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Old 12-06-2020, 08:13 AM
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South Africa's 'Nightfall' journal is out

The newest issue of South Africa’s Nightfall journal has just been released and is available here. No ads, no cost. Read & download to your heart's content.

Nightfall is breaking new trail with this issue. The page layouts are a complete overhaul of the look-&-feel of what an astronomy publication can look like. There are dozens of videos and astrophysical sims embedded in the pages whose links are all in the light blue cyan color. Click on any blue link and a video pops off the page and plays. Click it closed and you are back on the page where you started. It’s a way to make astronomy come alive on a static page. Examples are Martin Heigan’s H-alpha images of the LMC (p.47), the article “A Heavily Reddened Cluster in Ara” (Westerlund 1 on p.81), and “From Blobular to Globular in 100 Million Years” (p.99), about the three super star clusters in our Galaxy, Westerlund 1 & 2, and NGC 3603. While they can be seen with apertures of 8 inches, Nighfall shows what happens when observation & astrophysics get together for a chat.

Show-&-tell on the grand scale. Hope you enjoy.

=Doug Bullis, Grahamstown, S Africa
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Old 12-06-2020, 09:03 AM
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Good stuff Dana. Will have to sit down and go through it. Beautiful publication.
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Have just had a quick browse through the beautifully presented e-magazine, with lots and lots of interesting articles to read , it will be a few hours of pleasurable and informative reading . Thanks for sharing Dana.
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Thanks Dana. Magnificent. Raises the bar for a journal of this type to a dizzying new height.
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