December
2004
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Astronomy magazine
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Features
If you think NASA has a plan to save Earth in case an asteroid is discovered on a collision course, you’re in for a surprise.
By Bill Cooke
Today, amateur astronomers use detailed and accurate star maps to locate celestial objects. Four hundred years ago, charts were less accurate, but they were much more beautiful.
By Wil Tirion
Astrology: fact or fiction?
How’s this for a horoscope? This article may cause you to doubt fortune-tellers.
By Michael E. Bakich
A deep-sky universe of galaxies, nebulae, colorful stars, and beautiful clusters is accessible with a small telescope and this seasonal guide.
By Ian RIdpath
Wartime astronomy
An amateur astronomer in Iraq masters a technique for observing the night sky amid blackouts and bombings.
By Matthew Quandt
Scattered across the Moon’s nearside, craters carry names associated with the mid-1800s Franklin expedition, Arctic exploration’s grimmest disaster. Tour these lunar features by telescope.
By Robert A. Garfinkle
Drawing the universe
Many of us sketch nightly observations in logbooks. One California-based artist uses his sketches as starting points for unique drawings of the cosmos.
By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
25 great accessories
If you want to enhance your observing dramatically, nothing beats a few well-chosen telescope extras.
By Michael E. Bakich
Departments
This month in Astronomy
Are we helpless from space rocks?
Letters
Bob Berman's strange universe
Glenn Chaple's observing basics
Interview
Michael Paolucci, SLOOH
News
— Star carves hollow in gas cloud
— Jets shoot out of a supernova remnant
— Tiny telescopes find a big exoplanet
— Slithering Mars dunes
— Send ETs a message-in-a-bottle
The sky this month
Ask Astro
White and black dwarfs, Blue Moons, finding asteroids
New products
— Celestron’s NexImage
— Imaginova’s Starry Night
— Orion’s Waist Case
— The Year in Space 2005 calendar
Book reviews
— The Privileged Planet
— Atlas of the Constellations
— Measuring the Cosmos
— Building Moonships
Coming events
Advertiser index
Resources
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