Table Of Contents

June 2005

Volume 1.  Number 6

COVER STORY

Deep Impact: Our first look inside a comet

A $350 million space mission will take the most detailed pictures ever of a comet nucleus and will provide a glimpse into its interior.

By Elisabeth M. Warner and Greg Redfern

NEWS & FEATURES

News Notes

• Enceladus' Invisible Atmosphere

• A Controversial Equatorial Martian Sea

• Exoplanets: The Heat Is On

and more...

Spotlight On...Mars' Hale Crater

By Robert Naeye

Japan's Asteroid Archaeologist

With little fanfare, the Japanese Hayabusa mission will be the first spacecraft to try to bring home a piece of a minor planet

By Beth Ellen Clark and Kelli B. Grant

Lord of the Rings

NASA's Cassini mission is giving us views of Saturn as we've never seen it before.

By Jonathan Nally

Huygens' Heroes

The CSIRO's Parkes Radio Telescope helped save the day when the Huygens space probe reached Saturn's moon Titan.

By John Sarkissian

OBSERVING & EXPLORING

Binocular Highlight

King of the Globulars

By Les Dalrymple

Tonight's Sky

Exploring Lacaille's Deep Sky

By Greg Bryant

Sun, Moon, and Planets

Three's Not a Crowd

By Jonathan Nally

Exploring the Moon

Bumps on the Moon

By Charles A. Wood

Deep Sky Delights

The Fly and the Drawing Compass

By David Frew

Celestial Calendar

It's still daylight, by Jove

By Steve Kerr

Celestial Calendar

A Pre-dawn Trio of Comets

By David Seargent

Celestial Calendar

Targeting Comet Tempel 1

By Greg Bryant

Observer's Log

Amateurs and the Deep Impact Mission

By Elizabeth M. Warner and Greg Redfern

PRODUCTS & REVIEWS

AS&T Test Report

The William Optics ZenithStar 80

Affordable high-quality viewing.

By Chris Toohey

Digital Astronomy

Astronomy Picture of the Day

By Stuart Goldman

Books & Beyond

• The Firefly Encyclopedia of Astronomy

ACTIVITIES & PEOPLE

First Light

Amazing daylight spectacles courtesy of the Sun

By Trudy E. Bell

Ask AS&T

• What would the Sun look like from another star?

• What is the best sze mirror to make?

• Are meteor showers better seen from a light aircraft?

The Astronomy Scene

The 2005 South Pacific Star Party

By Greg Bryant

Activities

Gallery

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Spectrum

On a Mission

By Jonathan Nally

Letters

• That "WOW" Feeling

• A Passion for Astronomy

• Making A Mod

Mission Update

By Jonathan McDowell

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Focal Point

What's in a Name?

By Randy S. Robbins

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