August 1984

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The world's best-selling astronomy magazine offers you the most exciting, visually stunning, and timely coverage of the heavens above. Each monthly issue includes expert science reporting, vivid color photography, complete sky coverage, spot-on observing tips, informative telescope reviews, and much more! All this in an easy-to-understand, user-friendly style that's perfect for astronomers at any level.

Features

Astronomical Ballooning

By Sten Odenwald

pg. 6

Spectral Visions, Part 1: The Long Wavelengths

By David J. Darling

pg. 16

Forum

- Hit and Run . . . - A Talk with Walter Cunningham

pg. 24

In Focus

pg. 32

Behind the Scenes

pg. 33

Photography in Astronomy

By Joseph Macrie

Isophote Mapping

pg. 35

Astronomy Reviews

pg. 39

Eye on the Sky

By Fred Schaaf

Moon Diminishes Perseids

pg. 42

Gazer's Gazette

By Robert Burnham

Observing the Sun

pg. 51

AstroNews

pg. 58

AstroCalendar

pg. 62

AstroMart

pg. 64

Stellar Frontiers

By Sun Kwok

A Star That Has Risen from the Dead

pg. 66

Equipment Atlas

By Earle F. Dodds

The Coming of Epoch 2000

pg. 74

The Backyard Astronomer

Sagittarius

pg. 78

	Sun	Sun	Moon
RISE	—		—	PHASE	—
SET	—		—	DISK	—

	Mercury	Mercury	Venus	Venus
RISE	—		—
SET	—		—
		—		—

	Mars	Mars	Jupiter	Jupiter	Saturn	Saturn
RISE	—		—		—
SET	—		—		—
		—		—		—