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Issues
42: January 2010
43: February/March 2010
44: April 2010
45: May/June 2010
46: July 2010
47: August/September 2010
Authors
Anderson, Peter: Cruise Ship Astronomy, 44:98
Beatty, J. Kelly: NASA Slams the Moon, 44:32
Bryant, Greg:
A New Comet Machholz, 46:58
A Splendid Evening Show, 46:54
An Early May Mateor Shower, 45:58
An Evening Partial Lunar Eclipse, 45:57
Aperture Fever, 47:8
Ask AS&T, 47:85
Autumn's Alluring Sky, 44:52
Ceres Reaches Opposition, 45:58
Conjunctions and a Lunar Eclipse, 45:54
Discovery Machines, 46:10
End of an Era, 42:8
Evening Conjunctions Galore, 47:54
Field Of Dreams, 45:52
First Light, 44:10
Mars and Saturn Shine Brightly, 43:54
Mars Shines at Opposition, 42:54
New Light On The Small Magellanic Cloud, 45:24
Next Gen Radio Astronomy, 45:36
Orion's Wonders, 42:52
Patterns in the Sky, 46:52
Re-inventing NASA, 45:10
Rings, Lakes, and Geysers, 43:32
Sirius Nights, 43:52
Space-Based Astronomy, 43:8
The Evening Star Returns, 44:54
The Magic of the Milky Way, 47:52
Top 10 Stories of 2009, 42:28
Wiggling In The Dark, 44:28
Carroll, Michael: Imagining Other Worlds, 46:34
Dalrymple, Les: A Pair of Pairs, 47:50
An Eye for the Sky, 44:68
Betwixt & Between, 44:62
Cup Bearer to Zeus, 47:62
Hiding in plain view, 42:50
In the Vacuum of Space, 43:64
Lost and Found, 46:50
Messier 4, 45:50
One Field, 46:64
Summer Planetary Viewing, 42:66
The Dark Doodad, 44:50
Ups and Downs, 43:50
Winter's Hickson Galaxy Groups, 45:64
di Cicco, Dennis: Atik's 314L+ CCD Camera, 47:86
Celestron's CGE Pro Mount, 42:80
Deep-Sky Astrophotography Primer, 45:82
Explore Scientific's 14mm 100-degree Eyepiece, 45:88
Getting Started is a Piece of Cake, 45:68
Sky-Watcher's Newest Apo Refractor, 43:84
Starizona's HyperStar, 44:86
Turning 50, 47:82
Eisenhardt, Peter, and Wright, Ned: A New Infrared Sky, 43:36
Ellyard, David: Measuring the Earth, 45:22
Messages from Little Green Men, 43:22
The Brightest New Star, 44:22
The Tenth Planet?, 46:19
Voyager 2 meets Uranus, 42:22
Espenak, Fred, and Anderson, Jay: July's South Pacific Eclipse, 43:60
Flanders, Tony: What to Know before you Buy, 44:76
French, Sue: Icy Blue Diamonds, 42:70
In Starry Skies, 44:65
Magical Things, 46:70
Sagittarius Star Cities, 47:68
The Flight of the Unicorn, 43:67
Gardner, Jonathan P.: Finding the First Galaxies, 43:42
Goldman, Stuart J.: Great Gadgets for Stargazing, 44:84
Gould, Ross: A Bullring of Doubles, 42:69
Beneath the Cross, 45:67
Doubles in Sextans, 44:57
In the Wolf's Den, 46:79
NACAA 2010, 47:78
Peacock Feathers, 47:71
Steer North from Canopus, 43:63
Grinspoon, David: Another Giant Leap, 42:20
Lunar News Flash, 44:20
Revising Earth's Biography, 43:20
Sailing the Solar System, 47:18
The Dream Is Coming Back, 45:20
The Right Stuff?, 46:18
Haqq-Misra, Jacob, and Baum, Seth D.: Where Have All the Aliens Gone?, 43:98
Hewitt-White, Ken: A Herculean Galaxy Cluster, 46:74
Probing NGC 5746, 45:62
Hill, Tanya: Melbourne Planetarium - Inspiring Generations of Visitors, 42:84
Holberg, Jay B.: Le Verrier and the Discovery of Sirius B, 43:70
James, C. Renee: The Universal Jet Set, 47:28
Jewitt, David: What else is out there?, 46:28
Kanas, Nick: The Cartographic Legacy of John Flamsteed, 47:34
Kerr, Steve: History Repeats?, 42:57
Pleiades in a Winter's Morning, 47:57
The Pleiades and Earthshine, 44:58
Two Asteroid Occultations, 45:58
Krupp, E.C.: The Great 2012 Scare, 42:32
Lakdawalla, Emily: Spacecraft Imaging for Amateurs, 43:74
Laughlin, Greg: Hanging in the Balance, 45:42
Layton, Laura and Pesnell, Dean: NASA Sets Its Sights On The Sun, 44:24
Lee, Steve: Solving the IC 2944/2948 Mystery, 46:76
MacRobert, Alan: Ask AS&T, 46:93, 47:85
Making the Most of Mars, 42:58
Marples, Peter: 7 Magnificent Supernovae, 44:46
McDowell, Jonathan: Mission Update, 42:16, 43:16
Mollise, Rod: Skyhound's SkyTools 3, 46:86
Naeye, Robert: Amateur Exoplanets, 43:26
Real Potential Disasters, 42:40
Naze, Yael: The Quest for the Most Massive Star, 47:22
Onken, Christopher: Australian Student Observes With 8-Metre Eyes, 42:44
Peach, Damian: Targeting the Red Planet, 42:74
Plummer, Alan: Eta Aquilae, 47:58
l Carinae, 46:59
Variable Stars: Making a Difference, 47:76
Seargent, David: A Challenging Comet McNaught, 45:59
A Favourable Return of Tempel 2, 46:58
A Quartet of Comets, 47:59
Comet Wild 2 at Perihelion, 43:57
Comets Past and Present, 42:57
Three Comets for April, 44:59
Seronik, Gary: Apartment ATMing, 45:89
Bigger, Faster, Better!, 42:79
Making Sonotube Beautiful, 47:80
Reign of the Chiefspiegler, 44:93
The Dobsonian at 30, 46:84
To Curve, or Not to Curve, 43:87
Shirao, Motomaro: Kaguya's High-Def Highlights, 44:38
Sim, Helen: The AAT: Celebrating 35 Years of Success, 46:42 and 47:42
Simonsen, Mike and MacRobert, Alan: U Scorpii: Amateurs Catch a Crucial Nova, 47:72
Stephenson, Mark: Reasons for Not Choosing Astronomy, 45:98
Stern, Alan S.: Halfway to a Historic Encounter, 46:22
Than, Ker: Shedding Light on Dark Stars, 45:30
Thibault, Patrick: A Month of Moonwatching, 44:72
Vanden Heuvel, Andrew: The Day I Found..., 47:98
Walker, Constance E.: Our Light or Starlight?, 46:98
Walker, Sean: Ask AS&T, 46:93
Capturing the Solar System, 45:76
Lunar Landscapes with AviStack, 46:80
Point & Shoot the Sky, 45:70
Watson, Fred: Touring Astronomy's Past and Present, 43:82
Wheatland, Michael: A Sunspot's Tale, 46:20
Wolverton, Mark: Remembering the Other Explorers, 42:98
Wood, Charles A.: Craters upon Craters, 43:58
Lessons in Basinology, 45:60
Lunar Missions & Amateurs, 46:62
Not Only Angels Have Halos, 47:60
The Great Alpine Valley, 42:62
The Lunar Graveyard, 44:60
Departments
Activities:
Hervey Bay Astronomical Society, 45:16
NACAA 2010, 42:87
South Pacific Star Party, 45:16
Ask AS&T:
Accessory Focus, 47:85
Blue Moons, 47:85
Colours vs Redshifts, 46:93
Dark Frames, 46:93
Astrophotography:
Capturing the Solar System, 45:76
Deep-Sky Astrophotography Primer, 45:82
Getting Started is a Piece of Cake, 45:68
Lunar Landscapes with AviStack, 46:80
Point & Shoot the Sky, 45:70
Targeting the Red Planet, 42:74
Binocular Highlight:
A Pair of Pairs, 47:50
Hiding in plain view, 42:50
Lost and Found, 46:50
Messier 4, 45:50
The Dark Doodad, 44:50
Ups and Downs, 43:50
Celestial Calendar:
A Challenging Comet McNaught, 45:59
A Favourable Return of Tempel 2, 46:58
A New Comet Machholz, 46:58
A Quartet of Comets, 47:59
An Early May Meteor Shower, 45:58
An Evening Partial Lunar Eclipse, 45:57
Ceres Reaches Opposition, 45:58
Comet Wild 2 at Perihelion, 43:57
Comets Past and Present, 42:57
Eta Aquilae, 47:58
History Repeats?, 42:57
July's South Pacific Eclipse, 43:60
l Carinae, 46:59
Making the Most of Mars, 42:58
Pleiades in a Winter's Morning, 47:57
The Pleiades and Earthshine, 44:58
Three Comets for April, 44:59
Two Asteroid Occultations, 45:58
Cosmic Relief:
Another Giant Leap, 42:20
Lunar News Flash, 44:20
Revising Earth's Biography, 43:20
Sailing the Solar System 47:18
The Dream Is Coming Back, 45:20
The Right Stuff?, 46:18
Discoveries:
Measuring the Earth, 45:22
Messages from Little Green Men?, 43:22
The Brightest New Star, 44:22
The Tenth Planet?, 46:19
Voyager 2 meets Uranus, 42:22
Deep Sky Delights:
Betwixt & Between, 44:62
Cup Bearer to Zeus, 47:62
In the Vacuum of Space, 43:64
One Field, 46:64
Summer Planetary Viewing, 42:66
Winter's Hickson Galaxy Groups, 45:64
Double Star Notes:
A Bullring of Doubles, 42:69
Beneath the Cross, 45:67
Doubles in Sextans, 44:57
In the Wolf's Den, 46:79
Peacock Feathers, 47:71
Steer North from Canopus, 43:63
Exploring the Moon:
Craters upon Craters, 43:58
Lessons in Basinology, 45:60
Lunar Missions & Amateurs, 46:62
Not Only Angels Have Halos, 47:60
The Great Alpine Valley, 42:62
The Lunar Graveyard, 44:60
Features:
A New Infrared Sky, 43:36
A Sunspot's Tale, 46:20
Amateur Exoplanets, 43:26
Australian Student Observes With 8-Metre Eyes, 42:44
Finding the First Galaxies, 43:42
Halfway to a Historic Encounter, 46:22
Hanging in the Balance, 45:42
Imagining Other Worlds, 46:34
Kaguya's High-Def Highlights, 44:38
Le Verrier and the Discovery of Sirius B, 43:70
NASA Sets Its Sights On the Sun, 44:24
NASA Slams the Moon, 44:32
Next Gen Radio Astronomy, 45:36
Real Potential Disasters, 42:40
Rings, Lakes, and Geysers, 43:32
Shedding Light on Dark Stars, 45:30
Solving the IC 2944/2948 Mystery, 46:76
The AAT: Celebrating 35 Years of Success, 46:42 and 47:42
The Cartographic Legacy Of John Flamsteed, 47:34
The Great 2012 Scare, 42:32
The Quest for the Most Massive Star, 47:22
The Universal Jet Set, 47:28
Top 10 Stories of 2009, 42:28
Turning 50, 47:82
What else is out there?, 46:28
Wiggling In The Dark, 44:28
Focal Point:
Cruise Ship Astronomy, 44:98
Our Light or Starlight?, 46:98
Reasons for Not Choosing Astronomy, 45:98
Remembering the Other Explorers, 42:98
The Day I Found..., 47:98
Where Have All the Aliens Gone?, 43:98
Going Deep:
A Herculean Galaxy Cluster, 46:74
Probing NGC 5746, 45:62
Insight:
Changing of the Guard, 43:24
The Colours of Mars, 42:26
Mission Update:
Chandrayaan-1, 42:16
Fobos-Grunt, 43:16
Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter, 42:16
Planck, 42:16
Rosetta, 42:16
Venus Climate Orbiter, 43:16
Yinghuo-1, 43:16
New Product Spotlight:
3-metre Metal Dome (Astro Domes), 46:16
6-inch LightSwitch telescope (Meade), 43:17
21-mm Ethos eyepiece (Tele Vue), 42:17
A Beginner's Guide to DSLR Astrophotography (Jerry Lodriguss), 42:17
Building a Roll-off Roof Observatory (Springer-Verlag), 44:18
CCDStack v2 (CCDWare), 47:16
EdgeHD telescope (Celestron), 43:17
Faces of the Moon (Charlesbridge Publishing), 42:17
Mathematical Astronomy Morsels V (Willmann-Bell), 46:16
Mini Tower Pro (iOptron), 45:18
Nautilus Motorised Filter Wheels (Orion), 43:17
Orion Monster Dobsonians (Orion), 45:18
Renaissance Genius (Sterling Publishing), 45:18
SkyQuest GoTo Dobsonians (Orion), 47:16
ST-8300M and -8300C CCD cameras (SBIG), 44:18
SteadyStar Adaptive Optics Guider (Orion), 44:18
The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), 47:16
News Notes:
50 Years of Aussie - US Space Relations, 45:12
A Hole Ripping a Star, 46:17
A Massive Stellar Cradle, 46:12
A New Look at the Sun, 46:12
A New Way To Find Planets, 43:10
A Runaway Star in the LMC, 46:11
A WISE View of Siding Spring, 46:13
Abundant Super-Earths, 44:12
ALMA Progressing, 43:14
An Exoplanet That Should Not Exist, 42:14
Apophis Turns Less Manacing, 43:14
Close Encounters Turn Asteroids Pale, 45:12
Closing In on Dark Matter?, 44:16
Einstein Safe; Stellar Mystery Solved, 42:11
Epsilon Aurigae's Eclipser, 46:12
Eta Carinae Keeps Brightening, 46:14
Faces of Pluto, 45:14
Fastest Known Binary Star, 46:13
First Confirmed Rocky Exoplanet, 42:10
Foreign Globulars, 45:13
Galaxy Zoom, 42:11
Herschel's First Show, 43:12
Hot Spot for Cosmic Rays, 45:14
How Much Lunar Water?, 46:13
Iapetus Solved?, 44:14
Kepler's First Exoplanet Haul, 44:12
Kepler's Star Quakes, 44:14
Limits on the Big Bang, 42:10
McNaught Bags His 50th Comet, 42:12
Messenger's Third Look at Mercury, 43:14
Millisecond-Pulsar GPS, 45:13
New Class of White Dwarfs, 46:13
Obituary - John Davis, 44:14
One Supernova, Many Camera Angles, 46:10
Phases of an Exoplanet, 42:11
Phobos Landing Sites Imaged, 46:16
Protoplanet Pallas, 42:12
Refining "Precision Cosmology", 46:14
Reflections on Titan, 44:14
Smith's Cloud: A Dark Lining?, 43:11
Sorting Out the Water on the Moon, 43:11
Starbirth in M83, 43:16
The Carbon Atmosphere of Cassiopeia A, 44:16
The First Asteroid Collision?, 45:13
The Sky in a Cold New Light, 46:11
The Smaller the Galaxy, the More Dark Matter, 45:14
The Spins of Black Holes, 46:14
Weird Brown-Dwarf Weather, 42:14
Wireless LAN's Astronomy Origins, 43:10
Wrong-Way Planets Are Common, 46:12
Spotlight On:
New Light On The Small Magellanic Cloud, 45:24
Sun, Moon, and Planets:
A Splendid Evening Show, 46:54
Conjunctions and a Lunar Eclipse, 45:54
Evening Conjunctions Galore, 47:54
Mars and Saturn Shine Brightly, 43:54
Mars Shines at Opposition, 42:54
The Evening Star Returns, 44:54
Targets:
Icy Blue Diamonds, 42:70
In Starry Skies, 44:65
Magical Things, 46:70
Sagittarius Star Cities, 47:68
The Flight of the Unicorn, 43:67
Telescope Workshop:
Apartment ATMing, 45:89
Bigger, Faster, Better: 42:79
Making Sonotube Beautiful, 47:80
Reign of the Chiefspiegler, 44:93
The Dobsonian at 30, 46:84
To Curve, or Not to Curve, 43:87
Test Reports:
14-mm 100-degree eyepiece (Explore Scientific), 45:88
120-mm ED Apo Refractor (SkyWatcher), 43:84
314L+ CCD camera (Atik), 47:86
CGE Pro German Equatorial Mount (Celestron), 42:80
HyperStar (Starizona), 44:86
SkyTools 3 (Skyhound), 46:86
The Astronomy Scene:
7 Magnificent Supernovae, 44:46
A Month of Moonwatching, 44:72
An Eye for the Sky, 44:68
Great Gadgets for Stargazing, 44:84
Melbourne Planetarium - Inspiring Generations of Visitors, 42:84
NACAA 2010, 47:78
Spacecraft Imaging for Amateurs, 43:74
Touring Astronomy's Past and Present, 43:82
U Scorpii: Amateurs Catch a Crucial Nova, 47:72
Variable Stars: Making a Difference, 47:76
What to Know before you Buy, 44:76
Tonight's Sky:
Autumn's Alluring Sky, 44:52
Field Of Dreams, 45:52
Orion's Wonders, 42:52
Patterns in the Sky, 46:52
Sirius Nights, 43:52
The Magic of the Milky Way, 47:52
Observing Topics
Comets:
10P/Tempel 2, 46:58, 47:59
81P/Wild 2, 42:57, 43:57, 44:59, 45:59
103P/Hartley 2, 47:59
C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring), 42:57
C/2009 K5 (McNaught), 43:57, 44:59
C/2009 O2 (Catalina), 44:59
C/2009 R1 (McNaught), 45:59, 47:59
Double Stars:
7 Tauri, 42:69
8 Monocerotis, 43:67
9 Sextantis, 44:57
31 Tauri, 42:69
35 Sextantis, 44:57
40 Sextantis, 44:57
80 Tauri, 42:69
Alpha Tauri (Aldebaran), 42:69
Beta Capricorni, 47:50
Beta Muscae, 45:67
BSO 14, 46:64
BU 25, 44:57
BU 87, 42:69
COO 39, 43:63
COO 130, 45:67
d Lupi, 46:79
DUN 30, 43:63
DUN 31, 43:63
DUN 38, 43:63
DUN 45, 43:63
Epsilon Lupi, 46:79
Eta Muscae, 45:67
G Puppis, 43:63
Gale 3, 47:71
Gamma Lupi, 46:79
Gamma Sextantis, 44:57
GLI 185, 45:67
h2810, 46:70
h5036, 46:70
HDO 195, 43:63
HJ 3895, 43:63
HJ 3956, 43:63
HJ 4432, 45:67
HJ 4498, 45:67
HJ 4550, 45:67
HJ 4586, 45:67
HJ 4776, 46:79
HJ 4979, 47:71
HJ 5085, 47:71
HJ 5141, 47:71
Hwe 79, 46:79
I 7, 43:63
I 119, 47:71
I 120, 47:71
I 121, 47:71
I 298, 45:67
I 364, 45:67
MLO 5, 47:71
Mu Lupi, 46:79
OSS 38, 42:72
Pi Lupi, 46:79
R 65, 43:63
R 314, 47:71
Sigma Puppis, 43:63
STF 435, 42:69
STF 450, 42:69
STF 479, 42:69
STF 481, 42:69
STF 494, 42:69
STF 495, 42:69
STF 535, 42:69
STF 559, 42:69
STF 1377, 44:57
STF 1441, 44:57
STF 1457, 44:57
Struve 1245, 44:65
Theta Muscae, 45:67
Xi Pavonis, 47:71
Zeta Cancri, 44:65
Galaxies:
Abell 2199, 46:74
AGCS 636, 43:64
ESO 337-16, 46:64
ESO 337-17, 46:64
ESO 373-08, 43:64
Hickson 44, 45:64
Hickson 48, 45:64
Hickson 57, 45:64
Hickson 58, 45:64
Hickson 61, 45:64
Hickson 62, 45:64
Hickson 79, 45:64
IC 2531, 43:64
NGC 2775, 44:65
NGC 2997, 43:64
NGC 3095, 43:64
NGC 3100, 43:64
NGC 3108, 43:64
NGC 3137, 43:64
NGC 3175, 43:64
NGC 5738, 43:62
NGC 5740, 43:62
NGC 5746, 45:62
NGC 6768, 46:64
NGC 7184, 47:62
NGC 7600, 47:62
NGC 7606, 47:62
PGC 1811119, 42:70
Globular Clusters:
Djorgovski 2, 47:68
M2, 47:62
M4, 45:50
M22, 47:68
M28, 47:68
M56, 46:70
M72, 47:62
NGC 6440, 46:70
NGC 6496, 46:64
NGC 6522, 47:68
NGC 6528, 47:68
NGC 6540, 47:68
NGC 6541, 46:64
NGC 6638, 47:68
NGC 6642, 47:68
NGC 6717, 47:68
NGC 6723, 46:64
Palomar 8, 47:68
Open Clusters:
IC 4665, 46:50
Moon:
Archimedes, 44:60
Alphonsus, 44:60, 47:60
Atlas, 47:60
Cabeus, 44:60
Clavius, 43:58
Eudoxus, 46:62
Firmicus, 45:60
Geminus, 45:60
Lacus Mortis, 46:62
Mare Crisium, 45:60
Mason, 46:62
Montes Cordillera, 45:60
Nasireddin, 43:58
Plana, 46:62
Shoemaker, 44:60
Steinheil, 43:58
Theophilus, 43:58, 47:60
Vallis Alpes, 42:62
Williams, 46:62
Nebulae:
Cone Nebula, 43:67
Corona Australis Dark Cloud, 46:64
Dark Doodad, 44:50
IC 349, 42:70
Maia Nebula, 42:70
Merope Nebula, 42:70
NGC 2245, 43:67
NGC 2247, 43:67
NGC 2261, 43:67
NGC 3581, 44:62
NGC 3603, 44:62
NGC 6726/7, 46:64
NGC 6729, 46:64
Rosette Nebula, 43:67
Schoenberg 205/6, 43:67
Sh2-273, 43:67
Open Clusters:
Collinder 70, 42:50
M44 (The Beehive), 44:65
M45 (The Pleiades), 42:70
M67, 44:65
NGC 2244, 43:67
NGC 2252, 43:67
NGC 2264, 43:67
NGC 3532, 44:62
NGC 3572, 44:62
NGC 3766, 44:62
NGC 7044, 46:70
Planetary Nebulae:
Abell 12, 42:66
Abell 21, 42:66
Abell 24, 42:66
Abell 31, 44:65
IC 1297, 46:64
Jonckheere 320, 42:66
Jonckheere 900, 42:66
NGC 1514, 42:66, 42:70
NGC 2022, 42:66
NGC 2371 - 2372, 42:66
NGC 3132, 43:64
NGC 3699, 44:62
NGC 3918, 44:62
NGC 6445, 46:70
NGC 6563, 46:70
NGC 6765, 46:70
NGC 7009, 47:62
NGC 7027, 46:70
NGC 7293, 47:62
SA 2-76, 44:62
Variable Stars:
Eta Aquilae, 47:58
l Carinae, 46:59
R Horologii, 43:50
RS Sagittarii, 46:70
X Cancri, 44:65