October 2008

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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

SPECIAL INSERT: Astronomy's guide to Go-to telescopes

Phil Harrington looks at 23 of the best, plus a speical section on seven CCD cameras.
GUIDE TO GO-TO TELESCOPES

How we'll fix Hubble

By Richard Talcott

NASA returns to the Hubble Space Telescope one last time.

pg. 28

Saturn revolution

By Linda Spilker

In its first 4 years at Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered methane lakes on Titan, icy plumes on Enceladus, and unimagined details in the planet's rings and atmosphere.

pg. 34

Web extra: Cassini's first 4 years at Saturn

By Francis Reddy

View some of Cassini's best images of Saturn.

Calling all space probes

By Francis Reddy, Roen Kelly

These spacecraft monitor the Sun, study Saturn, and explore interplanetary - and soon, interstellar - space.

pg. 64

Taking Venus by storm

By Robert Zimmerman

Europe's new spacecraft is revealing the composition, circulation patterns, and intense lightning of our sister world's atmosphere.

pg. 66