September 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

Solar Max Returns

By Robert Burnham

pg. 6

IRAS Views the Galaxy

pg. 12

Spectral Visions, Part 2: The Short Wavelengths and Beyond

By David J. Darling

pg. 14

Forum

An Interview with Ken Fulton - the "Light-Hearted Astronomer"

pg. 24

In Focus

pg. 32

Gazer's Gazette

By Earle F. Dodds

Learn the Fall Stars

pg. 34

Astronomy Reviews

pg. 39

Eye on the Sky

By Fred Schaaf

Bright Planets Abound

pg. 42

Photography in Astronomy

By Ed Tant

Sunshow in the Southland

pg. 51

AstroMart

pg. 55

AstroNews

pg. 60

Stellar Frontiers

By Wallace Tucker, Karen Tucker

Against All Odds: Matter and Evolution in the Universe

pg. 67

Equipment Atlas

By Daniel Hatch

Building an Equatorial Tracker for Astrophotography

pg. 74

The Backyard Astronomer

Cygnus/Vulpecula

pg. 78

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

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

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