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February 1995 |
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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 Magellan Reveals Venus By
Cordula Robinson Magellan's landmark four-year survey of our celestial neighbor unveiled a dynamic geology remarkably different from that of Earth. |
pg. 32 |
Hubble Maps Titan's Unseen Landscape By
Robert Burnham The Space Telescope's keen eye penetrates the smoggy atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon to reveal its largest surface features. |
pg. 44 |
Compelling Capella By
Ken Croswell Auriga's brightest star actually consists of four stars - two yellow giants and two red dwarfs. The giants likely foretell the Sun's fate. |
pg. 48 |
Sky Almanac By
Deborah Byrd, Rick Shaffer Mars appears bright to the eye and big in the eyepiece throughout February, a month that also sees asteroid Ceres at its best for the year. |
pg. 56 |
Discover the Daytime Star By
Stephen J. Edberg Sunspots, flares, granules, and more await telescope owners who know how to observe and photograph the Sun safely. |
pg. 66 |
Catching Comets with a CCD By
Glenn Gombert, John Chumack It isn't easy to capture color images of these celestial visitors as they race across the sky, but this CCD technique shows promise. |
pg. 72 |
Seven Easy Star Clusters By
John Shibley Visit some bright but often overlooked clusters that dot the winter Milky Way in Perseus and Cassiopeia. |
pg. 76 |
Completing the 10-Inch PortaScope By
Dave Bruning With the tube and mount finished, it's time to build the mirror cell, add a finder, focuser, and diagonal, collimate the scope, and start observing. |
pg. 78 |
Departments Behind the Scenes The End of Magellan Letters AstroForum Big Eyes on a Lone Star Night AstroNews - A Tale of Two Clusters
- First Light for WIYN Telescope
- Hubble Views Distant Galaxy Cluster
- Comets: Breakin' Up Is Easy to Do
- Probing the Big Bang
- New Theory for Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Setting a Limit on Stars
- Space Flight News Notes
- Magellan's Fiery End Amateur News - On Top of Old Smoky New Products - Self-guided CCD Cameras
- 20x 100 Waterproof Binoculars
- Portable Astronomical Telescopes from
Bushnell Astronomy Books Astronomy in a Nutshell Meetings and Events Resources & Photofacts Advertiser Index Reader Reports Meteors: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down?
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