Weltevreden SA
25-11-2017, 10:38 AM
The Astro.Society of S Africa (ASSA) has inaugurated a large-format all-colour online magazine called "Nightfall (assa.saao.ac.za/sections/deep-sky/nightfall/nightfall-vol-2-no-1-2017-october/)". Here is what the first issue contains:
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* Magda Streicher • A visit to the 4-metre Herschel Telescope on the Canary Islands
* Susan Young • A Bevy of Galaxies in Pavo
* Dale Liebenberg • Astro-image of the Month: NGC 4945 Centaurus
* Barbara Cunow • The Jack Bennett Catalogue in One Montage
* Free Online Observing Catalogs & Resources
* Cloud Avoidance 101 • Online Visual Observing with SLOOH's 20-inch videoscopes
* Free Downloadable Sky Atlases • by Toshimi Taki, Micharl Vlasov, José Tòrrés
* Live from La Silla • La Silla, VLT Paranal, & ALMA
* Dr. Ian Glass • Visit to La Silla 1990
* Galaxies in Cosmic Voids • Markarian 1477 and the Byurakan Observatory in Armenia
* The Phoenix Dwarf Galaxy
* Riding with the Valkyries • A Nightfall observer’s challenge list: O runaway stars
* Legacy Library • Fritz Zwicky's 1937 paper On the Masses of Cluster of Nebula
* What’s New in the Literature •*Young Africans in Astronomy
If you take a good close look at the cover-page image of the M8 region and it looks familiar, it should. Your very own Murray Parkinson contributed it! Thanks again, Murray!!
Nightfall (assa.saao.ac.za/sections/deep-sky/nightfall/nightfall-vol-2-no-1-2017-october/) is the cheapest ticket to Southern skies you can buy. If you want one of our great barbie-beating S African braais thrown in, you have to buy airline tickets.
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=Dana De Zoysa, editor
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* Magda Streicher • A visit to the 4-metre Herschel Telescope on the Canary Islands
* Susan Young • A Bevy of Galaxies in Pavo
* Dale Liebenberg • Astro-image of the Month: NGC 4945 Centaurus
* Barbara Cunow • The Jack Bennett Catalogue in One Montage
* Free Online Observing Catalogs & Resources
* Cloud Avoidance 101 • Online Visual Observing with SLOOH's 20-inch videoscopes
* Free Downloadable Sky Atlases • by Toshimi Taki, Micharl Vlasov, José Tòrrés
* Live from La Silla • La Silla, VLT Paranal, & ALMA
* Dr. Ian Glass • Visit to La Silla 1990
* Galaxies in Cosmic Voids • Markarian 1477 and the Byurakan Observatory in Armenia
* The Phoenix Dwarf Galaxy
* Riding with the Valkyries • A Nightfall observer’s challenge list: O runaway stars
* Legacy Library • Fritz Zwicky's 1937 paper On the Masses of Cluster of Nebula
* What’s New in the Literature •*Young Africans in Astronomy
If you take a good close look at the cover-page image of the M8 region and it looks familiar, it should. Your very own Murray Parkinson contributed it! Thanks again, Murray!!
Nightfall (assa.saao.ac.za/sections/deep-sky/nightfall/nightfall-vol-2-no-1-2017-october/) is the cheapest ticket to Southern skies you can buy. If you want one of our great barbie-beating S African braais thrown in, you have to buy airline tickets.
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=Dana De Zoysa, editor