BBC Sky at Night - UK (2021-08)

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4 BBC Sky at Night Magazine August 2021

Reviews

86 Celestron StarSense

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94 Books

96 Gear

The Sky Guide

44 Highlights

46 The big three

48 The planets

50 August’s all-sky chart

52 Moonwatch

53 Comets and asteroids

53 Star of the month

54 Binocular tour

55 The Sky Guide challenge

56 Deep-sky tour

58 August at a glance

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6 Eye on the sky

10 Bulletin

16 Cutting edge

18 Inside The Sky at Night

20 Interactive

23 What’s on

25 Field of view

26 Subscribe to BBC Sky

at Night Magazine

72 Explainer

74 DIY Astronomy

98 Q&A: a light pollution expert

Astrophotography

76 Capture

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80 Gallery

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Features

Get ready for this year’s

unmissable meteor shower!

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One man’s mission to shed new

light on Apollo mission photos

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How satellites are helping monitor

Earth’s atmosphere and climate

36 Earth’s altered atmosphere

What secrets of the gas giant will

the extended mission uncover?

60 Juno’s Jupiter journey

continues

Make your observations of Saturn

and Jupiter useful for science

66 Giants at opposition

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