Australian Sky & Telescope — July 2017

DARK WOLVES Enter the den of dark nebulae in Lupus P LUNAR TOUR Our easy guide to the Moon’s main features P BUYER’S GUIDE Star ...

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4 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2017 REGULARS 5Spectrum 8NewsNotes 12 Discoveries FEATURES 14 TheSquareKilometreArray Spre ...

THE ASTRONOMY SCENE 62 Portable star trackers Easy ways to shoot the sky. By Jerry Lodriguss 66 Test report Celestron’s NexStar ...

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8 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2017 SOLAR SYSTEM TOP: ASA / JPL / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA / PSI, BOTTOM: ASA / JPL / UCLA ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 9 MAVEN: LOCKHEED MARTIN; SUPERNOVA: JOSEPH BRIMACOMBE; RAVIOLI MOON: NASA / JPL-CALTECH / SPA ...

10 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2017 SPIRAL GALAXY: ESO / L. CALÇADA NASA narrows Mars 2020 landing sites Three candidate ...

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12 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2017 Mars Pathfinder and its rover, Sojourner, were interplanetary trailblazers. First wh ...

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14 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2017 KILOMETRE Spread across two continents, the SKA will be the largest astronomical fac ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 15 IT’S A SPECTACULAR SUNSET, with hues ranging from subtle pink and pearl to flaming orange a ...

16 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2017 DIAGRAM: LEAH TISCIONE / S&T; FIRST LIGHT: SKA SOUTH AFRICA (2) Dish A Construct ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 17 SKA ORGANISATION Prospects and challenges With its huge frequency range (50 to 350 megahert ...

18 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2017 LEAH TISCIONE / S&T, SOURCE SKA ORGANISATION (2) destroy the agricultural econom ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 19 PHOTO: GOVERT SCHILLING; INFOGRAPHIC: SKA ORGANISATION In May 2012, after a lot of politica ...

20 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2017 œAFTER THE VIOLENCEof the Big Bang fully subsided, some 370,000 years later, the uni ...