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BBC Sky at Night

Mar 01 2020
Magazine

Sky at Night magazine is your practical guide to astronomy. Each issue features the world’s biggest and best night sky guide complete with star charts, observing tutorials and in-depth equipment reviews to ensure that amateur astronomers never miss those must-see events.

Welcome • Get to know the Moon in more detail than ever before

This month’s contributors

Gentle GIANT • Enormous galaxy UGC 2885 is 2.5 times the diameter of the Milky Way and home to 10 times as many stars

Brightest stellar explosion caused by colliding stars • The debris left behind indicates an event similar to a Type IA supernova

Comment

Citizen scientists help discover new aurora • Auroral ‘dunes’ are spotted in images by amateur astronomers

Comets brought ingredient of life to Earth

NEWS IN BRIEF

The hottest planet is tearing itself apart • Temperatures are so extreme that the world’s atmosphere is fiercer than some stars

Spitzer sees its final light

NEWS IN BRIEF

‘Vampire’ star preys on stellar companion • The pair briefly flared up 1,000 times brighter than normal

The complex core of ice moon Enceladus

Taking the slow lane to Saturn • A new route could help spacecraft reach the outer Solar System

Solving gravity’s oldest problem • The ‘three-body problem’ has long been the bane of astrophysicists

INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT • January’s Sky at Night episode saw Maggie Aderin-Pocock return to her old telescope-making class, run by Terry Pearce. He tells us about it

Looking back: The Sky at Night

The Sky at Night returns in April

INTERACTIVE Email us at inbox@skyatnightmagazine.com

Praises on high • With all the news about Betelgeuse – I penned this:

ON FACEBOOK • WE ASKED: What are your top tips for observing or photographing the Moon?

SCOPE DOCTOR • Our equipment specialist cures your optical ailments and technical maladies

Steve’s top tip • How do I set up my finderscope?

SOCIETY IN FOCUS

BBC Sky at Night

Turning a reservoir into a planetarium • One astronomy society has ambitious plans to build a science discovery centre and planetarium in a derelict reservoir next to their observatory

WHAT’S ON

UK in Space Festival • National Space Centre, Exploration Drive, Leicester, 7 March, from 10am

Set the controls for the heart of THE SUN • ESA’s Solar Orbiter launched earlier this month on a mission that will take it perilously close to the Sun. Michael Lachmann explores the science behind it

Science at the Sun • The Solar Orbiter mission has been designed to answer four key questions about the solar wind. What are they?

The UK aims for the Sun • Solar Orbiter, an ESA mission with a large UK contribution

Take your Moon OBSERVING FURTHER • Pete Lawrence is your guide to taking your lunar observations to the next level with expert advice on finding your way around its fascinating surface features and more

Finding your way • How to get your bearings for your lunar observations

What it will look like • What kind of view to expect through the eyepiece of a telescope

Targets to observe • A telescope will reveal the Moon’s geology and landscapes

Lunar occultations • Time when stars go behind the Moon, and see them graze the uneven edge

The Sky Guide

MARCH HIGHLIGHTS • Your guide to the night sky this month

Family stargazing

NEED TO KNOW • The terms and symbols used in The Sky Guide

THE BIG THREE • The three top sights to observe or image this month

THE PLANETS • Our celestial neighbourhood in March

THE NIGHT SKY – MARCH • Explore the celestial...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 102 Publisher: Our Media Limited Edition: Mar 01 2020

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Sky at Night magazine is your practical guide to astronomy. Each issue features the world’s biggest and best night sky guide complete with star charts, observing tutorials and in-depth equipment reviews to ensure that amateur astronomers never miss those must-see events.

Welcome • Get to know the Moon in more detail than ever before

This month’s contributors

Gentle GIANT • Enormous galaxy UGC 2885 is 2.5 times the diameter of the Milky Way and home to 10 times as many stars

Brightest stellar explosion caused by colliding stars • The debris left behind indicates an event similar to a Type IA supernova

Comment

Citizen scientists help discover new aurora • Auroral ‘dunes’ are spotted in images by amateur astronomers

Comets brought ingredient of life to Earth

NEWS IN BRIEF

The hottest planet is tearing itself apart • Temperatures are so extreme that the world’s atmosphere is fiercer than some stars

Spitzer sees its final light

NEWS IN BRIEF

‘Vampire’ star preys on stellar companion • The pair briefly flared up 1,000 times brighter than normal

The complex core of ice moon Enceladus

Taking the slow lane to Saturn • A new route could help spacecraft reach the outer Solar System

Solving gravity’s oldest problem • The ‘three-body problem’ has long been the bane of astrophysicists

INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT • January’s Sky at Night episode saw Maggie Aderin-Pocock return to her old telescope-making class, run by Terry Pearce. He tells us about it

Looking back: The Sky at Night

The Sky at Night returns in April

INTERACTIVE Email us at inbox@skyatnightmagazine.com

Praises on high • With all the news about Betelgeuse – I penned this:

ON FACEBOOK • WE ASKED: What are your top tips for observing or photographing the Moon?

SCOPE DOCTOR • Our equipment specialist cures your optical ailments and technical maladies

Steve’s top tip • How do I set up my finderscope?

SOCIETY IN FOCUS

BBC Sky at Night

Turning a reservoir into a planetarium • One astronomy society has ambitious plans to build a science discovery centre and planetarium in a derelict reservoir next to their observatory

WHAT’S ON

UK in Space Festival • National Space Centre, Exploration Drive, Leicester, 7 March, from 10am

Set the controls for the heart of THE SUN • ESA’s Solar Orbiter launched earlier this month on a mission that will take it perilously close to the Sun. Michael Lachmann explores the science behind it

Science at the Sun • The Solar Orbiter mission has been designed to answer four key questions about the solar wind. What are they?

The UK aims for the Sun • Solar Orbiter, an ESA mission with a large UK contribution

Take your Moon OBSERVING FURTHER • Pete Lawrence is your guide to taking your lunar observations to the next level with expert advice on finding your way around its fascinating surface features and more

Finding your way • How to get your bearings for your lunar observations

What it will look like • What kind of view to expect through the eyepiece of a telescope

Targets to observe • A telescope will reveal the Moon’s geology and landscapes

Lunar occultations • Time when stars go behind the Moon, and see them graze the uneven edge

The Sky Guide

MARCH HIGHLIGHTS • Your guide to the night sky this month

Family stargazing

NEED TO KNOW • The terms and symbols used in The Sky Guide

THE BIG THREE • The three top sights to observe or image this month

THE PLANETS • Our celestial neighbourhood in March

THE NIGHT SKY – MARCH • Explore the celestial...


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