Sky & Telescope - USA (2020-01)
skyandtelescope.com • JANUARY 2020 59 DEEP FISHING Look for a string of what at fi rst glance appears to be fi ve elliptical gal ...
JANUARY 2020 OBSERVING Going Deep 60 JANUARY 2020 • SKY & TELESCOPE as belonging to the Pisces group in their 1931 photograp ...
skyandtelescope.com • JANUARY 2020 61 ies. A 10-inch scope will easily show a string of fi ve elliptical galaxies in a roughly n ...
BIG, BOLD, BRIGHT, BEAUTIFUL by Jerry Oltion 62 JANUARY 2020 • SKY & TELESCOPE W inter highlights? There are winter highligh ...
BIL L^ B AS HA M skyandtelescope.com • JANUARY 2020 63 ter Highlights uide WINTER’S SPLENDORS The iconic Orion Nebula, or M42, i ...
Big, Bold, Bright, Beautiful 64 JANUARY 2020 • SKY & TELESCOPE While you’re in the neighborhood, check out Rigel, Orion’s lo ...
skyandtelescope.com • JANUARY 2020 65 eight. It’s a little more than ½° long, so it’s best viewed at low power. I can even make ...
Big, Bold, Bright, Beautiful 66 JANUARY 2020 • SKY & TELESCOPE nicknames the Owl, the E.T., the Kachina Doll, and several ot ...
skyandtelescope.com • JANUARY 2020 67 M46 2438 M47 Sirius α α β δ ε γ η ι κ θ ρ τ ξ CANIS MAJOR MONOCEROS PUPPIS 2362 8 h –10° 7 ...
Big, Bold, Bright, Beautiful 68 JANUARY 2020 • SKY & TELESCOPE compared to the others, makes it very bright indeed, more tha ...
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S&T Test Report by Rod Mollise AL L^ P HO TO S^ B Y^ T HE AU TH OR pMeade’s new LX85 mid-weight German equatorial Go To moun ...
The LX85 8-inch ACF package includes an 8 × 50-mm fi nderscope, 9.7- and 25-mm Plössl eyepieces, a 1¼-inch mirror star diagonal, ...
S&T Test Report 72 JANUARY 2020 • SKY & TELESCOPE ens the effect of coma, an optical aberra- tion that makes stars towar ...
skyandtelescope.com • JANUARY 2020 73 would slew the LX85 to it in seconds. In addition to an optional Meade serial cable, for t ...
ASTRONOMER’S WORKBENCH by Jerry Oltion Silvering Mirrors An idea whose time has come... again. WHEN SKY & TELESCOPE Contribu ...
pInsuffi cient cleaning will lead to areas that don’t coat smoothly. This is most common at the edges of the mirror. ZA NE LA ND ...
tCOMETARY ENCOUNTER Gerald Rhemann Comets ASASSN (C/2018 N2) and 260P/McNaught appear to almost cross tails in this ultra-rare c ...
pq DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES Terry Hancock While attractive in visible light as seen above, emission and refl ection nebulae M20, M ...
ACCESSORIES Place Your essential source for astronomical products Market BOOKS 78 JANUARY 2020 • SKY & TELESCOPE Much, much ...
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