February 1988

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Features

Insight into Star Death

By Richard Talcott

pg. 6

Forum

- A Tall Tale of Telescope Making - An Eclipse through the Eyes of a Child - Thinking Galaxies in 1775

pg. 24

In Focus

pg. 32

Reader's Report

By David J. Eicher

Comet Bradfield Dazzles Backyard Observers

pg. 34

Stellar Frontiers

By Robert Scherrer

Our Cosmic Horizons Part One: From the Cradle of Creation

pg. 40

Eye on the Sky

By Robert Burnham

A Meeting of Planets: Mars, Saturn, and Uranus

pg. 48

Gazer's Gazette

By Michael T. Kitt

Looking for Lunar Fractures

pg. 56

Equipment Atlas

By Bryan P. Shumaker

Build a Binocular 'Sky Scanner'

pg. 64

Astronomy Reviews

pg. 72

AstroNews

pg. 78

AstroCalendar

pg. 83

AstroMart

ASTRONOMY Advertiser Index

pg. 84

The Backyard Astronomer

By David J. Eicher

Canis Major's Twenty-Six Star Clusters

pg. 90

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

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

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