See what else January’s issue has to offer. January offers a rare opportunity to glimpse one of the Moon’s most challenging features.ĭelineating the Sword of Orion are treasures both magnificent and subtle Two small constellations are nearly overshadowed by their brilliant neighbor.Ī comet with naked-eye potential dashes across the sky as it swings past Earth. Participate in ongoing astronomy research with just your computer.įind out when the next lunar occultation is visible from your area. See the results from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test.įind out how SDSS is working towards making astronomy accessible to all. The best optic for resolving fine detail has changed over time.īy Thomas A. This famed artist often included astronomical subjects in her remarkably distinctive works. Trace targets along this newly discovered structure in the Milky Way. The decades-long Sloan Digital Sky Survey project has transformed how astronomers do astronomy. FEATURE ARTICLES:Īs stars grow older, they and their planets can affect each other in strange and violent ways. But the skyline has changed quite a bit since she painted, and while history remembers her first painting of New York as a scene from 47th street, our celestial sleuth isn’t so sure. Finally, we’ve got another art mystery to uncover: Georgia O’Keeffe, who is best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers and animal skulls, also painted scenes of New York at night. And while we may not be able to see these distant exoplanets from our backyards, our guide can help you pick out the best planetary telescope to watch the planets circling our own Sun. As they sometimes destroy or even devour their exoplanets, that, in turn, can alter the stars themselves. In this issue, we also take a look at what happens when stars age. We better hurry if we want to explore the whole wave, though. In the January 2023 issue of Sky & Telescope, we’re tracing the Milky Way’s Radcliffe Wave using its most interesting observing targets. Digital Edition A Wave of Celestial Delights, Destructive Stars, and Georgia O’Keeffe New products - New gear for astro enthusiasts.Īustralian Sky & Telescope is available via digital subscription, or you can also get this issue singly in digital format.Night life - Events and activities for astronomy enthusiasts.For beginners - How can we see objects invisible to our eyes? Learn how astronomers study the universe at multiple wavelengths.These are offered as-is and without support. Astronomer’s workbench - Ditch the eyeglasses once and for all by using this clever Telrad modification. Sky & Telescope magazine is pleased to make available in machine-readable form the programs that have been published in its monthly Astronomical Computing department, which first appeared in April 1984, and later in the Computers in Astronomy department.Astrophotography - Master the basics of PixInsight, the most popular astronomical image-processing software.Test report - Sky-Watcher’s Virtuoso GTi 150P adds a computerised mount to a capable 150mm Newtonian.Deep sky - When it comes to ‘far-out’ globular clusters, which is the farthest one you can see?.Solar System - Distant Pluto beckons as it reaches ‘opposition,’ and now’s the best time to see it.Planets - Stormy suspense - will the white storms rise again on Saturn?.Variable stars - An Aussie amateur astronomer has bagged his fourth nova.Comets - Some tempting telescopic comet targets for winter.

Meteors - July’s meteor showers will be Moon-affected, but will still be worth a look.Planets - Find out which three planets will gather close to each other this month.Constellations - Visit this striking zodiacal constellation.Binocular highlight - Find the ‘False Comet’ in Scorpius.We’ve compiled some of the best shots from Aussie astrophotographers who were lucky enough to be there. Dark days for astronomy - April’s eclipse wowed observers on Western Australia’s north-west coast.Sights set on Uranus - Planetary scientists want their next flagship mission to target one of the ice giants in the outer Solar System - the little known seventh planet, Uranus.But some of them could go supernova at any moment. When red giants were young - One hundred years ago astronomers thought large, cool stars were destined to become stars like the Sun.COVER STORY: Active asteroids - Dozens of worldlets in asteroid-like orbits spout comet-like tails, challenging our understanding of small bodies in the Solar System.To subscribe - or to try it out with a single issue - just click here ! HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL FIND in the July 2023 issue of Australian Sky & Telescope magazine, now available solely as a digital edition.

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