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Astronomy magazine October 2024 cover

October 2024

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.
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HST image of Jupiter
Observing

December 2024: What’s in the Southern Hemisphere sky this month?

The author captured the Rosette Nebula under Bortle 2 skies with a ZWO ASI2600MC Pro camera on an Astro-Tech 72ED refractor atop an iOptron CEM40 mount. This image comprises 104 three-minute exposures.
Astrophotography, Telescopes and Equipment

Finding your first astroimaging rig

A participant at the Kitt Peak Observatory Night Observing Program examines the glittering night sky with binoculars.
Telescopes and Equipment

Astronomy’s 14th annual star products

The Blue Snowball Nebula
Deep-Sky Objects, Observing

Will my telescope show color when viewing deep-sky objects?

NGC 7000 and Morehouse's Black Ring
Deep-Sky Objects

How we found Morehouse’s Black Ring: A dark nebula hiding in plain sight

This shot of the Pleiades (M45) — which comprises two hours of integration time taken with a 10-inch scope, Atik 16200 CCD, and Starizona’s Nexus 0.75x Newtonian Focal Reducer/Coma Corrector — displays sharp details out to the edges.
Telescopes and Equipment

Why Starizona’s Nexus coma corrector wows

Cassini image of Saturn
Solar System

How long will Saturn’s rings last before they disappear? 

At a distance of 12 million light-years and around 105,000 light-years across, NGC 253’s angular length is close to the diameter of the Full Moon.
Deep-Sky Objects

Observe the galaxies of Sculptor

The blue reflection nebula M78 lies about 1,600 light-years away in Orion. It is a cloud of interstellar gas and dust that owes its luminosity to embedded, bright, blue, early B-type stars ­— making it the brightest diffuse reflection nebula in the Orion B molecular cloud complex.
Deep-Sky Objects

Deep-sky objects to target as a novice observer

Mars Rising, December 8, 2007
Observing

October 2024: What’s in the sky this month?

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