This Issue's Table Of Contents

September/October 2007

Volume 3.  Number 5.  Issue 25

COVER STORY

Fifty Years of Space Travel

We look back on a magnificent half-century of adventure and discovery.

By Todd Cole

NEWS & FEATURES

News Notes

• A Galaxy Core's Shadow Play

• A Weird "Hot Neptune"

• It's Official: Eris Outweighs Pluto

and more...

Spotlight On...Looking Deep in Dorado

The nearby galaxy NGC 1672 shows delightfully striking examples of star formation.

By Matt Watson

The Universe in a Computer

Step inside the incredible world of computational cosmology, where a new model of the Universe is made every day.

By Geraint Lewis, Chris Power, and Christopher Fluke

Carina's Stellar Cauldron

With its latest 400-megapixel mosaic, the Hubble Space Telescope weaves a grand tapestry of starbirth in the sprawling Carina Nebula.

By Ray Villard

Hinode Reveals the Sun

Japan's newest Sun-watching satellite is providing dazzling close-ups of flares and other magnetic activity.

By Monica Bobra

From Chaos to the Kuiper Belt

Billions of icy bodies beyond Neptune remind us that the early Solar System was a frenzy of planet-building activity.

By Mark Littmann

OBSERVING & EXPLORING

Southern Binocular Highlights

Pretty Globular NGC 6541

By Les Dalrymple

Sun, Moon, and Planets

Mercury Closes In on Spica

By Greg Bryant

Tonight's Sky

Toward the South Celestial Pole

By Greg Bryant

Deep Sky Delights

A Patch of Pavo

By Les Dalrymple

Celestial Calendar

Shadows from the Edge

By Steve Kerr

Two Returning Comets for Spring

By David Seargent

Exploring The Moon

Secrets of Descartes and Ina

By Charles A. Wood

PRODUCTS & REVIEWS

Astronomy Online

Dragging the Stars Around

By Stuart J. Goldman

Test Report

Next-Generation Video: Adirondack's StellaCam3

Leave your computer at home! This new camera instantly displays video images on any television monitor of everything from the Moon and planets to deep-sky objects.

By Johnny Horne

New Product Spotlight

• Vixen Optics's Cassegrain Tube Assembly

• Meade's mySKY

• The Imaging Source's DMK camera

Books & Beyond

• All Points South

ACTIVITIES & PEOPLE

Astrophotography

Good Moons from Bad Locations

By Terry Lovejoy

Woomera's Diamond Anniversary

By Kerrie Dougherty

The Deceptive Sky

By Dennis L. Mammana

Discoveries

The Missing Eleven Days

By David Ellyard

Community News

By Mike Salway

Gallery

Astrophotos from our readers

Ask AS&T

• Achilles in the sky

• Superdark matter

• Digital SLR or CCD camera?

and more

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Spectrum

There's Much To Celebrate

By Greg Bryant

Letters

• Comet McNaught Collector's Edition

• Picturing Constellations

and more

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Manufacturer & Dealer Directory

Focal Point

We Are Stardust: Spread The Word

By Daniel Hudon

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