Australian Sky & Telescope - June 2018

THE ESSENTIAL MAG SPACE AGENCY Australia finally finds its place in space P IMAGING Take the guesswork out of colour balancing P ...

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4 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2018 REGULARS 5Spectrum 6Newsnotes 70 Cosmic relief FEATURES 12 Australia’s new space race ...

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6 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2018 NEWS NOTES NGC 1052-DF2: P. VAN DOKKUM / R. ABRAHAM / STSCI; ‘OUMUAMUA: © WILLIAM K. ...

NASA OFFICIALS HAVEannounced thatthelaunchoftheJamesWebb Space Telescope will be delayed until approximately May 2020, slipping ...

8 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2018 A NEW X-RAY STUDY has uncovered a dozen potential stellar-mass black holes within 3 l ...

The World’s First Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope with Fully Integrated WiFi Celestron’s Most Innovative Technologies Plus New Upgr ...

10 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2018 Hubble images most distant star It’s dificult to resolve stars in galaxies outside o ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 11 Largelensesforlargesurveys One of the world’s largest astronomical lenses has been made in ...

12 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2018 SPACE FUNDING by Jonathan Nally Australia’s new space race No longer lost in space, ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 13 to government (some even initiated by government) outlining the benefits to the nation of t ...

14 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2018 OBSERVATORIES by Fred Watson and Jane Urquhart Anewerafor I t’s hard to think of a t ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 15 W VERDANT SKIES Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales is dominated by the dome of th ...

16 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2018 historyoftheAustralianAstronomical Observatory (AAO). Until2010,AAOwasthe Anglo-Aust ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 17 university consortia. This will extend the operational life of the AAT beyond 2020 and will ...

18 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2018 sites for a new 150-inch (or, in today’s parlance,4-metre)classtelescopein theSouthe ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 19 And tomorrow TheAAO’sinstrumentationprogram will continue unabated under its new management ...

20 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2018 OBSERVATORIES BLACKEST DAY With 50-metre-high lames leaping up the southern lank of ...