Australian Sky & Telescope - 04.2019

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 41 PUBLIC DOMAIN described it as “a cluster of scattered stars, pretty close and nearly of a s ...

42 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE April 2019 BINOCULAR HIGHLIGHT by MatT Wedel Cluster fit for a queen S outhern Hemisphere star ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 43 Galaxy Double star Variable star Open cluster Diffuse nebula Globular cluster Planetary neb ...

44 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE April 2019 UNDER THE STARS by Fred Schaaf JOHANNES HEVELIUS / ATL AS COELESTIS L ast issue we ...

Image courtesy of Tom O Donoghue. WE LIKE VISUAL ASTRONOMY Capturing stunning deep-sky images can be hugely rewarding. Our power ...

46 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE April 2019 midnightatthestartofApril,andby just after 10:00pm at month’s end. The ringed world ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 47 by Con Stoitsis METEORS meteors per hour to the general rate. The traditional peak on the m ...

48 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE April 2019 COMETS by David Seargent Anti-tails and shadows Remembering two of the 21st century ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 49 by Alan Plummer VARIABLE STARS O ne of the pleasures of variable star observing is getting ...

50 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE April 2019 EXPLORING THE MOON by Charles Wood Dikes on a dead Moon The appearance of volcanic ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 51 and drastically slowing its eruption. Additionally,themagmastartstocool, and the dike sidew ...

52 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE April 2019 HYDRA I CLUSTER by Steve Gottlieb ON CLEAR APRIL EVENINGS, the splashy summer const ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 53 at the beginning of April and an hour earlier around the new Moon at mid- month. The core o ...

54 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE April 2019 adistendeddiffusehalocomposedofstarsanddebris cannibalised from nearby satellite ga ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 55 NGC 3314: NASA / ESA / HUBBLE HERITAGE (STSCI / AURA) ESA / HUBBLE COLLABORATION / W. KEEL ...

56 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE April 2019 CATALOGUE CHALLENGE by Tom Reiland ...

Are you up for the ultimate observing challenge? Take a page out of the author’s logbook and endeavour to observe the whole Hers ...

58 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE April 2019 Omitting duplicated Messier objects in Herschel’s catalogues, I observed my first H ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 59 closest that I can get to following his sweeping system. I used Uranometria 2000.0, the Mil ...

60 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE April 2019 However, some years ago I read that several amateur astronomers had actually accomp ...