SKY_September2014.pdf

SkyandTelescope.com September 2014 41 something that I rarely achieve from my backyard with large-aperture telescopes. The image ...

42 September 2014 sky & telescope S&T Test Report one short USB cable ran between the mount and laptop. The computer als ...

44 Sky at a Glance 44 Northern Hemisphere Sky Chart 45 Binocular Highlight: Aquila’s Dark Secret 46 Planetary Almanac 47 Norther ...

MIDNIGHT SUNRISE ▶ Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn ◀SUNSET SW SW E NE E W Very low in sky, visible with binoculars 7 14 21 1 8 ...

–1 Star magnitudes 0 1 2 3 4 10 h 13 h 16 h 19 h h^7 ° +60 ° +80 + +20° ° –40° 0 ° EQ UA TO R^ LIBRA SERPENS(CAPUT) HERCULES SCO ...

46 September 2014 sky & telescope The Sun and planets are positioned for mid-September; the colored arrows show the motion o ...

Fred Schaaf SkyandTelescope.com September 2014 47 OBSERVING Northern Hemisphere’s Sky Fred Schaaf welcomes your comments at fsch ...

48 September 2014 sky & telescope OBSERVING Sun, Moon && Planets Mars Meets Its Rival The Red Planet has a fi ne con ...

SkyandTelescope.com September 2014 49 To see what the sky looks like at any given time and date, go toSkyandTelescope.com/skycha ...

50 September 2014 sky & telescope OBSERVING Celestial Calendar Ice-Giant Spotting Uranus and Neptune are in reach of binocul ...

SkyandTelescope.com September 2014 51 Learn how to use detailed star charts to fi nd the faintest things with your telescope: sk ...

52 September 2014 sky & tel- escope Jupiter’s Moons 3 EAST WEST 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 2 ...

Algol, the prototype eclipsing variable star, fades every 2.87 days from its usual 2.1 magnitude to 3.4. It stays near minimum l ...

54 September 2014 sky & telescope OBSERVING Exploring the Solar System The Sun in calcium-K (Ca-K) light off ers the most am ...

(^) The Moon • September 2014 Howard Eskildsen Amateur astronomer Howard Eskildsen can often be found observing the Sun and Moon ...

56 September 2014 sky & telescope OBSERVING Deep-Sky Wonders The Theban Swan Cygnus is alive with celestial treasures. Lo, h ...

SkyandTelescope.com September 2014 57 Sue French welcomes your comments at [email protected]. Sue French semi-detached splas ...

OBSERVING Deep-Sky Wonders 58 September 2014 sky & telescope In 1804 Giuseppe Piazzi deduced the large proper motion of 61 C ...

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60 September 2014 sky & telescope Steve Gottlieb Going Deep Seeking Interacting Galaxies The Vorontsov-Velyaminov catalog is ...