| Year |
Month |
Page |
Department |
Title |
Author 1 |
Author 2 |
Author 3 |
Author 4 |
|
|
|
| 2000 |
1 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232 |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Always My Boss |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
10 |
Focal Point |
Seeing the Unseen |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
12 |
Letters |
How to Collect Geostationary Satellites |
Young, Jim |
Young, Karen |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
14 |
Letters |
More Ways to Sunwatch |
Winkler, William |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
14 |
Letters |
Roping In Party Crashers |
Goldberg, Steve |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
16 |
News Notes |
Astronomers Declare New Variable-Star Class |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
17 |
News Notes |
Hubble Details Galaxy Duo |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
18 |
News Notes |
Galaxy Bars Seen Edge On |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
18 |
News Notes |
Close-Call Meteorite Yields Primordial Water |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
20 |
News Notes |
Light Speed Is Colorblind |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
20 |
News Notes |
Is Dark Matter Just Plain Hydrogen? |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
21 |
News Notes |
Seafloor Stardust? |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
22 |
News Notes |
A Different Wobble for Upsilon Andromedae |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
22 |
News Notes |
White Dwarfs in the Milky Way's Outer Halo |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
23 |
News Notes |
Another Sign of the Milky Way's Bar |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
23 |
News Notes |
Crash Yields No Lunar Water |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
24 |
News Notes |
A Planet Orbiting a Binary Star? |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
24 |
News Notes |
Piercing the Crab's Heart |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
26 |
News Notes |
Stellar Quadruplets Put Theories to the Test |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
26 |
News Notes |
The Dark Planet of Tau Boötis |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
28 |
Mission Update |
Mission Update |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
32 |
Feature |
Where the Astronomers Are: A Stagnant Century |
Heck, André |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
37 |
Feature |
The 10 Most Inspiring Images of the Century |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
50 |
Feature |
Looking Backward: Themes of 20th-Century Astronomy |
Trimble, Virginia |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
60 |
S&T Test Report |
Six 8-Inch Dobsonians |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
67 |
S&T Test Report |
Sizing Up the Secondary Mirror |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
76 |
New Product Showcase |
New Product Showcase |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
78 |
Books & Beyond |
Our Worlds: The Magnetism and Thrill of Planetary Exploration, by S. Alan Stern, ed. |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
79 |
Books & Beyond |
Seven Wonders of the Cosmos, by Jayant V. Narlikar |
Mitchell, Jacqueline Seabury |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
79 |
Books & Beyond |
Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos, by William Poundstone |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
79 |
Books & Beyond |
Carl Sagan: A Life, by Keay Davidson |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
The Astronomical Almanac for the
Year 2000, Nautical Almanac Office |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
The Astronomical Pocket Diary 2000, by Norbert Haley |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
The Handbook of the British
Astronomical Association 2000, by Jacqueline Mitton, ed. |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
Observer's Handbook 2000, by Roy L. Bishop, ed. |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
MPO2000, by Bwd Publishing |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
2000 Comet Handbook, by Syuichi
Nakano and Daniel W. E. Green, eds. |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
Astronomical Yearbook 2000, by Andrew Yen, ed. |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
Astronomical Calendar 2000, by Guy Ottewell |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
85 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Amateur Astronomy in Jordan |
Odeh, Mohammad Shawkat |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
89 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Wyoming's First Star Summit |
Petersen, Carolyn Collins |
Bruner, Marilyn |
Acton, Loren W. |
Ogawara, Yoshiaki |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
90 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: A Sunrise Total Eclipse |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
94 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
The Big Room |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Orion's Mighty Stellar Retinue |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
99 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
100 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
101 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
A Hero's Quest |
French, Sue |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
103 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in January |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
104 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Light-Pollution Notes: Triumphs and Heartbreak |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
106 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
109 |
Celestial Calendar |
Awesome Eclipse of the Moon, An |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
109 |
Celestial Calendar |
An Awesome Eclipse of the Moon |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
114 |
Celestial Calendar |
Lunar Occultation Highlights for 2000 |
Dunham, David W. |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
116 |
Celestial Calendar |
Box: A Date with Delta2 Tauri |
Gault, David |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
116 |
Celestial Calendar |
Date with Delta2 Tauri, A |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
122 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Welcome to the Future |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
122 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
125 |
Observer's Log |
You, Your Weather, and Your Skies |
Gross, Todd |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
128 |
Observer's Log |
How to Predict Seeing |
Douglass, Eric J. |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
131 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook |
Freeman, Jay Reynolds |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
134 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
136 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
141 |
Telescope Techniques |
A "Magic Box" Solar Telescope |
Virag, Pal |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
148 |
Astro Imaging |
Thoughts on High-Resolution Imaging |
Legault, Thierry |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
156 |
Gallery |
Big Dipper Alongside Church Steeple |
Wehler, Randall |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
156 |
Gallery |
Baker Lake Aurora |
Clark Jr., Wade B. |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
157 |
Gallery |
All-Sky Milky Way |
Wang, Wei-Hao |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
157 |
Gallery |
Shuttle Reentry Over Rocket Exhibit |
Zemba, Brian |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
158 |
Gallery |
Milky Way Starscape |
Schad, Jerry |
|
| 2000 |
1 |
158 |
Gallery |
First-Quarter Moon |
Collart, Michel |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Robotic Telescope Showdown |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
8 |
Spectrum |
And the Big Loser Was . . . |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
10 |
Focal Point |
First Light |
Lago, Don |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
12 |
Letters |
Mapping Dark Skies |
Burton, Bill |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
12 |
Letters |
No Maunder Minimum |
Pankenier, David W. |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
14 |
Letters |
Solar-Eclipse Hysteria |
Szczepanowski, Edward |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
16 |
News Notes |
Extrasolar Planet Seen Transiting Its Star |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
17 |
News Notes |
A Martian Solar Eclipse |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
18 |
News Notes |
A Naked-Eye Nova in Aquila |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
18 |
News Notes |
New Asteroid Satellite |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
20 |
News Notes |
Chandra's X-ray Visions |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
21 |
News Notes |
Centaurus A |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
22 |
News Notes |
Goodbye Disks, Hello Planetary Systems |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
23 |
News Notes |
Gravity Experiment Weighs In for Einstein |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
24 |
News Notes |
Markarian 421 and Its Companion |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
24 |
News Notes |
Taking Stock of a Southern Starburst |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
25 |
News Notes |
Remains of a Gobbled Galaxy? |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
26 |
Mission Update |
Mission Update |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
28 |
Feature |
A Year of Discovery: Astronomy Highlights of 1999 |
Trimble, Virginia |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
38 |
Feature |
Gerbert d'Aurillac: Y1K's Science Guy |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
46 |
Feature |
Thomas Dick's "Sublime Science" |
Hennessey, R. A. S. |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
50 |
Images |
2MASS Infrared View of the Orion Nebula |
O'Dell, C. Robert |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
54 |
S&T Test Report |
Go To Telescope Showdown |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
54 |
S&T Test Report |
Go To Telescope Showdown |
di Cicco, Dennis |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
61 |
S&T Test Report |
Interoffice E-Chat: Dennis and Gary Choose |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
62 |
New Product Showcase |
New Product Showcase |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
65 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Xceptional Astronomical Software |
Medkeff, Jeff |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
66 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Getting XEphem |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
68 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Lining Yourself Up with Linux |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
70 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: Starry Night Pro 3.0 |
Foust, Jeffrey A. |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
72 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Companies Dot Com |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
77 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Observing in Lewis and Clark Country |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
80 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Oregon Star Party's Cornerstone |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
82 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: A Starlight Night |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
87 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
From Here to Eternity |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Pattern-Filling Stars of Winter |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
91 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
92 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
93 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Touring Orion's Sword |
French, Sue |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
95 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in February |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
96 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Near Sky: Call for Cold Observations |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
100 |
Celestial Calendar |
Planetary Occultations of Stars in -- 2000 |
Dunham, David W. |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
103 |
Celestial Calendar |
Observing Tips |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
109 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
109 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Gregorian Calendar |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
111 |
Observer's Log |
Double Stars: The Spirit of 33 |
Argüelles, Luis |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
116 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
118 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
120 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
122 |
Observer's Log |
Under Mercury's Shadow |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
125 |
Telescope Techniques |
Woodshop Eyepieces |
Hards, Chuck |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
129 |
Telescope Techniques |
Homemade Barlow Lenses |
Pfannenschmidt, Ernie |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
130 |
Telescope Techniques |
Measuring a Barlow Lens |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
134 |
Astro Imaging |
A Place for Astro Imagers |
McLaughlin, Bill |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
140 |
Gallery |
Canadian Aurora |
Gagne, Charles |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
140 |
Gallery |
Orion Rising |
Schad, Jerry |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
140 |
Gallery |
Rocket Exhaust Trail |
Cook, Chris |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
141 |
Gallery |
IC 2948 and IC 2944 in Centaurus |
Stecker, Michael |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
142 |
Gallery |
Iridium Flare |
Young, James W. |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
142 |
Gallery |
M 6 and Sharpless 12 in Scorpius |
Rhemann, Gerald |
Kersche, Franz |
|
| 2000 |
2 |
143 |
Gallery |
Simeis 147 |
Stecker, Michael |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Aurora and Comet Hale-Bopp |
Klensch, Michael |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Reading Last Summer |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
10 |
Focal Point |
Extreme Astronomy |
Battaglia, Michael |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
12 |
Letters |
What's Wrong with an Achromat? |
Midiri, Robert A. |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
12 |
Letters |
The Visable Layers of Jupiter |
Minton, R. B. |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
14 |
Letters |
Naked-Eye Nebula? |
Ling, Alister |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
14 |
Letters |
Small-Scope Cruising |
Sasser, John |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
14 |
Letters |
Lunar Ray Tracing |
Dembowski, Bill |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
14 |
Letters |
The Telescope of Leonardo's Dreams |
Gingrich, Mark |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
16 |
News Notes |
Gamma-Ray Bursts Yield Up Secrets |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
17 |
News Notes |
Brown Dwarf or Loose Planet? |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
17 |
News Notes |
A Distance for Every Gamma-Ray Burst? |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
18 |
News Notes |
How Did Globulars Get Here? |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
18 |
News Notes |
Local Group Gains a Galaxy |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
20 |
News Notes |
M83 by VLT |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
20 |
News Notes |
The Planet of Tau Boötis: Not So Dark After All? |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
21 |
News Notes |
Galaxy Ages Probed Anew |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
21 |
News Notes |
Stormy Neptune Revealed |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
22 |
News Notes |
Lunar Surface Change: A False Alarm |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
22 |
News Notes |
Supermassive Black Holes: Immigrants or Natives? |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
23 |
News Notes |
Distancing Dwingeloo 1 |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
24 |
News Notes |
Ganymede's Snows |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
24 |
News Notes |
Ganymede's Glows |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
25 |
News Notes |
Heavy Elements from Neutron Stars |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
27 |
Mission Update |
Mission Update |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
34 |
Feature |
Anatomy of an Aurora |
Burtnyk, Kimberly |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
42 |
Feature |
An Aurora Watcher's Guide |
Eather, Robert H. |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
42 |
Feature |
An Aurora Watcher's Guide |
Eather, Robert H. |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
50 |
Feature |
Solar Storms: The Silent Menace |
Odenwald, Sten |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
56 |
Feature |
Box: May's Punchless Solar Wind |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
63 |
S&T Test Report |
Three Wide-Field Reflectors |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
70 |
New Product Showcase |
New Product Showcase |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
72 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Scripting: A Programming Alternative |
Benn, David |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
75 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: NGCView 6.1 |
Ratledge, David |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
76 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Is That Your Final Answer? |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
80 |
Books & Beyond |
Astrophotography for the Amateur, Second Edition, by Michael A. Covington |
Schur, Chris |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
Mapping and Naming the Moon: A History of Lunar Cartography and Nomenclature, by Ewen A. Whitaker |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
86 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Astronomy Olympiads in the Caucasus |
Nielsen, Holger |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
91 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: Telescopes for Telethon |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
92 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Leo J. Scanlon, 1903- 1999 |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
94 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Theft of Light |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Hallmarks of the Gemini Hour |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
99 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
100 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
101 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Winter Clusters Galore |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
103 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in March |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
104 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Light-Pollution Notes: IDA Breakthroughs |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
106 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
108 |
Celestial Calendar |
Bright Asteroids for Binoculars |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
111 |
Celestial Calendar |
Pluto in 2000 |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
114 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise:Equinox |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
114 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
119 |
Observer's Log |
Enjoying and Surviving Your First Messier Marathon |
Ting, Ed |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
124 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
126 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook |
Jakiel, Richard |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
128 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
132 |
Telescope Techniques |
More Reader Tele-Tips |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
135 |
Astro Imaging |
Photographing the Analemma |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
142 |
Gallery |
Double Rainbow |
Sawicki, Mikolaj |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
142 |
Gallery |
Serene Summer Sunrise |
Bidinger, Robert M. |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
142 |
Gallery |
Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules |
Aiken, Eric C. |
Mobley, Jeff |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
143 |
Gallery |
Digital Full Moon |
Terrance, Gregory |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
143 |
Gallery |
North America and Pelican Nebulae in Cygnus |
Ware, Jason |
|
| 2000 |
3 |
144 |
Gallery |
Gas Cloud IC 1396 in Cepheus |
Wisniewski, Jan |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Hubble Telescope in Orbit |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Not in Kansas Anymore |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
10 |
Focal Point |
Risky Buisness |
Finkbeiner, Ann K. |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
12 |
Letters |
Venus Isn't a Supernova |
Aveni, Anthony F. |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
12 |
Letters |
Comparing 8-Inch Dobsonians |
Cox, Allen |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
12 |
Letters |
Comparing 8-Inch Dobsonians |
Fullerton, James |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
12 |
Letters |
Comparing 8-Inch Dobsonians |
Smith, Steven C. |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
14 |
Letters |
Learning Astronomy |
Heydon, Alexander J. |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
16 |
News Notes |
Eta Carinae Untangled |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
17 |
News Notes |
Supernova and Its Companion, A |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
17 |
News Notes |
Mapping the Local Interstellar Cloud |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
18 |
News Notes |
More Super-Sharp Images from Keck |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
18 |
News Notes |
Io's Fountain of Fire |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
20 |
News Notes |
Zooming in on M87's Jets |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
22 |
News Notes |
Hubble Back in Action |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
23 |
News Notes |
Very, Very Early Galaxies |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
24 |
News Notes |
Creating Uranus and Neptune |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
24 |
News Notes |
Diamond Hail in Uranus and Neptune |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
25 |
News Notes |
Virgo Cluster's Intergalatic Planetaries, The |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
26 |
Mission Update |
Mission Update |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
28 |
Feature |
Ten Years and Counting: HST in Orbit |
Smith, Robert W. |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
36 |
Feature |
Healing Hubble |
Grunsfeld, John M. |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
44 |
Feature |
High Tides and The Canterbury Tales |
Olson, Donald W. |
Laird, Edgar S. |
Lytle, Thomas E. |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
48 |
Feature |
Box: Rarity of Tidal Alignments |
Olson, Donald W. |
Laird, Edgar S. |
Lytle, Thomas E. |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
56 |
S&T Test Report |
SkySensor 2000-PC: a la Carte Go To |
Dyer, Alan |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
60 |
S&T Test Report |
And the Winner Is... |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
63 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Where Eclipses Come Thrice |
Meeus, Jean |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
66 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: SkyMap Pro 6.0 |
Heafner, Joe |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
68 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Living in the Past: The New Yesteryear |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
73 |
Books & Beyond |
Magnificent Universe, by Ken Croswell |
Mechler, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
73 |
Books & Beyond |
The Invisible Universe, by David Malin |
Mechler, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
The Planets, David McNab and James
Younger |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
Majestic Universe: Views from Here
to Infinity, by Serge Brunier |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
Other Worlds, by James Trefil |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
Cosmic Phenomena, by Gabriele Vanin |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
Figures du Ciel, by Marc
Lachièze-Rey and Jean-Pierre Luminet |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
80 |
Amateur Astronomers |
High Observatory Adventure at Astronomy Camp |
McCarthy, Donald W. Jr. |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
82 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Spectroscopy at Astronomy Camp |
Kulesa, Craig |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
84 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Ben Mayer, 1925- 99 |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
84 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Amateurs Find Superfaint Comet |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
86 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: Meteor Nights |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
88 |
Amateur Astronomers |
New England Light-Pollution Crusaders Meet |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
93 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Lost Worlds |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Treasures of an April Night |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
99 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
100 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
101 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Bear Up! |
French, Sue |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
103 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in April |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
104 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
More Light-Pollution Breakthroughs |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
106 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
108 |
Celestial Calendar |
Observing the Zodiacal Light |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
110 |
Celestial Calendar |
Montezuma and the Zodiacal Light |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
113 |
Celestial Calendar |
Uranus, Neptune in 2000 |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
113 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
114 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Lunar Skies |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
116 |
Observer's Log |
Full-Moon Fade-Out |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
120 |
Observer's Log |
Daylight Sightings |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
122 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook |
Whitman, Alan |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
125 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
128 |
Telescope Techniques |
Motorizing a Dobsonian |
Bartels, Mel |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
130 |
Telescope Techniques |
Using a Motorized Dob |
Shaw, Chuck |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
132 |
Telescope Techniques |
Box: A Low-Tech Motor System |
Wolanski, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
134 |
S&T Test Report |
Takahashi's FSQ-106 Fluorite Refractor |
Gendler, Robert |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
136 |
Astro Imaging |
Notes on Focal Length |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
140 |
Gallery |
Saturn |
Hanon, David |
Hanon, David |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
140 |
Gallery |
Nebulae NGC 896, IC 1805 and IC 1848 in Cassiopeia |
Ware, Jason |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
140 |
Gallery |
Spiral Galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 in Canis Major |
Wolfe, Ted |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
141 |
Gallery |
Nebula IC 2177 in Monoceros |
Greaney, George |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
142 |
Gallery |
Pinwheel Galaxy (M33) in Triangulum |
Greaney, George |
|
| 2000 |
4 |
142 |
Gallery |
Star Cluster IC 348 in Perseus |
Cordiale, John E. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Planetary Alignment |
Garlick, Mark A. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Coming: More Hype! Yikes!! |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
10 |
Focal Point |
The "Grand Illusion" of April-May 2000 |
Hockey, Thomas |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
12 |
Letters |
An Observing Project at the Cuttin Edge |
Ragazzoni, Roberto |
Marchetti, Enrico |
Valente, Gianpaolo |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
12 |
Letters |
Yes, There Was a Maunder Minimum |
Gonzalez, Guillermo |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
12 |
Letters |
Still Inspiring |
Pierson, Jerry |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
14 |
Letters |
More TC Lens Tricks |
Seaman, Al |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
14 |
Letters |
Help for Club Leaders |
Klosinski, Mark |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
14 |
Letters |
More TC Lens Tricks |
Samworth, Roger |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
16 |
News Notes |
NEAR Embraces Eros |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
17 |
News Notes |
Martian Meteorite Discovered in California |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
17 |
News Notes |
Nail in the Coffin for Bombarding Minicomets |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
18 |
News Notes |
Hubble on Stamps |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
18 |
News Notes |
SOHO's Sungrazing Comets: 100 and Counting |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
20 |
News Notes |
Surveying Galactic Hydrogen Clouds |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
20 |
News Notes |
Mapping Galaxies' Dark Halos |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
21 |
News Notes |
White Dwarfs Hiding in the Halo? |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
22 |
News Notes |
A Black Hole for Nearly Every Galaxy |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
22 |
News Notes |
Meteorite Perfume |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
23 |
News Notes |
Holes Dark and Lonely |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
23 |
News Notes |
No Panspermia Between Stars |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
24 |
News Notes |
Amateurs and the AAS |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
24 |
News Notes |
Massive Lightning Storms May Drive Jupiter's Weather |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
25 |
News Notes |
Massive Lightning Storms May Drive Jupiter's Chemistry |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
26 |
Mission Update |
Mission Update |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
28 |
Feature |
Conjunctions That Changed the World |
Schaefer, Bradley E. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
34 |
Feature |
Box: The Stars Do Change the World |
Schaefer, Bradley E. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
36 |
Feature |
Beyond the Hubble Sequence |
Bothun, Gregory D. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
46 |
Feature |
Selling Astrophysics in a Crystal Palace |
Maran, Stephen P. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
54 |
Images |
Spotlight on a Majestic Spiral (M81) |
Elmegreen, Debra Meloy |
Elmegreen, Bruce |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
57 |
S&T Test Report |
Backyard Spectroscopy |
Gavin, Maurice V. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
64 |
New Product Showcase |
New Product Showcase |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
66 |
Computers in Astronomy |
The ASCOM Revolution |
Medkeff, Jeff |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
69 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: Cartes du Ciel 2.41 |
Medkeff, Jeff |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
72 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Where are you, Really? |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
Cometography: A Catelog of Comets, Vol. 1, by Gary W. Kronk |
Bortle, John E. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
78 |
Books & Beyond |
Astronomy for Dummies, Stephan P. Maran |
Salamony, Sandra N. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
82 |
Amateur Astronomers |
The World and the Universe Meet at Castel Gandolfo |
Joson, Imelda B. |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
82 |
Amateur Astronomers |
World and the Universe Meet at Castel Gandolfo, The |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
85 |
Amateur Astronomers |
History of the Vatican Observatory |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
85 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Box: History of Vatican Observatory |
Corbally, Christopher J. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
88 |
Amateur Astronomers |
New Zealand's StarDate 2000 |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
89 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Return of the Winter Star Party |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
90 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails:The Radical Amateur |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
92 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Astronomy Day Award |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
95 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Clean Sweep |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Cross Hairs on Corvus, the Crow |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
99 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
100 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
101 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Chasing Treasures Under the Dipper |
French, Sue |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
103 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in May |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
104 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Near Sky: Keeping a Weather Log |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
106 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
109 |
Celestial Calendar |
Tidal Forces on May 5, 2000 |
Olson, Donald W. |
Lytle, Thomas E. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
112 |
Celestial Calendar |
Double Stars off Mizar |
Haas, Sissy |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
115 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
116 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Scope Basics |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
120 |
Observer's Log |
Exploring the Hubble Sequence by Eye |
Skiff, Brian A. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
128 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook |
Gottlieb, Steve |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
130 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
132 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
135 |
Telescope Techniques |
Optimal Polish for Optimal Optics |
Sasian, Jose M. |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
138 |
Telescope Techniques |
Common Polishing Mistakes |
Bartels, Mel |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
142 |
Gallery |
Total Lunar Eclipse Triptych |
Barnes, Stephen |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
142 |
Gallery |
Lunar Eclipse Sequence (45 Exposures) |
Espenak, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
143 |
Gallery |
Waning Crescent Moonrise with Earthshine I |
Arnold, Luc |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
144 |
Gallery |
Waning Crescent Moonrise with Earthshine II & III |
Arnold, Luc |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
144 |
Gallery |
Morning Conjunction of Moon and Venus |
Schad, Jerry |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Leonid Meteors |
Hallas, Tony |
Hallas, Daphne |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Best of the Best |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
10 |
Focal Point |
0 to 60: An Excessive-Compulsive Gets Into Astronomy |
O'Leary, Robert |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
12 |
Letters |
Messier Marathon Tips |
Ferris, William D. |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
12 |
Letters |
China's No Blank on the Amateur Map |
Renjiang, Xie |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
12 |
Letters |
The Real Caldwell |
Lee, Steven |
Ratledge, David |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
14 |
Letters |
Auroral Deja Vu |
Hall, John H. |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
14 |
Letters |
Pulsar Planets Were First |
Blake, Mel |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
14 |
Letters |
Our Special Place |
Seargent, David A. J. |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
16 |
Letters |
Asteriods at Their Brightest |
Vila-Echague, Eduardo |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
16 |
Letters |
Brighter Geostationary Satellites |
Lazuka, Thomas |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
18 |
News Notes |
Trouble in Hubble's Key Project? |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
19 |
News Notes |
Hubble Discovers Twin Quasar's Host Galaxy |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
20 |
News Notes |
A Close-Up of the Dynamic Bubble Nebula |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
20 |
News Notes |
Green Light for Africa's Giant Eye |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
21 |
News Notes |
Two Extrasolar Saturns |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
22 |
News Notes |
Yukon Meteorite Bonanza |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
22 |
News Notes |
A Baby Cluster in Our Backyard |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
22 |
News Notes |
Mild Comet Shower Forecast |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
24 |
News Notes |
More Martian Floods |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
24 |
News Notes |
Cassini Glimpses 2685 Masursky |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
26 |
News Notes |
The Far Ultraviolet Unveiled |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
26 |
News Notes |
Opening Up to Terahertz Astronomy |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
28 |
Mission Update |
Mission Update |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
30 |
Feature |
Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Will the Leonid Storms Continue? |
Rao, Joe |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
36 |
Feature |
Box: The Surprising "Lunar Leonids" |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
38 |
Feature |
The Leonids' Rising Stars |
Fischer, Daniel |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
42 |
Feature |
Storm Chasers |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
46 |
Feature |
Catching a Falling Star |
Drummond, Jack D. |
Gardner, Chester S. |
Kelley, Michael C. |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
56 |
S&T Test Report |
Big Binoculars on a Budget |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
61 |
S&T Test Report |
No Ordinary Binocular Mount |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
62 |
New Product Showcase |
New Product Showcase |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
64 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Some Odds and Ends |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
66 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: Deepsky 2000 |
Ratledge, David |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
67 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Temples to the Stars |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
70 |
Books & Beyond |
Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, by Alex Filippenko |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
72 |
Books & Beyond |
Quintessence, by Lawrence M. Krauss |
Wright, Edward L. |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
76 |
Amateur Astronomers |
The Pro-Am Revolution |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
77 |
Books & Beyond |
The Star of Bethlehem: The Legacy of the Magi, by Michael R. Molnar |
Schaefer, Bradley E. |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
80 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Students Find 73 Novae in M31 |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
81 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: Of Pro-Am Partnerships and Astronomy Education |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
86 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Slithering Toward Solstice |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Herdsman, Crown, and Serpent |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
91 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
92 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
93 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Dazzling Doubles, Glittering Globulars |
French, Sue |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
95 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in June |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
96 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Near Sky: Problems with Airglow |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
100 |
Celestial Calendar |
Surprising Comeback of the June Bootid Meteor Shower |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
107 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Tropics |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
107 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
109 |
Observer's Log |
Mesmerized by Mercury |
Sheehan, William |
Dobbins, Thomas A. |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
115 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
118 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
120 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
125 |
Telescope Techniques |
Doghouse Detail |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
134 |
Gallery |
Solar Prominence |
Dal Lago, Giovanni |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
134 |
Gallery |
Mercury and Airliner Transiting the Sun |
Albrecht, Rick |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
134 |
Gallery |
Star Trails over Bok Telescope Dome |
Esquerdo, Gilbert |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
135 |
Gallery |
Single Geminid Meteor with Star-trails |
Udea, Takeharu |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
135 |
Gallery |
Big Dipper over Cornfield |
Carlson, Todd |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
135 |
Gallery |
Rosette Nebula in Monoceros |
Miyakawa, Tyouei |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
135 |
Gallery |
Sagittarius Starcloud M24 |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
135 |
Gallery |
Aurora and Big Dipper |
Read, Steve |
|
| 2000 |
6 |
136 |
Gallery |
Orion's Belt with Flame and Horsehead Nebulae |
Kitazato, Fumihiro |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory in Orbit |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Babylon Revisited |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
10 |
Focal Point |
The Forest and the Trees |
Burgess, Craig |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
12 |
Letters |
The Kansas Universe - III |
West, Herb |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
12 |
Letters |
The Kansas Universe - I |
Price, Jim |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
12 |
Letters |
The Kansas Universe - II |
Linderholm, Robert |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
14 |
Letters |
The Kansas Universe - IV |
Edwards, Stefan |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
14 |
Letters |
The Kansas Universe - V |
Roe, John |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
14 |
Letters |
A Leonardo-Era Lens |
Renning, John |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
14 |
Letters |
The Kansas Universe - VI |
Berkey, Cale |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
16 |
Letters |
Eta Carinae: Single After All? |
Humphreys, Roberta M. |
Smith, Nathan |
Davidson, Kris |
de Koter, Alex |
Morris, Pat |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
16 |
Letters |
A Bad Example |
Vance, Norbert |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
16 |
Letters |
If You Want Something Done Right... |
Neuzil, Ed |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
18 |
News Notes |
Free-Floating Planets in the Orion Nebula |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
19 |
News Notes |
Asteroid Kleopatra: Wild and Wonderful |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
19 |
News Notes |
TMR-1C: Not a Planet After All |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
20 |
News Notes |
M82 by Subaru |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
21 |
News Notes |
Watching the Birth of Globular Clusters |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
22 |
News Notes |
Explaining Comet Hyakutake's "Impossible" Tail |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
22 |
News Notes |
Lost Moons of Uranus Recovered |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
23 |
News Notes |
Iridium Satellites May Come Down Soon |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
24 |
News Notes |
Firming Up the Case for a Flat Cosmos |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
26 |
News Notes |
A Monumental Sun Pointer |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
26 |
News Notes |
Verdict on M73 |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
26 |
News Notes |
A Recent Rush of Impacts? |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
28 |
News Notes |
Darker Skies for the D.C. Area |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
28 |
News Notes |
A Hot Superbubble Bursts from a Galaxy's Core |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Mars Polar Lander |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
32 |
Feature |
What Is the Real Shape of the Ring Nebula? |
Kwok, Sun |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
40 |
Feature |
Astronomy and the Fall of Babylon |
Gurzadyan, Vahe G. |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
42 |
Feature |
Box: Babylonian Chronologies |
Armstrong, James A. |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
48 |
Feature |
Compton's Legacy |
Leonard, Peter J. T. |
Wanjek, Christopher |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
56 |
Images |
Cat's Paw Nebula, NGC 6334 |
Kraemer, Kathleen E. |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
59 |
S&T Test Report |
Image-Stabilized Binoculars Aplenty |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
63 |
S&T Test Report |
Box: Power vs. Pupil Size: Which Is Better? |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
64 |
S&T Test Report |
Box: Stabilization on a Budget |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
66 |
New Product Showcase |
Gary's Astro Fabricating's Fine-Focus Adapter |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
66 |
New Product Showcase |
Stellarvue 80-millimeter f/6 Refractor |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
66 |
New Product Showcase |
Astro Works Centurion 18 Telescope System |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
69 |
Books & Beyond |
Deep-Sky Wonders, by Walter Scott Houston and Stephen James O'Meara |
Mullaney, James |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
71 |
Books & Beyond |
Astronomer's Computer Companion, by Jeff Foust and Ron Lafon |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
72 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Astronomer's Journal, by Ken Sullivan |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
72 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Chronological
Encyclopedia of Discoveries in Space, by Robert Zimmerman |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
72 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Five Ages of the
Universe, by Fred Adams and Greg Laughlin |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
72 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: One Universe, by Neil
de Grasse Tyson, Charles Liu, and Robert Irion |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
72 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: New Perspectives in
Astrophysical Cosmology, by Martin Rees |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
72 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Allen's Astrophysical
Quantities, by Arthur N. Cox, ed. |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
72 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Mystery of Mars,
by Sally Ride and Tam O'Shaughnessy |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
76 |
Amateur Astronomers |
The Chiefland "Experiment" |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
79 |
Amateur Astronomers |
ASP Award |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
80 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: The Man Behind Meade |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
86 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Whiter Shade of Pale |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Scorpius Stalks the South |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
91 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
92 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: Resolving Nu Draconis |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
93 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Deep-Sky Wonders in Hercules |
French, Sue |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
95 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in July |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
96 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Light-Pollution Notes: Measuring Sky Brightness |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
100 |
Celestial Calendar |
Comet LINEAR's Summer Show |
Bortle, John E. |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
103 |
Celestial Calendar |
July's Three Pacific Eclipses |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
108 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Occultations by the Moon |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
108 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Porter Turret |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
112 |
Observer's Log |
Double-Star Measurement Made Easy |
Teague, Thomas |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
117 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky
Notebook: The Other Cygnus - Faint Galaxies of the
Swan |
McNeil, Jay |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
120 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Rings and Things |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
122 |
Observer's Log |
Eyeballing the Hubble Sequence |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
122 |
Observer's Log |
Coney Island Conjunction |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
122 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: A Busy Marathon Season |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
125 |
Astro Imaging |
Getting the Most from a CCD Spectrograph |
Kannappan, Sheila |
Fabricant, Daniel |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
127 |
Astro Imaging |
Box: The Life of a Star |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
134 |
Gallery |
Aurora over Lyndhurst Mansion, Tarrytown, NY |
Yasinsac, Robert |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
134 |
Gallery |
Aurora over Big Dipper |
Martin, Nick |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
134 |
Gallery |
Aurora in Taurus |
Lodriguss, Jerry |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
134 |
Gallery |
Aurora over Scotland |
Law, Ian |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
134 |
Gallery |
April 4, 2000, Aurora |
Koskimo, Martti |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
135 |
Gallery |
Aurora over Coney Island |
Scarpitta, Rich |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
136 |
Gallery |
Rainbow Aurora in Germany |
Rothermel, Jens |
|
| 2000 |
7 |
136 |
Gallery |
Aurora and Twilight over Australia |
Clark, Maurice Leonard |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Observatorio de Sierra Nevada |
Chen, PK |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Running...Running... |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
12 |
Focal Point |
Astronomy, Eclipses, and Parenthood |
Miladinovic, Dragan |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
14 |
Letters |
Sidewalk Astronomer in a Strange Land |
Heyn, Herman M. |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
14 |
Letters |
Pluto in a 4 1/2-inch Scope |
Ewart, Scott |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
14 |
Letters |
Jumping In at the Deep End |
Zahr, Rodrigue |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
16 |
Letters |
For the Record |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
16 |
Letters |
50 & 20 Years Ago |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
16 |
Letters |
Turning the Tide in New Mexico |
Hale, Alan |
Berman, Marshall |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
18 |
News Notes |
Breathing Soul into ALMA |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
19 |
News Notes |
Superimposed Galaxies |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
20 |
News Notes |
Tennis-Ball Particles from M87? |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
20 |
News Notes |
SOHO Catches the May Planet Conjunction |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
21 |
News Notes |
Catching the Swiftest of the Swift |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
22 |
News Notes |
Spacewatch Snares Long-Lost Asteroid 719 Albert |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
22 |
News Notes |
4.5 Million Asteroid Observations |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
23 |
News Notes |
Conference on Astronomy and Culture |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
24 |
News Notes |
Io's Telltale Colors |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
24 |
News Notes |
A "Missed" Comet |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
26 |
News Notes |
An Enigmatic Nebula Solved |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
26 |
News Notes |
No Vulcanoids Inside Mercury's Orbit - Yet! |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
28 |
News Notes |
Astronomers Threatened by Star-Naming Company |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
30 |
Mission Update |
The Outer Solar System |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
30 |
Mission Update |
The Inner Solar System |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Near-Earth Space |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
34 |
Feature |
Visions of Today's Giant Eyes |
Chen, PK |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
42 |
Feature |
A Galaxy of Telescopes |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
52 |
Feature |
Giant Eyes of the Future |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
58 |
Images |
The Hidden Treasure of M17 |
Lada, Charles J. |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
61 |
S&T Test Report |
Nomad 300, Rechargeable Power Source |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
61 |
S&T Test Report |
Takahashi Camera Mount System |
Horne, Johnny |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
66 |
New Product Showcase |
S.T.A.R. 2000, Self-guiding System
for Starlight Xpress Cameras |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
66 |
New Product Showcase |
Takahashi Astronomer 22x60 Apochromatic Binoculars |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
66 |
New Product Showcase |
Tokai Light Pollution Suppression Filters |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
68 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Automatic Asteroid Hunting |
Medkeff, Jeff |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
70 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Box: Making Your Own Robot |
Medkeff, Jeff |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
72 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: Coeli Gold |
Foust, Jeff |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
74 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Investigating Webring Communities |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
75 |
Software Showcase |
JCC-CCD |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
75 |
Software Showcase |
AlphaCentaure 1.1 |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
75 |
Software Showcase |
SunGraph |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
77 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: A Central American Heaven |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
83 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Managing Expectations |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
88 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Into the Heart of the Milky Way |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
89 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: A Milky Way Surprise |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
91 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Floating on Cloud 24 |
French, Sue |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
93 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in August |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
94 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Light-Pollution Notes: New Light-Pollution Maps |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
96 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
98 |
Celestial Calendar |
Ultrathin Moon Clips Venus |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
103 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: August Meteors |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
103 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Occultations by the Moon |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
103 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Ryan's Rules |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
105 |
Observer's Log |
My Favorite Deep-Sky Wonders |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
112 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: A Tour of Obscure Summer Globular Clusters |
Gottlieb, Steve |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
114 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Between Freezing and Serenity |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
116 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: A Challenging Globular-Cluster Marathon |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
120 |
Telescope Techniques |
Sizing Up the Newtonian Secondary |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
123 |
Telescope Techniques |
Diagonal Calculations with Sec |
Adler, Alan |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
129 |
Astro Imaging |
The "State" of Astrophotography |
Cook, Chris |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
138 |
Gallery |
April 7th Aurora over Circumpolar Star Trails |
Wada, Kazuto |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
138 |
Gallery |
Moonscapes of Alpine Valley and Apennine Mountains |
Mengoli, Giorgio |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
139 |
Gallery |
Hydrogen-Alpha Sunspot |
Garcia, Gordon |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
139 |
Gallery |
Nebula NGC 2359 in Canis Major |
Blankenship, Ken |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
139 |
Gallery |
Nebula IC 2948 |
Mandel, Steve |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
140 |
Gallery |
Milky Way over the Texas Star Party |
Gillard, Robert B. |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
140 |
Gallery |
Atmospheric Corona |
Bernstein, Marc |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
140 |
Gallery |
Sundogs over Lithuania |
Selevic, Henryk |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
141 |
Gallery |
Italian Sunset Sequence |
Melandri, Fabrizio |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
141 |
Gallery |
German Aurora |
Jager, Thomas |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Mimi Wagner and Her 10-inch Dobsonian |
Robinson, Marsha |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Why Don't You Name Stars? |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
12 |
Focal Point |
Imagination Astronomy |
Bray, Richard |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
14 |
Letters |
Compton Didn't Have to Die |
Dieters, Stefan |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
14 |
Letters |
Calculating Solar Tides |
Rawlins, Dennis |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
16 |
Letters |
For the Record |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
16 |
Letters |
Capturing the Heart of M81 |
Wolfe, Ted |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
16 |
Letters |
Rare Earth, Not Unique |
Brownlee, Don |
Ward, Peter D. |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
16 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
18 |
News Notes |
More Pieces of Rare Meteorite Recovered |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
19 |
News Notes |
A Meteorite Worth Its Salt |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
20 |
News Notes |
Do All Pulsars Fly Pole First? |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
20 |
News Notes |
Comet LINEAR Brightens On Schedule |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
21 |
News Notes |
More Martian and Lunar Meteorites |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
22 |
News Notes |
Nailing the LMC |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
24 |
News Notes |
U.S. Astronomers Choose Top Projects for Coming Decade |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
26 |
News Notes |
Next Generation Space Telescope on the Fast Track |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
28 |
News Notes |
The Biggest 3-D Map of the Universe |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
28 |
News Notes |
Interstellar Sugar |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Ulysses |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Alexis |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
32 |
Feature |
African Adventure: The New Millennium's First Totality |
Espenak, Fred |
Anderson, Jay |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
36 |
Feature |
Box: NASA's 2001 Solar-Eclipse Bulletin |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
38 |
Feature |
Stars in the Cellar: Classes Lost and Found |
Kaler, James B. |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
42 |
Feature |
Box: It's All in the Temperature |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
46 |
Feature |
The Ultimate Mountaintop: Astronomy Aboard Balloons |
Wanjek, Christopher |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
56 |
Feature |
Martian Mudflows |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
59 |
S&T Test Report |
Hydrogen-Alpha Filter Systems |
Bealo, Peter |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
63 |
S&T Test Report |
Baader AstroSolar Safety Film |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
66 |
New Product Showcase |
The Astronomer's Journal: An
Observer's Daily Log & Sketch Book |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
66 |
New Product Showcase |
Takahashi FS-60C Refractor |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
66 |
New Product Showcase |
Magnificent Constellations: Astronomy Slide Set #3 |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
68 |
Computers in Astronomy |
For a More Precise Position |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
70 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: MoonCalc 5.2 |
Heafner, Joe |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
72 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: So You Want to Be a Star? |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
74 |
Software Showcase |
Satellite Tracker 1.1.5 |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
74 |
Software Showcase |
The Secret of the Universe |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
74 |
Software Showcase |
Arty the Part-Time Astronaut |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
The Runaway Universe: The Race to Rind the Future of the Cosmos, by Donald Goldsmith |
Primack, Joel R. |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
77 |
Books & Beyond |
Cosmic Catastrophes: Supernovae, Gamma-ray Burts, and Adventure in Hyperspace, by J. Craig Wheeler |
Habig, Alec |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
79 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Moon and the
Western Imagination, by Scott L. Montgomery |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
79 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Measuring the Universe, by Stephen Webb |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
79 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: On Tycho's Island, by John Robert Christianson |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
82 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Where Are the Young Astronomers? |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
85 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Mimi, the Messier Monster |
Wagner, Mark |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
87 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Young Astronomer Award Winners |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
88 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: The Real Unified Theory |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
93 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Astronomical Instrument |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Best Skywatching Season |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
99 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
100 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: The Road to the Cocoon |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
101 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Lyre Lessons |
French, Sue |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
103 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in Septemeber |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
104 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Near Sky: Paranthelion |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
106 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
108 |
Celestial Calendar |
Moons of the Outer Planets |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
110 |
Celestial Calendar |
Box: Where to Look |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
113 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: September Meteors |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
113 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Lunar Occultations |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
114 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Polar Skies |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
117 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Exploring Stephan's Quintet |
Freeman, Jay Reynolds |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
120 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Ancient Thebit and Huygens's Sword |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
122 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: White-Light Adventures on the Sun |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
125 |
Telescope Techniques |
Understanding Thermal Behavior in Newtonian Reflectors |
Greer, Bryan |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
136 |
Gallery |
Antares and Rho Ophiuchi |
Hallas, Tony |
Hallas, Daphne |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
136 |
Gallery |
Orion and Taurus Star Trails over Death Valley |
Schad, Jerry |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
137 |
Gallery |
Snake or S Nebula, Barnard 72 |
Ware, Jason |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
137 |
Gallery |
Veil of Nebula IC 443 |
Gendler, Robert |
|
| 2000 |
9 |
138 |
Gallery |
Pinwheel Galaxy M101 |
Gendler, Robert |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Merging Neutron Stars |
Dixon, Don |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Gravity Matters |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
14 |
Focal Point |
Star Partying |
Hettenhausen, Amy |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
16 |
Letters |
Image of an Ancient Sky |
Root, Nile |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
16 |
Letters |
Ersatz Star Names and Lawsuit Threats - I |
Martino, Robert |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
18 |
Letters |
Ersatz Star Names and Lawsuit Threats - II |
Deming, D.A. |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
18 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
18 |
Letters |
Ersatz Star Names and Lawsuit Threats - IV |
Fisher, Jim |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
18 |
Letters |
Ersatz Star Names and Lawsuit Threats - III |
Rao, Joe |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
18 |
Letters |
Thaw Refractor Soldiers On |
Gatewood, George D. |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
18 |
Letters |
Spectroscopy from Harvard Square |
Grindlay, Jonathan E. |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
20 |
Letters |
Swept Up |
Amoroso, John |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
20 |
Letters |
Astronomers Invade Classrooms |
Fraknoi, Andrew |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
22 |
News Notes |
Star Collisions in a Globular's Heart |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
23 |
News Notes |
Planets Come Up Missing in a Globular Cluster |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
24 |
News Notes |
Rings Around the Cat's Eye |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
24 |
News Notes |
Finding Missing Baryons |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
25 |
News Notes |
The Milky Way and M31: Batle of the Heavyweights |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
26 |
News Notes |
Giant New Infrared Survey On the Web |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
27 |
News Notes |
The New, Improved MMT |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
28 |
News Notes |
Black Holes and Galaxy Bulges: Tightly Wedded Mates |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
29 |
News Notes |
Brown-Dwarf Flare |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
30 |
News Notes |
Naked-Eye Eruption of Delta Scorpii |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
30 |
News Notes |
Are Pulsar Ages Wrong? |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
32 |
News Notes |
Methane Rain on Titan? |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
32 |
News Notes |
Tribe, Museum Settle Meteorite Dispute |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
34 |
News Notes |
Recent Volcanism on Mars |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
34 |
News Notes |
Dating a Star Like a Rock |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
36 |
Mission Update |
Cluster II |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
36 |
Mission Update |
Deep Space 1 |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
36 |
Mission Update |
Zvezda |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
40 |
Feature |
LIGO: An Antenna Tuned to the Songs of Gravity |
Sanders, Gary H. |
Beckett, David |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
46 |
Feature |
Box: An Early Look at LISA |
Riordon, James |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
50 |
Feature |
Teaching Einstein to Dance: The Dynamic World of General Relativity |
Frank, Adam |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
58 |
Feature |
Gravitational Waves: A Prehistory |
Kennefick, Daniel |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
68 |
Images |
Lagoon Nebula M8 |
Stapelfeldt, Karl |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
71 |
S&T Test Report |
Celestron CR-150 HD & Orion Skywatcher 120mm EQ Refractors |
Dyer, Alan |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
75 |
S&T Test Report |
Box: Lessons Learned |
Dyer, Alan |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
78 |
New Product Showcase |
Starlight Xpress Ltd.'s MX916 CCD Camera |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
78 |
New Product Showcase |
Boyd Observatories' Model 6000 |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
78 |
New Product Showcase |
Helical Crayford Focuser |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
80 |
Software Showcase |
Amateur Telescope Maker Optical
Design and Analysis Software |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
80 |
Software Showcase |
RegiStar |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
80 |
Software Showcase |
Star Explorer 1.0 |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
The Book of the Cosmos, by Dennis Danielson, ed. |
Berendzen, Richard |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
84 |
Books & Beyond |
A Different Approarch to Cosmology: From a Static Universe to the Big Bang towards Reality, by Hoyle, Burbridge, and
Narlikar |
Kragh, Helge |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
86 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: 3-D Atlas of Stars
and Galaxies, by Richard Monkhouse and John Cox |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
86 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Orrery: Computer
Models of Astronomical Systems, by Caxton C. Foster |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
86 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Dark Matter, Missing
Planets & New Comets: Paradoxes Resolved, Origins Illuminated, by Tom Van
Flandern |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
86 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Protostars and
Planets IV, by Vincent Mannings, Alan P. Boss, and Sara S. Russell, eds. |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
86 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Between the Lines:
The Mystery of the Giant Ground Drawings of Ancient Nasca, Peru, by Anthony
F. Aveni |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
86 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Globes at Greenwich:
A Catalogue of the Globes and Armillary Spheres. . . , by Elly Decker, ed. |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
86 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Elementary Astronomy:
A Simple Reference Guide to Our Solar System, by James N. Pierce |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
89 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Hunting for SOHO Comets Using the Internet |
Kilburn, Kevin J. |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
91 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Box: Have You Found Something? |
Biesecker, Douglas A. |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
92 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Comet Award Winners |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
93 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Stargazing in Mason-Dixon Country |
Petersen, Carolyn Collins |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
94 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: The Man with CCD Eyes |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
101 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Flood Control |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
106 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Pegasus: Between Bright and Dark |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
107 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
108 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: A Farewell to Summer |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
109 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Messier Hunting with the Horse and the Water Boy |
French, Sue |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
111 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in October |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
112 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Light-Pollution Notes: Lighting and Crime, Part 1 |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
114 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
116 |
Celestial Calendar |
Seeking the Elusive Gegenschein |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
121 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: October Meteors |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
121 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultations |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
122 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Horizon Dip |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
124 |
Observer's Log |
A Jupiter Observing Guide |
McAnally, John W. |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
128 |
Observer's Log |
Box: Jupiter in 2000-01 |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
131 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: The Globulars of the Water Constellations |
Whitman, Alan |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
134 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Deslandres and a Hell of a Crater |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
136 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: Comet LINEAR Comes and Goes |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
138 |
Telescope Techniques |
A Weightless Woodshop Refractor |
Hards, Chuck |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
142 |
Gallery |
C-5A and Refueling Tanker Cross the Moon |
Field, Jeff |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
142 |
Gallery |
Eta Carinae Nebula |
Ward, Peter |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
143 |
Gallery |
Sombrero Galaxy M104 |
Ware, Jason |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
143 |
Gallery |
July's Lunar Eclipse |
Munford, Noel |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
143 |
Gallery |
Blue Flash |
Marks, Rodney |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
143 |
Gallery |
Globular Star Cluster M5 |
Lula, Brian |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
144 |
Gallery |
Moonrise over Spain |
Teus, Jon |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
144 |
Gallery |
Crescent Nebula NGC 6888 |
Walker, Sean |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
144 |
Gallery |
Lunar Crater Clavius |
Kovacsy, Arpad |
|
| 2000 |
10 |
145 |
Gallery |
Dumbbell Nebula M27 |
Newton, Jack |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
NGC 3603 Nebula and Star Complex |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
8 |
Spectrum |
SALT: Spice of the Karroo |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
14 |
Focal Point |
Fly Me to the Moon |
Mellberg, William F. |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
16 |
Letters |
Dating of Babylon's Fall Disputed - II |
Huber, Peter J. |
Gurzadyan, Vahe G. |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
16 |
Letters |
Dating of Babylon's Fall Disputed - I |
Britton, John P. |
Gurzadyan, Vahe G. |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
18 |
Letters |
Io's True Colors |
Zukauskas, Walter |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
18 |
Letters |
Northern California Dark Sites |
Parsons, Jim |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
18 |
Letters |
Trick or Peep II |
Colton, Dan |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
18 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
18 |
Letters |
Robotic Observing |
Roberts, Paul Dale |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
20 |
Letters |
Don't Open a Coronado |
Lunt, David |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
20 |
Letters |
A Lady Restored |
Medlock, Denni |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
20 |
Letters |
For the Record |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
24 |
News Notes |
Extrasolar Planets Aplenty |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
25 |
News Notes |
A Way to Sniff Exoplanet Atmospheres |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
26 |
News Notes |
Cosmologists Honored |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
26 |
News Notes |
The Era of Precision Cosmology |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
28 |
News Notes |
HST's Hubble Constant Announced - Again |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
29 |
News Notes |
SETI Projects to Expand |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
30 |
News Notes |
Jodrell Bank to Carry On |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
30 |
News Notes |
New Green Bank Telescope Dedicated |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
31 |
News Notes |
Square Kilometer Array Under Way |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
32 |
News Notes |
Asteroid Name News |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
32 |
News Notes |
Millimeter Wavelengths Saved for Astronomers |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
32 |
News Notes |
New Names for Uranian Moonlets |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
34 |
News Notes |
Europan Undulations |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
34 |
News Notes |
Pluto Debate Resurfaces |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
36 |
News Notes |
Rest in Pieces, Comet LINEAR |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
38 |
Mission Update |
Mars Surveyor 2003 |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
38 |
Mission Update |
Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
38 |
Mission Update |
High-Energy Transient Explorer 2 |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
40 |
Feature |
The Most Mysterious Astronomical Manuscript |
Schaefer, Bradley E. |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
44 |
Feature |
Recycling in the Universe |
Goodman, Alyssa A. |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
56 |
Images |
The California Nebula, NGC 1499 |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
59 |
S&T Test Report |
Celestron's NexStar 8 Go To Scope |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
62 |
S&T Test Report |
NexStar Support Group |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
64 |
New Product Showcase |
David H. Levy's Guide to the Stars Planisphere |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
64 |
New Product Showcase |
Astronomy 2001 Calendar |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
64 |
New Product Showcase |
Cosmic One's SCT Cooler Model R1 |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
66 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Adding a Personal Touch |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
67 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: Astronomica 1.5 |
Medkeff, Jeff |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
70 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Stories in the Sky |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
72 |
Software Showcase |
Aurora Monitor |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
72 |
Software Showcase |
Orbit Xplorer |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
72 |
Software Showcase |
Power Age Sky Simulator 2.0 |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
74 |
Books & Beyond |
The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals As Solar Observatories, by J.L. Heilbron |
Mendelsohn, Leatrice |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
The Bible According to Einstein: A Scientific Complement to the Holy Bible for the Third Millennium |
Taylor, Nola |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
The Way to the Dwelling of Light: How Physics Illuminates Creation, by Guy Consolmagno |
Taylor, Nola |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
Show Me God, by Fred Heeren |
Taylor, Nola |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
77 |
Books & Beyond |
Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist, by Guy Consolmagno |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
78 |
Books & Beyond |
Absolutely Awesome, by Michael and Caroline Carroll |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
78 |
Books & Beyond |
Sun Symbolism and Cosmology in
Michelangelo's "Last Judgement," by Valerie Shrimplin |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
83 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Ventura Starways |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
88 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: Skyward Bound |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
93 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Hard Rain |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
November's Sights to Remember |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
99 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
100 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: Galactic Cluster NGC 7789 |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
101 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Leaping Lizards |
French, Sue |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
103 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in November |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
104 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Light-Pollution Notes: The Conundrum of Outdoor Lighting |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
106 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
108 |
Celestial Calendar |
November's Rare Occultation of Mu Geminorum |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
110 |
Celestial Calendar |
Box: Timing Tips |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
111 |
Celestial Calendar |
Leapin' Leonids! |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
114 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Magnification |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
114 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Lunar Occultations |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
117 |
Observer's Log |
Beyond the Dawes Limit: Observing Saturn's Ring Divisions |
Dobbins, Thomas |
Sheehan, William |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
122 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Galaxy Bridges, Tails, and Rings |
Jakiel, Richard |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
126 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Messier on the Moon |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
128 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: Perseids and an Aurora by Moonlight |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
131 |
Telescope Techniques |
Flexing Spheres into High-Quality Telescope Mirrors |
Adler, Alan |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
142 |
Astro Imaging |
Color Planetary Imaging for Beginners |
Di Sciullo, Maurizio |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
152 |
Gallery |
Sunset Partial Solar Eclipse |
Mortfield, Paul |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
152 |
Gallery |
Comet LINEAR, C/1999 S4 |
Lula, Brian |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
152 |
Gallery |
Star-Studded Lunar Eclipse |
Ward, Peter |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
153 |
Gallery |
Aurora over Island View Beach, Victoria, BC |
Lee, David |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
153 |
Gallery |
Lunar Eclipse Sequence |
Yan Tse, James |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
154 |
Gallery |
Sunset Eclipse Sequence |
Espenak, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
154 |
Gallery |
Aurora over Mount Megantic Observatory |
Gauthier, Sebastian |
|
| 2000 |
11 |
155 |
Gallery |
Auroral Arc over North Dakota |
Brausch, Jay |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Hot New Products of 2000 |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
10 |
Spectrum |
It's Time to Say Goodbye |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
14 |
Focal Point |
Getting It All the First Time Around |
Griffin, Anne |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
15 |
Focal Point |
It's Gotta Be White |
Turco, Michael A. |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
18 |
Letters |
Finding the Young Astronomers - III |
Napier, Tom |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
18 |
Letters |
Finding the Young Astronomers - II |
Leggett, Nick |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
18 |
Letters |
Finding the Young Astronomers - I |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
18 |
Letters |
Finding the Young Astronomers - IV |
Federer, Tony |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
20 |
Letters |
Finding the Young Astronomers - IX |
Nichols, Ted A. |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
20 |
Letters |
Finding the Young Astronomers - VII |
Gittins, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
20 |
Letters |
Finding the Young Astronomers - VI |
Roberts, Patricia Mary |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
20 |
Letters |
Finding the Young Astronomers - V |
Wisenfelder, Richard |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
20 |
Letters |
Finding the Young Astronomers - VIII |
Gibson, Gary T. |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
22 |
Letters |
For the Record |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
22 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
22 |
Letters |
Fixing the 6-inch Chinese Refractor |
Davis, Tom |
Dyer, Alan |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
24 |
News Notes |
Space Weathering Cements Asteroid-Meteorite Link |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
25 |
News Notes |
New Binary Asteroids |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
26 |
News Notes |
Bursts of Another Color |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
26 |
News Notes |
A New Gamma-Ray-Burst Surprise |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
27 |
News Notes |
New Youngest Pulsar |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
28 |
News Notes |
A Microlensed Gamma-Ray Burst |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
30 |
News Notes |
Measuring Orbits at the Milky Way's Heart |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
30 |
News Notes |
A Newborn Star Squirts a Bubble |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
31 |
News Notes |
A British Blueprint for Impact Protection |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
32 |
News Notes |
Sources of the Asteroid Threat |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
32 |
News Notes |
The Searches for Near-Earth Objects |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
34 |
News Notes |
Best Evidence Yet for Europa's Ocean |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
34 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: No Light from the Planet of Tau Bootis |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
34 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Asteroseismology Comes of Age |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
34 |
News Notes |
Another Lunar Meteorite Discovered |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
34 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Pulsar's Age Explained? |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
38 |
Mission Update |
Stardust |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
38 |
Mission Update |
Galileo and Cassini |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
38 |
Mission Update |
Space Infrared Telescope Facility |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
40 |
Feature |
Artistry and Solar Eclipses |
Maor, Eli |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
44 |
Feature |
Hot New Products of 2000 |
<i>Sky &
Telescope</i>, the Editors of |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
54 |
Feature |
2MASS Treasure Hunt |
Deans, Paul |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
64 |
Images |
IC 1396 in Cepheus |
Johnson, Lee |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
69 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Shopping the Online Galaxy Galleria |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
72 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: Star Pilot 3.01 |
Foust, Jeff |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
74 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Browsing Books |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
76 |
Software Showcase |
Solar Kingdom |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
76 |
Software Showcase |
Aberrator 2.1 |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
76 |
Software Showcase |
Kagayaki III |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
78 |
Books & Beyond |
The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos, by Mario
Livio |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
80 |
Books & Beyond |
Heavens Unearthed in Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales, by Matt Kane |
Ottewell, Guy |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Spark of Life:
Darwin and the Primeval Soup, by Christopher Wills and Jeffrey Bada |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Extraterrestrial
Encyclopedia, by David Darling |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Life on Other Worlds
and How to Find It, by Stuart Clark |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Astrobiology, the
Origin of Life, and the Death of Darwinism, by Rhawn Joseph |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Here Be Dragons: The
Scientific Quest for Extraterrestrial Life, by David Koerner and Simon LeVay |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
85 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Backyard Science: The IAPPP and the Amateur Astronomer |
Stephens, Robert D. |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
90 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Asteroid 27 Euterpe: A Pro-Am Project |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
90 |
Amateur Astronomers |
SOHO's 200th Comet |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
91 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: From Telescope Mirrors to the Grand Canyon |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
94 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Noticing the Eclipse |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Seeing Stars As They Really Are |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
99 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
100 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: M34: A True Binocular Cluster |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
101 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Local Calls |
French, Sue |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
103 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in December |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
104 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Light-Pollution Notes: Lighting and Crime Prevention, Part 3 |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
106 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
109 |
Celestial Calendar |
North America's Christmas Eclipse |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
113 |
Celestial Calendar |
Leonid Alert for Eastern North America |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
115 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Occultations by Minor Planets |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
115 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Moon Occults Delta Geminorum |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
116 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Distances |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
116 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: December Meteors |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
120 |
Observer's Log |
My 10 Favorite Deep-Sky Wonders |
Mullaney, James |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
125 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: The Ghosts at 891 Andromeda Way |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
128 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: The Layers of Mare Crisium |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
130 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: Jupiter's Eventful Return |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
134 |
Telescope Techniques |
A Simple Truss-Tube Dobsonian |
Leger, Barry |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
142 |
Gallery |
Meteor over Mount Shasta |
Flinn, John R. |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
142 |
Gallery |
Open Cluster NGC 2264 |
Lula, Brian |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
143 |
Gallery |
Auroral Beam |
Brausch, Jay |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
143 |
Gallery |
Moonrise Behind San Diego |
Schad, Jerry |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
144 |
Gallery |
Large Magellanic Cloud |
George, Douglas |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
144 |
Gallery |
Owl (Monkey) Nebula, M97 |
Lula, Brian |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
145 |
Gallery |
Aurora over Thunderheads |
Laird, Vic |
|
| 2000 |
12 |
146 |
Gallery |
Sunrise Eclipse |
Skilbrei, Oddleiv |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Spiral Galaxy NGC 4414 |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Steady As She Goes |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
10 |
Focal Point |
The Year of the Cloud |
Adams, Eric |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
14 |
Letters |
Amateurs Detect an Extrasolar Planet |
Oksanen, Arto |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
14 |
Letters |
A Proper Wave to Maxwell |
Pasachoff, Jay M. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
16 |
Letters |
Amateur Balloon Astronomy |
Verhage, Paul |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
16 |
Letters |
Solar-Filter Scare |
Roth, Peter |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
16 |
Letters |
For the Record |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
16 |
Letters |
Blow Out Those Tube Currents! |
Powell, Rex R. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
20 |
News Notes |
Loose "Planets" Everywhere |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
21 |
News Notes |
Saturn's Rings: Pure as Driven Snow |
Taylor, Nola |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
22 |
News Notes |
The Virgo Cluster: A Finger Pointed at Us |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
23 |
News Notes |
Saving Old Sky Plates |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
24 |
News Notes |
Pinpointing the Great Attractor |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
24 |
News Notes |
The LMC in Radio |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
26 |
News Notes |
New Midsize Black Hole? |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
26 |
News Notes |
The Finest Measurement Ever Made? |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
28 |
News Notes |
New Moons of Jupiter and Saturn |
Tytell, David |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
28 |
News Notes |
Where the Corona Gets Its Heat |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
29 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Better Size for the Transiting Exoplanet |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
32 |
Mission Update |
Astronomy Satellites |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
33 |
Mission Update |
Human Spaceflight |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
33 |
Mission Update |
Planetary Exploration |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
38 |
Feature |
A Blueprint for Astronomy's Next 10 Years |
McKee, Christopher F. |
Taylor, Joseph H. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
48 |
Feature |
The Duality of Spiral Structure |
Block, David L. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
56 |
Feature |
Dusty Phenomena in the Solar System |
Graps, Amara |
Juhasz, Antal |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
67 |
S&T Test Report |
SBIG's STV Integrating Video Camera and Autoguider |
Dyer, Alan |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
74 |
New Product Showcase |
Orion SkyQuest XT4.5 Dobsonian Telescope |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
74 |
New Product Showcase |
Earth from Space 2001 Calendar |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
74 |
New Product Showcase |
Orion SkyQuest XT10 Dobsonian Telescope |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
74 |
New Product Showcase |
Universe of the Hubble Space Telescope 2001 Calendar |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
74 |
New Product Showcase |
Moonstick Moon-Phase Calculator |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
77 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Web-Based Education Coming of Age |
Wallin, John |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
80 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Finding Online Courses and Teaching Resources |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
82 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: Solar Kingdom |
Ratledge, David |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
84 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Rocks from and in Space |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
87 |
Books & Beyond |
Turn Right at Orion: Travels Through the Cosmos, by Mitchell Begelman |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
88 |
Books & Beyond |
The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Orignis of Atoms, by Marcus Chown |
Deans, Paul |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
89 |
Books & Beyond |
The Horse and the Iron Ball: A
Journey Through Time, Space, and Technology, by Jerry and Georgiana Allan |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
89 |
Books & Beyond |
Stardust: Supernovae and Life--The
Cosmic Connection, by John Gribbin |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
90 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Handbook of the
British Astronomical Association 2001, by J. Mitton, ed. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
90 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Astronomical
Pocket Diary 2001, by Norbert Haley |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
90 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Observer's Handbook 2001, by Rajiv Gupta, ed. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
90 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Astronomical Almanac for the Year 2001 |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
90 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Astronomical Yearbook
2001, by Andrew Yen, ed. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
90 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Astronomical Calendar 2001, by Guy Ottewell |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
90 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: MPO2001 (Minor Planet Observer 2001) |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
92 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Gamma-Ray Bursts and Amateur Astronomers |
Fishman, Gerald J. |
Henden, Arne A. |
Mattei, Janet Akyuz |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
99 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: Guatemala's Rising Star |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
103 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Calendar Worlds |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
106 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
First Light and the Taurus Hour |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
107 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
108 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: NGC 1647: The Crab Cluster |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
109 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Fireflies (The Pleiades, M45) |
French, Sue |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
111 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in January |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
112 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Near Sky: A Circumzenithal-Arc-Tinted Moon |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
114 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
117 |
Celestial Calendar |
Lunar Occultation Highlights for 2001 |
Dunham, David W. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
120 |
Celestial Calendar |
Recent Grazes of 97 Tauri and SAO 93963 |
Dunham, David W. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
124 |
Celestial Calendar |
Where to See January 9th's Total Lunar Eclipse |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
126 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Binocular Comet |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
126 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: January Meteors |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
127 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Apollo |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
127 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Delta-T for 2001 |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
131 |
Observer's Log |
The Season's Prettiest Double Stars |
Adler, Alan |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
133 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Exploring the Pisces-Perseus Supercluster |
Gottlieb, Steve |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
137 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Archimedes, Autolycus, Aristillus, and Time |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
141 |
Telescope Techniques |
Stray Light in Telescopes |
Suiter, Harold R. |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
152 |
Astro Imaging |
Combining Exposures with Layer Masks |
Lodriguss, Jerry |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
160 |
Gallery |
Saturn |
Gross, Todd |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
160 |
Gallery |
Minotaur Missile Exhaust Plume |
Webb, Brian |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
160 |
Gallery |
Globular Cluster Omega Centauri |
Brownfield, Jim |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
161 |
Gallery |
Bubble Nebula in Cassiopeia |
Middleton, Bobby |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
161 |
Gallery |
Sagittarius Starscape |
Guimond, Jean |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
162 |
Gallery |
Galaxies NGC 4725 and NGC 4712 in Coma Berenices |
Lula, Brian |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
162 |
Gallery |
Solar Prominence |
Bottari, Claudio |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
162 |
Gallery |
Eastern Veil Nebula in Cygnus |
Gralak, Ray |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
163 |
Gallery |
Jupiter |
Gross, Todd |
|
| 2001 |
1 |
163 |
Gallery |
Face-On Spiral Galaxy M101 in Ursa Major |
Davis, Tom |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Solar Eruptions by TRACE Spacecraft |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Unfinished Business |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
10 |
Focal Point |
A Code of Ethics for Telescope Advertising? |
Covington, Michael A. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
14 |
Letters |
Mercury, Here We Come |
Weinstock, Maia |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
14 |
Letters |
Better Color CCD Filters |
Holmes, Alan |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
16 |
Letters |
Flexing to Parabolize a Mirror |
Dobbins, Thomas |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
16 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
16 |
Letters |
Dobson's Silent Cannons |
Schwartz, Tristan |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
16 |
Letters |
For the Record |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
20 |
News Notes |
A Greener, Drier Mars |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
21 |
News Notes |
Peering Into a Distant Cocoon |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
22 |
News Notes |
Gamma-Ray Bursts Caught Holding Supernova Debris |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
22 |
News Notes |
A Butterfly in the Making |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
23 |
News Notes |
A Spirograph Nebula |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
24 |
News Notes |
Big Scopes Aren't Always Best |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
24 |
News Notes |
Runaway Stars Corralled |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
26 |
News Notes |
Did Asteroids Supply Earth's Water? |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
26 |
News Notes |
New Views of Double Asteroids |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
27 |
News Notes |
Could You Stand on a Comet? |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
28 |
News Notes |
Tiny Wisp of a Younger Veil |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
29 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: LIGO Achieves First Lock |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
29 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Vikings Erred on Martian Climate |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
32 |
Mission Update |
Genesis |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
32 |
Mission Update |
Mars Exploration Program |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
32 |
Mission Update |
BepiColombo |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
34 |
Feature |
Today's Science of the Sun --- Part 1 |
Schrijver, Carolus J. |
Title, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
40 |
Feature |
Solar-Eclipse Science: Still Going Strong |
Pasachoff, Jay M. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
45 |
Feature |
Box: A Pro-Am Solar-Eclipse Conference |
Pasachoff, Jay M. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
46 |
Feature |
Box: Early Eclipse Science |
Pasachoff, Jay M. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
50 |
Feature |
A Year of Discovery: Astronomy Highlights of 2000 |
Trimble, Virginia |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
60 |
Images |
Map of Mars's Elevation |
Zuber, Maria T. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
64 |
S&T Test Report |
The Tele Vue-102 Refractor |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
66 |
S&T Test Report |
Astrophotography with the Tele Vue-102 |
Cook, Chris |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
68 |
New Product Showcase |
Chandra 2001 Wall Calendar |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
68 |
New Product Showcase |
LaserMate Collimator from Orion |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
68 |
New Product Showcase |
Sunspotter |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
71 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Seven Best of the Web |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
76 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: The Cosmos 3D |
Heafner, Joe |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
78 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Think About the Children! |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
82 |
Software Showcase |
Dark Skies |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
82 |
Software Showcase |
ImagesPlus |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
82 |
Software Showcase |
Planet's Visibility |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
84 |
Books & Beyond |
Asteroids: A History, by Curtis Peebles |
Consolmagno, Guy |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
86 |
Books & Beyond |
Peterson's Field Guide to the Stars and Planets, 4th Edition, by Jay M. Pasachoff |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
88 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Fundamental Ephemeris
Computations, by Paul J. Heafner |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
88 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: See the Stars: Your
First Guide to the Night Sky, by Ken Croswell |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
88 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Dictionary of Minor
Planet Names, 4th Ed., by Lutz D. Schmadel |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
88 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Facts On File
Dictionary of Astronomy, 4th Ed., by Illingworth and Clark, eds. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
88 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: More...Universe at
Your Fingertips, by Fraknoi and Schatz, eds. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
88 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Neptune File, by Tom Standage |
Standage, Tom |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
88 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Celestial Sites, Celestial Splendors, by
Herve Burillier |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
91 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Exploring the Sky at Mamalluca |
Winn, Joshua N. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
96 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Stargazing Under Enchanted Skies |
Petersen, Carolyn Collins |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
97 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Former S&T Staff Member Honored |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
98 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: Explorer of Distant Worlds |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
102 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Fire Bird |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
106 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Beyond Orion's Boundaries |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
107 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
108 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: Another Double Cluster |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
109 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Hodierna's Auriga |
French, Sue |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
111 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in February |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
112 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Night of the Venus Green Flashes |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
114 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
116 |
Celestial Calendar |
Planetary Occultations for 2001 |
Dunham, David W. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
122 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Two Winter Comets |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
122 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Moon Hides Delta Geminorum |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
123 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: UFOs? |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
126 |
Observer's Log |
Introducing the Bortle Dark-Sky Scale |
Bortle, John E. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
130 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Observing Emission Nebulae in the Filter Age |
Whitman, Alan |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
133 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Copernicus: A Spellbinding Crater |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
136 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: Leonids Surprise and Impress |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
138 |
Telescope Techniques |
A Simple Dark-Sky Meter |
Flodqvist, Gote |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
140 |
Telescope Techniques |
Box: Applications for the PBM |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
142 |
Gallery |
Moonrise over Lick Observatory |
Sato, Kevin |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
142 |
Gallery |
Sunspot Rotation Sequence |
Slawik, Eckhard |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
143 |
Gallery |
Aurora over Moonlit Alaska |
Klensch, Michael |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
144 |
Gallery |
Spiral Galaxy NGC 7331 in Pegasus |
Gendler, Robert |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
144 |
Gallery |
Moon, Mercury, and a Mexican Mission |
Billings Popejoy, Mary |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
144 |
Gallery |
Planetary Nebula NGC 6781 in Aquila |
Juchnowski, Steven |
|
| 2001 |
2 |
145 |
Gallery |
NGC 7023 in Cepheus |
Greaney, George |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius |
Guthmiller, Allan |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
8 |
Spectrum |
My Place in the Dark |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
10 |
Focal Point |
Tranquility Base Here |
Lago, Don |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
14 |
Letters |
A Hike in the Kuiper Belt |
Hoernig, Guenther |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
14 |
Letters |
Darkness Deters Crime |
Dees, Gene A. |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
16 |
Letters |
How to Start Right |
Billings, Robert D. |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
16 |
Letters |
Immodest Equipment |
Lindsey, Kevin |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
16 |
Letters |
A Tale of Two March 7th Eclipses |
Rao, Joe |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
16 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
16 |
Letters |
The World's Smoothest Mirrors |
Davis, Glenn |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
18 |
Letters |
For the Record |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
18 |
Letters |
The Drive to Observe |
McKinney, Michael |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
18 |
Letters |
Early Comet Breakups |
Sheehan, William |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
20 |
News Notes |
Ancient Martian Lakes? Perhaps. |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
22 |
News Notes |
Hubble Peers Into the Merope Nebula |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
22 |
News Notes |
Timing a Neutron Star's Hot Spot |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
23 |
News Notes |
A Well-Behaved Exoplanet |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
24 |
News Notes |
Chandra Views Sirius B |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
24 |
News Notes |
Collecting Sirius Binaries |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
26 |
News Notes |
The Solar System's Edge? |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
26 |
News Notes |
Giants Found Lurking in the Kuiper Belt |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
28 |
News Notes |
Lunar Crater Rays: Ancient and Modern |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story:
Yet More Moons of Saturn |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Brief Meteor Outbursts Are Real |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
32 |
Mission Update |
Yohkoh |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
32 |
Mission Update |
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
32 |
Mission Update |
High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
32 |
Mission Update |
Cluster II |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
34 |
Feature |
Today's Science of the Sun - Part 2 |
Schrijver, Carolus J. |
Title, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
42 |
Feature |
Starspots |
Garlick, Mark A. |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
50 |
Images |
Rosette Nebula, NGC 2237 |
Kuchar, Thomas |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
54 |
S&T Test Report |
Takahashi 60-mm Premium Binoculars |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
60 |
New Product Showcase |
Takahashi Sky 90 Refractor |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
60 |
New Product Showcase |
Southern Hemisphere Planisphere |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
60 |
New Product Showcase |
Carbon Light Tripod |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
62 |
Computers in Astronomy |
TheSky Pocket Edition |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
68 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Messages to the Stars |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
70 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: Modern Optical Design and Analysis Software 3.1 |
Medkeff, Jeff |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
73 |
Books & Beyond |
SolarMax |
Maran, Stephen P. |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
75 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: A Walk Through the
Southern Sky, by Heifetz and Tirion |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
75 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: 2001 Comet Handbook,
by Nakano and Green, eds. |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
75 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Target Earth, by Duncan Steel |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
75 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Exporing the
Universe: Science Activities for Kids, by Anthony D. Fredericks |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
76 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Asteroids, Teenagers, and Real Science |
Furutani, Tracy |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
80 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: A Man Called Ilan |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
81 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Roger W. Tuthill, 1919-2000 |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
86 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
The Sphinx Blinks |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
What's That over the Spring Horizon? |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
91 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
92 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: Two Southern Delights |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
93 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
What a Crab! |
French, Sue |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
95 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in March |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
96 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Light-Pollution Notes: Light Pollution and Birds: Part 1 |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
100 |
Celestial Calendar |
Venus's Evening Sky Show |
Ashford, Adrian R. |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
102 |
Celestial Calendar |
Box: Finding Venus in the Daytime |
Ashford, Adrian R. |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
104 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Occultations by Asteroids |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
105 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: March Meteors |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
106 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Jovian Skies |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
108 |
Observer's Log |
Messier Surveys by the Dozen |
Freeman, Jay Reynolds |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
113 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Great Galaxies, By Gemini! |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
116 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Alphonsus: Volcanism Then and Now? |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
117 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: A Christmas Partial Eclipse |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
120 |
Telescope Techniques |
The Folded Refractor: Quality Optics on a Budget |
Pfannenschmidt, Ernie |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
126 |
Astro Imaging |
Astrophotography Heavyweight |
Guthmiller, Allan |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
130 |
Astro Imaging |
Box: H. Page Bailey: A Pioneering Telescope Maker |
Cook, Anthony |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
132 |
Gallery |
Spiral Galaxy M81 |
Guthmiller, Allan |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
132 |
Gallery |
Flame Nebula, NGC 2024 |
Guthmiller, Allan |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
132 |
Gallery |
Lagoon Nebula, M8 |
Guthmiller, Allan |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
133 |
Gallery |
Pinwheel Galaxy, M33 |
Guthmiller, Allan |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
133 |
Gallery |
Omega Nebula, M17 |
Guthmiller, Allan |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
134 |
Gallery |
Cocoon Nebula, IC 5146 |
Guthmiller, Allan |
|
| 2001 |
3 |
134 |
Gallery |
Flaming Star Nebula, IC 405 |
Guthmiller, Allan |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
The Whirlpool Galaxy, M51 |
McLaughlin, Bill |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Move Over Harry! |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
10 |
Focal Point |
A Clearing of One's Own |
Roohr, Damien |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
14 |
Letters |
Photometry the Old-Fashioned Way |
Dunlap, J. Lawrence |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
14 |
Letters |
The Center of the Universe? |
Danielson, Dennis |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
14 |
Letters |
Seeing Double |
Bartlett, Hugh |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
16 |
Letters |
Young Astronomer Frustrations |
Erdman, Earl |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
16 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
16 |
Letters |
Teaching Teachers Astronomy |
Bobich, Chuck |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
16 |
Letters |
Tales of Young Astronomers |
Barclay-Saxon, Samii |
Collett, Lenka |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
18 |
Letters |
The Power of Pollution |
Magee, Mitch |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
18 |
Letters |
What's in a Name? |
Rust, Paul D. |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
18 |
Letters |
For the Record |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
18 |
Letters |
Measuring Night-Sky Brightness |
Falchi, Fabio |
Federici, Alessandro |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
20 |
News Notes |
Two Weird New Planetary Systems |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
22 |
News Notes |
Death Spirals at a Black Hole? |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
22 |
News Notes |
Black Holes Really Are Black |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
24 |
News Notes |
Future Planetary System of a Massive Star? |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
26 |
News Notes |
Mini-Moons II: Jovian Moon Lost and Found |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
26 |
News Notes |
Mini-Moons I: Saturn's Irregulars |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
27 |
News Notes |
Mini-Moons III: 10 More for Jupiter |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
27 |
News Notes |
Asteroid No. 20000 |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
28 |
News Notes |
Olympus Mons "Shrinks" |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
29 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Delta Scorpii Still Bright |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
29 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: A Pummeling 3.9 Billion Years Ago |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
32 |
Mission Update |
Pluto Mission |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
32 |
Mission Update |
Huygens |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
32 |
Mission Update |
2001 Mars Odyssey |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
34 |
Feature |
Identifying the "Star" in a Long-Lost Van Gogh |
Olson, Donald W. |
Doescher, Russell L. |
Honors Astronomy Class, The
Southwest Texas |
| 2001 |
4 |
42 |
Feature |
The Future of SETI |
Shostak, Seth |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
48 |
Feature |
Box: SETI Searches in 2001 |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
50 |
Feature |
Box: A Newer, Smarter SETI Strategy |
Cohen, Nathan |
Hohlfeld, Robert |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
52 |
Feature |
Box: Test Bench for SETI's Radio Future |
Shostak, Seth |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
56 |
Images |
30 Doradus,The Tarantula Nebula |
Chu, You-Hua |
Brandner, Wolfgang |
Grebel, Eva K. |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
59 |
S&T Test Report |
Orion's SkyQuest XT4.5 Dobsonian |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
63 |
S&T Test Report |
Box: Making a Good Scope Better |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
66 |
New Product Showcase |
Starbeam Finder |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
66 |
New Product Showcase |
1-1/4-inch Everbrite Star Diagonal |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
66 |
New Product Showcase |
Century Seasons CD, by John Serrie |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
68 |
Software Showcase |
Redshift 4 |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
68 |
Software Showcase |
Atlas of the Solar System |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
68 |
Software Showcase |
Exploring the Planets |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
70 |
Books & Beyond |
Henry Norris Russell, by David H. DeVorkin |
Batten, Alan H. |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
72 |
Books & Beyond |
Wide-Field Astrophotograpy, by Robert Reeves |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
73 |
Books & Beyond |
Practical Astrophotography, by Jeffrey R. Charles |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
74 |
Books & Beyond |
Secrets of the Sun: A Closer Look at
Our Star, by Patricia Barnes-Svarney |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
74 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Scientific
American Book of the Cosmos, by David H. Levy |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
74 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Celestial Harvest, by James Mullaney |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
74 |
Books & Beyond |
Star Factories: The Birth of Stars
and Planets, by Ray Jayawardhana |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
74 |
Books & Beyond |
Life in Outer Space: The Search for
Extraterrestrials, by Kim McDonald |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
74 |
Books & Beyond |
Signals from Space: The Chandra
X-ray Observatory, by Robert Naeye |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
74 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: StarGuides 2001, by Andre Heck |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
76 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Amid the Treasures of Persia |
Simmons, Mike |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
80 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Box: Astronomers Meet in Isfahan |
Heyn, Herman M. |
Naze, Yael |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
82 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Astronomy Day 2001 |
Tomlinson, Gary E. |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
83 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: The Long Orbit of Albert Jones |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
86 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
With a Bird's-Eye View |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
A Season for Stellar Marathons |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
91 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
92 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: The Great Rays of Tycho |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
93 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Stalking the Leo Triplet |
French, Sue |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
95 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in April |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
96 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Light-Pollution Notes: Light Pollution and Birds: Part 2 |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
102 |
Celestial Calendar |
Doubles Near Procyon and Hydra |
Haas, Sissy |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
104 |
Celestial Calendar |
Outer Planets in 2001 |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
108 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: April Meteors |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
108 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Refraction |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
108 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Jupiter Almost Moonless |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
108 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Lunar Occultations |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
113 |
Observer's Log |
My Favorite Deep-Sky Wonders |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
118 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: The Ghost Cat in the Sky |
Freeman, Jay Reynolds |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
121 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Rheita and Snellius: Valleys of Wonder |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
124 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: An Excellent Eclipse Adventure |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
128 |
Telescope Techniques |
Newtonian Baffling Made Easy |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
136 |
Gallery |
Midwestern Aurora |
Wallach, James |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
136 |
Gallery |
Total Lunar Eclipse from Sweden |
Ask, Bengt |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
136 |
Gallery |
Glory Photographed from Airplane |
Root, Nile |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
136 |
Gallery |
Christmas Partial Solar
Eclipse |
Sewell, Dave |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
137 |
Gallery |
Orion Nebula |
Middleton, Bobby |
|
| 2001 |
4 |
138 |
Gallery |
Spiral Galaxy M81 in Ursa Major |
Gendler, Robert |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
1999 Hubble Composite of Mars |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
8 |
Spectrum |
New Kids on the Block |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
10 |
Focal Point |
A Small Boy's First "Telescope" |
Tabrah, Frank |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
14 |
Letters |
Looking to the Future |
Lowrey, Justin |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
14 |
Letters |
Space Bucks |
Kao, Kuo-Chiun |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
14 |
Letters |
Killing Lights with Lasers |
Morrow, Mike |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
14 |
Letters |
Purchasing a Piece of the Heavens |
Armstrong, Thomas K. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
16 |
Letters |
Untruth in Advertising - I |
Roberts, Joe |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
16 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
16 |
Letters |
Untruth in Advertising - III |
Dole, Jim |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
16 |
Letters |
Untruth in Advertising - II |
Pither, Colin M. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
18 |
Letters |
For the Record |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
18 |
Letters |
Parts for the Simple Dark-Sky Meter |
Olsen, James |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
18 |
Letters |
A Christmas Present |
Galea, Rev. George S. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
18 |
Letters |
Color Corrected |
Pasachoff, Jay M. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
20 |
News Notes |
Making the Virtual Observatory Real |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
21 |
News Notes |
Bipolar Splendor |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
22 |
News Notes |
Not Quite a Solar Twin |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
22 |
News Notes |
Star Streams from Lost Milky Way Companions |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
23 |
News Notes |
Radioactive Dating of Stars |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
24 |
News Notes |
Pulsar Linked to Supernova of A.D. 386 |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
24 |
News Notes |
The First Exo-Solar Wind |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
26 |
News Notes |
Making Gas Giants Later |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
27 |
News Notes |
Did "Survivors" Create the Oort Cloud? |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
27 |
News Notes |
Case for "Ashen Light" Weakens |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
28 |
News Notes |
U.S. Public Wants NASA to Explore Europa and Pluto |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
28 |
News Notes |
Pluto's Palette |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
29 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Another Clue to the Lack of Antimatter |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
29 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Evolution Returns to Kansas |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
32 |
Mission Update |
Mars Global Surveyor |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
32 |
Mission Update |
Next Generation Space Telescope |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
32 |
Mission Update |
Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
34 |
Feature |
NEAR Falls for Eros |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
40 |
Feature |
Galileo's Closest Look at Io |
Spencer, John |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
48 |
Images |
Eta Carinae Nebula |
Walborn, Nolan R. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
52 |
S&T Test Report |
Five "Go To" Telescopes for Beginners |
Dyer, Alan |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
59 |
S&T Test Report |
Box: Tips for Happy Slewing |
Dyer, Alan |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
62 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Superior Moments for Inferior Planets |
Gingrich, Mark |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
68 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: The Digital Universe 2.2 |
Foust, Jeff |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
70 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Astronomy in the Sunshine State |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
72 |
Software Showcase |
The Simple Observing Log |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
72 |
Software Showcase |
Solar System Sim 2.0.1 |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
72 |
Software Showcase |
Helio 2.0 |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
75 |
Books & Beyond |
The Hatfield Photographic Lunar Atlas, by Jeremy Cook, ed. |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
75 |
Books & Beyond |
Observing the Moon: The Modern Astronomer's Guide, by Gerald North |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
75 |
Books & Beyond |
Atlas of the Lunar Terminator, by John E. Westfall |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
75 |
Books & Beyond |
Observing the Moon, by Peter T. Wlasuk |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
75 |
Books & Beyond |
The Face of the Moon: A Descriptive Guide, by Joseph Cohen |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
78 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Celestial Sphere, by Robert Dick |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
78 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Universe
Unveiled: Instruments and Images Through History, by Stephenson, Bolt, and
Friedman |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
78 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: AstroFAQs, by Stephen F. Tonkin |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
78 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Cosmos in the
Classroom 2000, by Andrew Fraknoi, ed. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
78 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: StarGaze: Hubble's
View of the Universe (DVD-ROM) |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
78 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Hubble Space
Telescope: New Views of the Universe, by Mark Voit |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
78 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Cambridge Guide to
Stargazing with Your Telescope, by Robin Scagell |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
80 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: Arthur C. Clarke's Vision of the Cosmos |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
86 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Dropping In |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Stargazing at the Spica Hour |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
91 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
92 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: In and Around Melotte 111 |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
93 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
A Toehold in the Virgo Cluster |
French, Sue |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
95 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in May |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
96 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Light-Pollution Notes: Limiting Tower Lighting |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
102 |
Celestial Calendar |
A Grand Return of Mars |
Troiani, Daniel M. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
104 |
Celestial Calendar |
Box: A Mars Observer's Calendar |
Troiani, Daniel M. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
106 |
Celestial Calendar |
Box: Which Side Is Visible? |
Troiani, Daniel M. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
110 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultation |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
110 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Declination |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
110 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: May Meteors |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
115 |
Observer's Log |
The Martian-Flares Mystery |
Dobbins, Thomas |
Sheehan, William |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
124 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: More Bridges, Tails and Rings |
Jakiel, Richard |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
127 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: A Privately Held Mare |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
130 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: More Boltwood |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
130 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: Above and Beyond |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
132 |
Astro Imaging |
Automated Meteor Observing |
Molau, Sirko |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
137 |
Astro Imaging |
An Aerial Rendezvous with the Leonids |
Okamura, Osamu |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
140 |
Gallery |
Van den Bergh 142 in Cepheus |
McLaughlin, William |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
140 |
Gallery |
Barnard's Loop |
Mandel, Steve |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
140 |
Gallery |
Young Crescent Moon |
Pitt, Stephen |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
141 |
Gallery |
Rosette Nebula |
Gendler, Robert |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
141 |
Gallery |
Spiral Galaxy M74 |
Gendler, Robert |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
141 |
Gallery |
Witch Head Nebula in Eridanus |
Stevens, Gary L. |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
142 |
Gallery |
Pelican Nebula |
Rhemann, Gerald |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
142 |
Gallery |
Christmas Eclipse and the U.S. Capitol |
Wachs, Tom |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
142 |
Gallery |
Helix Nebula |
Hanon, David |
|
| 2001 |
5 |
142 |
Gallery |
Lunar Eclipse Mosaic |
Dal Lago, Giovanni |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Peculiar Galaxy NGC 5128 |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
8 |
Spectrum |
It's Party Time! |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
10 |
Focal Point |
Observing Log: October 2, 1998 |
Anderson, Jim |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
14 |
Letters |
Lasting Impressions |
Rao, Joe |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
14 |
Letters |
International Lighting Laws |
Falchi, Fabio |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
15 |
Letters |
Take Back the Skies |
Kaville, Ray |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
16 |
Letters |
A Lonely Future |
Dryer, Ivan |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
16 |
Letters |
A Gift That Speaks Volumes |
Land, William O. |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
16 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
18 |
Letters |
Crime and Lighting |
Roller, Tom |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
18 |
Letters |
Observing on Shaky Ground |
Shylaja, B. S. |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
18 |
Letters |
For the Record |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
18 |
Letters |
An Underappreciated Beauty |
Adler, Alan |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
20 |
News Notes |
An Early Universe Lit by Black Holes |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
21 |
News Notes |
Subtleties of Spiral Galaxies |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
22 |
News Notes |
The Nearest Very Cool Dwarf |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
22 |
News Notes |
Eroded Stars Found Orbiting White Dwarfs |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
23 |
News Notes |
Students Catch the First Radio Brown Dwarf |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
23 |
News Notes |
Comet Hale-Bopp Still Alive in the Distance |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
24 |
News Notes |
A Medieval Impact Debunked |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
24 |
News Notes |
Magnetite Chains Hint at Martian Microbes |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
26 |
News Notes |
Impact Evidence for the Biggest Mass Extinction |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
26 |
News Notes |
When Was Solar Max? |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
26 |
News Notes |
One Rock Killed the Dinosaurs |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
28 |
News Notes |
First Fringes for the Keck and VLT Interferometers |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
29 |
News Notes |
Tagish Lake Meteorite Mystery Deepens |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
32 |
Mission Update |
Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
32 |
Mission Update |
Odin |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
32 |
Mission Update |
Mir |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
34 |
Feature |
The Race to Epsilon Eridani |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
44 |
Images |
M51 and NGC 5195 |
Canzian, Blaise |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
47 |
S&T Test Report |
IDAS Light Pollution Suppression Filters |
Horne, Johnny |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
50 |
S&T Test Report |
Celestron NexStar 4 GT |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
56 |
New Product Showcase |
Astele Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescopes |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
56 |
New Product Showcase |
YES Watch |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
56 |
New Product Showcase |
Guide to North American Meteorites |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
58 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Java Applets for Astronomy |
Ashford, Adrian R. |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
60 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: STD Aurora Monitor 2.0 |
Ratledge, David |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
62 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: On the Eclipse Trail |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
64 |
Software Showcase |
CCDPRo |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
64 |
Software Showcase |
PalmAtlas 1.0 |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
64 |
Software Showcase |
GraphDark |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
66 |
Books & Beyond |
Transit: When Planets Cross the Sun, by Michael Maunder and Patrick Moore |
Westfall, John E. |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
66 |
Books & Beyond |
June 8, 2004: Venus in Transit, by Eli Maor |
Westfall, John E. |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
68 |
Books & Beyond |
The Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing, by Richard Berry and James Burnell |
Szymanek, Nik |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
70 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Star Struck: One
Thousand Years of the Art and Science of Astronomy, by Ronald Brashear and
Daniel Lewis |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
70 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Sky Atlas 2000.0
Companion, by Robert A. Strong and Roger W. Sinnott |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
70 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Life Beyond Earth, by Timothy Ferris |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
70 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Astronomy and
Astrophysics in the New Millennium, by the National Research Council |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
70 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Cambridge Dictionary
of Astronomy, by Jaqueline Mitton |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
70 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Origin of the Earth
and Moon, by Robin M. Canup and Kevin Righter, eds. |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
70 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly
Noted: Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics Vol. 38, by Burbidge,
Sandage, and Shu, eds. |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
74 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Longfellow: Voice of the Night |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
78 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: A Marriage of Science and Art |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
85 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Celestial Awe and Alignments in 2001 |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Old Polestars and the Dragon's Eye |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
91 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
92 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: R Cor Bor's Vanishing Act |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
93 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Polar Nights |
French, Sue |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
95 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in June |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
96 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Near Sky: A Ghostly Anthelion |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
100 |
Celestial Calendar |
Rare Flyby of 1999 KW4 |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
102 |
Celestial Calendar |
The Demon Sprites of Mars |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
104 |
Celestial Calendar |
Box: An Uncanny Prediction |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
105 |
Celestial Calendar |
The June 21st Eclipse of the Sun |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
108 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Southern Hemisphere Comet |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
109 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultations |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
110 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Green Flash |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
112 |
Observer's Log |
James Dunlop: Messier of the Southern Sky |
Cozens, Glen |
White, Graeme L. |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
117 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Snaring Galaxies Near M13 |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
120 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Serene Craters |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
122 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: International Space Station with a Webcam |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
125 |
Telescope Techniques |
Readers Ask: Power and Alignment |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
128 |
Gallery |
Nebula IC 2948 in Centaurus |
Stecker, Michael |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
128 |
Gallery |
Spiral Galaxy NGC 2997 |
Juchnowski, Steven |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
129 |
Gallery |
Barred-Spiral Galaxy NGC 1808 |
Juchnowski, Steven |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
129 |
Gallery |
All-Sky Milky-Way from West Malaysia |
Toh, Michael |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
130 |
Gallery |
Eta Carinae Nebula |
Sefick, John |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
131 |
Gallery |
Spiral Galaxy NGC 253 in Sculptor |
Brewer, Randy |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
131 |
Gallery |
Nebula NGC 1763 in LMC |
Juchnowski, Steven |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
131 |
Gallery |
Southern Scorpius |
Dodd, Luke |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
132 |
Gallery |
Star Cluster NGC 1850 in LMC |
Juchnowski, Steven |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
132 |
Gallery |
Galaxies NGC 1531 and NGC 1532 |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Flame Nebula in Orion |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
8 |
Spectrum |
The Great Myth |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
10 |
Focal Point |
The Accuracy of the Press |
Schaefer, Bradley E. |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
14 |
Letters |
Cutting Commentaries - I |
Vernier, Richard |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
14 |
Letters |
Cutting Commentaries - II |
Urban, Josh |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
16 |
Letters |
Cutting Commentaries - Reply |
Roohr, Damien |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
16 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
16 |
Letters |
Cutting Commentaries - III |
Winfree, Art T. |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
16 |
Letters |
Cutting Commentaries - V |
Simpson, John |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
16 |
Letters |
Underwater Observing |
Schaeffer, Harden |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
16 |
Letters |
Cutting Commentaries - IV |
Sutherland, Michael |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
18 |
Letters |
We Smell a Rat |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
18 |
Letters |
For The Record |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
18 |
Letters |
The Velveteen Telescope |
Brown, Chris |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
18 |
Letters |
Some Pennies for Your Thoughts |
Lyons, Randy |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
20 |
News Notes |
Farthest Supernova Clinches Case for Accelerating Universe |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
21 |
News Notes |
Evidence of Cosmic Speedup |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
22 |
News Notes |
The Stage Is Set for FAME |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
22 |
News Notes |
The Best Star Catalog Ever |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
24 |
News Notes |
A Brown Dwarf and Planet Combo |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
24 |
News Notes |
Disputed Weird Worlds Among 11 New Exoplanets |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
26 |
News Notes |
Why Is Mars Red? |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
26 |
News Notes |
Other Ways To Make Martian Gullies |
Tytell, David |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
28 |
News Notes |
Ganymede's Hidden Ocean |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Eta Carinae's Binary Orbit |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
28 |
News Notes |
A Kuiper Belt Binary |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Gold from Them Thar Neutron Stars |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Why No Planets in 47 Tucanae? |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
32 |
Mission Update |
Galileo |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
32 |
Mission Update |
2001 Mars Odyssey |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
32 |
Mission Update |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
33 |
Mission Update |
Pioneer 10 |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
34 |
Feature |
2MASS: Unveiling the Infrared Universe |
Skrutskie, Michael |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
38 |
Feature |
Box: How 2MASS Surveyed the Sky |
Skrutskie, Michael |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
44 |
Feature |
A New Century for Asteroids |
Binzel, Richard P. |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
49 |
Feature |
Box: Celebrating Ceres at 200 |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
52 |
Images |
Infrared and Radio Composite of Region in Cygnus |
English, Jayanne |
Taylor, A. Russell |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
55 |
S&T Test Report |
Meade LX90 |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
61 |
S&T Test Report |
Box: LX90 or NexStar 8? |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
65 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Star Catalogs for the 21st Century |
Ashford, Adrian R. |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
68 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: RedShift 4 |
Heafner, Joe |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
70 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Some Funny Stuff |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
72 |
Software Showcase |
The Planets 2.0 |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
72 |
Software Showcase |
Celestia |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
72 |
Software Showcase |
Galaxy Collider |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
74 |
Books & Beyond |
Percival Lowell: The Culture and Science of a Boston Brahmin, by David Strauss |
Osterbrock, Donald E. |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
Video Astronomy, by Steve Massey, Thomas A. Dobbins, and Eric J. Douglass |
Macfarlane, Alan W. |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
79 |
Amateur Astronomers |
A Gift of the Universe |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
82 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: The Street-Corner Astronomer |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
86 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Horse Sense |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Scorpius and a Little Night Music |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
91 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
92 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: A False Comet |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
93 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Overlooked Neighbors |
French, Sue |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
95 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in July |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
96 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Near Sky: Special Summer Rainbows |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
100 |
Celestial Calendar |
The Crescent Moon Hides Venus |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
Gingrich, Mark |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
103 |
Celestial Calendar |
A Partial Lunar Eclipse for the Far East |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
106 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultation |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
106 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: July Meteors |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
106 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Ceres in the Teapot |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
106 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Coriolis |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
111 |
Observer's Log |
More Pretty Doubles |
Adler, Alan |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
114 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: A Chain of Galaxies Near M92 |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
116 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Apollo 15 and Hadley Rille |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
120 |
Telescope Techniques |
An Attractive Three-Point Dobsonian |
Milsom, Francis |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
127 |
Astro Imaging |
High-Resolution Composite Color Imaging with Films |
Gupta, Rajiv |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
133 |
Astro Imaging |
Color CCD Imaging with Luminance Layering |
Gendler, Robert |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
140 |
Gallery |
Heart Nebula, IC 1805 |
BenDaniel, Matt |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
140 |
Gallery |
Winter Milky Way |
Lorenzi, Marco |
Zaggia, Luca |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
141 |
Gallery |
Spiral Galaxy M101 |
Gendler, Robert |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
141 |
Gallery |
Delta Scorpii and Mars |
Fujii, Akira |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
142 |
Gallery |
Nebula IC 443 in Gemini |
Wright, Cliff |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Moon's Southern Highlands |
Lau, Canon |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Cosmologic Illogic |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
10 |
Focal Point |
Telescopes I Have Known and Loved |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
12 |
Letters |
A Mooving Experience |
Bliss, Frank |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
12 |
Letters |
Fire in the Sky |
Leach, Sid |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
12 |
Letters |
First Light |
Borders, Craig |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
14 |
Letters |
A Night with an Old Friend |
Taylor, Chuck |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
14 |
Letters |
The Future of Astronomy? |
Bemus, Tom |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
14 |
Letters |
For the Record |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
14 |
Letters |
Revisiting Venus |
Maor, Eli |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
16 |
Letters |
More Celestial Currency |
Tatum, Jeremy B. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
16 |
Letters |
Rediscovering a Poet |
Johnson, Duane |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
16 |
Letters |
Last Laugh |
Epstein, Lewis Carroll |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
18 |
News Notes |
The New Cosmology Firms Up |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
19 |
News Notes |
Horsehead by Hubble |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
19 |
News Notes |
The Double Cluster Really is Double |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
20 |
News Notes |
The Biggest-Ever Cosmic Map |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
20 |
News Notes |
White Dwarfs As Dark Matter |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
22 |
News Notes |
Stars with Planets I: Telltale Heavy Elements |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
22 |
News Notes |
Stars with Planets II: Swallowed Worlds |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
23 |
News Notes |
Stars with Planets III: Clues from Planetary Nebulae |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
24 |
News Notes |
Iridium Satellites Get New Lease on Life |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
24 |
News Notes |
Stars with Planets IV: Most Earths are Old |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
26 |
News Notes |
Millisecond-Pulsar Bonanza in a Globular Cluster |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
26 |
News Notes |
No Central Black Hole |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Refining the Cosmic Deuterium Assay |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
28 |
News Notes |
Stellafane Gets Lighting Reprieve |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: The Fate of the Earth |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
28 |
News Notes |
Earth from Mars Odyssey |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Lunar A |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Selene |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Beagle 2 |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
32 |
Feature |
Taking the Pulse of Neutron Stars |
Maurer, Stephen M. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
36 |
Feature |
Box: Strange Doomsdays |
Maurer, Stephen M. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
40 |
Feature |
Sharing Mauna Kea |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
46 |
Feature |
Box: History Repeated: Sharing Mount Graham |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
52 |
Images |
Fox Fur Nebula |
Malin, David F. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
55 |
S&T Test Report |
The Astrovid Color PlanetCam |
Horne, Johnny |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
59 |
S&T Test Report |
Box: Fine Focus with a Twist |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
60 |
New Product Showcase |
Sky Window |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
60 |
New Product Showcase |
StarDust Containers |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
60 |
New Product Showcase |
Sky/View 360 Astro-Observatory |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
62 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Another Look at Cosmic Distances |
Weil, Thomas A. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
68 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: Ephemeris Tool 4.3 |
Medkeff, Jeff |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
70 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Back to BASICs |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
72 |
Software Showcase |
SKY:Lab |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
72 |
Software Showcase |
XEphem |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
72 |
Software Showcase |
AstroStack |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
75 |
Books & Beyond |
Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, by Paul Murdin, ed. |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
78 |
Books & Beyond |
Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos, by Alan W. Hirshfeld |
Gatewood, George D. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
80 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Amateur-Professional
Partnerships in Astronomy, by John R. Percy and Joseph B. Wilson, eds. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
80 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Little Book of Stars, by James B. Kaler |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
80 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Bigger Bang, by James E. Lidsey |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
80 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Trained Sky Star Atlas, by Leon Palmer |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
80 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Taking Science to the
Moon, by Donald A. Beattie |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
80 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Wishing on a Star, by Fran Lee |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
80 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Beyond Contact: A
Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations, by Brian McConnell |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
83 |
Amateur Astronomers |
A Decade of Celebrating Astronomy in the Northeast |
Ashford, Adrian R. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
84 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Box: Behind the Scenes with the Rockland Astronomy Club |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
86 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Box: The Northeast Astronomy Forum's Pillar |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
88 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: Clyde Tombaugh's Window to the Stars |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
92 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Hollywood Star |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Sagittarius and a Symphony of Stars |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
99 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
100 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: IC 4756 In Serpens |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
101 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
The Clusters of Taurus Poniatovii |
French, Sue |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
103 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in August |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
104 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Light-Pollution Notes: Regional Organizations |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
106 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
108 |
Celestial Calendar |
Perseid Prospects for 2001 |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
110 |
Celestial Calendar |
Jupiter's Close Encounter with the Moon |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
113 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: A Star Near Mars |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
113 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Callisto's Phenomena Resume |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
113 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultation |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
114 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Gray Nebulae |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
116 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Lyra As a Deep-Sky Sampler |
Whitman, Alan |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
118 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Wargentin and Schickard |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
120 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: The Red Planet |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
120 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: Late "Breaking" News |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
121 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: "Triton Watch" Under Way |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
124 |
Telescope Techniques |
Texas Slim: A Multipurpose Binocular Mount |
Leonberger, George |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
128 |
Astro Imaging |
Astro Imaging with Digital Cameras |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
130 |
Astro Imaging |
Box: Afocal What? |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
138 |
Gallery |
Mammoth Sunspot Complex |
Utter, Craig Michael |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
138 |
Gallery |
Aurora over Skagway, Alaska |
Klensch, Michael |
Heinselman, Craig |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
139 |
Gallery |
Horsehead and Orion Nebulae |
Ware, Jason |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
140 |
Gallery |
Moonbow |
BenDaniel, Matt |
|
| 2001 |
8 |
140 |
Gallery |
Galaxies M81 and M82 |
Gendler, Robert |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Galaxy Cluster Abell 2218 |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Three Nights on Mars |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
10 |
Focal Point |
The Lost Stars |
Haworth, Peter N. J. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
12 |
Letters |
Crazy for Craterlets |
Tung, Brian |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
12 |
Letters |
An Unlikely Tour Guide |
Stout, R. William |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
12 |
Letters |
A Really Heavyweight Mount |
Robinson, Micah |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
14 |
Letters |
Surprising Discoveries |
Leidt, Hans-Jurgen |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
14 |
Letters |
Go To or Not Go To |
Mathers, David |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
14 |
Letters |
Falsely Accused |
Gould, Ross |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
16 |
Letters |
Type II Quasars Revisited |
Hines, Dean C. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
16 |
Letters |
A Lesson Learned |
Covington, Michael A. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
16 |
Letters |
Unsung Heroes |
Farquhar, Robert W. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
16 |
Letters |
For the Record |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
16 |
Letters |
What Has Two Mirrors and Flies? |
Morris, Randy |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
18 |
News Notes |
Solar-Neutrino Problem Solved |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
19 |
News Notes |
Mira's Companion |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
20 |
News Notes |
Sloan Survey Shows Its Stuff |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
21 |
News Notes |
Mapping Mass in 3-D Space |
Downey, Philip |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
21 |
News Notes |
Sloan at Your Fingertips: The SDSS SkyServer |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
22 |
News Notes |
Two Types of Spirals |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
24 |
News Notes |
Far-Out Kuiper-Belt Object Confounds Dynamicists |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
24 |
News Notes |
Brown Dwarfs with Circum"stellar" Disks |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
25 |
News Notes |
Landmark Light-Pollution Law |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
26 |
News Notes |
Stuff of Life from Irradiated Ice |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
27 |
News Notes |
Oblate Altair |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Hubble Space Telescope |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Deep Impact |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
30 |
Mission Update |
HST Servicing Mission 3B |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Galileo |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
32 |
Feature |
The Universe Through Gravity's Lens |
Petersen, Carolyn Collins |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
42 |
Feature |
A Wide Deep Field: Getting the Big Picture |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
46 |
Images |
Sunset on Jupiter |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
49 |
S&T Test Report |
A Dob for the Deep Sky |
Ashford, Adrian R. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
54 |
New Product Showcase |
Universal Camera Mounting Adapter |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
54 |
New Product Showcase |
Astronomy Edition of Monopoly |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
54 |
New Product Showcase |
Laser Collimation Tools |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
56 |
Books & Beyond |
Einstein's Brainchild: Relativity Made Relatively Easy! by Barry Parker |
Reed, Frank E. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
56 |
Books & Beyond |
Relativity for Windows, by Hans-Josef Patt and Peter Nemec |
Reed, Frank E. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
56 |
Books & Beyond |
Maxwell's Conundrum: A Serious but Not Ponderous Book About Relativity, by Walter Scheider |
Reed, Frank E. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
59 |
Books & Beyond |
Einstein's Unfinished Symphony, by Marcia Bartusiak |
Phinney, E. Sterl |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
60 |
Books & Beyond |
Time Travel in Einstein's Universe, by J. Richard Gott |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
60 |
Books & Beyond |
Einstein: Decoding the Universe, by Francoise Balibar |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
66 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Amateur Astronomy in Russia: Past, Present, and Future |
Maslikov, Sergey |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
73 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: Crescent City Astronomers |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
77 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Europing the Bull |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
82 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Early Sky-Signs of Autumn |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
83 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
84 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: A Colorful Cygnus Triple |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
85 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Skirting the Scutum Starcloud |
French, Sue |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
87 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in September |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
88 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Near Sky: Readying for Auroras |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
93 |
Celestial Calendar |
Saturn's Vanishing Act |
Ashford, Adrian R. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
95 |
Celestial Calendar |
Titania Hides a Bright Star |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
98 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Callisto's First Eclipse |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
98 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: September Meteors |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
98 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultation |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
102 |
Observer's Log |
Taking Your Telescope to the Limit |
Skiff, Brian A. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
105 |
Observer's Log |
A Trio of Deep-Sky Duos |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
108 |
Observer's Log |
Julius Caesar and the Haemus Mountains |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
110 |
Observer's Log |
Darkness on the Dark Continent |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
112 |
Observer's Log |
Mars Flares in Florida |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
114 |
Telescope Techniques |
The Hargreaves Strut |
Dobbins, Thomas A. |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
116 |
Astro Imaging |
Fixing Vignetting in Astrophotos |
Walker, Sean |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
124 |
Gallery |
Splendor of the Southern Milky Way |
Yan, James Tse |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
124 |
Gallery |
Sunspot Parade |
Slawik, Eckhard |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
125 |
Gallery |
NGC 2442 |
Juchnowski, Steven |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
125 |
Gallery |
Crescent Venus |
Comolli, Lorenzo |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
125 |
Gallery |
Mediterranean Aurora |
Feyte, Pierre-Paul |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
125 |
Gallery |
First-Quarter Moon |
Bonduelle, Etienne |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
126 |
Gallery |
The Maffei Galaxies |
Ratledge, David |
Bramall, Gerald |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Star Trails over Gemini North |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
8 |
Spectrum |
My Hero, the Tyrant |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
10 |
Focal Point |
The Lost Stars - II |
Sincell, Mark |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
12 |
Letters |
Star-Hoppin' to an Asteroid |
Castle, Paul R. |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
12 |
Letters |
I Spy a Space Station |
Hudgens, Ben |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
14 |
Letters |
I Fought the Rock, and the Rock Won |
Ferrin, Ignacio |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
14 |
Letters |
A SWAN Flying High |
Robson, Monty |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
14 |
Letters |
Now That's Speeding! |
Sewell, Alan E. |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
14 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
16 |
Letters |
Astronomy Musings of a New Father |
Jablonowski, Mark M. |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
16 |
Letters |
The Price of "Star"dom - II |
Alexander, Bob |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
16 |
Letters |
For the Record |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
16 |
Letters |
The Price of "Star"dom - I |
Holliday, Bill |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
18 |
News Notes |
Fountains of Chondrules from the Sun's Cloudy Birth |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
19 |
News Notes |
Why Does Venus Spin Backward? |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
20 |
News Notes |
Barely Stable Planetary Systems |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
20 |
News Notes |
A Young Globular Cluster in the LMC |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
21 |
News Notes |
No Planet Found at Barnard's Star |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
22 |
News Notes |
A Star Cluster Awash in X-rays |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
22 |
News Notes |
Windblown Waves on a Striking Nebular Sea |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
24 |
News Notes |
Listening to Alpha Centauri's Heartbeat |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
26 |
News Notes |
Moon Sheds Light on Earth's Climate |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
26 |
News Notes |
Billions of Comets Orbit a Dying Star |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
28 |
Mission Update |
Microwave Anisotropy Probe |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
28 |
Mission Update |
Spektr-Rontgen-Gamma |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
28 |
Mission Update |
Messenger |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
30 |
Feature |
Adaptive Optics Comes of Age |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
34 |
Feature |
Box: Cultivating AO: The Center for Adaptive Optics |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
35 |
Feature |
Box: A Sharper Sun |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
37 |
Feature |
Box: Rubber Secondaries |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
42 |
Feature |
Mission Possible: The Promise of Pisgah |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
48 |
Images |
Infrared View of Sharpless 106 |
Shepherd, Debra |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
51 |
S&T Test Report |
William Optics Megrez 80 Refractor |
Dyer, Alan |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
56 |
New Product Showcase |
Pier-Tech Adjustable-Height Supports |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
56 |
New Product Showcase |
Peterson Engineering EyeOpener |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
56 |
New Product Showcase |
Star Tek Industries 3N1 Tray |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
58 |
Computers in Astronomy |
A Trio for Minor-Planet Observers |
Medkeff, Jeff |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
62 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: Atlas of the Solar System |
Foust, Jeff |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
64 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Dealing with Online Einsteins |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
66 |
Software Showcase |
Our Fantastic Universe |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
66 |
Software Showcase |
The Fourth Day |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
66 |
Software Showcase |
Astronomer's Control Program 2 |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
69 |
Books & Beyond |
Great Comets, by Robert Burnham |
Petersen, Carolyn Collins |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
69 |
Books & Beyond |
Comet Science, by Jacques Crovisier and Therese Encranaz |
Petersen, Carolyn Collins |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
72 |
Books & Beyond |
Guides to the Night Sky: Audio Tours of the Heaven's Above, by Benjamin J. Senson |
Deans, Paul |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
73 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Catalogue of
Meteorites, 5th Edition, by Monica Grady |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
73 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Observations of
Comets from B.C. 611 to A.D. 1640, Translated from the Chinese Annals, by
John Williams |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
73 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The First Asteroid:
Ceres 1801-2001, by Clifford J. Cunningham |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
76 |
Amateur Astronomers |
The Stars Through the Eyes of the Dragon |
Wai-Kin Ng, Eric |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
78 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Box: A Pioneer Hong Kong Amateur |
Wai-Kin Ng, Eric |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
81 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Comet Award Winners |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
82 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: A Unique Observatory |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
86 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Unlimited Ceiling |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
In Search of the Sea Goat |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
91 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
92 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: Messier 2 Shining Through |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
93 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
A Fish Tail to Get Your Goat |
French, Sue |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
95 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in October |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
96 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Light-Pollution Notes: Recent Victories |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
100 |
Celestial Calendar |
The Quest for Elusive Moons |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
102 |
Celestial Calendar |
Box: Where to Look for a Planet's Moons |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
103 |
Celestial Calendar |
Update on Titania's Occultation |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
106 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultations |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
106 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Driving Space |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
108 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: October Meteors |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
110 |
Observer's Log |
My Favorite Deep-Sky Objects |
Freeman, Jay Reynolds |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
115 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: A Tour of Extragalactic Globulars |
Jakiel, Richard |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
118 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Sabine, Ritter, and Dionysius |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
119 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: Double Disappearing Act |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
122 |
Telescope Techniques |
Downsizing Newtonian Secondary Mirrors |
Pfannenschmidt, Ernie |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
124 |
Telescope Techniques |
Box: More Uses for Relay Lenses |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
128 |
Gallery |
Eclipse Sequence |
Legault, Thierry |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
128 |
Gallery |
June 21st Solar Eclipse Crescent |
Bruenjes, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
128 |
Gallery |
June 21st Eclipse |
Carlos, Wendy |
Kern, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
128 |
Gallery |
Celestial Diamond Ring |
Guertin, Jacques |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
130 |
Gallery |
June 21st Eclipse and Jupiter |
Espenak, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
130 |
Gallery |
Comet LINEAR at Lake Titicaca |
Mirot, Max |
Tanner, Roger |
Close, Brian |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
131 |
Gallery |
June 21st Eclipse Prominence |
Legault, Thierry |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
131 |
Gallery |
Faces of Mars |
Massey, Steve |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
131 |
Gallery |
Venus Time Lapse Composite |
Tezel, Tunc |
|
| 2001 |
10 |
132 |
Gallery |
The Moon in Shadow |
Anderson, Peter E. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
The Crescent Nebula |
Gendler, Robert |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Sixty Years and Counting... |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
10 |
Focal Point |
Escape from the Armchair |
Lally, Raymond |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
12 |
Letters |
Point and Shoot - II |
Donnelly, Joey |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
12 |
Letters |
Revisiting Mauna Kea - II |
Dutch, Steven I. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
12 |
Letters |
I Saw the Great Pumpkin! |
Marks, Joel |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
12 |
Letters |
Point and Shoot - I |
DeMidio, Rich |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
12 |
Letters |
Revisiting Mauna Kea - I |
Milledge, Robert D. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
14 |
Letters |
In Praise of Small Scopes |
Hamer, Martijn |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
14 |
Letters |
For the Record |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
14 |
Letters |
Greetings from Turkey |
Kalfaoglu, Turgut |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
14 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
16 |
News Notes |
A Better Fix on Gamma-Ray Bursts |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
17 |
News Notes |
A Warped Edge-on Galaxy |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
18 |
News Notes |
Time Bomb in Scorpius |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
18 |
News Notes |
How Miras Vary |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
19 |
News Notes |
Looking Toward the Dark Age |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
20 |
News Notes |
The Source of the Milky Way's X-rays |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
20 |
News Notes |
An Asteroid Belt Like Our Own? |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
22 |
News Notes |
Dust Storm Clouds Out Mars |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
23 |
News Notes |
Daylight Meteor Lights the Northeast |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
23 |
News Notes |
The Origin of Brown Dwarfs |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
24 |
News Notes |
Antique-Instrument Market Heats Up |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
25 |
News Notes |
Fred Hoyle, 1915-2001 |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
28 |
Mission Update |
KORONAS-F |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
28 |
Mission Update |
Genesis |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
28 |
Mission Update |
Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
30 |
Feature |
Sixty Years of Hindsight |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
35 |
Feature |
Box: No Identity Crisis |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
38 |
Feature |
The Race to Measure the Cosmos |
Hirshfeld, Alan W. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
48 |
Feature |
The Star Too Tough to Die |
Kerber, Florian |
Asplund, Martin |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
54 |
Images |
Starbirth Cloud RCW 108 in Ara |
Petersen, Carolyn Collins |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
57 |
S&T Test Report |
Two Ultrasensitive CCD Cameras |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
63 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Stellar Guides for Your Birthday |
Farinacci, Jeff A. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
67 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: Pocket Universe 2000 3.0.2 |
Ratledge, David |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
70 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Permission Policing |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
74 |
Software Showcase |
Lunar 1.2 |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
74 |
Software Showcase |
Solscape 1.0.1 |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
74 |
Software Showcase |
NexStar Observer List |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
77 |
Books & Beyond |
Field Guide to the Deep Sky Objects, by Mike Inglis |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
77 |
Books & Beyond |
Deep Sky Observing: The Astronomical Tourist, by Steven R. Coe |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
77 |
Books & Beyond |
The Deep-Sky Observer's Year, by Grant Privett and Paul Parsons |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
80 |
Books & Beyond |
Revealing the Universe, by Wallace Tucker and Karen Tucker |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: New Cosmic Horizons, by David Leverington |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Southern Sky
Guide, by David Ellyard and Wil Tirion |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Sacred Geometry, by Miranda Lundy |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Taking Science to the
Moon, by Donald A. Beattie |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Useful Mathematical
& Physical Formulae, by Matthew Watkins |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Maria Mitchell: A
Life in Journals and Letters, by Henry Albers, ed. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Planetary and Lunar
Coordinates 2001-2020, by H. M. Nautical Almanac Office |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Sun, Moon, & Earth, by Robin Heath |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
82 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Understanding the Heavens, by Claude Pecker |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
84 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Astronomy on the Road |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
86 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: A Solstice Eclipse |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
93 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Astronomical Babel |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Wanderings at the Fomalhaut Hour |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
99 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
100 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: Watching Delta Cephi |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
101 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Arcing Through the Autumn Sky |
French, Sue |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
103 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in November |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
104 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Near Sky: Green Flashes (Part 1) |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
106 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
109 |
Celestial Calendar |
Leonids 2001: The Saga Continues |
Rao, Joe |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
118 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Two Novae for Binoculars |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
118 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Jupiter "Without Moons" |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
120 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Penumbra |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
120 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Vesta Tours the Hyades |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
122 |
Observer's Log |
A Sampling of Edge-on Galaxies |
Polakis, Tom |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
125 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Pegasus I Galaxy Cluster |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
127 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: From the Caucasus to the Alps |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
129 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: Canadian's Star-Party Comet |
Dyer, Alan |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
132 |
Astro Imaging |
Imaging the Sky from the Suburbs |
Gendler, Robert |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
140 |
Gallery |
Spiral Galaxy IC 342 in Camelopardalis |
Foster, James |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
140 |
Gallery |
Whirlpool Galaxy M51 in Canes Venatici |
Block, Adam |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
140 |
Gallery |
Milky Way Panorama |
Tse, James |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
141 |
Gallery |
Ring Nebula M57 in Lyra |
Moilanen, Marko |
Oksanen, Arto |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
141 |
Gallery |
Nebula Complex NGC 6559 in Sagittarius |
Stevens, Gary L. |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
142 |
Gallery |
Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae in Sagittarius |
Middleton, Bobby |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
142 |
Gallery |
S Monocerotis Region |
Mandel, Steve |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
142 |
Gallery |
Spiral Galaxy M94 in Canes Venatici |
Ehrhorn, Brad |
Gralak, Ray |
|
| 2001 |
11 |
143 |
Gallery |
Winter Sun Pillar |
Woodward, Bill |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Montage: Hot New Products of 2001 |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
8 |
Spectrum |
One World, One Hobby |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
10 |
Focal Point |
Running the Numbers |
Young, Robert |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
12 |
Letters |
Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder |
Grossenbacher, Roger |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
12 |
Letters |
Steering Readers in the Wrong Direction |
Pushkarsky, Louis P. |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
14 |
Letters |
A Costly Question |
Alcaide, Antonio |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
14 |
Letters |
Just "Go To" It - II |
Marion, Marian |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
14 |
Letters |
Revisiting Old Friends |
Ferris, Bill |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
14 |
Letters |
Just "Go To" It - I |
Atkinson, Paul |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
16 |
Letters |
Not Your Average Perseid! |
Boschat, Michael E. |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
16 |
Letters |
Our Global Community |
Laurentino, David |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
16 |
Letters |
For the Record |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
16 |
Letters |
Just "Go To" It - III |
Swanson, Mike |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
18 |
News Notes |
Meet Comet Borrelly |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
20 |
News Notes |
New Physics from Ancient Quasars? |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
22 |
News Notes |
Exoplanet Transit Refined |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
22 |
News Notes |
A Cousin of the Solar System |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
24 |
News Notes |
A World Awash in Light |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
25 |
News Notes |
Kuiper Belt Object Dethrones Ceres |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
25 |
News Notes |
Chicago's Controversial Ray of Light |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
26 |
News Notes |
The Ice Spires of Callisto |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
26 |
News Notes |
Blue-Ribbon Panel Opposes NASA Control of Astronomy |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
27 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: No Hypernova Remnants |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
27 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: New Cosmology Keeps Firming Up |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Ulysses |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
30 |
News Notes |
Pluto Mission |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Chandra X-ray Observatory |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
32 |
Feature |
Hot New Products of 2001 |
<i>Sky &
Telescope</i>, the Editors of |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
44 |
Feature |
Wondering in the Dark |
Croswell, Ken |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
52 |
Feature |
Dmitri Maksutov: The Man and His Telescopes |
Petrunin, Yuri |
Trigubov, Eduard |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
60 |
Images |
Seasons on Saturn |
Deans, Paul |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
63 |
Computers in Astronomy |
A Flexible Virtual Planetarium |
Badillo, Victor L. |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
66 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: The Inspiration of Imagined Places |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
68 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: SKY:Lab 2.5 |
Heafner, Joe |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
70 |
Software Showcase |
Deep Space Explorer |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
70 |
Software Showcase |
Pocket Deepsky |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
70 |
Software Showcase |
Image2000 |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
72 |
Books & Beyond |
The Art of Chesley Bonestell, by Ron Miller and Frederick C. Durant III |
Hartmann, William K. |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
74 |
Books & Beyond |
Visions of Spaceflight: Images from
the Ordway Collection, by Frederick I. Ordway III |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
74 |
Books & Beyond |
Our Universe: The Thrill of Extragalactic Exploration As Told by Leading Experts, by S. Alan Stern, ed. |
Petersen, Carolyn Collins |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
74 |
Books & Beyond |
Imagining Space, by Roger D. Launius
and Howard E. McCurdy |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
74 |
Books & Beyond |
Hardyware: The Art of David A. Hardy, by Chris Morgan |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
77 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Sparks Fly Under Sonoma Skies |
Jones, Jane Houston |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
80 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: The Pacific Meets Minnesota |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
86 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Missing Mars |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Andromeda at the Zenith |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
91 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
92 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: The E.T. Cluster, NGC 457 |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
93 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Sculpting at the South Galactic Pole |
French, Sue |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
95 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in December |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
96 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Near Sky: Green Flashes (Part 2) |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
101 |
Celestial Calendar |
A Nice Comet for the Holiday Season |
Bortle, John E. |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
104 |
Celestial Calendar |
December's Annular Eclipse of the Sun |
Deans, Paul |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
105 |
Celestial Calendar |
The Full Moon Hides Saturn |
Deans, Paul |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
107 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Meteor Showers |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
107 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultations |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
108 |
Celestial Calendar |
SkyWise: Astronomy Bug |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
113 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Checking Off the Galaxies at 1 Arietis |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
115 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Imbrium Lava Flows |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
117 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: The 2001 Martian Dust Storm |
Parker, Donald C. |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
120 |
Telescope Techniques |
A Compact 8-inch Travelscope |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
127 |
Astro Imaging |
Thoughts on Super-Resolution Planetary Imaging |
Cidadao, Antonio Jose |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
136 |
Gallery |
Medusa Nebula (Sharpless 2-274) in Gemini |
Wright, Cliff |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
136 |
Gallery |
Perseid Meteor over Giant Hand Rock Formation |
Pacholka, Wally |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
137 |
Gallery |
Pinwheel Galaxy (M33) in Triangulum |
Hallas, Tony |
Hallas, Daphne |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
137 |
Gallery |
Jupiter Occultation |
Fujii, Akira |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
137 |
Gallery |
Saturn Nebula (NGC 7009) in Aquarius |
Block, Adam |
|
| 2001 |
12 |
138 |
Gallery |
Pac-Man Nebula (NGC 281) in Cassiopeia |
Gralak, Ray |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Earth from Galileo |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Sign of the Times |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
10 |
Focal Point |
Lessons from the Sky |
Bodnar, Alan |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
12 |
Letters |
In My Mind I'm Goin' to Carolina |
Patterson, Bobby W. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
12 |
Letters |
Stamping Out Errors |
Dicati, Renato |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
14 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
14 |
Letters |
A Silent Memorial |
Palan, Kevin M. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
14 |
Letters |
From Trash to Treasure |
Sieminski, Laurie |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
14 |
Letters |
For the Record |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
14 |
Letters |
Next Stop: Hogwarts |
Hockey, Thomas |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
16 |
News Notes |
The Dark Matter Around Us |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
16 |
News Notes |
A Handle on Dark Matter? |
Lucentini, Jack |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
17 |
News Notes |
Zooming In on a Protogalaxy |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
18 |
News Notes |
Hubble Finds a Vigorous Stellar Nursery |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
18 |
News Notes |
Milky Way's Black Hole: Case Closed |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
20 |
News Notes |
Kalliope's Kin |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
20 |
News Notes |
Twin Trojan Found |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
21 |
News Notes |
The Face of Ceres |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
22 |
News Notes |
Lunar Soil Reveals Solar Secrets |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
22 |
News Notes |
Mars in a Dust Cocoon |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
24 |
News Notes |
An Amateur Space Telescope? |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
24 |
News Notes |
The Saga of Simplesat |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
26 |
News Notes |
Clash of the Titans: Meade Sues Celestron |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
26 |
News Notes |
Asteroid Memorials for September 11th |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
28 |
Mission Update |
Space Science in Japan |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
28 |
Mission Update |
Space Science in Europe |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
29 |
Mission Update |
Space Science in Russia |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
29 |
Mission Update |
Space Science in the Developing World |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
32 |
Feature |
Searching for the Molecules of Life in Space |
Nadis, Steve |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
40 |
Feature |
Supernovae Are Not Round |
Wang, Lifan |
Wheeler, J. Craig |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
48 |
Feature |
Butterflies and Crabs of the Southern Sky |
Kwok, Sun |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
50 |
Feature |
Box: The Origin of "He" Planetary Nebulae |
Kwok, Sun |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
55 |
S&T Test Report |
Sky Window: A Novel Mount for Binocular Astronomy |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
57 |
S&T Test Report |
Sirius Optics' Minus Violet Filter |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
60 |
New Product Showcase |
True Technology Custom-Wheel |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
60 |
New Product Showcase |
Kuelco Bino Mount |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
60 |
New Product Showcase |
JMI Megapod and Power PAC |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
63 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Finding Your Double-Star Limit |
Arguelles, Luis |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
67 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: Lunar Calculator 1.53 |
Medkeff, Jeff |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
70 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: The Allure of Saturn |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
72 |
Books & Beyond |
Star and Sky, by Robert Burnham, ed. |
Lyster, Timothy A. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
74 |
Books & Beyond |
Heavenly Errors, by Neil F. Comins |
Thessin, Rachel |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
74 |
Books & Beyond |
Astronomical Observatories and
Planetariums of the World, by Map Link |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
Observer's Handbook 2002, by Rajiv Gupta, ed. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
Astronomical Calendar 2002, by Guy Ottewell |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
2002 Comet Handbook, by Syuichi
Nakano and Daniel W. E. Green, eds. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
The Astronomical Almanac for the
Year 2002, by the Nautical Almanac Office |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
Astronomical Yearbook 2002, by Steve Pattie, ed. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
The Astronomical Pocket Diary 2002, by Norbert Haley |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
MPO2002 (Minor Planet Observer 2002) |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
The Handbook of the British
Astronomical Association 2002, by J. Mitton, ed. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
79 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Sharing the Sky |
Nelson, Robert |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
81 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Benson Prize Winner |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
82 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Exploring the Universe by Touch |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
84 |
Amateur Astronomers |
It's Time to Party! |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
86 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Box: Star-Party Etiquette |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
89 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: Dr. Comet at 95 |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
94 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Celestial Sweets |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Stars on the Meridian |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
99 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
100 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: The Alpha Persei Association |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
101 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Sun, Moon, and Planets in January |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
104 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
January's Celestial Menagerie |
French, Sue |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
106 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
108 |
Celestial Calendar |
Lunar Occultation Highlights for 2002 |
Dunham, David W. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
111 |
Celestial Calendar |
Box: Lunar Profile from an Eta Geminorum Graze |
Dunham, David W. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
116 |
Celestial Calendar |
Light-Pollution Notes: Catch Phrases for Dark-Sky Activism |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
116 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: January Meteors |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
116 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Comet LINEAR (C/2000 WM1) |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
118 |
Observer's Log |
Enjoying Unequal Double Stars |
Haas, Sissy |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
122 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Star Clusters That Weren't |
Freeman, Jay Reynolds |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
126 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Clavius and Neighbors |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
128 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: Bright Auroras |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
128 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: Canadian Daylight Fireball |
Dyer, Alan |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
132 |
Telescope Techniques |
Thermal Management in Newtonian Reflectors |
Adler, Alan |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
138 |
Gallery |
Veil Nebula in Cygnus |
Mandel, Steve |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
138 |
Gallery |
Dynamic Sun |
Garcia, Gordon |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
138 |
Gallery |
Circumpolar Star Trails |
Nemy, John |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
140 |
Gallery |
Saturn's Vanishing Act - Scene I |
Burgstaller, Siegfried |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
140 |
Gallery |
Spiral Galaxy NGC 6384 in Ophiuchus |
Schur, Chris |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
140 |
Gallery |
Colorful Circumzenithal Arc |
Babcock, Taavi |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
140 |
Gallery |
Magnificent Saturn |
Grafton, Ed |
|
| 2002 |
1 |
141 |
Gallery |
Saturn's Vanishing Act - Scene II |
Zerbe, Craig |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
1 |
Amateur Astronomers |
test - default cover date |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Change of Address |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
10 |
Focal Point |
The Unexpected Letter |
Barnes, Don |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
12 |
Letters |
A Whale of a Tale |
Gallup, John |
Gallup, Denise |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
12 |
Letters |
Return of the Green Lantern |
Compton, Ron |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
12 |
Letters |
A Night on the Open Seas |
Payne, Tom |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
14 |
Letters |
Leaving with a Big Bang - II |
Truitt, Steve |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
14 |
Letters |
Anniversary Stars |
Sullivan, Woodruff T. |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
14 |
Letters |
Leaving with a Big Bang - I |
Shook, Jim |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
16 |
Letters |
Astronomical Sacred Sites - II |
Pasachoff, Jay M. |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
16 |
Letters |
My Little Supernova |
Walach, Rebecca |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
16 |
Letters |
Astronomical Sacred Sites - I |
Wiener, Matthew P. |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
18 |
News Notes |
One Less Hubble-Constant Hang-Up? |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
19 |
News Notes |
Steady State Theory Getting the Last Laugh |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
20 |
News Notes |
M87's Hole Without a Doughnut |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
21 |
News Notes |
Pluto: Mission Impossible? |
Tytell, David |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
22 |
News Notes |
Great Blue Gobs of Supernova Guts |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
22 |
News Notes |
Brown Dwarfs Showing Their True Colors |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
24 |
News Notes |
All in the Asteroid Family |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
24 |
News Notes |
A "Negative Gravity" Asteroid |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
24 |
News Notes |
Wide Binary in the Kuiper Belt |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
25 |
News Notes |
Looking Below a Sunspot's Surface |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
26 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Disaster at Super-Kamiokande |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
26 |
News Notes |
The End of NASA's "Goldin Age" |
Vatalaro, Michael |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
26 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Eta Carinae's Coming Burst of Doom |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
28 |
Mission Update |
Genesis |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
28 |
Mission Update |
High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
28 |
Mission Update |
Interplanetary Monitoring Platform 8 |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
28 |
Mission Update |
High-Energy Transient Explorer 2 |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
28 |
Mission Update |
2001 Mars Odyssey |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
30 |
Feature |
The Age of Behemoths |
Jayawardhana, Ray |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
34 |
Feature |
Box: Remote Observing |
Jayawardhana, Ray |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
36 |
Feature |
Box: International Collaboration |
Jayawardhana, Ray |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
38 |
Feature |
The Great Ptolemy-Hipparchus Dispute |
Schaefer, Bradley E. |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
46 |
Images |
Inside the Orion Nebula |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
49 |
S&T Test Report |
Celestron's NexStar 11 GPS: Beauty and Brains |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
56 |
New Product Showcase |
B&D Instruments Crayford Focusers |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
56 |
New Product Showcase |
Advanced Telescope Systems Portable and Permanent Piers |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
56 |
New Product Showcase |
Telescope Engineering Co. 6"
f/12 Maksutov-Cassegrain Reflector |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
58 |
Software Showcase |
C88 |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
58 |
Software Showcase |
Our Solar System |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
58 |
Software Showcase |
ScopeDriver |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
60 |
Books & Beyond |
Extreme Stars: At the Edge of Creation, by James B. Kaler |
Petersen, Carolyn Collins |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
62 |
Books & Beyond |
Epic Moon, by William P. Sheehan and Thomas A. Dobbins |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: An Intimate Look at
the Night Sky, by Chet Raymo |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Annual Review of
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 39 |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Distant Wanderers, by Bruce G. Dorminey |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Kingdom of the Sun,
by Jacqueline Mitton and Christina Balit |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Color and Light in
Nature, by David K. Lynch and William Livingston |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
67 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Amateur Uses Monster Telescope |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
70 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Box: Finding Planetaries in Globs: A Do-It-Yourself Guide |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
72 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: Meet Larry, Moe, and Curly |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
76 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Hunting the Hare |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
82 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Winter's Bright Circle |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
83 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
84 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: The Pleiades |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
85 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Sun, Moon, and Planets in February |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
88 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Looking the Bull in the Face |
French, Sue |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
92 |
Celestial Calendar |
A Saturn-Moon Spectacle |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
95 |
Celestial Calendar |
Juno Goes It Alone |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
98 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Moon Occults Jupiter |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
98 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultation |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
99 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Delta-T for 2002 |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
102 |
Observer's Log |
A Rare Opportunity to Glimpse Saturn's "Lost Ring" |
Dobbins, Thomas A. |
Sheehan, William |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
108 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Nebulae of the Deep South |
Whitman, Alan |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
112 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Catharina, Cyrillus, and Theophilus |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
115 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: Leonids 2001: A First Look |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
117 |
Astro Imaging |
Wide-Field Imaging with CCD Cameras |
Mandel, Steve |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
123 |
Telescope Techniques |
Four Infamous Telescope Myths |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
130 |
Gallery |
Auroral Landscapes |
Venhaus, Chris |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
130 |
Gallery |
Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules |
Ball, Jeff |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
131 |
Gallery |
Mars in Sagittarius |
Oltolini, Alberto |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
131 |
Gallery |
Moon Runs Over Saturn |
Bonduelle, Etienne |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
132 |
Gallery |
More Northern Lights |
Irvine, Steve |
Slobins, Robert B. |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
132 |
Gallery |
New Moon in Old Moon's Arms |
BenDaniel, Matt |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
132 |
Gallery |
Edge-On Spiral Galaxy NGC 253 in Sculptor |
Jacobs, Rich |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
133 |
Gallery |
Star Trails |
Wienerroither, Peter |
|
| 2002 |
2 |
133 |
Gallery |
Reflection Nebula NGC 7023 in Cepheus |
Lula, Brian |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
John Grunsfeld Hangs on to Hubble |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Eyes on the Prize |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
10 |
Focal Point |
No Escaping the Obvious |
Battaglia, Michael |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
12 |
Letters |
Longing for Leonids - II |
Pappaceno, Marian |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
12 |
Letters |
Longing for Leonids - I |
Chilton, Lewis J. |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
12 |
Letters |
Rubber Secondaries |
Pacini, Franco |
Strittmatter, Peter |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
14 |
Letters |
Happy Birthday to S&T |
Keel, William C. |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
14 |
Letters |
Something Old, Something New |
Webster, Jim |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
14 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
16 |
News Notes |
New Adaptive Optics at the VLT |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
17 |
News Notes |
Castor C Challenges Red-Dwarf Theory |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
18 |
News Notes |
A Whiff of Vanished Martian Seas |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
18 |
News Notes |
Mars's Active Snow and Ice |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
19 |
News Notes |
Martian Gully Mystery Solved? |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
20 |
News Notes |
The Heart of Omega Centauri |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
20 |
News Notes |
Binary Star Yields Distance to Omega Centauri |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
21 |
News Notes |
The Universe Is Unbiased |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
22 |
News Notes |
The Super-Black Heart of Comet Borrelly |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
22 |
News Notes |
Detecting an Exoplanet's Atmosphere |
Winn, Joshua N. |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
24 |
News Notes |
Fourth Planet of a Pulsar |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
24 |
News Notes |
Look, No Spectrograph! |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
28 |
Mission Update |
Galileo |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
28 |
Mission Update |
2001 Mars Odyssey |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
28 |
Mission Update |
Rosetta |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
30 |
Feature |
Remaking Hubble |
Grunsfeld, John Mace |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
34 |
Feature |
Hubble's New Eyes |
Wanjek, Christopher |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
42 |
Images |
Horsehead Nebula |
Hester, J. Jeff |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
44 |
S&T Test Report |
Three New Maksutovs: Orion StarMax 127 EQ, Meade ETX-105EC, and Orion Optics OMC-140 |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
50 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Delving into Deep-Sky Data |
Skiff, Brian A. |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
56 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: Planetarium 2.1.1, by Aho Software |
Foust, Jeff |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
58 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Message-Board Meteor Magic |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
60 |
Software Showcase |
MojoWorld Transporter, Transporter
Pro, and Generator, by Pandromeda |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
60 |
Software Showcase |
Daily Astro Data 2002, by Aurora Software |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
60 |
Software Showcase |
2sky 2.0, by Zerpec |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
62 |
Books & Beyond |
Explore the Universe Exhibit |
Maran, Stephen P. |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
64 |
Books & Beyond |
Beyond Earth: Mapping the Universe, by David Devorkin, ed. |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
64 |
Books & Beyond |
Celestial Treasury, by Lachieze-Rey and Luminet |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Transit of Venus, by David Sellers |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Astronomy 2002, by
Dawes, Northfield, and Wallace |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Walter Baade, by Donald E. Osterbrock |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
68 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Nova Hunters |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
72 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: Planetarium Nights |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
78 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
The Winds Encompassed |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
82 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
A Night Sky to Remember |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
83 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
84 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: A Passage to Imbrium |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
85 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in March |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
88 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Dog Overboard! |
French, Sue |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
92 |
Celestial Calendar |
Planetary Occultations for 2002 |
Dunham, David W. |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
99 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Crescent Moon and Saturn |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
100 |
Celestial Calendar |
The Near Sky: A Real-Life Bonestell Saturn |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
102 |
Observer's Log |
The 2001 Leonids: A Great Show |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
106 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Leonids Strike Again |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
107 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Furnerius, Petavius, and Humboldt |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
108 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: A Collection of Bipolar Planetary Nebulae |
Jakiel, Richard |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
111 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: A Hit-and-Miss Annular Eclipse |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
111 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: A (Barely) Naked-Eye Comet |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
113 |
Telescope Techniques |
A Selection of Bino-Mounts |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
116 |
Gallery |
Fireball in Auriga |
Kolb, Jon |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
116 |
Gallery |
Leonid Fisheye View |
Shirao, Motomaro |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
116 |
Gallery |
Leonids from Down Under |
Espenak, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
3 |
118 |
Gallery |
Star Trails and Leonids |
Herrera, Jimmy |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
The Pinwheel Galaxy |
Fletcher, Bill |
Fletcher, Sally |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
8 |
Spectrum |
We're Everywhere |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
10 |
Focal Point |
Make Way for the New Breed |
Buffington, David |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
12 |
Letters |
Astrology vs. Astronomy - II |
Brasch, Klaus R. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
12 |
Letters |
Astrology vs. Astronomy - I |
Louis, Anthony |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
14 |
Letters |
Astrology vs. Astronomy - III |
Egler, Robert A. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
14 |
Letters |
Amateur Outreach Survey |
Bennett, Michael |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
14 |
Letters |
For the Good of the Field? - II |
Knowlen, Loron W. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
14 |
Letters |
For the Good of the Field? - I |
Lusby, David |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
14 |
Letters |
Astrology vs. Astronomy - IV |
Vardhan, Vishnu |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
14 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
16 |
Letters |
For the Record |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
16 |
Letters |
A Small Triumph over Light Pollution |
Runyan, Bob |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
16 |
Letters |
Adventures of an Armchair Meteor Hunter |
Feibelman, Walter A. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
16 |
Letters |
Who Needs Sleep? |
DePalma, Steven |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
16 |
Letters |
A New Observing Marathon |
Bacon, James |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
18 |
News Notes |
Chandra Unveils the Milky Way's Center |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
19 |
News Notes |
An Infant Universe Teeming with Stars |
Chandler, David L. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
20 |
News Notes |
Gamma-Ray Bursts Next Door? |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
21 |
News Notes |
The Hue of the Universe |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
22 |
News Notes |
First Planet of a Giant Star |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
22 |
News Notes |
Barred Spirals Come and Go |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
24 |
News Notes |
Jupiter's Shrinking Red Spot |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
24 |
News Notes |
Brown Dwarf Imaged Close to a Star |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
26 |
News Notes |
The Leonids' Best Home Videos |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
26 |
News Notes |
Vega's Clumpy Dust May Reveal a Hidden Planet |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
27 |
News Notes |
A Hidden Planet for Beta Pictoris? |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Brown Dwarfs with Clear Skies |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
28 |
News Notes |
NASA Kills FAME Over Busted Budget |
Lewis, Rhiannon |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
28 |
News Notes |
Gemini South: Open for Business |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Dark Matter Is Not Like a Gas |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Deep Space 1 |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Yohkoh |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
32 |
Feature |
Urban Astronomy: Observing the Messier Objects from the City |
Flanders, Tony |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
40 |
Feature |
Your Home Lighting Guide |
Thessin, Rachel |
Crawford, David L. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
48 |
Images |
The Earth at Night |
Thessin, Rachel |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
50 |
S&T Test Report |
Home Lighting for Amateur Astronomers |
di Cicco, Dennis |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
54 |
New Product Showcase |
Aries Chromacor |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
54 |
New Product Showcase |
nFOCUS controller from Rigel Systems |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
54 |
New Product Showcase |
AstroCapella 2.0 |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
57 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: C88 |
Ratledge, David |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
58 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: To Pluto and Beyond! |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
60 |
Software Showcase |
The Earth Centered Universe, by Nova Astronomics |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
60 |
Software Showcase |
KStars |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
60 |
Software Showcase |
Secrets of the Universe, by Montparnasse Multimedia |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
62 |
Books & Beyond |
Stars & Planets, by Ridpath and Tirion |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Telescope Guidebook, Vol. 1, by Roger Blake |
Freeman, Jay Reynolds |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
66 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Storms in Space, by J. Freeman |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
66 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Falling Stars, by M. Reynolds |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
66 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Kingdom of the Sun, by J. Mitton and C. Balit |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
66 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Cosmic Architecture in India, by A. Volwahsen |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
66 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Cosmic Butterflies, by Sun Kwok |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
66 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Grip of Gravity, by P. Gondhalekar |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
66 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Skywatchers, by A. Aveni |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
68 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Astronomy Adventure at Biosphere 2 |
Wood, Charles A. |
Garmany, Catharine D. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
71 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Astronomy Day 2002 |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
73 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: A Perfect Storm |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
78 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Lighter Than Air |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
82 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Across the Winter-Spring Divide |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
83 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
84 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: A Visit to NGC 2903 |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
85 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in April |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
88 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Gregarious Galaxies |
French, Sue |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Bryant, Greg |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
93 |
Celestial Calendar |
T Pyxidis: Still Hanging Fire |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
94 |
Celestial Calendar |
Outer Planets in 2002 |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
98 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: April Meteors |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
98 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultations |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
98 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Lunar Occultations |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
98 |
Celestial Calendar |
Light-Pollution Notes: Connecticut's Darker Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
101 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: The Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster |
Gottlieb, Steve |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
104 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Mysterious Descartes |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
105 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: Jupiter: The Story So Far |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
108 |
Telescope Techniques |
Building a Curved-Vane Secondary-Mirror Holder |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
114 |
Astro Imaging |
Improving Astrophotos with Photoshop's "Curves" |
BenDaniel, Matt |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
122 |
Gallery |
Supernova Remnant in Gemini |
Motoki, Motosugu |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
122 |
Gallery |
Scimitar Sunset |
Fleenor, George W. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
122 |
Gallery |
Giant Spiral in Ursa Major |
Stevens, Gary L. |
|
| 2002 |
4 |
124 |
Gallery |
Large Magellanic Cloud and NGC 2070, The Tarantula Nebula |
Rhemann, Gerald |
Kersche, Franz |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Center of Milky Way |
Mellinger, Axel |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Show Your Support |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
10 |
Focal Point |
The Neighborhood Astronomer |
Field, Laurence |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
12 |
Letters |
New Mexico at Night |
Taylor, Tommy |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
12 |
Letters |
A Ringing Impression |
Forbes, Stephen B. |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
12 |
Letters |
A Deep-Sky Favorite |
Stahl, Neil |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
14 |
Letters |
Cool It! - I |
Robinson, Micah |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
14 |
Letters |
Cool It! - II |
Beinert, Ulrich |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
14 |
Letters |
A Job Well Done |
Earley, Chris |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
14 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
16 |
News Notes |
To See Galaxies Merge, Watch a Pulsar |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
17 |
News Notes |
Smoking Quasars |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
18 |
News Notes |
A Supernova's Light Echo |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
18 |
News Notes |
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Quasar |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
19 |
News Notes |
One Quasar, Six Images |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
20 |
News Notes |
Chandra Spies Southern Starbirth Scene |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
20 |
News Notes |
Buoyant Bubbles in a Galaxy Cluster |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
22 |
News Notes |
The Eagle Nebula at Three Wavebands |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
23 |
News Notes |
Delta Scorpii Gets Brighter Than Ever |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
23 |
News Notes |
How Hot Can Venus Get? |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
24 |
News Notes |
Killer Asteroid Count Rises |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
24 |
News Notes |
New Directions for NASA |
Vatalaro, Michael |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
28 |
Mission Update |
Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
28 |
Mission Update |
High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
28 |
Mission Update |
Galileo |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
32 |
Feature |
Microquasars in the Milky Way |
Mirabel, I. Felix |
Rodriguez, Luis Felipe |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
44 |
S&T Test Report |
Premium Refractors: Borg 100ED, Orion/Vixen VX114-ED, and Tele Vue-NP 101 |
Dyer, Alan |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
53 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Worlds of Planetary Data |
Medkeff, Jeff |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
57 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: Deep Space Explorer |
Heafner, Joe |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
58 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: AstroAlerts: The Next Generation |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
61 |
Books & Beyond |
The Great Atlas of the Stars, by Serge Brunier |
Kanipe, Jeff |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
63 |
Books & Beyond |
Cosmic Discoveries, by David H. Levy |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
63 |
Books & Beyond |
On the Cosmic Horizon, by Jeffrey O. Bennett |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Search for Life
in the Universe, by Goldsmith and Owen |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Our Cosmic Habitat, by Martin Rees |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly
Noted: Cosmic Dispatches, by J. Wilford, ed. |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
66 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Beyond Pluto, by John Davies |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
66 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: David Levy's Guide to the Night Sky |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
66 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Exploring the Unknown, by J. Logston, ed. |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
69 |
Amateur Astronomers |
High-Flying Disco Balls |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
73 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: The Renaissance Man |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
79 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Love, War, and Other Worlds |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
82 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Diamond of Virgo |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
83 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
84 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: A Short Hop to M51 |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
85 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Sun, Moon, and Planets in May |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
88 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Coma Squared |
French, Sue |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Bryant, Greg |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
92 |
Celestial Calendar |
Halley's Comet Crumbs |
Kronk, Gary W. |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
96 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
96 |
Celestial Calendar |
The Near Sky: Unusual Halos |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
96 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Comet Ikeya-Zhang |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
98 |
Observer's Log |
The Best Abell Planetary Nebulae |
Honeycutt, Eric |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
103 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Gateway to the Year's Globular Clusters |
Freeman, Jay Reynolds |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
106 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Smooth Floors, Smooth Plains |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
108 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: A Pair of Naked-Eye Comets |
Bryant, Greg |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
110 |
Telescope Techniques |
A Simple Double-Plate Cell for Your Telescope's Mirror |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
114 |
Gallery |
Nov. 5-6, 2001, Aurora |
Klensch, Michael |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
114 |
Gallery |
Orion Rising |
Wienerroither, Peter |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
114 |
Gallery |
Andromeda Galaxy M31 |
Candy, Paolo |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
115 |
Gallery |
NGC 2359 in Canis Major |
Lula, Brian |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
115 |
Gallery |
Half Moon |
Adler, Alan |
|
| 2002 |
5 |
116 |
Gallery |
Nebula DWB 111 in Cygnus |
Cook, Mike |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Eclipses of the Sun |
Espenak, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Bad-Guy Editor |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
10 |
Focal Point |
Without a Telescope |
Cooper, Andrew |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
12 |
Letters |
Collimation Epiphany |
Slezak, James J. |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
12 |
Letters |
Ptolemy vs. Hipparchus - II |
Litsinger, Warren |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
12 |
Letters |
Ptolemy vs. Hipparchus - I |
Ryan, Jay |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
14 |
Letters |
Creating New Astronomers: Both Young and Old |
Webster, Joseph B. |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
14 |
Letters |
High Inclinations |
Dunham, David W. |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
14 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
18 |
News Notes |
OGLEing New Extrasolar Planets |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
19 |
News Notes |
Binary Quasar Is No Mirage |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
20 |
News Notes |
The Most Massive Star Known |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
20 |
News Notes |
The Fastest Binary Star |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
22 |
News Notes |
Dust in the Wind |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
24 |
News Notes |
More Jupiter News |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
24 |
News Notes |
Mysterious Jovian Hot Spot Puzzles Astronomers |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
26 |
News Notes |
Mars Odyssey Starts Mapping Minerals |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
26 |
News Notes |
Ancient Martian Lakes? Maybe Not |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Lensed Galaxy Sets New Redshift Record |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
28 |
News Notes |
Mercury's Hidden Splash |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: The Universe Isn't Turquoise |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Kepler |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Contour |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Dawn |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
32 |
Feature |
Eclipse 2002: Africa or Australia? |
Espenak, Fred |
Anderson, Jay |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
37 |
Feature |
Box: NASA's 2002 Solar Eclipse Bulletin |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
40 |
Feature |
Hubble Rejuvenated |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
44 |
Images |
Dwarf Galaxy NGC 6822 |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
48 |
S&T Test Report |
Premium
Refractors: Takahashi Sky 90, TMB 105-mm f/6.2 |
Dyer, Alan |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
53 |
S&T Test Report |
Box: The f/8 Alternative |
Dyer, Alan |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
56 |
New Product Showcase |
Rittenhouse Clock No. 1 |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
56 |
New Product Showcase |
Nagler Type 6 Eyepieces, by Tele Vue |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
56 |
New Product Showcase |
Precision Equatorial Tracking
Platforms, by Johnsonian Designs |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
59 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: Power Age Sky Simulator 3 |
Medkeff, Jeff |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
60 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: "Go To" Help |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
62 |
Software Showcase |
AstroNotes, by Ohio Star Software |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
62 |
Software Showcase |
Ecliptic, by David Birkett |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
62 |
Software Showcase |
Halo3, by Cowley and Schroeder |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
64 |
Books & Beyond |
Higher than Everest, by Paul Hodge |
Petersen, Carolyn Collins |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
66 |
Books & Beyond |
The Stars of Heaven, by Clifford A. Pickover |
Johnson, Rebecca A. |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
66 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Bright Star Atlas 2000.0, by Tirion and Skiff |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
67 |
Books & Beyond |
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Theories of the Universe |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
67 |
Books & Beyond |
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Astronomy, 2nd Ed. |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
68 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Don't Know Much About
Space, by Kenneth C. Davis |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
68 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Using the Meade ETX, by Mike Weasner |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
70 |
Amateur Astronomers |
High Astronomy Adventure from the Land Down Under |
Rogers, Paul |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
75 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: Shakespeare's Eclipses Return |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
78 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Skywise and Streetsmart |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
82 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Camping Under the Summer Triangle |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
83 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
84 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: A Double for Steady Hands |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
85 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Sun, Moon, and Planets in June |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
88 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Grabbing the Bear by the Tail |
French, Sue |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Bryant, Greg |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
93 |
Celestial Calendar |
June's Transpacific Solar Eclipse |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
97 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Spring Comets |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
98 |
Celestial Calendar |
The Near Sky: Noneclipse Shadow Bands |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
100 |
Observer's Log |
Stargazing from the Arctic Wastes of a Tropical Paradise |
Freeman, Jay Reynolds |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
104 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Ancient Planetaries |
Jakiel, Richard |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
106 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Exploring Ptolemaeus |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
108 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: More Amateur Comet Tales |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
111 |
Telescope Techniques |
How to Collimate Your Newtonian Reflector |
Carlin, Nils Olof |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
113 |
Telescope Techniques |
Box: Tools of the Trade |
Carlin, Nils Olof |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
116 |
Telescope Techniques |
Box: Offsetting the Secondary Mirror |
Carlin, Nils Olof |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
118 |
Astro Imaging |
Choosing a Camera for Film Astrophotography |
Covington, Michael A. |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
124 |
Gallery |
Comet Ikeya-Zhang, C/2002 C1 |
Newton, Jack |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
124 |
Gallery |
Centaurus-Crux Panorama |
Von Eiff, Hermann |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
124 |
Gallery |
Comet Ikeya-Zhang, C/2002 C1 |
Jager, Michael |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
126 |
Gallery |
NGC 1499, California Nebula |
Wendel, Volker |
Eberle, Roland |
Eisenhauer, Stephan |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
126 |
Gallery |
M8, Lagoon Nebula |
Rhemann, Gerald |
Kersche, Franz |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
127 |
Gallery |
Galaxy NGC 660 in Pisces |
McLaughlin, Bill |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
127 |
Gallery |
M57, Ring Nebula |
Wendel, Volker |
Eberle, Roland |
Flach-Wilken, Bernd |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Moon and USS Indianapolis |
Olson, Donald W. |
Doescher, Russell L. |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Situational Awareness |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
10 |
Focal Point |
Video Killed the Radio Star |
Laird Calia, Charles |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
12 |
Letters |
Cosmic Confections |
Day, Geraint J. |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
12 |
Letters |
Nova Hunting |
Liller, Bill |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
12 |
Letters |
When You Wish... |
Van Flandern, Barbara |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
14 |
Letters |
Corrected Guidebook |
Blake, Roger |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
14 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
14 |
Letters |
Ask Not What Your Hobby Can Do for You |
Eichhorn, Guenther |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
14 |
Letters |
Musings of a Nascent Astronomer |
Webster, Greg |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
15 |
Letters |
Location, Location, Location |
Hanner, Gerald P. |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
16 |
News Notes |
A Possible Quark-Star Discovery |
Lucentini, Jack |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
17 |
News Notes |
The Nature of Strange Matter |
Lucentini, Jack |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
18 |
News Notes |
Illusory Pulsar Connections |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
18 |
News Notes |
The Pulsar Age Crisis |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
20 |
News Notes |
A Fiery Birth for Frigid Worlds? |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
22 |
News Notes |
Making Binary Asteroids in the Kuiper Belt |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
23 |
News Notes |
Double Trouble Among Near-Earth Asteroids |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
24 |
News Notes |
Threatening Asteroid Aids Planetary Prognosticators |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
24 |
News Notes |
Comet Borrelly: Dry and Hot |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
25 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Closing In on Neutrino Properties |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
26 |
Mission Update |
Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
26 |
Mission Update |
Mars Global Surveyor |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
26 |
Mission Update |
High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
28 |
Images |
Tadpole Galaxy, UGC 10214 |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
30 |
Feature |
Ill Met by Moonlight: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis |
Olson, Donald W. |
Johns, Brandon R. |
Doescher, Russell L. |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
38 |
Feature |
The Brightest Red Dwarf |
Croswell, Ken |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
42 |
Feature |
Box: Lalande 21185: The Brightest Red Dwarf for the Rest of Us |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
46 |
S&T Test Report |
The Versa-Port Slider 2, by Van Slyke Engineering |
Horne, Johnny |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
49 |
S&T Test Report |
Kodak Elite Chrome 100EC film |
Horne, Johnny |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
50 |
New Product Showcase |
ScopeTronix adapters, clamps, and gizmos |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
50 |
New Product Showcase |
SCT Microfocuser |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
50 |
New Product Showcase |
Variable Filter System, by Sirius Optics |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
54 |
Software Showcase |
Guide 8, by Project Pluto |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
54 |
Software Showcase |
Solar System 2001, by PCs in Space |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
54 |
Software Showcase |
StarParty, by Vince Sempronio |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
56 |
Books & Beyond |
Meteorites, by Bevan and de Laeter |
Deans, Paul |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
56 |
Books & Beyond |
Meteorite Hunter, by Roy A. Gallant |
Deans, Paul |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
58 |
Books & Beyond |
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites, by Norton |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
59 |
Books & Beyond |
Disturbing the Solar System, by Alan E. Rubin |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
60 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Connecting with the Cosmos, by Goldsmith |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
60 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Light Years and Time Travel, by Clegg |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
60 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Compact NASA
Atlas of the Solar System, by Greeley and Batson |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
60 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: On a Clear Night, by Davis |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
64 |
Amateur Astronomers |
The Birth and Growth of the Tainai Star Party |
Numazawa, Shigemi |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
68 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Yuji Hyakutake (1950-2002) |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
70 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: The Comet Master |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
78 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Message Machine |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
82 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Dog Days and Scorpion Nights |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
83 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
84 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: Rho Ophiuchi |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
85 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Sun, Moon, and Planets in July |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
88 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Overlooked in Ophiuchus |
French, Sue |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
90 |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
A Fire in the Wolf's Belly |
Bryant, Greg |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
93 |
Celestial Calendar |
All Eyes on Pluto |
Sicardy, Bruno |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
94 |
Celestial Calendar |
Box: What We Learned About Titania |
Sicardy, Bruno |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
96 |
Celestial Calendar |
Light-Pollution Notes: Dark Skies as a Resource |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
96 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: July meteors |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
96 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Lunar occultations |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
99 |
Observer's Log |
Lowell and the Spokes of Venus |
Sheehan, William |
Dobbins, Thomas A. |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
104 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: The Reiner Gamma Swirl |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
106 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Around the Tail and the Teapot |
Dalrymple, Les |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
110 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: Jupiter Season Winds Down |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
112 |
Telescope Techniques |
Homebuilt Right-Angle Binoculars |
LeDrew, Glenn |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
117 |
Astro Imaging |
Measuring Double Stars with Video |
Anton, Rainer |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
122 |
Gallery |
Comet Ikeya-Zhang and M31 |
Rhemann, Gerald |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
122 |
Gallery |
Comet Ikeya-Zhang, C/2002 C1 |
Pope, Conrad |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
123 |
Gallery |
Space Shuttle Columbia Smoke Pillar |
Coe, Malcolm |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
123 |
Gallery |
Spiral Galaxy M74 in Pisces |
Henry, Edward |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
123 |
Gallery |
Solar Flare from AR 9661 |
Pettitt, Jeff |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
124 |
Gallery |
Spiral Galaxy NGC 1792 in Columba |
Juchnowski, Steven |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
124 |
Gallery |
NGC 6820 in Vulpecula |
Cook, Mike |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
124 |
Gallery |
NGC 4565 in Coma Berenices |
Poiget, Florent |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
125 |
Gallery |
Emission Nebula IC 2177 |
Salvato, Giampaolo |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
125 |
Gallery |
Contrail from Minuteman II |
Fletcher, Bill |
Fletcher, Sally |
|
| 2002 |
7 |
126 |
Gallery |
Sombrero Galaxy M104 in Virgo |
Stotz, Dan |
Ford, Mike |
Block, Adam |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Free-Floating Planet |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
8 |
Spectrum |
The Outreach Imperative |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
10 |
Focal Point |
An Observatory at 49,000 Feet |
Durda, Daniel D. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
12 |
Letters |
The Frying Pan |
Walker, Bob |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
12 |
Letters |
The Wrong-Way Moon? |
Lyster, Timothy A. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
12 |
Letters |
A New Breed - I |
Allen, Michael E. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
14 |
Letters |
A New Breed - II |
Nugent, Richard |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
14 |
Letters |
A New Breed - III |
Sales, Thomas |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
14 |
Letters |
Curved-Vane Secondaries |
Adler, Alan |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
14 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
16 |
Letters |
Collimation Epiphany |
Slezak, James J. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
16 |
Letters |
Observer's Notebook |
Borra, John |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
18 |
News Notes |
Cooling White Dwarfs Date the Universe |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
19 |
News Notes |
The Deepening Mystery of Early Black Holes |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
19 |
News Notes |
Making Millisecond Pulsars |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
20 |
News Notes |
The Closest Brown Dwarf to a Star |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
20 |
News Notes |
X-ray "Gamma-Ray
Bursts" |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
21 |
News Notes |
New Payoffs from the 2dF Survey |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
22 |
News Notes |
Are Dead Quasars Throwing "Baseballs" At Us? |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
22 |
News Notes |
Ordinary Cosmic Rays from Supernovae |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
24 |
News Notes |
All Black Holes Sing Alike |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
24 |
News Notes |
R Cor Bor's Weird Origin |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
25 |
News Notes |
SS Cygni's Magnetic Braking |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
26 |
News Notes |
Mars Odyssey Finds Signs of Ice at Flare Site |
Chandler, David L. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
26 |
News Notes |
Jupiter Reclaims Title As "King of Moons" |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
27 |
News Notes |
A Breakthrough in Big, Cheap Scopes |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Missing-Link Supernova Was Not Round |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
28 |
News Notes |
Tensions Erupt on Mauna Kea |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Space Astrometry Takes Another Hit |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Microwave Anisotropy Probe |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Human Spaceflight |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Genesis |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
32 |
Feature |
The Puzzles of Planethood |
Kaisler, Denise |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
42 |
Feature |
Toward a Planet Paradigm |
Stern, S. Alan |
Levison, Harold F. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
48 |
Images |
NGC 2264 in Monoceros |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
52 |
S&T Test Report |
Hydrogen-Alpha Telescope: Coronado's SolarMax and MaxScope |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
58 |
New Product Showcase |
Amici-Prism Diagonal, by Williams Optics |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
58 |
New Product Showcase |
XY Finder, by Tau Ceti |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
58 |
New Product Showcase |
Filter Drawer |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
61 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Master of the Universe |
Chandler, David L. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
63 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Box: Partiview: Play the Digital Universe Home Version |
Chandler, David L. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
67 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: XEphem 3.5.2 for Windows |
Ratledge, David |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
69 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Galaxy Hunt |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
73 |
Books & Beyond |
Flash! by Govert Schilling |
Reichart, Daniel E. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
73 |
Books & Beyond |
The Biggest Bangs, by Jonathan I. Katz |
Reichart, Daniel E. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
75 |
Books & Beyond |
The Universe and How To See It, by Giles Sparrow |
Petersen, Carolyn Collins |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Chasing the Rainbow, by Robert Greenler |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Rainbow Bridge, by Lee and Fraser |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
77 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Prophet and the Astronomer |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
77 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: How the Universe Got Its Spots, by Janna Levin |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
77 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Story of the
Solar System |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
79 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Firelight Nights: Stargazing from the Caribbean's Emerald Isle |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
84 |
Amateur Astronomers |
A Decade of Soaking Up Southern Starshine |
Bryant, Greg |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
86 |
Amateur Astronomers |
This Year's Young Astronomer Award Winners |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
87 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Spanish Amateur Discovers Earth-Crossing Asteroid |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
88 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: An Old Friend from Summer Camp |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
94 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Corn Maidens |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
99 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
100 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: IC 4665 in Ophiuchus |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
101 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Sun, Moon, and Planets in August |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
104 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Night of the Trifid |
French, Sue |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
106 |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Heads Up for the Scorpion |
Bryant, Greg |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
110 |
Celestial Calendar |
A Great Year for the Perseids |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
113 |
Celestial Calendar |
Mira's Upcoming Maximum |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
115 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Crescent Moon and M35 |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
116 |
Celestial Calendar |
Eye and I: The Naked-Eye Limit (Part 1) |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
118 |
Observer's Log |
My Favorite Globular Clusters |
Dalrymple, Les |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
124 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Off-Season Galaxies |
Freeman, Jay Reynolds |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
126 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Australe: A Mare on the Edge |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
128 |
Gallery |
April-May 2002 Naked-Eye Planetary Grouping |
Pyros, Gregory |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
129 |
Gallery |
Iridium Flare |
Shobbrook, John |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
129 |
Gallery |
Comet Ikeya-Zhang, C/2002 C1, in Cepheus |
Schur, Chris |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
130 |
Gallery |
Comet Utsunomiya, C/2002 F1 |
Jager, Michael |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
131 |
Gallery |
Earthshine on the Moon |
Friedman, Alan J. |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Spiral Galaxy NGC 2997 in Antlia |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Lines of Sight |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
10 |
Focal Point |
The Hazards of Astronomy |
Dohmen, Kevin D. |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
12 |
Letters |
Stars and Guitars |
Lavin, Christine |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
12 |
Letters |
A Little Respect |
Whittemore, Mark |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
12 |
Letters |
Astrology Revisited |
Ventimiglia, Matt |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
14 |
Letters |
A Different Kind of Light Pollution |
McDonald, Steve |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
14 |
Letters |
Brazilian Stars |
Cassio dos Santos Jr., Jose |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
14 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
16 |
News Notes |
Double Supernova Behind the Veil? |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
17 |
News Notes |
A Tidally Shredded Globular Cluster |
Chandler, David L. |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
18 |
News Notes |
More Support for the New Cosmology |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
19 |
News Notes |
Behind the Great Attractor |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
20 |
News Notes |
The First Exo-Jupiters |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
22 |
News Notes |
Mars's Abundant "White Gold" |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
23 |
News Notes |
Mystery Meteorite with a Molten Past |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
24 |
News Notes |
The Biggest Near-Miss Asteroid |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
24 |
News Notes |
Celestron Secures Its Future |
di Cicco, Dennis |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
26 |
Mission Update |
Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
26 |
Mission Update |
Solar Orbiter |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
26 |
Mission Update |
Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
26 |
Mission Update |
Eddington |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
26 |
Mission Update |
Cosmic Vision 2020 |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
28 |
Feature |
Creating Hubble's Technicolor Universe |
Villard, Ray |
Levay, Zoltan |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
36 |
Feature |
The Mysteries of Galaxy Spirals |
Lucentini, Jack |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
46 |
S&T Test Report |
Binocular Viewers for Telescopes |
Dyer, Alan |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
51 |
S&T Test Report |
Zoom Eyepieces |
Dyer, Alan |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
52 |
Software Showcase |
Visual Ephemeris for Uranian Moons, by Dennis W. Tracy |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
52 |
Software Showcase |
AstroByte Logging System, by MainByte Software |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
52 |
Software Showcase |
Desktop Universe, by Main-Sequence Software |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
54 |
Books & Beyond |
The New CCD Astronomy, by Ron Wodaski |
Walker, Sean |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
56 |
Books & Beyond |
ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
58 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Rejuvenating Our Past: The Antique Telescope Society |
Bell, Trudy E. |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
63 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: The Astronomer Artist |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
68 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Behind the Curve |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
74 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
On the Wings of the Swan |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
75 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
76 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: M11 in Scutum |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
77 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Sun, Moon, and Planets in September |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
80 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Tea Cozy |
French, Sue |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
82 |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Peering Past the Peacock's Tail |
Bryant, Greg |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
85 |
Celestial Calendar |
New Meteor Shower from Taurus? |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
90 |
Celestial Calendar |
Eye and I: The Naked-Eye Limit (Part 2) |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
90 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occults a Star |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
94 |
Observer's Log |
Some Thoughts on Choosing and Using Binoculars for Astronomy |
Adler, Alan |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
100 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Two Planetaries and Three Decades |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
102 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Bailly and Schiller |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
104 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: The June 10th Annular Eclipse of the Sun |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
106 |
Telescope Techniques |
A Solar-Powered Observatory |
Lange, Robert J. |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
112 |
Astro Imaging |
Focusing a CCD Camera |
Wodaski, Ron |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
122 |
Gallery |
Solar Prominence |
Newton, Jack |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
122 |
Gallery |
Spiral Galaxy NGC 6946 |
Block, Adam |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
123 |
Gallery |
Spiral Galaxy NGC 4725 in Coma Berenices |
Keller, Philipp |
Fuchs, Christian |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
123 |
Gallery |
Lunar Halo |
Klein, Joe |
|
| 2002 |
9 |
124 |
Gallery |
Comet Ikeya-Zhang over Coast Mountain Range |
Klensch, Michael |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Planetary Nebula NGC 2132 in Vela |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Back to School |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
10 |
Focal Point |
Misadventures with a Green Laser |
Adams, Eric |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
12 |
Letters |
Lowell's Spokes on Venus Explained |
Sheehan, William |
Dobbins, Thomas A. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
14 |
Letters |
An Unconventional "Tripod" |
Sackett, Ross |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
14 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
14 |
Letters |
Better Ways to Cool It |
Hards, Chuck |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
14 |
Letters |
A Marriage Made for the Heavens |
Masnaghetti, Jeff |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
16 |
Letters |
Zigging and Zagging - I |
Rule, Bob |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
16 |
Letters |
Zigging and Zagging - II |
Gordon, Rodger W. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
18 |
News Notes |
Big Variable-Star Payoff from Small Scopes |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
20 |
News Notes |
A Stronger Supernova-GRB Link? |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
20 |
News Notes |
The Case of the Missing Dead Comets |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
21 |
News Notes |
Star-Swapping in Globulars |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
21 |
News Notes |
Omega Centauri's Checkered Past |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
22 |
News Notes |
A Formative Extrasolar
Planet? |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
22 |
News Notes |
More Possible Planet Transits |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
24 |
News Notes |
New Roadmap for Planetary Exploration |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
25 |
News Notes |
Homegrown Diamond Dust? |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
26 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Fewer Bright Early Quasars? |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
26 |
News Notes |
U.K. Joins European Southern Observatory |
Ashford, Adrian R. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
26 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Invisible Dwarf Galaxies |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
28 |
Mission Update |
Comet Nucleus Tour |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
28 |
Mission Update |
BeppoSAX |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
28 |
Mission Update |
Spectroscopy and Photometry of the IGM's Diffuse Radiation |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
30 |
Feature |
The Fate of the Earth |
Garlick, Mark A. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
38 |
Feature |
Gems from the Stars |
Kwok, Sun |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
45 |
S&T Test Report |
The Sky-Watcher EQ6 Mount |
Privett, Grant |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
52 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Fun with Sky & Telescope's Interactive Sky Chart |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
56 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: Encyclopedia Galactica 3.0 |
Foust, Jeff |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
58 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Software on a Budget |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
61 |
Books & Beyond |
Mission Jupiter, by Daniel Fischer |
Moore, Jeff |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
61 |
Books & Beyond |
Jupiter Odyssey, by David M. Harland |
Moore, Jeff |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
61 |
Books & Beyond |
The Worlds of Galileo, by Michael Hanlon |
Moore, Jeff |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
63 |
Books & Beyond |
Bad Astronomy, by Philip Plait |
Sadler, Bud |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Setting Sail for the Universe, by Donald Fernie |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Hands-on Astronomy, by Burillier and Lehenaff |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Star Lore of Japan, by Kouichi Kitao |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
66 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Astronomy in the Land of the Aztecs |
Ortiz, Francisco Javier Mandujano |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
70 |
Amateur Astronomers |
A European-Style Stellafane |
Stein, Guido |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
71 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Comet Award Winners for 2002 |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
72 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: My Life and Hard Times As a Comet Hunter |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
78 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Shelter from the Storm |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
82 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Cool Nights and Rustling Leaves |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
83 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
84 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: Crisium Watching |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
85 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Sun, Moon, and Planets in October |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
88 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
The Arrow and the Dolphin |
French, Sue |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
90 |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
An Ode to Octans |
Bryant, Greg |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
94 |
Celestial Calendar |
Ceres and Melpomene in Binoculars |
Bryant, Greg |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
95 |
Celestial Calendar |
Box: An Explosion of Asteroids |
Bryant, Greg |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
96 |
Celestial Calendar |
When Will RS Ophiuchi Next Blow Its Stack? |
Wallerstein, George |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
99 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: October Meteors |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
100 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultation |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
100 |
Celestial Calendar |
The Near Sky: Venus Pillars and Venusdogs? |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
103 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Observing Faint Nearby Galaxies |
Freeman, Jay Reynolds |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
106 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Neglected Nubium |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
108 |
Telescope Techniques |
A Refractor in the Round |
Carreira, Emmanuel M. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
113 |
Astro Imaging |
Deep-Sky Imaging with Digital Cameras |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
120 |
Gallery |
Sunburst |
Stankiewicz, Richard |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
120 |
Gallery |
Hydrogen-Alpha Sun |
Sacco, Giovanni A. Quarra |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
120 |
Gallery |
Crater Clavius |
Adler, Alan |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
121 |
Gallery |
Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules |
Higgins, Wesley |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
121 |
Gallery |
Saturn |
Higgins, Wesley |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
121 |
Gallery |
Jupiter |
Ng, Eric W.K. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
121 |
Gallery |
M16, the Eagle Nebula |
Schedler, Johannes |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
122 |
Gallery |
Crescent Sun |
Fienberg, Thorir G. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
122 |
Gallery |
Perseus Double Cluster |
Mayfield, Ginger |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
122 |
Gallery |
June 12, 2002, Conjunction of the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter |
Ireland, Dale E. |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
122 |
Gallery |
Albireo |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
123 |
Gallery |
Planetary Nebula M27 in Vulpecula |
Schedler, Johannes |
|
| 2002 |
10 |
123 |
Gallery |
Canadian Northern Lights |
Moussette, Philippe |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Crab Nebula in Taurus |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Dark Days for Dark Nights |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
10 |
Focal Point |
The Ultimate Sky |
Marks, Joel |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
12 |
Letters |
Bilberry Fields Forever |
Maher, Raymond P. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
12 |
Letters |
Coming into Focus |
Copeland, Bill |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
12 |
Letters |
My Personal Travelscope |
Crowl, William D. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
14 |
Letters |
Can't We All Just Get Along? - I |
Ford, John |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
14 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
14 |
Letters |
Can't We All Just Get Along? - II |
Szuch, Ernest |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
14 |
Letters |
The Wrong-Way Sun |
Speare, William |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
16 |
News Notes |
Normal Dark Matter All Found At Last? |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
17 |
News Notes |
Streamers in a Hot Breeze |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
18 |
News Notes |
1,000 New Planetary Nebulae |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
18 |
News Notes |
Making the Case for Merging Black Holes |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
19 |
News Notes |
An Electric Star? |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
19 |
News Notes |
A Shadowy Hamburger |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
20 |
News Notes |
Asteroid Color Clans |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
20 |
News Notes |
Water on Arcturus |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
20 |
News Notes |
A Recent Asteroid Crackup |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
22 |
News Notes |
Solar Science for the Coming Decade |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
23 |
News Notes |
Changes Urged for Astrobiology Effort |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
24 |
News Notes |
Follow that Story: The Milky Way's Young Bar |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
24 |
News Notes |
The Moon Through an 8-Meter Eye |
Ashford, Adrian R. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
24 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Not a Quark Star? |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
26 |
Mission Update |
Venus Express |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
26 |
Mission Update |
Comet Nucleus Tour |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
26 |
Mission Update |
Cassini |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
28 |
Feature |
Anatomy of a Supernova |
Maurer, Stephen M. |
Howell, Andrew |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
38 |
Feature |
Planetary Oceans |
Stevenson, David J. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
46 |
Images |
Corona Australis, the Southern Crown |
Malin, David F. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
49 |
S&T Test Report |
The Questar 50th Anniversary Edition Telescope |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
54 |
S&T Test Report |
Questar's Qmax Spectrometer |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
56 |
New Product Showcase |
SBIG CCD Cameras with USB-Connectivity |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
56 |
New Product Showcase |
Model 2000HF Focuser, by Burgess Optical |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
56 |
New Product Showcase |
Shirts, Caps, Mugs, and More from Velocitees |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
58 |
Software Showcase |
Lunar Map Pro, by RITI |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
58 |
Software Showcase |
GeoVirgil, by Silicon Spaceships |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
58 |
Software Showcase |
MPj Equinox, by Microprojects |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
60 |
Books & Beyond |
More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, by Jean Meeus |
Miller, Robert D. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
62 |
Books & Beyond |
Seeing in the Dark, by Timothy Ferris |
Raymo, Chet |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
64 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Variable Stars, by
Broens, Diepvens, and Van Der Looy |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
64 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Neptune: The Planet, Rings, and Satellites |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
64 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Illustrated Dictionary of Practical Astronomy |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
64 |
Books & Beyond |
Galileo's Battle for the Heavens |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
67 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Amateur Astrophysics in the Arctic Circle |
Oksanen, Arto |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
73 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: A Builder and a Healer |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
78 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Meeting the Eye |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
82 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Other Geometries in the Autumn Sky |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
83 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
84 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: M52 in Cassiopeia |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
85 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Sun, Moon, and Planets in November |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
88 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Hunting Down the Helix |
French, Sue |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
90 |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Brave New Worlds |
Bryant, Greg |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
95 |
Celestial Calendar |
Leonids 2002: The Grand Finale |
Rao, Joe |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
104 |
Celestial Calendar |
Eye and I: Seeing Venus's Crescent at 1x |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
104 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Occultations by Asteroids |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
107 |
Observer's Log |
The Caroline Herschel Objects |
Houston Jones, Jane |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
112 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Imbrium Lineaments and Davy's Weird Chain |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
114 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Two Galaxy Fields in Pegasus |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
118 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: Things Fly in the August Sky |
Deans, Paul |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
121 |
Astro Imaging |
Planning an Astro-Imaging Expedition |
BenDaniel, Matt |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
128 |
Gallery |
May Conjunction, Moon and Venus |
Ball, Jeff |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
128 |
Gallery |
Orion Nebula |
Schedler, Johannes |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
128 |
Gallery |
Riverside Star Party Scene |
Osborne, Daryl |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
128 |
Gallery |
Dumbbell Nebula, M27 |
Unsold, Mike |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
128 |
Gallery |
International Space Station |
Young, James |
Grasdalen, Gary L. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
130 |
Gallery |
Crescent Sunset |
Reynolds, Carl |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
130 |
Gallery |
Lunar Halo |
Loftus, Don |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
130 |
Gallery |
Ring Nebula, M57 |
Schedler, Johannes |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
131 |
Gallery |
Sombrero Galaxy, M104 |
Honis, Gary J. |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
131 |
Gallery |
Lunar Close-Up |
Pollock, Garvin |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
131 |
Gallery |
Sun Pillar |
Kangus, Lauri |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
132 |
Gallery |
Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules |
Unsold, Mike |
|
| 2002 |
11 |
132 |
Gallery |
Sunspots, May 2001 |
Hyndman, Paul |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Milky Way |
BenDaniel, Matt |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
8 |
Spectrum |
The Wrong Stuff |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
10 |
Focal Point |
Moon Illusions |
Fortier, Edmund |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
12 |
Letters |
Lightning on the Moon |
Rao, Joe |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
12 |
Letters |
What's in a Name? |
Bortle, John E. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
14 |
Letters |
Recognizing Talents |
Whitney, Charles A. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
14 |
Letters |
Mini-Moon Mania |
Whiting, Tom |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
14 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
14 |
Letters |
Know When to Hold 'Em |
Stanicki, Steve |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
14 |
Letters |
Using Both Eyes |
Nagler, Al |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
16 |
Letters |
The Not-So-Wrong-Way Moon |
White, Jeff |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
16 |
Letters |
New Meteor Showers |
Gliba, George W. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
16 |
Letters |
Free Database |
Tejera, Rick |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
16 |
Letters |
Hawaiian Battles |
Brust, R. W. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
18 |
News Notes |
Midsize Black Holes Lurk in Globular Clusters |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
19 |
News Notes |
Globulars' Pregalactic Origins |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
20 |
News Notes |
Polarized Microwaves Bolster New Cosmology |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
21 |
News Notes |
Weather on a Pre-Nova: Surf's Up! |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
22 |
News Notes |
First View of Mars in X-rays |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
22 |
News Notes |
Hoag's Ring Galaxy |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
24 |
News Notes |
Kuiper Belt Kingpin |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
24 |
News Notes |
Did a Comet Swarm Kill the Dinosaurs? |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
26 |
News Notes |
A Deep-Space UFO Mystery Solved |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
26 |
News Notes |
Refining a Key Distance |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
27 |
News Notes |
The Webb Space Telescope |
McDowell, Jonathan |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: LIGO Comes Alive |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: No Quantized Redshifts |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Supernova Source of Cosmic Rays? |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer Spacecraft |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
30 |
Mission Update |
International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
32 |
Feature |
Bright Lights, Big Problems |
Thessin, Rachel |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
40 |
Feature |
How I Beat Light Pollution in My Hometown |
Crelin, Bob |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
46 |
Images |
The Eagle Nebula, M16, NGC 6611 |
Reipurth, Bo |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
48 |
S&T Test Report |
Meade's LXD55 Schmidt-Newtonians |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
56 |
New Product Showcase |
HyperCamera, by Taurus Technologies |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
56 |
New Product Showcase |
Fluoro-Star FLT-110, by William Optics |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
56 |
New Product Showcase |
LM-3 "Perfect Pitch" Lap Mold, by Kevin McCarthy |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
59 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: Celestia 1.2.4 |
Heafner, Joe |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
61 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: When Moon Meets Sun |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
62 |
Software Showcase |
EclipseTimer |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
62 |
Software Showcase |
StarDrive 2.1, by Alexander Goloveshin |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
62 |
Software Showcase |
MegaStar Sky Atlas 5.0, by Willman-Bell, Inc. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Storms from the Sun, by Carlowicz and Lopez |
Burnham, Robert |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Solar Observing Techniques, by Chris Kitchin |
Burnham, Robert |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Journey from the Center of the Sun, by Zirker |
Burnham, Robert |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
66 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: SolarMax DVD |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
68 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The 23rd Cycle, by Sten Odenwald |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
68 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Nearest Star, by Golub and Pasachoff |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
68 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Sun from Space, by Lang |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
68 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Cambridge
Encyclopedia of the Sun, by Lang |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
71 |
Books & Beyond |
Glorious Eclipses, by Brunier and Luminet |
Deans, Paul |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
71 |
Books & Beyond |
Eclipse, by Duncan Steel |
Deans, Paul |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
75 |
Amateur Astronomers |
The Winter Star Party: Back to the Future |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
78 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Box: The Cedar Key Star Party |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
79 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Hunt for Extrasolar Planets from Hawaii |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
81 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: Red Lights in the Sky |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
86 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Whale Watching |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Celebrating the Longest Night |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
91 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
92 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: Challenging NGC 253 and 288 |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
93 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Sun, Moon, and Planets in December |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
96 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Cassiopeia's Chair |
French, Sue |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
98 |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
In the Shadow of the Clouds |
Bryant, Greg |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
100 |
Celestial Calendar |
Mutual Events of Jupiter's Moons |
Meeus, Jean |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
103 |
Celestial Calendar |
The Return of Comet Brewington |
Bryant, Greg |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
104 |
Celestial Calendar |
Eclipse Down Under |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
108 |
Celestial Calendar |
Light-Pollution Notes: Books on Light Pollution |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
108 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: December Meteors |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
111 |
Observer's Log |
Southern Double-Star Gems |
Jaworski, Richard |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
114 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Jason's Phantom Argonauts |
Dalrymple, Les |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
118 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: The Apollo 17 Landing Site |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
120 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: Strange Eclipses Update |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
122 |
Telescope Techniques |
A Roundup of 6-inch Travelscopes |
Highe, Albert |
Clement, Jerry |
Milsom, Francis |
Hunton, Donald E. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
132 |
Astro Imaging |
Shooting the Space Station with Video |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
139 |
Gallery |
Earth from Hot Air Balloon |
Verhage, L. Paul |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
140 |
Gallery |
Flame Nebula, NGC 2024 |
Moll, Karl |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
140 |
Gallery |
Small Magellanic Cloud, 47 Tucanae |
BenDaniel, Matt |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
141 |
Gallery |
Distorted Sun |
Medina, Oscar |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
142 |
Gallery |
Lagoon Nebula and M7 |
BenDaniel, Matt |
|
| 2002 |
12 |
143 |
Gallery |
Iridium-Flash Reflection |
Sabatini, S. Matthew |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Saturn's Rings |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Willkommen! |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
10 |
Focal Point |
The Glaze |
Alper, Chris |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
12 |
Letters |
Back to School |
Pasachoff, Jay M. |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
12 |
Letters |
A Stellar Mural |
Heyn, Herman M. |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
14 |
Letters |
Defining a "Planet" |
Paulsel, Lee |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
14 |
Letters |
Appreciating the Mountain |
Landstrom, Erich |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
14 |
Letters |
Stamp of Approval |
Tatum, Jeremy B. |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
14 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
14 |
Letters |
Budget Binoculars |
Fusfield, William |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
16 |
Letters |
A Run-in with the Law |
Wood, Bruce |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
16 |
Letters |
Binocular Fallacies |
Rice, Doug |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
16 |
Letters |
I Love It When a Plan Comes Together |
Merritt, Frank S. |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
18 |
News Notes |
Star Caught Swinging Around Milky Way's Black Hole |
Schilling, Govert |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
19 |
News Notes |
The Magnetar Connection |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
20 |
News Notes |
A Planet of a Bright Double Star |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
22 |
News Notes |
The Best-Observed Gamma-Ray Burst |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
22 |
News Notes |
A Modest Solar Appetite for Baby Planets |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
24 |
News Notes |
The Sharpest Picture Ever Made |
Winn, Joshua N. |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
24 |
News Notes |
Planets in Fomalhaut's Dust Disk? |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
24 |
News Notes |
Dating Beta Pic |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
26 |
News Notes |
Places for Exo-Earths |
Kaisler, Denise |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
26 |
News Notes |
A New Way to Set Off Supernovae? |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
28 |
News Notes |
Big Binary Asteroid |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
28 |
News Notes |
Reporting Asteroid Impact Risks |
Chandler, David L. |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
30 |
News Notes |
Pluto's Warming Atmosphere |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
32 |
News Notes |
Fewer Hits in Our Future? |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
32 |
News Notes |
Does Neptune Make Saturn Tipsy? |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
34 |
Mission Update |
Mu Space Engineering Satellite C |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
34 |
Mission Update |
Beagle 2 |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
34 |
Mission Update |
Nozomi |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
36 |
Feature |
Hot New Products of 2003 |
<i>Sky &
Telescope</i>, the Editors of |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
50 |
Feature |
From Ptolemy to the Renaissance |
Kanas, Nick |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
60 |
Images |
M64, NGC 4826, Black Eye Galaxy |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
62 |
Software Showcase |
TelePoint, by Larry Phillips |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
62 |
Software Showcase |
TS-24, Crystal Lake Observatory Simulator |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
62 |
Software Showcase |
SkyChart III, by Southern Stars Systems |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
64 |
Books & Beyond |
Uranometria 2000.0, Vols. 1 and 2: Deep Sky Atlas |
Jakiel, Richard |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
64 |
Books & Beyond |
Uranometria 2000.0 Vol. 3: Deep Sky Field Guide |
Jakiel, Richard |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
66 |
Books & Beyond |
Space, by Andrew Chaikin |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
66 |
Books & Beyond |
Space Odyssey, by Serge Brunier |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
66 |
Books & Beyond |
Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
68 |
Books & Beyond |
Benjamin Banneker, by Charles A. Cerami |
Dinderman, Gregg |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
69 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Star Ware, Third Edition, by Harrington |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
69 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: STF 2000.0: F.G.W. Struve's Double Stars |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
69 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Patterns in the Void, by Odenwald |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
70 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Peter Pan Under the Starlight: A Chat with P. K. Chen |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
75 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: The Last Hour |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
78 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Pit Vipers |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
82 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Winter's Greatest Attraction |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
83 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
84 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: The Glorious Double Cluster |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
85 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Sun, Moon, and Planets in January |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
88 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Winter Wonders |
French, Sue |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
90 |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Bright Stars and Faint Galaxies |
Bryant, Greg |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
93 |
Celestial Calendar |
Lunar Occultation Highlights for 2003 |
Dunham, David W. |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
98 |
Celestial Calendar |
Box: A Graze Is Well Observed Remotely |
Dunham, David W. |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
101 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: January Meteors |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
102 |
Celestial Calendar |
Eye and I: Far-Violet Venus |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
106 |
Observer's Log |
Saturn's Colorful Mystery |
Dobbins, Thomas A. |
Heath, Alan W. |
Dikarev, Valeri |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
112 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Active Aristarchus? |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
115 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Triangular Targets: Exploring Abell 262 |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
118 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: Of Spots Great and Small |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
121 |
Telescope Techniques |
Collimation with a Barlowed Laser |
Carlin, Nils Olof |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
127 |
Astro Imaging |
CCD Imaging with Hydrogen-Alpha Filters |
Mandel, Steve |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
130 |
Astro Imaging |
Box: Color CCD Imaging with Hydrogen Alpha |
Gendler, Robert |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
136 |
Gallery |
NGC 7331, Stephan's Quintet: NGC 7317, 7318A & B, 7319, and 7320 |
Carrico, Tom |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
136 |
Gallery |
Crepuscular Rays |
Kangas, Lauri |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
136 |
Gallery |
Supernova Remnant Simeis 147 in Taurus |
Tan, Loke Kun |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
138 |
Gallery |
Canadian Aurora Borealis |
Cantin, Dominic |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
138 |
Gallery |
Pelican Nebula, IC 5067 and 5070 |
Rickert, Bob |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
138 |
Gallery |
NGC 6894, Miniature Ring Nebula |
Jacobs, Rich |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
138 |
Gallery |
Rainbow over Cooper Landing, Alaska |
Zhu, Jerry Xiaojin |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
138 |
Gallery |
IC 1396 in Cepheus |
Rhemann, Gerald |
|
| 2003 |
1 |
140 |
Gallery |
Eta Carinae |
Ward, Peter |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Orion Nebula in the Infrared |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Separated at Birth? |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
10 |
Focal Point |
Adventures in Sidewalk Astronomy |
Bourque, Kevin |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
12 |
Letters |
Mythical Partners |
Moore, Patrick |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
12 |
Letters |
A Flawed Gem? - I |
Campbell, Thomas J. |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
12 |
Letters |
Join the NASA
"Saturn Parties" |
Quinn, Jim |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
14 |
Letters |
A Flawed Gem? - II |
Dorschner, Johann |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
14 |
Letters |
Blinded by the Light |
Rocheleau, Wayne |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
14 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
16 |
News Notes |
Zooming In on the Sun |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
18 |
News Notes |
Makeover for Jodrell Bank |
Sadler, Bud |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
18 |
News Notes |
New Support for Dark Energy |
Bobra, Monica |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
20 |
News Notes |
Oldest Stars: I - Hunting the First Star |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
22 |
News Notes |
Oldest Stars: II - Dwarf Carbon Stars |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
22 |
News Notes |
A Hive of Hypernovae? |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
24 |
News Notes |
Tracking a Runaway Black Hole |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
26 |
News Notes |
Cassini Spies Saturn |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
26 |
News Notes |
Why Life May Be Common - and Intelligence Rare |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: No Black Hole in M15? |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Another Sign Tunguskas Are Rare |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Three Exoplanets That Aren't |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
28 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Super-Kamiokande Limps Back to Life |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Galileo |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Stardust |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
30 |
Mission Update |
International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Rosetta |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
32 |
Feature |
Cosmology's Treasure Map |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
35 |
Feature |
Box: How They Did It |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
36 |
Feature |
Box: An Even Bigger Redshift Survey |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
38 |
Feature |
Box: The 2dFGRS: Not for Cosmology Alone |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
42 |
Feature |
NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility: Seeking Warmth in the Cosmos |
Waller, William Howard |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
46 |
Feature |
Box: Legacies Await |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
54 |
Images |
Perfect Spiral Galaxy, M74, NGC 628 |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
57 |
S&T Test Report |
Four Low-Cost Astronomical Video Cameras |
Horne, Johnny |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
64 |
New Product Showcase |
Home Observatory Planning Booklets |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
64 |
New Product Showcase |
Static-cling Chart Markers |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
64 |
New Product Showcase |
Go To Telescope Dovetail Adapter |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
66 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Relativistic Travel: To the Stars in a Lifetime |
Tung, Brian |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
70 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: Voyager 3.52, by Carina Software |
Foust, Jeff |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
72 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Tuning In to Astro Radio |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
74 |
Software Showcase |
SkyTools 2, by CapellaSoft |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
74 |
Software Showcase |
Maxclock, by Udo Mark |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
74 |
Software Showcase |
Stellaris, by Nick Heyworth |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
76 |
Books & Beyond |
The Turtle and the Stars, by Arthur Upgren |
Petersen, Carolyn Collins |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
78 |
Books & Beyond |
The Hundred Greatest Stars, by James B. Kaler |
Deans, Paul |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
80 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Annual Review of
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 40 |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
80 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Practical Amateur Spectroscopy |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
80 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: El Universo a Sus Pies |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
80 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Heaven & Earth: Unseen by the Naked Eye |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
80 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Mission to Saturn |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
80 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Alien Vision |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
80 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: More Small Astronomical Observatories |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
83 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Stargazing in the Shadow of the Great Wall |
Xie, Renjiang |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
86 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Nanjing's Historic Refractor |
Moran, James M. |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
89 |
Amateur Astronomers |
The Light-Pollution Fight Goes Mainstream |
Poulsen, Tim |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
90 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: Pluto's New Little Cousin |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
94 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Pattern Recognition |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
98 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
A Triangle, a Tree, and a Unicorn's Horn |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
99 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
100 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: Open Cluster M35 in Gemini |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
101 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Sun, Moon, and Planets in February |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
104 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
A Leap into Lepus |
French, Sue |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
106 |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
The Arms of Orion |
Bryant, Greg |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
109 |
Celestial Calendar |
The "Cave" in Copernicus |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
114 |
Celestial Calendar |
Light-Pollution Notes: Progress in 2002 |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
114 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Trapezium Variable |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
116 |
Observer's Log |
The Mystery of the Double Cluster |
O'Meara, Stephen James |
Green, Daniel W. E. |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
120 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: Orion's "Other" Nebulae |
Jakiel, Richard |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
122 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: The Serenitatis Basin and a Lunar Valentine |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
124 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: Leonids Under a Frost Moon |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
128 |
Astro Imaging |
Scanning Deep-Sky Astrophotos |
Lodriguss, Jerry |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
136 |
Gallery |
The Pleiades, M45 |
Tan, Loke Kun |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
136 |
Gallery |
Airplane Crossing the Sun |
Jacquot, Philippe |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
137 |
Gallery |
The Whirlpool Galaxy, M51 |
Hallas, Daphne |
Hallas, Tony |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
138 |
Gallery |
Lunar Crater Plato |
Mengoli, Giorgio |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
139 |
Gallery |
The Dumbbell Nebula, M27 |
Wodaski, Ron |
|
| 2003 |
2 |
139 |
Gallery |
Barred-Spiral Galaxy NGC 2146 |
Block, Adam |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
8 |
Spectrum |
What We Do, and Why |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
10 |
Focal Point |
Last Tango in Minneapolis |
Aalseth, Douglas |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
12 |
Letters |
SOS: Save Our Skies - I |
Krueger, Keith J. |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
12 |
Letters |
SOS: Save Our Skies - II |
Frederick, Richard |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
12 |
Letters |
A Stake Through the Heart |
Kelly, Rick |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
14 |
Letters |
Sage Advice |
Pepin, M. Barlow |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
14 |
Letters |
What's in a Name? |
Reesor, Tom |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
14 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
14 |
Letters |
SOS: Save Our Skies - III |
Steffey, Philip C. |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
14 |
Letters |
The Folded Refractor |
Pfannenschmidt, Ernie |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
16 |
News Notes |
Ripples from a Shredded Galaxy |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
17 |
News Notes |
A Galaxy Merger Begins |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
17 |
News Notes |
The Crab's Shimmering Shock Waves |
Bobra, Monica |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
18 |
News Notes |
Hubble Reveals a Pulsar's Doomed Partner |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
20 |
News Notes |
What Shapes Planetary Nebulae? |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
22 |
News Notes |
Sizing Up Proxima Centauri |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
24 |
News Notes |
Storm Clouds Over Titan |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
26 |
News Notes |
Making Moons Slowly |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
26 |
News Notes |
Rubble-Pile Moon |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
28 |
News Notes |
Martian Meteorites Made Easy |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
30 |
Mission Update |
New Horizons |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Spectrum-X-Gamma |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
32 |
Feature |
Astronomy's Phantom Foul Balls: Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays |
Semeniuk, Ivan |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
42 |
Feature |
Old Astrophotos: Averting a Lost Legacy |
Schaefer, Bradley E. |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
48 |
Images |
Trifid Nebula, M20 |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
50 |
S&T Test Report |
Brains and Brawn: Meade's LX200GPS |
Dyer, Alan |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
59 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: SkyChart III, Version 3.6 |
Ratledge, David |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
61 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Astronomy Online: Satisfy Your Auroral Longing |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
64 |
Software Showcase |
Starry Night Pro 4.0, Starry Night Backyard 4.0 |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
64 |
Software Showcase |
Personal Sky Chart |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
64 |
Software Showcase |
Planet's Visibility 2.0 |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
70 |
Books & Beyond |
Where Is Everybody? by Stephen Webb |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
71 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Children of the Stars |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
71 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Life at the Limits |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
71 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: What Does a Martian Look Like? |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
71 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Earth, Life, and the Universe |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
72 |
Books & Beyond |
The Extravagant Universe, by Robert P. Kirshner |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
75 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: On the Shoulders of Giants |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
75 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Asteroid Rendezvous |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
75 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Touch the Universe |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
75 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Celestial Harvest |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
77 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Astronomy with Children: Our Backyard Analemma Project |
Kauper, Michael |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
78 |
Amateur Astronomers |
What Is an Analemma? |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
82 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: The New Age of CCD Observing |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
86 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
The Final Unicorn |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Night-Sky Facts and Fantasies |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
91 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
92 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: M46 and M47: A Celestial Odd Couple |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
93 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Sun, Moon, and Planets in March |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
96 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Double Your Fun |
French, Sue |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
98 |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Views from the Ship's Stern |
Bryant, Greg |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
101 |
Celestial Calendar |
Planetary Occultations for 2003 |
Dunham, David W. |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
107 |
Celestial Calendar |
More Events of Jupiter's Moons |
Meeus, Jean |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
110 |
Celestial Calendar |
The Near Sky: Halo Effects |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
110 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Full Moon not Full? |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
115 |
Observer's Log |
Tips and Techniques for Sketching the Deep Sky |
Jakiel, Richard |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
120 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: A Hive of Galaxies in Cancer |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
122 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Multi-Ring Mare Humorum |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
124 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: December's Brief Totality |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
126 |
Telescope Techniques |
A Hemispheric Reflector |
Wehler, Randall |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
130 |
Gallery |
Dec. 2002 Solar Eclipse with Silhouettes |
Hurley, Dan |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
130 |
Gallery |
Dec. 2002 Solar Eclipse Sequence |
DiLetti, Kevin |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
130 |
Gallery |
Dec. 2002 Solar Eclipse Corona |
Carlos, Wendy |
Kern, Jonathan |
Kern, Jan |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
132 |
Gallery |
Dec. 2002 Solar Eclipse Crescent |
Schechter, Eliot J. |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
132 |
Gallery |
Dec. 2002 Solar Eclipse Diamond Ring |
Morel, Philippe |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
132 |
Gallery |
Dec. 2002 Solar Eclipse over Tree |
Karrer, Michael |
|
| 2003 |
3 |
132 |
Gallery |
Dec. 2002 Solar Eclipse with Prominences |
Barnes, Stephen |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Out of Africa |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
10 |
Focal Point |
The Stars in Opposition |
Gordon, Nicole |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
12 |
Letters |
Sweeping Up Stars |
Embry, Calvin |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
12 |
Letters |
An Old Friend |
Fusco, Ralph L. |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
12 |
Letters |
Egocentric Naming |
Loosli, Urs |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
12 |
Letters |
Tenuous Tenure |
Sonnabend, Dave |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
14 |
Letters |
The Wrong Stuff - III |
Evans, Hilton |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
14 |
Letters |
The Wrong Stuff - I |
Fischer, Eric M. |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
14 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
14 |
Letters |
The Wrong Stuff - II |
Sutherland, Michael |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
14 |
Letters |
A Clear View |
Flynn, Chris |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
16 |
Letters |
Star Power |
Caddock, Earl |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
16 |
Letters |
Silver Anniversaries |
Kuplin, Bob |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
18 |
News Notes |
Australian Scopes Lost to Wildfire |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
20 |
News Notes |
A New Way to Find Planets |
Tytell, David |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
21 |
News Notes |
Snowflakes in the Dark Age? |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
21 |
News Notes |
Planet Seen by Sideways Wobble |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
22 |
News Notes |
Andromeda's Second Stream |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
22 |
News Notes |
Ring Around the Milky Way |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
24 |
News Notes |
Earth on the Moon |
Lucentini, Jack |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
26 |
News Notes |
The Nearest Brown Dwarf |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
26 |
News Notes |
Cosmic-Ray Bits of the Kuiper Belt |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
27 |
News Notes |
The Coolest Brown Dwarf |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
27 |
News Notes |
Neptune's Growing Family |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
27 |
News Notes |
The Brightest Brown Dwarf |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
28 |
News Notes |
Speed of Gravity Measured - or Maybe Not |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Rosetta |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Comet Nucleus Tour |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
30 |
Mission Update |
Space Infrared Telescope Facility |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
30 |
Mission Update |
International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
36 |
Feature |
Planets in Production: Making New Worlds |
Jayawardhana, Ray |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
38 |
Feature |
Box: Growing Up in a Rough Neighborhood |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
44 |
Feature |
A Trip to the Galactic Center |
Tanner, Angelle |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
52 |
Images |
Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689 |
Villard, Ray |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
56 |
S&T Test Report |
A Siberian Achromatic Refractor |
Kalemjian, Ethan |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
59 |
S&T Test Report |
Box: Retro Refractor |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
62 |
Computers in Astronomy |
A Weather Clock for Observers |
Danko, Attilla |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
66 |
Computers in Astronomy |
Screen Shot: Starry Night Pro 4.0.2 |
Heafner, Joe |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
68 |
Software Showcase |
Nightfall |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
68 |
Software Showcase |
Kagayaki III |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
72 |
Books & Beyond |
Strange Matters, by Tom Siegfried |
Petersen, Carolyn Collins |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
74 |
Books & Beyond |
The Florida Night Sky, by Elinor De Wire |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
74 |
Books & Beyond |
Our Spacious Skies, by Lezak, Winter, and Winter |
Goldman, Stuart J. |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
75 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Facts On File
Space and Astronomy Handbook |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
75 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Enigma of Sunspots |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
75 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Observing Guide to the Messier Marathon |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
77 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Sun and Snow: Mount Wilson Observatory's Summer Program |
Simmons, Mike |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
82 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: Adventure on the High Seas |
Levy, David H. |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
86 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Hands-On |
Krupp, E. C. |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Star Names New and Old |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
91 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
92 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: Jupiter Visits the Beehive |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
93 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Sun, Moon, and Planets in April |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
96 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
The Sickle's Harvest |
French, Sue |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
98 |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Setting Sail in the Stellar WInds |
Bryant, Greg |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
101 |
Celestial Calendar |
Vesta in Virgo: A Naked-Eye Asteroid |
Bryant, Greg |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
104 |
Celestial Calendar |
Outer Planets in 2003 |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
108 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: April Meteors |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
108 |
Celestial Calendar |
Eye and I: Brightest Comet Trails |
Schaaf, Fred |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
110 |
Observer's Log |
111 Deep-Sky Wonders for Light-Polluted Skies |
Mullaney, James |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
116 |
Observer's Log |
Deep-Sky Notebook: A Galaxy -Hop from M49 |
Whitman, Alan |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
119 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: The Marius Hills |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
122 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: Conjunction with a Crustacean |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
124 |
Telescope Techniques |
A Simple and Sturdy Wedgepod |
Seronik, Gary |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
127 |
Telescope Techniques |
A Crutch Tripod |
Pfannenschmidt, Ernie |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
130 |
Astro Imaging |
Guiding Techniques for Astrophotography |
Perkins, Philip |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
133 |
Astro Imaging |
Box: Simple, Accurate Polar Alignment |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
134 |
Astro Imaging |
Box: Practical Tips for Using the ST-4 Autoguider |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
136 |
Gallery |
Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744 in Pavo |
Wendel, Volker |
Flach-Wilken, Bernd |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
136 |
Gallery |
Total Solar Eclipse, Dec. 2002, Africa |
Halliday, Tony |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
136 |
Gallery |
Canadian Aurora |
Rickerby, Jason |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
137 |
Gallery |
Fox Fur Nebula, S Monocerotis |
Gendler, Robert |
|
| 2003 |
4 |
138 |
Gallery |
NGC 1973-75-77 in Orion |
Held, David |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Com-mu-ni-ty, n. |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
10 |
Focal Point |
A Detective Story |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
12 |
Letters |
Pleiades Illusion |
Wood, Charles A. |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
12 |
Letters |
Catch a Falling Star |
Schreiner, Rick |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
12 |
Letters |
The Lost Years |
D'Andrea, John |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
14 |
Letters |
Purple Prose - I |
Newsom, Gerald |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
14 |
Letters |
Purple Prose - II |
Hanner, Gerald P. |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
14 |
Letters |
A Galilean Dream |
Ayiomamitis, Anthony |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
14 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
Robinson, Leif J. |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
16 |
News Notes |
Turning a Corner on the New Cosmology |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
18 |
News Notes |
Hunting the First Stars |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
18 |
News Notes |
Lumicon Lives |
Tytell, David |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
19 |
News Notes |
New Light on the Whirpool's Origin |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
20 |
News Notes |
Chaos at a White Dwarf |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
20 |
News Notes |
Zooming Into the Dumbbell |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
22 |
News Notes |
The Great Lakes of Titan |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
22 |
News Notes |
Short Lives for Short-Period Comets |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
24 |
News Notes |
The Moon's Youngest Crater? |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
Bobra, Monica |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
26 |
News Notes |
Space Science After Columbia: On Schedule |
Tytell, David |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
28 |
Mission Update |
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 12 |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
28 |
Mission Update |
Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
28 |
Mission Update |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
30 |
Feature |
Optical Interferometry Comes of Age |
Lawson, Peter R. |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
32 |
Feature |
Box: How It Works: The Simplest Case |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
34 |
Feature |
Box: Why Is It So Hard? |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
40 |
Feature |
A Millennium of Shattered Stars |
Stephenson, F. Richard |
Green, David A. |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
50 |
S&T Test Report |
21st-Century Robotic Astronomy |
di Cicco, Dennis |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
58 |
New Product Showcase |
Landing Pad for NexStar GPS |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
58 |
New Product Showcase |
SolarView 50 H-Alpha Telescope |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
58 |
New Product Showcase |
Moon Mission Game |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
62 |
Software Showcase |
Astronomer's Digital Clock |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
62 |
Software Showcase |
Stargazer's Delight 6.1 |
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| 2003 |
5 |
62 |
Software Showcase |
EarthWatch 4.01 |
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| 2003 |
5 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
The Smithsonian Book of Mars, by Joseph Boyce |
Tytell, David |
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| 2003 |
5 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Mars: The Lure of the Red Planet, by Sheehan and O'Meara |
Tytell, David |
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| 2003 |
5 |
65 |
Books & Beyond |
Mapping Mars, by Oliver Morton |
Tytell, David |
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| 2003 |
5 |
68 |
Books & Beyond |
Mars Observer's Guide, by Neil Bone |
Tytell, David |
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| 2003 |
5 |
69 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Mars: The Mystery Unfolds |
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| 2003 |
5 |
70 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Photographic Atlas of the Moon |
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| 2003 |
5 |
70 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Observer's Guide to Stellar Evolution |
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| 2003 |
5 |
70 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: SETI 2020 |
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| 2003 |
5 |
70 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Solar System Voyage |
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| 2003 |
5 |
70 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: Touch the Stars II |
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| 2003 |
5 |
70 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: How to Observe the Sun Safely |
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| 2003 |
5 |
70 |
Books & Beyond |
Briefly Noted: The Restless Universe |
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| 2003 |
5 |
74 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Astronomy in the Land of Fire and Ice |
Gudmundsson, Snaevarr |
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| 2003 |
5 |
76 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Box: Travel Tips for Eclipse Chasers |
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| 2003 |
5 |
78 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Astronomy Day 2003 |
Aguirre, Edwin L. |
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| 2003 |
5 |
80 |
Amateur Astronomers |
Star Trails: The Great "Supernova" of 2003 |
Levy, David H. |
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| 2003 |
5 |
86 |
Rambling Through the Skies |
Sky Writing |
Krupp, E. C. |
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| 2003 |
5 |
90 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
The Yardstick Solar System |
Schaaf, Fred |
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| 2003 |
5 |
91 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Northern Hemisphere's Sky |
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| 2003 |
5 |
92 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Binocular Highlight: Visiting Vesta |
Seronik, Gary |
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| 2003 |
5 |
93 |
Guide to the Evening Sky |
Sun, Moon, and Planets in May |
Schaaf, Fred |
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| 2003 |
5 |
96 |
Small-Scope Sampler |
Under Virgo's Wing |
French, Sue |
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| 2003 |
5 |
98 |
Southern Hemisphere's Sky |
Unveiling the Centaur |
Bryant, Greg |
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| 2003 |
5 |
104 |
Celestial Calendar |
May's Two Eclipses |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
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| 2003 |
5 |
107 |
Celestial Calendar |
Mercury Transits the Sun |
Sinnott, Roger W. |
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| 2003 |
5 |
112 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: Asteroid Occultation |
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| 2003 |
5 |
112 |
Celestial Calendar |
Calendar Notes: May Meteors |
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| 2003 |
5 |
113 |
Celestial Calendar |
Light-Pollution Notes: Dark Sky Week |
Schaaf, Fred |
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| 2003 |
5 |
116 |
Observer's Log |
Observing Lord Rosse's Spirals |
Hewitt-White, Kenneth |
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| 2003 |
5 |
122 |
Observer's Log |
Lunar Notebook: Mare Vaporum, Sinus Aestuum, and Fire Fountains |
Wood, Charles A. |
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| 2003 |
5 |
123 |
Observer's Log |
Observer's Notebook: Things Far and Near |
di Cicco, Dennis |
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| 2003 |
5 |
125 |
Telescope Techniques |
A Compact Back-Garden Observatory |
Ashford, Adrian R. |
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| 2003 |
5 |
130 |
Gallery |
Aurora from Airplane, Dec. 2002 |
Myhrvold, Nathan |
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| 2003 |
5 |
130 |
Gallery |
Columbia's Launch, Jan. 2003 |
Ramotowski, Becky |
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| 2003 |
5 |
131 |
Gallery |
Partial Eclipse, Setting Sun, Dec. 2002 |
Evans, Nigel |
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| 2003 |
5 |
131 |
Gallery |
Full Moon Rising |
Churchill, Christine |
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| 2003 |
5 |
132 |
Gallery |
Barred-Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 in Fornax |
Wendel, Volker |
Flach-Wilken, Bernd |
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| 2003 |
5 |
132 |
Gallery |
Flame Nebula, NGC 2024 |
Wolfe, Ted |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
132 |
Gallery |
Titan II Launch, Jan. 2003 |
Lockett, Brian |
|
| 2003 |
5 |
133 |
Gallery |
Tarantula Nebula, NGC 2070, 30 Doradus |
Ward, Peter |
|
| 2003 |
6 |
1 |
Front-Cover Photo |
Mars |
|
| 2003 |
6 |
8 |
Spectrum |
Nothing New Under the Sun |
Fienberg, Richard Tresch |
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| 2003 |
6 |
10 |
Focal Point |
Life Amid the Grit |
Wann, Jey |
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| 2003 |
6 |
12 |
Letters |
A Black Eye |
Lunn, Martin |
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| 2003 |
6 |
12 |
Letters |
Level-Headed Advice |
Privett, Grant |
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| 2003 |
6 |
12 |
Letters |
A Stellar Merger |
Vecoli, Jeremy |
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| 2003 |
6 |
12 |
Letters |
As an Empire Declined |
Stephan, Christopher |
|
| 2003 |
6 |
14 |
Letters |
50 & 25 Years Ago |
Robinson, Leif J. |
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| 2003 |
6 |
14 |
Letters |
Not-So-Dark Ages |
Jackson, Richard A. |
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| 2003 |
6 |
14 |
Letters |
Monogrammed Moon |
Dierick, Dominique |
|
| 2003 |
6 |
16 |
News Notes |
A Light Echo Like No Other |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2003 |
6 |
18 |
News Notes |
Star Wars Satellite Spies Galactic Wind |
Roth, Joshua |
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| 2003 |
6 |
18 |
News Notes |
A Molecular View of M82 |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2003 |
6 |
19 |
News Notes |
Do Globular Clusters Spit Out X-ray Stars? |
Roth, Joshua |
|
| 2003 |
6 |
20 |
News Notes |
A Planet That's Boiling Away |
Schilling, Govert |
|
| 2003 |
6 |
21 |
News Notes |
Mars Radiation Not So Bad |
Chaikin, Andrew |
|
| 2003 |
6 |
22 |
News Notes |
The Lost Lunar Meteorites |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2003 |
6 |
24 |
News Notes |
Lunar Flash Doesn't Pan Out |
Beatty, J. Kelly |
|
| 2003 |
6 |
25 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Alpha Centauri, Exactly |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
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| 2003 |
6 |
25 |
News Notes |
Follow That Story: Simple Inflation Not Dead Yet |
MacRobert, Alan M. |
|
| 2003 |
6 |
26 |
Mission Update |
Pioneer 10 |
McDowell, Jonathan |
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| 2003 |
6 |
26 |
Mission Update |
Mu Space Experiment System C |
McDowell, Jonathan |
|
| 2003 |
6 |
26 |
Mission Update |
Galaxy Evolution Explorer |
McDowell, Jonathan |
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