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January 1994 |
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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 Everything You Wanted to Know About the Big Bang By
Richard Talcott Why do all galaxies move away from Earth? What's the fate of the universe? ASTRONOMY answers some Big Questions about the Big Bang. |
pg. 28 |
Fixing Hubble By
Dave Bruning Stop the jitter. Replace the gyros. Correct the optics. Here's your guide to NASA's ambitious mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. |
pg. 36 |
Pluto and Charon: At the Edge of Night By
Robert Burnham A spacecraft could change these worlds from enigmas at the solar system's edge to vital clues about what lies beyond the planetary realm. |
pg. 40 |
January Sky Almanac By
Deborah Byrd, Jeff Kanipe Two binocular comets punctuate an evening sky dominated by glorious Saturn. |
pg. 50 |
1994 Sky Calendar By
Alan Dyer This year's celestial events in a bonus pull-out section. |
pg. 59 |
Sketching the Deep Sky By
Lee T. Macdonald Photography isn't the only way to capture the sky. For some low-tech beauty, try putting an Ebony pencil to smooth bond paper. |
pg. 76 |
Tele Vue's Genesis SDF By
Alan Dyer The latest version of this refractor offers top-notch optics in a portable package. |
pg. 82 |
Comet Encke Returns By
Richard Talcott Chilly January evenings host an excellent appearance by a renowned periodic comet. |
pg. 87 |
Explore the Galaxies of Cancer By
David Higgins Viewing Cancer's famous Beehive cluster is easy. For a challenge, search for the faint galaxies that lie deeper in space behind it. |
pg. 92 |
The Many Faces of Planetary Nebulae By
Dave Bruning Winter presents the perfect time to turn your small scope on these ghostly clouds of glowing gas. |
pg. 94 |
Departments Behind the Scenes Is there a cosmologist lurking in your house? Letters Viewpoints Norm Looper makes a pilgrimage to astronomy's Mecca: the 200-inch Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain AstroNews - Seeing Inside M51
- Update on the Great Comet Crash of July '94
- Hubble Views Nova Cygni
- MACHOs and Dark Matter
- Active Galaxies Source of X-ray Background Amateur News - Clifford W. Holmes
- Network News Goes Electronic Reader Reports An amateur discovers the brightest exploding star in six years, supernova 1993J in the galaxy M81 Astronomy Books Star-hop your way through the night sky New Products - Meade LX200
- ST-4 upgrade
- Sirius CCD camera
- Powers of Ten video AstroBytes SkyPro - Winning image-processing software from Software Bisque Readings and Credits Meetings and Events Advertiser Index
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