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BBC Sky at Night

Oct 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 • Enjoy the best opportunity to view Mars for years to come

HOW TO CONTACT US

Sky at Night – lots of ways to enjoy the night sky…

This month’s contributors

Extra content ONLINE • Visit www.skyatnightmagazine.com/bonus-content/3XAE3DB to access this month’s selection of exclusive Bonus Content

EYE ON THE SKY WHEN NEOWISE DROPPED BY • A look back at the spectacular comet that graced our skies in July

BULLETIN • The latest astronomy and space news, written by Ezzy Pearson

Comment

NEWS IN BRIEF

CUTTING EDGE • Our experts examine the hottest new research

INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT • The Sky at Night TV show, past, present and future

Looking back: The Sky at Night • 1 October 1983

The Sky at Night OCTOBER

INTERACTIVE • Emails – Letters – Tweets – Facebook – Instagram – Kit questions

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

BBC Sky at Night MAGAZINE

WHAT’S ON • Our pick of the best events from around the UK

FIELD OF VIEW • The astronomer’s forum

Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year • BBC Sky at Night Magazine proudly announces the 2020 victors of the world’s largest astrophotograpy competition

THE JUDGES

OBSERVE MARS AT ITS BEST • October’s opposition of the Red Planet is the best opportunity to view the world for years to come. Pete Lawrence helps you make the most of it with a week-by-week guide to what may be visible on Mars’s disc

The moons of Mars • The Red Planet’s two small satellites are within reach of amateur scopes

Martian flashes • More observations of mysterious transient bright spots on Mars’s surface are needed

MARS REACHES OPPOSITION • Watch the Red Planet appear at its brightest and largest this month

OCTOBER HIGHLIGHTS • Your guide to the night sky this month

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 October

The planets in October • The phase and relative sizes of the planets this month. Each planet is shown with south at the top, to show its orientation through a telescope

JUPITER’S MOONS: OCTOBER

THE NIGHT SKY – OCTOBER • Explore the celestial sphere with our Northern Hemisphere all-sky chart

MOONWATCH • October’s top lunar feature to observe

COMETS AND ASTEROIDS • Observe minor planet 11 Parthenope reaching opposition in Pisces

STAR OF THE MONTH • Rho Cassiopeiae, a yellow hypergiant

BINOCULAR TOUR • The Pleiades, Uranus and Asteroid Flora are among October’s wide-field highlights

THE SKY GUIDE CHALLENGE • See if you can track a meeting between the two gas giants and the dwarf planet Pluto?

DEEP-SKY TOUR • We explore the celestial highlights found in eastern Cassiopeia

AT A GLANCE • How the Sky Guide events will appear in October

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH A tour of our local galactic group • Autumn skies in the Northern Hemisphere bring many of the Milky Way’s nearby galaxies into view. Paul Money takes an observing tour of them

Viewing the Local Group • What different instruments will show you of our neighbouring galaxies

Imaging the Local Group • How to capture our nearby ‘island universes’

THE...


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

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: September 17, 2020

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Science

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English

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 • Enjoy the best opportunity to view Mars for years to come

HOW TO CONTACT US

Sky at Night – lots of ways to enjoy the night sky…

This month’s contributors

Extra content ONLINE • Visit www.skyatnightmagazine.com/bonus-content/3XAE3DB to access this month’s selection of exclusive Bonus Content

EYE ON THE SKY WHEN NEOWISE DROPPED BY • A look back at the spectacular comet that graced our skies in July

BULLETIN • The latest astronomy and space news, written by Ezzy Pearson

Comment

NEWS IN BRIEF

CUTTING EDGE • Our experts examine the hottest new research

INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT • The Sky at Night TV show, past, present and future

Looking back: The Sky at Night • 1 October 1983

The Sky at Night OCTOBER

INTERACTIVE • Emails – Letters – Tweets – Facebook – Instagram – Kit questions

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

BBC Sky at Night MAGAZINE

WHAT’S ON • Our pick of the best events from around the UK

FIELD OF VIEW • The astronomer’s forum

Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year • BBC Sky at Night Magazine proudly announces the 2020 victors of the world’s largest astrophotograpy competition

THE JUDGES

OBSERVE MARS AT ITS BEST • October’s opposition of the Red Planet is the best opportunity to view the world for years to come. Pete Lawrence helps you make the most of it with a week-by-week guide to what may be visible on Mars’s disc

The moons of Mars • The Red Planet’s two small satellites are within reach of amateur scopes

Martian flashes • More observations of mysterious transient bright spots on Mars’s surface are needed

MARS REACHES OPPOSITION • Watch the Red Planet appear at its brightest and largest this month

OCTOBER HIGHLIGHTS • Your guide to the night sky this month

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 October

The planets in October • The phase and relative sizes of the planets this month. Each planet is shown with south at the top, to show its orientation through a telescope

JUPITER’S MOONS: OCTOBER

THE NIGHT SKY – OCTOBER • Explore the celestial sphere with our Northern Hemisphere all-sky chart

MOONWATCH • October’s top lunar feature to observe

COMETS AND ASTEROIDS • Observe minor planet 11 Parthenope reaching opposition in Pisces

STAR OF THE MONTH • Rho Cassiopeiae, a yellow hypergiant

BINOCULAR TOUR • The Pleiades, Uranus and Asteroid Flora are among October’s wide-field highlights

THE SKY GUIDE CHALLENGE • See if you can track a meeting between the two gas giants and the dwarf planet Pluto?

DEEP-SKY TOUR • We explore the celestial highlights found in eastern Cassiopeia

AT A GLANCE • How the Sky Guide events will appear in October

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH A tour of our local galactic group • Autumn skies in the Northern Hemisphere bring many of the Milky Way’s nearby galaxies into view. Paul Money takes an observing tour of them

Viewing the Local Group • What different instruments will show you of our neighbouring galaxies

Imaging the Local Group • How to capture our nearby ‘island universes’

THE...


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