Pugh, Martin" 2009 7 86 Focal Point "Winding Road, A" "Barry, Richard K." 2009 8 8 Spectrum Science Journalism in Free Fall "Naeye, Robert" 2009 8 10 Letters "United Front, A" "Finker, Earl" 2009 8 10 Letters "Mimas, Finally!" "Whitman, Alan" 2009 8 12 Letters In Praise of Hubble "Lyell, Gordon" 2009 8 12 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2009 8 14 News Notes "Farthest Thing Ever Seen, The" 2009 8 14 News Notes Himiko: A Primodrial Blob Lights Up 2009 8 14 News Notes Bantamweight Planet 2009 8 16 News Notes Three Free-Floaters 2009 8 16 News Notes What's Going on in Enceladus? 2009 8 16 Mission Update Ulysses Takes Its Last Looks at the Sun "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 8 18 News Notes More of Mercury Revealed 2009 8 19 Mission Update """Space Tornado"" Auroras" 2009 8 19 Mission Update Dunlap Observatory Saved 2009 8 20 Cosmic Relief To Explore the Same Old New Worlds "Grinspoon, David" 2009 8 22 Feature Catch a Fallen Star "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2009 8 26 Feature What's Wrong With Our Sun? "Zimmerman, Robert" 2009 8 30 Feature Saving the Cincinnati Observatory "Regas, Dean" 2009 8 30 Feature Box: The Future of the Maria Mitchell Observatory "Strelinitski, Vladimir" "Walker, Gary" 2009 8 36 Feature Astronomical Extravaganza "di Cicco, Dennis" "Walker, Sean" 2009 8 40 New Product Showcase Denkmeier Optical Spectrum 60 2009 8 40 New Product Showcase Astronomy Technologies 2-inch Astro-Tech field flattener 2009 8 40 New Product Showcase Explore Scientific 14-mm 100 Series Nitrogen-Purged Waterproof Eyepiece 2009 8 40 New Product Showcase Alnitak Astrosystems Flip-Flat 2009 8 41 New Product Showcase Vixen Optics Gaiax Mount 2009 8 41 New Product Showcase "Star Testing Astronomical Telescopes, by Harold Richard Suiter" 2009 8 41 New Product Showcase APM America Planisphere Watch 2009 8 41 New Product Showcase Tele Vue 10-mm Ethos 2009 8 42 Northern Hemisphere's Sky River of Light "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 8 43 Sky at a Glance Sky at a Glance August 2009 2009 8 44 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2009 8 45 Northern Binocular Highlight "Gorgeous Duo, A" "Seronik, Gary" 2009 8 46 Planetary Almanac Planetary Almanac 2009 8 48 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" "Month for Giants, A" "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 8 51 Exploring the Moon Shallow Surprises "Wood, Charles A." 2009 8 55 Celestial Calendar Moonlit Perseid Meteors "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 8 55 Celestial Calendar Jupiter To Occult a Star "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 8 56 Celestial Calendar U Scorpii About to Go Nova? "Schaefer, Bradley" 2009 8 59 Deep-Sky Wonders "Glorious Eagle, The" "French, Sue" 2009 8 62 Telescope Workshop Travelscope Challenge "Seronik, Gary" 2009 8 64 Astro Q&A Why is one of the three almost always hard to resolve from another in a triple star? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 8 66 Feature Moving Pictures "Comolli, Lorenzo" "Gambaro, Alessandro" 2009 8 70 Feature Guarded Observations in Tanzania "Peterson, Brian" 2009 8 74 Feature "World-wide Party, The" "Simmons, Mike" 2009 8 76 Gallery Venus and Thin Crescent Moon "O'Brien, Darien" 2009 8 76 Gallery "NGC 5128, Centaurus A" "Macica, Andrew F." 2009 8 77 Gallery RCW 32 and Dark Nebulae in Vela "Davis, Thomas V." 2009 8 78 Gallery Crescent Moon and Crescent Venus Closeup "Smallwood, James A." 2009 8 78 Gallery M82 "Jurasevich, David" 2009 8 78 Gallery Ophiuchus rising over Painted Hills "Andreasen, Larry" 2009 8 79 Gallery "NGC 4038 and 4039, the Antennae" "Harrison, Tom" 2009 8 86 Focal Point Keeping Science Safe "Wheeler, J. Craig, Neal J. Evans II, and Mary Kay Hemenway" 2009 9 6 Spectrum Web Astro: Pros & Cons "Naeye, Robert" 2009 9 8 Letters Where Should Hubble be Sent? "Tucker, Joe" 2009 9 8 Letters Spotting Pluto "Kilburn, Kevin" 2009 9 8 Letters More Readers Sound Off: USA vs. China? - I "Cox, Bob" 2009 9 8 Letters More Readers Sound Off: USA vs. China? - II "Reilly, Doug" 2009 9 10 Letters Cosmology Philosophy "Barros, Phillip" 2009 9 10 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2009 9 12 News Notes Explaining Hanny's Voorwerp 2009 9 12 News Notes Why You Missed the Supernova in M82 2009 9 12 News Notes Do Spots Blanket the Mystery Brown Dwarf? 2009 9 14 News Notes Spica: Micro-Eclipsing Binary 2009 9 14 News Notes "Exoplanet by Astrometry, An" 2009 9 14 News Notes "Astronomical Unit Grows, The" 2009 9 16 News Notes Exoplanet Mapping Tested on Earth 2009 9 16 Mission Update Hubble Update "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 9 16 Mission Update Spitzer Enters Warm Phase "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 9 18 Cosmic Relief "Back to the Future, This Time to Stay" "Grinspoon, David" 2009 9 20 Feature Ice Age Impact "Semeniuk, Ivan" 2009 9 22 Feature Box: Do Impacts Cause All Mass Extinctions? "Hirn, Johannes" 2009 9 26 Feature Smashing the Distance Record "Berger, Edo" 2009 9 30 Feature "Cosmologist Left Behind, The" "Bartusiak, Marcia" 2009 9 30 Feature Box: The Cosmos Under the Microscope "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 9 36 S&T Test Report "New Name in Apos, A: The AT106 Refractor" "Dyer, Alan" 2009 9 40 New Product Showcase "Astro-Physics 3600GTO German Equatorial Mount ""el Capitan""" 2009 9 40 New Product Showcase Hubble 5-star Artificial Star 2009 9 40 New Product Showcase Starmap and Starmap Pro apps 2009 9 42 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Between the Lovers "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 9 43 Sky at a Glance Sky at a Glance September 2009 2009 9 44 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2009 9 45 Northern Binocular Highlight Milky Way Messiers "Seronik, Gary" 2009 9 46 Planetary Almanac Planetary Almanac 2009 9 48 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Conspicuous Absence "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 9 51 Exploring the Moon Breaking Ground "Wood, Charles A." 2009 9 55 Celestial Calendar "Uranus, Neptune … and Juno?" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 9 56 Celestial Calendar And Asteroid 3! "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 9 59 Deep-Sky Wonders Sagittarius Star Cities "French, Sue" 2009 9 64 Going Deep Inside the Cat's Eye "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2009 9 66 Telescope Workshop Travelscope Challenge Winner "Seronik, Gary" 2009 9 68 Books & Beyond "Cambridge Double Star Atlas, by James Mullaney and Wil Tirion" "Flanders, Tony" 2009 9 70 Astro Q&A "What is the ""dust"" between stars?" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 9 70 Astro Q&A What's the best equipment for entry-level astrophotography? "Walker, Sean" 2009 9 72 Feature How Online Social Networks are Changing Backyard Astronomy "Kinoshita, Laura K." 2009 9 76 Gallery M106 in Canes Vanatici "Henry, Ed" 2009 9 76 Gallery Messier 13 in Hercules "Colognato, Emanuele" 2009 9 76 Gallery Ice halo and colorful coronae close to the Sun "Claro, Miguel" 2009 9 77 Gallery Orion region "Comolli, Lorenzo" 2009 9 78 Gallery Large Milky Way Mosaic Gendler 2009 9 86 Focal Point In Defense of the Cheap Scope "Schroeder, Paul" 2009 10 6 Spectrum President Obama: Give NASA a Vision! "Naeye, Robert" 2009 10 8 Letters Science Journalism in Free Fall -I "Warner, Brian D." 2009 10 8 Letters Science Journalism in Free Fall -II "Hazlet, Jr., John W." 2009 10 8 Letters Science Journalism in Free Fall - III "Wiener, M." 2009 10 8 Letters Reader Challenge! "Inglis, Dr. Michael" 2009 10 10 Letters Super-Early Reflectors? "Gainer, Michael" "Usher, Peter" 2009 10 10 Letters "75, 50 & 25 Years Ago" "Robinson, Leif J." 2009 10 12 News Notes How the Galaxies Got Their Sizes 2009 10 12 News Notes "Apollo Landers, The: Yep, Still There!" 2009 10 12 News Notes Amateur Method Nets Two Farthest Supernovae 2009 10 14 News Notes New Candidates for Midsize Black Holes 2009 10 14 News Notes Mapping Starspots by Exoplanet Transits 2009 10 14 News Notes Supernovae: Cosmic-Ray Superfactories 2009 10 14 News Notes "Enceladus: A Temporary ""Briny Deep""?" 2009 10 14 News Notes Einstein's Gravity Protects Earth 2009 10 16 Mission Update Ultraviolet and X-ray Vision "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 10 16 Mission Update Mini Updates "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 10 18 Cosmic Relief Too Many Moons "Grinspoon, David" 2009 10 20 Feature "New Habitable Zones, The" "Impey, Chris" 2009 10 26 Feature Prelude to Disaster "Starrfield, Sumner" "Bode, Mike" "O'Brien, Tim" 2009 10 32 Feature Become a Super Amateur "Zimmerman, Robert" 2009 10 32 Feature Box: A Young Amateur Co-Discovers a Strange Supernova "Daum, Valerie" 2009 10 38 S&T Test Report Sky-Watcher's Newest Apo Refractor "di Cicco, Dennis" 2009 10 40 S&T Test Report Quick Look: Celestron FirstScope "di Cicco, Dennis" 2009 10 42 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Walking the Galactic Line "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 10 43 Sky at a Glance Sky at a Glance October 2009 2009 10 44 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2009 10 45 Northern Binocular Highlight Two Sgr Globulars "Seronik, Gary" 2009 10 46 Planetary Almanac Planetary Almanac 2009 10 48 New Product Showcase Astrodon Photometrics Sloan Set 2009 10 48 New Product Showcase Starlight Xpress USB Filter Wheel 2009 10 48 New Product Showcase "Bosma Beta RE 3.15"" f/6.3 refractor" 2009 10 49 New Product Showcase iOptron Versa 108-mm ED Apo 2009 10 49 New Product Showcase Kendrick Astro Instruments Stargate Observer Tent 2009 10 49 New Product Showcase Focus-Mask Bahtinov mask 2009 10 49 New Product Showcase Atik Cameras 314L+ 2009 10 50 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" One Against Four "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 10 53 Exploring the Moon "Big Gamble, The" "Wood, Charles A." 2009 10 56 Celestial Calendar Jupiter's Moons Continue Their Mutual Events "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 10 56 Celestial Calendar Orionid Meteors "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 10 58 Celestial Calendar Algol Rising 2009 10 59 Celestial Calendar Moons of Uranus 2009 10 61 Deep-Sky Wonders Splashing Around the Dolphin "French, Sue" 2009 10 66 Telescope Workshop "Telescoping Truss Scope, A" "Seronik, Gary" 2009 10 68 Astro Q&A How can you tell if your mirror-cell design is correct? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 10 69 Astro Q&A Why does the Moon seem to rotate from north to south? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 10 70 Feature Imaging Elusive Mercury "Boudreau, John" 2009 10 72 Feature Box: Messenger & Memories "Dobbins, Thomas" 2009 10 76 Gallery Messier 104 "Mazlin, Steve" "Harvey, Jack" "Gilbert, Rick" "Verschatse, Daniel" 2009 10 76 Gallery Messier 13 in Hercules "Murphy, Stephane" 2009 10 77 Gallery Rho Ophiuchi "Janusz, Jim" 2009 10 78 Gallery van den Bergh 141 nebula "Mortfield, Paul" "Hepburn, Kerry-Ann Lecky" 2009 10 79 Gallery Noctilucent Clouds over Stonehenge "Privett, Grant J." 2009 10 79 Gallery Andromeda Galaxy "Hammonds, Scott" 2009 10 86 Focal Point How I Found a Supernova "Moore, Caroline" 2009 11 6 Spectrum Weather Gods Deliver a Miracle "Naeye, Robert" 2009 11 8 Letters Clubbers Rejoice & Reminisce "Smith, Bill R." 2009 11 10 Letters Spotting Dwarf Planets "Aggas, Steven" 2009 11 10 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2009 11 12 News Notes "Boiling, Bubbly Betelgeuse" 2009 11 12 News Notes "Exoplanets' ""Demolition Derby""" 2009 11 14 News Notes Phases of an Exoplanet 2009 11 14 News Notes Planetary Preemies 2009 11 14 News Notes Weird Brown-Dwarf Weather 2009 11 14 News Notes Tropical Storm on Titan 2009 11 16 News Notes Meteorite on Mars: A Wayback Machine 2009 11 16 Mission Update MAXI on the Space Station "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 11 16 Mission Update Japan's Venus Climate Orbiter 2009 11 18 Cosmic Relief Another Giant Leap "Grinspoon, David" 2009 11 22 Feature The Great 2012 Scare "Krupp, E. C." 2009 11 28 Feature Real Potential Disasters "Naeye, Robert" 2009 11 34 Feature Jupiter Takes a Hit "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2009 11 36 Feature Box: An Impact on Jupiter in 1917? "Dobbins, Thomas" 2009 11 38 Feature Box: Venus Gets a Spot "Beatty, J. Kelly" 2009 11 40 New Product Showcase Celestron EdgeHD Schmidt-Cassegrain series 2009 11 40 New Product Showcase iOptron 6-inch Maksutov-Cassegrain 2009 11 40 New Product Showcase Explore Scientific 20-mm 100 Series Nitrogen-Purged Waterproof Eyepiece 2009 11 42 Northern Hemisphere's Sky "Prime of Pegasus, The" "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 11 43 Sky at a Glance Sky at a Glance November 2009 2009 11 44 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2009 11 45 Northern Binocular Highlight Messier Morsels "Seronik, Gary" 2009 11 46 Planetary Almanac Planetary Almanac 2009 11 48 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" "Farewell Venus, Welcome Mars" "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 11 50 S&T Test Report Celestron's CGE Pro Mount "di Cicco, Dennis" 2009 11 54 Exploring the Moon "Great Alpine Valley, The" "Wood, Charles A." 2009 11 57 Celestial Calendar "Special Asteroid Occultation, A" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 11 57 Celestial Calendar "Good Leonid Year?, A" "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 11 61 Deep-Sky Wonders Flying Horse Fish "French, Sue" 2009 11 66 Going Deep Exploring the NGC 80 Group "Hewitt-White, Kenneth" 2009 11 68 Telescope Workshop 100 Telescopes in 8 Days "Seronik, Gary" 2009 11 70 Feature Starscape Astrophotography "Lodriguss, Jerry" 2009 11 76 Gallery Eclipse Corona through Polarizing Filter "Minor, Robert" 2009 11 76 Gallery "Moon above Convent in Elvas, Portugal" "Claro, Miguel" 2009 11 77 Gallery Diamond Ring over Pacific "Dyer, Alan" 2009 11 78 Gallery Messier 83 in Hydra "Barrett, Frank" 2009 11 78 Gallery "NGC 2359, Thor's Helmet" "Barrett, Frank" 2009 11 86 Focal Point Physics as a Liberal Art "Roth, Joshua" 2009 12 8 Spectrum Missing Young Astronomers: What Can We Do About It? "Naeye, Robert" 2009 12 10 Letters To Boldly Go … Or Not - I "Schreiner, Rick" 2009 12 10 Letters To Boldly Go … Or Not - II "Marks, Joel" 2009 12 10 Letters To Boldly Go … Or Not - III "Pasachoff, Dr. Jay M." 2009 12 10 Letters Not-so-Alien Aliens - I "Weeks, Albert L." 2009 12 12 Letters Not-so-Alien Aliens - II "Harris-Wyrick, Wayne" 2009 12 12 Letters 50 & 25 Years Ago "Robinson, Leif J." 2009 12 14 News Notes First Confirmed Rocky Exoplanet 2009 12 14 News Notes Limits on the Big Bang 2009 12 16 News Notes Einstein Safe: Stellar Mystery Solved 2009 12 16 News Notes "Exoplanet That Should Not Exist, An" 2009 12 16 News Notes Can Magnetism Save a Vaporizing Planet? 2009 12 16 News Notes Asteroids Born Big 2009 12 16 News Notes McNaught Bags His 50th Comet 2009 12 18 News Notes Observatories Escape Wildfire 2009 12 18 Mission Update Rosetta's Last Visit to Earth "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 12 18 News Notes Planck Maps the Big Bang "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 12 18 News Notes Mars Orbiter in Intensive Cars "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 12 18 News Notes Chandrayaan-1's Last Gasp "McDowell, Jonathan" 2009 12 20 Cosmic Relief Revising Earth's Biography "Grinspoon, David" 2009 12 22 Feature Amateur Exoplanets "Naeye, Robert" 2009 12 25 Feature Box: Observe the Next HD 80606b Transit "Laughlin, Greg" 2009 12 26 Feature Opening Soon: A New Infrared Sky "Eisenhardt, Peter and Ned Wright" 2009 12 32 Feature "Not Much Eyesight, Plenty of Vision" "Littmann, Mark" 2009 12 38 S&T Test Report "Trio of Astro-Tech Astrographs, A" "di Cicco, Dennis" 2009 12 42 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Guarding the Zenith "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 12 43 Sky at a Glance Sky at a Glance December 2009 2009 12 44 Northern Hemisphere's Sky Northern Hemisphere's Sky Chart 2009 12 45 Northern Binocular Highlight Andromeda's Glory "Seronik, Gary" 2009 12 46 Planetary Almanac Planetary Almanac 2009 12 48 "Sun, Moon, and Planets" Mars Comes into Its Own "Schaaf, Fred" 2009 12 50 Exploring the Moon Discover the Moon "Wood, Charles A." 2009 12 54 New Product Showcase HoTech SCA Laser Collimator-Crosshair 2009 12 54 New Product Showcase Tele Vue Ethos 21-mm eyepiece 2009 12 54 New Product Showcase "Beginner's Guide to DSLR Astrophotography CD-ROM, by Jerry Lodriguss" 2009 12 55 New Product Showcase "Faces of the Moon, by Bob Crelin" 2009 12 55 New Product Showcase "Atlas of the Messier Objects, by Ronald Stoyan" 2009 12 55 New Product Showcase Orion StarBlast 6i IntelliScope Reflector 2009 12 57 Celestial Calendar Making the Most of Mars "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 12 59 Celestial Calendar Ideal Geminid Meteor Prospects "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 12 61 Celestial Calendar Which Side Are You Seeing? "MacRobert, Alan M." 2009 12 63 Deep-Sky Wonders Zeroing in on Cassiopeia "French, Sue" 2009 12 68 Telescope Workshop "To Curve, or Not to Curve" "Seronik, Gary" 2009 12 70 Feature Targeting the Red Planet "Peach, Damian" 2009 12 76 Gallery NGC 4535 "Quattrocchi, Keith B." 2009 12 76 Gallery "NGC 6726, 6727, and IC 4812" "Perez, Jose Joaquin" 2009 12 76 Gallery Notilucent Clouds over Western North America "Steeg, Richard" 2009 12 76 Gallery North America and Pelican Nebulae "Keus, Didier" 2009 12 76 Gallery Piccolomini "Phillips, Jim" 2009 12 76 Gallery Perseid Meteors August 2009 "Martin, Pierre" 2009 12 86 Focal Point Remembering the Other Explorers "Wolverton, Mark"