Hi all, the Astro. Society of So. Africa's Deep-Sky Section has released its
most recent "Nightfall" online journal. 122 pages of all-color, no ads astronomy. This issue features the first-ever mainstream publication of Anton Pannekoek's 1928 hand-drawn maps of the Southern skies, plus a long 150th anniversary tribute to Henrietta Swan Leavitt featuring pages from her four seminal double-star catalogs that led to her 1912 discovery of Cepheid variables. Our own globetrotting astro-ambassador Magda Streicher makes a pilgrimage to the seldom-visited Pulkovo Observatory near Saint Petersburgh, where Wilhelm Struve's 1820s double star catalogs definitively demonstrated William Herschel's speculation that gravity existed outside the solar system. In the back is a long, beautifully presented account of why galactic bars are vital to the survival of spiral galaxies. Much else, too, so dig in and have fun. =Dana De Zoysa