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■authors of 2006, The, 1:115 MacRobert, Alan M., Backyard Guide to , A, Faber, Thomas, Wanton Destruction? 5:12 2:62 Aguirre, Edwin L., book review: Patrick Moore, Fienberg, Richard Tresch, in the Spotlight, book review: Astronomy Hacks: Tips & Tools Patrick Moore, 5:86 2:8 for Observing the Night Sky, Robert Bruce China’s Boötes Party Shines, 6:87 book review: Astronomy On Ice, Martin A. Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson, Community News: Amateurs Spot “10th ,” Pomerantz, 2:90 1:109 6:88 Camera Always Lies, The, 3:8 Predicting Your Events, 4:61 Astronomy Outreach Book Now Available, 6:88 Clouded Vision, 4:8 Can an O III nebula filter be referred to as an Historic Observatory’s Fund Drive a Success, Just Plane Nuts, 6:8 “oh-two” filter because of doubly ionized oxy- 3:92 My Trip to the , 5:8 gen atoms? 2:96 London to Close, 5:91 Space Race Against Time, 1:8 Europe’s Partial Solar , 3:60 Manufacturers Cut Back Film-Camera When will the last ever total occur? Extreme Parallax, 4:22 Production, 5:91 2:96 How well defined is a meteor-shower radiant? 4:92 Martian Crater Named After Japanese Flanders, Tony, book review: Next Step, The: Finding Is there a good test for a ’s optical qual- Amateur, 5:91 and Viewing Messier’s Objects, by Ken Graun, ity? 3:100 SOHO Celebrates a Milestone, 3:92 4:82 Neutron Flying Pole-First, 2:20 Hyperactive Sunspot, A, 1:94 Does advanced technology make diffraction theo- Porrima After Periastron, 6:65 Look Back at in 2005, A, 4:70 ry obsolete? Is obstruction of less consequence Was the brightening of Tempel 1 after RS Ophiuchi Has a Rare Outburst, 6:66 for photography than observing? 5:98 the most-distant human caused Solar on Stamps, 4:85 Measuring Skyglow with Digital Cameras, 2:99 event? 1:132 Why do we need a hydrogen-alpha filter to see Sky Quality Meter, The, 2:104 What does “true color” mean in a deep-space solar prominences? 2:96 Frederick, Richard, What Star Is That? 3:118 photograph? 3:100 Alpiar, Ronald, Deep Impact, 2:12 French, Sue, Canes Redux, 6:73 Why do craters sometimes look like bulges or Anderson, Carl, Building a Simplified Yolo, 1:125 Dear Chara, 5:71 indentations? 6:96 Anderson, Jay, see Espenak, Fred Dog-and-Pony Show, 3:66 see also Naeye, Robert Ashford, Adrian R., Celestron CPC 800 GPS, 3:74 Icy Blue Diamonds, 2:69 Mais, Dale E., Where Amateurs and Professionals Beatty, J. Kelly, Asteroidal Dust Shower, An, 5:20 Leo’s 11th Hour, 4:67 Come Together, 5:90 Crater-Free , A, 1:19 Winter Wonders, 1:83 Martin, D. Christopher, see Friedman, Peter G. Hayabusa Mission Gets Long Delay, 3:24 Friedman, Peter G., Kerry Erickson, and D. Christopher McDowell, Jonathan, AGILE, 5:26 Martian Ice: Wide and Deep, 6:18 Martin, GALEX Lives, 4:12 Apollo Again? 1:28 Bell, Trudy E., Rape of the Observatory, 6:110 Garfinkle, Robert A., Family, The, 1:14 book review: Big Dish, Douglas J. Mudgway, 6:82 Beish, Jeffrey, see Dobbins, Thomas Gehrels, Tom, What Is a Planet? 1:14 Dawn, 3:26 Birriel, Jennifer, book review: Symmetry and the Glasgow, Rod, Mars Bigger, But Not Better, 3:12 Gamma-ray Large Area , 5:26 Beautiful Universe, Leon M. Lederman, 6:83 Goldberg, Eric M., Deep Impact, 2:12 , 2:24 Black, Larry, Memories, 6:12 Goldman, Stuart J., If the asteroid NASA Science in Free Fall, 6:16 Brant, Greg, Sailing Along the Galactic Plane, 4:51 ever strikes , how big would the crater be? , 4:24 Bromm, Volker, Out of the Dark Ages: The First Stars, 2:96 Stardust, 4:24 A searchable index 5:30 Look, Up in the Sky! 5:88 Express, 2:24 to all issues of Sky & Browning, Michael C., Desert Visions, 3:12 Plurality of Worlds, The, 3:88 Webb Space Telescope, 3:26 Telescope is available Bryant, Greg, Beacons of the Night, 5:51 Try to Find Saturn, 1:112 McGaha, James, Outer Limits, on our Web site at Enjoyable Latitude, An, 3:51 Graney, Chris, ’s Pride and Prejudice, 5:12 The: Observing at Fly Me to the Cross, 6:51 , Terry, There’s Mister Moon! 1:150 High Redshifts, 3:69 SkyandTelescope.com/ Lifetime in , A, 2:51 Gurshtein, Alexander, Landing the Moon, 6:12 Meeus, Jean, Cosmos 1 Jr.? 1:15 magazinearchive Tales of the Bull, 1:59 Hallas, Tony, Of Color and Composition, 4:94 Mellander, Peter, Observers Close Comet Flyby, A, 5:60 Hamilton, Maurice, Unmasking Eclipse Details with Wanted, 5:12 Castelvecchi, Davide, New Breed of Black Hole, A, 4:36 Photoshop, 5:100 Mood, John, Lights Out, 6:12 Dalrymple, Les, Rose-Colored Glasses, 5:118 Johnston, Lisa R., More Einstein Rings, 3:20 Naeye, Robert, Andromeda’s Plane, 5:22 Southern Binocular Highlight: A Cluster in Ring Around a Black Hole, 1:24 Astro News Brief: Thunderstorm on Saturn, 6:24 Search of Nature, 3:49 Seeing the Take Shape, 1:26 Astronomers Agog over Nearby Burst, 6:20 Canine Cluster NGC 5822, 6:49 Swift: The Satellite That’s Always On Call, 1:48 Best Transiting Yet, The, 1:20 NGC 3532: Best of the Best? 4:49 Johnston, Lisa R., and Robert Naeye, Milky Way Binary-Star Common, 4:22 See a Seyfert, 5:49 Roundup, 5:16 Black Hole Hive? A, 4:41 Summer Globular NGC 1851, 1:57 Knezek, Patricia, Best Bar in the Neighborhood, The, Black-Hole News, 5:24 The Magnificent Tarantula, 2:49 1:32 Brown-Dwarf Enigma, 5:18 De Silva, Rex I., What Is a Planet? 1:14 Krupp, E. C., Antagonized by Poets, 5:43 Chandra: Taking the Universe’s X-ray, 1:36 di Cicco, Dennis, book review: The Handbook of Bowl of Night, The, 3:43 Cosmic “Twister,” 4:20 Astronomical Image Processing, Richard Berry Fluid Drive, 1:52 Cratering Culprits Identified, 1:19 and James Burnell, 5:86 Fooled by the Moon, 4:43 Creator Calling Card? 5:25 Meade’s RCX400, 2:78 Dust, 2:43 Dark Matter in Ellipticals? 3:24 What does a periodic error in a telescope drive Hanging by a Thread, 6:43 : Nasty Neighbors, 2:22 mean? 1:132 Laughlin, Gregory, Amateur Contribution, The, 2:34 Evidence Mounts for Brown-Dwarf Planets, 3:20 What does the term “lignes” mean? 4:92 Lehman, Dale E., Death of a Streetlight, 2:118 Exploding Stars Explained? 2:20 ZenithStar 66 Refractors, 5:76 Lester, Dan, Here’s Dirt in Your Eye, 4:110 Face of Copernicus? The, 2:18 Dobbins, Thomas, Donald Parker, and Jeffrey Beish, Levy, David H., Asteroid Alerts: A Risky Business, Going Deep in Virgo, 5:25 Shadow Boxing, 2:12 4:90 Magnetar Magnificence, 2:16 Doescher, L., see Olson, Donald W. Four Decades of Comet Hunting, 3:91 New Low-Mass Exoplanet, A, 5:19 Dunham, David W., Chasing a Graze of , 1:74 Headed for and Beyond, 5:96 New Red Spot, A, 6:18 Lunar Occultation Highlights for 2006, 1:71 Master of Occultations, 6:90 New Type of , A, 3:18 Spectacular Occultation, A, 4:61 Ringside Seat, A, 2:93 Sirius B’s Mass Measured, 3:26 Upcoming Asteroid Occultations, 3:61, 6:63 Tsutomu Seki and the of 1965, 1:121 Surprise! Most Star Systems Are Single, 5:17 Echeverria, Gerardo, Lose the Jiggle, 1:15 Lockwood, Michael, Modern Long-Focus Newtonian, Too Big Too Soon? 1:18 Engstrom, Lars, Moon Illusion, 4:12 A, 3:96 Trojans from the Belt, 5:20 Erickson, Kerry, see Friedman, Peter G. Mack, Katherine J., Slice of the Solar Spectrum, A, Vega Mystery Solved, 4:16 Espenak, Fred, and Jay Anderson, Great Total Eclipse 6:26 Why are there two peaks in an exoplanet sys-

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tem’s ? 1:132 Corona, The, 4:28 Seeing Not-So-Ancient Supernovae, 5:22 see also Johnston, Lisa R. Seager, Sara, Unveiling Distant Worlds, 2:28 Spitzer: Living Life to the Fullest, 1:44 see also Tytell, David Seronik, Gary, Apogee RA-88-SA Right-Angle Stardust’s Tiny Treasures, 6:17 Naeye, Robert, and Alan M. MacRobert, Case , 4:74 ’s New Rings, 4:18 Strengthened for Inflation, 6:22 Canon 10 × 42 L IS WP Image-Stabilized video review: The Zula Patrol, 1:111 Naeye, Robert, and David Tytell, Titan Revisited, 3:16 Binoculars, 4:74 Why have recent discoveries been Noll, Landon Curt, Searching for , 1:87 Moon’s North Pole, The, 5:28 made while the objects are at aphelion? 5:98 Olson, Donald W., Beatrice Robertson, and Russell L. Northern Binocular Highlight: Ancient Globular Tytell, David, and Robert Naeye, Sizing Distant Worlds, Doescher, Reflections on Edvard Munch’s Girls on M5, 6:48 5:20 the Pier, 5:38 Beehive Cluster, The, 4:48 Walker, Sean, Atik Filter Wheel, 6:78 O’Meara, Stephen James, ’s Canal, 3:64 Golden Betelgeuse, 3:48 Deep-Sky 2005, 3:103 Eclipse Timetable, An, 4:64 Orion’s Sword, 2:48 Introduction to Digital Astrophotography, Robert Great ’s “Ghost”! 1:79 Pair of Leo Doubles, A, 5:48 Reeves, 3:83 M44: What’s the Buzz? Part I, 6:70 Watching the Demon Star, 1:56 SkyNyx 2-0 Camera, 6:76 Scattered Pearls, 2:66 Sheppard, Scott, What Is a Planet? 1:14 Weissman, Paul R., Comet Tale, A, 2:36 Spirits of the Air, 5:68 Sherrill, Thomas J., Envisioning the End of the World, Wood, Charles A., Extreme Basinology, 5:58 Parker, Donald, see Dobbins, Thomas 6:36 Human History on the Moon, 6:60 Plait, Phil, Death from the Skies, 6:30 Sinnott, Roger W., Ansel Adams Encore, An, 1:93 Little Lunar Volcanoes, 4:58 Pulliam, Christine, Deciphering the Globular-Cluster Can Venus ever be far enough from the to Looking Between Craters, 3:58 Code, 3:30 appear east of the meridian? 6:96 Weird Crater Rays, 2:58 Putnam, William L., ’s Legacy, 4:12 Crescent in 2006, 2:60 Why Are Crater Rays Bright? 1:67 Ratledge, David, Starry Night Pro Plus 5, Imaginova, Fast Fact: The Universal Constant Pi, 4:92 4:78 How large an asteroid could a person jump off? ■departments Rickey, Daniel W., Secrets of Telescope Resolution, 1:132 Amateur Telescope Making — 6:92 Outer Planets in 2006, 5:66 Building a Simplified Yolo, 1:125 Robertson, Beatrice, see Olson, Donald W. Variable Stars for April, 4:62 Modern Long-Focus Newtonian, A, 3:96 Robinson, Leif J., 50 & 25 Years Ago, 1:28, 2:24, 4:24, Variable Stars for February, 2:64 Secrets of Telescope Resolution, 6:92 5:26 Variable Stars for January, 1:76 Astronomy Online — 75, 50 & 25 Years Ago, 3:26, 6:24 Variable Stars for June, 6:68 Look, Up in the Sky! 5:88 book review: Astronomical Enigmas, Mark Variable Stars for March, 3:62 Plurality of Worlds, The, 3:88 Kidger, 3:84 Variable Stars for May, 5:64 Try to Find Saturn, 1:112 book review: Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred What are phase-correction coatings for binocu- Astrophotography — Hoyle’s Life in Science, Simon Mitton, 1:108 lars? 6:96 Deep-Sky Astrophotography 2005, 3:103 book review: Scientific Legacy of Fred Hoyle, When will (or did) the galactic equator intersect Measuring Skyglow with Digital Cameras, 2:99 The, Douglas Gough, ed., 1:108 the at the solstice points? 4:92 Of Color and Composition, 4:94 Roth, Joshua, book review: Firefly Astronomy Sorrells, Bill, What Is a Planet? 1:14 The Sky Quality Meter, 2:104 Dictionary, Ian Ridpath and John Woodruff, eds., Stafford, Tom, Measuring the Distance to Teegarden’s Unmasking Eclipse Details with Photoshop, 5:100 2:90 Star, 2:73 Books & Beyond — book review: Oxford Dictionary of Astronomy, Telis, Gisela, Monoceros’s Many Wonders, 3:28 Astronomical Enigmas, Mark Kidger, 3:84 Ian Ridpath, 2:90 Thibault, Patrick, Backyard Maestro, 1:15 Astronomy Hacks: Tips & Tools for Observing book review: Universal Book of Astronomy, The, Tytell, David, Best-Ever Pluto Picture, The, 2:18 the Night Sky, Robert Bruce Thompson and David Darling, 2:89 book review: Atlas of the Universe, Patrick Barbara Fritchman Thompson, 1:109 Detecting Deuterium, 3:22 Moore, 3:85 Astronomy On Ice, Martin A. Pomerantz, 2:90 Einsteinian Energy Bolstered, 4:23 book review: Big Bang, Carolyn Cinami Atlas of the Universe, Patrick Moore, 3:85 Elliptical Mergers: Caught in the Act, 4:23 DeCristofano, 1:110 Big Bang, Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano, 1:110 GALEX: Seeing Starbirth, Near and Far, 1:40 book review: II, Michel C. Festou, H. Big Dish, Douglas J. Mudgway, 6:82 Lasering the , 1:24 Uwe Keller, and Harold A. Weaver, eds., 4:83 Comets II, Michel C. Festou, H. Uwe Keller, and NASA’s Other Space , 1:34 book review: Deep Sky Objects, David H. Levy, Harold A. Weaver, eds., 4:83 Radio Array Finds a High, Dry Home, 3:22 5:86 Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle’s Life in Reionization Revealed, 4:20 book review: Great Observatories of the World, Science, Simon Mitton, 1:108 Short-Lived Spiral? A, 3:22 Serge Brunier and Anne-Marie Lagrange, 3:86 Deep Sky Objects, David H. Levy, 5:86 Snapshot of the First Stars? 2:17 book review: Mac Goes to Mars, Jeffrey Bennett, Firefly Astronomy Dictionary, Ian Ridpath and Speedy Star’s New Birthplace, A, 1:27 1:110 John Woodruff, eds., 2:90 Violence Within Virgo, 1:26 book review: Moon, Steve Tomecek, 1:110 Great Observatories of the World, Serge Brunier What is the best guess for the number of stars in book review: NASA: The Complete Illustrated and Anne-Marie Lagrange, 3:86 the Milky Way? 5:98 History, Michael Gorn, 3:86 Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing, What is the faintest object imaged by ground- book review: Night Wonders, Jane Ann The, Richard Berry and James Burnell, 5:86 based telescopes? 3:100 Peddicord, 1:110 Introduction to Digital Astrophotography, Robert Yerkes Bidders Go Public, 1:27 book review: Pieces of Another World, Mara Reeves, 3:83 Sadler, Bud, book review: Stargazing Year, The, Rockliff, 1:111 Mac Goes to Mars, Jeffrey Bennett, 1:110 Charles Laird Calia, 2:88 book review: Planets, The, Dava Sobel, 5:85 Moon, Steve Tomecek, 1:110 Schaaf, Fred, Eye and I: How Long Was ’s Tail book review: Pluto and Charon, S. Alan Stern NASA: The Complete Illustrated History, Michael in 1986? 6:66 and Jacqueline Mitton, 4:83 Gorn, 3:86 Fresh Looks at , 1:54 book review: Transits of Venus, Don Kurtz, ed., Next Step, The: Finding and Viewing Messier’s Light Pollution Notes, 1:95, 5:91 4:83 Objects, Ken Graun, 4:82 Mars Makes Way for Saturn, 1:60 book review: Universe, Martin Rees, ed., 3:85 Night Wonders, Jane Ann Peddicord, 1:110 Mars Says Goodbye, and Giants Say Hello, 2:52 book review: What’s Out There, Mary K. Oxford Dictionary of Astronomy, Ian Ridpath, Near Sky, The: Return of the Venus Green Baumann, Will Hopkins, Loralee Nolletti, and 2:90 Flashes — Part 1, 2:74 Michael Soluri, 3:85 Patrick Moore, Patrick Moore, 5:86 Near Sky, The: Return of the Venus Green Colder Pluto, A, 4:18 Pieces of Another World, Mara Rockliff, 1:111 Flashes — Part 2, 3:72 Frosting Saturn’s Moons, 3:38 Planets, The, Dava Sobel, 5:85 Night’s Brightest Star, The, 2:46 Helix Exposed, The, 4:17 Pluto and Charon, S. Alan Stern and Jacqueline Nights of the Giant Planets, 5:52 Mars Polar Lander Still Missing, 1:22 Mitton, 4:83 Planets Flirt with Star Clusters, 4:52 Mars: From Above and Below, 3:17 Roving Mars, Steve Squyres, 5:84 Rummaging in Hercules, 6:46 Missing Martian Carbonates, The, 1:22 Scientific Legacy of Fred Hoyle, The, Douglas Saturn and Mars Buzz the Beehive, 6:52 One Weird Kuiper Belt Object, 4:18 Gough, ed., 1:108 Saturn at Its Most Inviting, 3:52 Peering into a Planetary Graveyard, 5:19 Stargazing Year, The, Charles Laird Calia, 2:88 Secrets of the Lion’s Heart, 4:46 Pluto Adds Two New Moons, 2:18 Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe, Leon M. Tales of Charles’s Heart, 5:46 Probing Polaris, 4:17 Lederman, 6:83 When Spring Blooms in Cancer, 3:46 Roving Mars, Steve Squyres, 5:84 Transits of Venus, Don Kurtz, ed., 4:83 Schrijver, Carolus J., Science Behind the Solar Saturn’s Sponge Rock, 1:20

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Universal Book of Astronomy, The, David Can Venus ever be far enough from the Sun to Motofocus focuser, JMI Telescopes, 2:86 Darling, 2:89 appear east of the meridian? 6:96 Olivon Sky Sweeper Ulta-Wide Eyepieces, 3:78 Universe, Martin Rees, ed., 3:85 Does advanced technology make diffraction theo- Orion GoScope 350, 5:83 What’s Out There, Mary K. Baumann, Will ry obsolete? Is obstruction of less consequence Orion StarBlast 4.5 EQ, 2:86 Hopkins, Loralee Nolletti, and Michael Soluri, for photography than observing? 5:98 Porter Garden Telescope, 5:83 3:85 Fast Fact: The Universal Constant Pi, 4:92 Rouge, The, Astrodon, 3:78 Zula Patrol, The, aired on PBS, 1:111 How large an asteroid could a person jump off? ScopeBuggy, 3:80 Celestial Calendar — 1:132 SpicaEyes SlipStream Telescopes, Equatorial Backyard Guide to Saturn, A, 2:62 How well defined is a meteor-shower radiant? 4:92 Platforms, 3:80 Chasing a Graze of Antares, 1:74 If the asteroid 99942 Apophis ever strikes Earth, Stark Tracker Chair, Universal Astronomics, 3:78 Crescent Moons in 2006, 2:60 how big would the crater be? 2:96 Tele Vue Optics TV-60is , 5:82 Europe’s Partial Solar Eclipse, 3:60 Is there a good test for a telescope’s optical qual- Tele Vue Zoom Eyepiece with Dioptrix Eye and I: How Long Was Halley’s Tail in 1986? ity? 3:100 Astigmatism Correctors, 6:80 6:66 Was the brightening of Comet Tempel 1 after News Notes — Lunar Occultation Highlights for 2006, 1:71 Deep Impact the most-distant human caused Andromeda’s Satellite Plane, 5:22 Outer Planets in 2006, 5:66 event? 1:132 Asteroidal Dust Shower, An, 5:20 Porrima After Periastron, 6:65 What does “true color” mean in a deep-space Astro News Brief: Bizarre Stars Explained, 6:24 Predicting Your Events, 4:61 photograph? 3:100 Astronomers Agog over Nearby Burst, 6:20 RS Ophiuchi Has a Rare Outburst, 6:66 What does a periodic error in a telescope drive Cepheid Cocoons, 6:24 Spectacular Pleiades Occultation, A, 4:61 mean? 1:132 Detecting Extrasolar Comets, 1:27 Upcoming Asteroid Occultations, 3:61, 6:63 What does the term “lignes” mean? 4:92 Discovery Channel Telescope, 2:24 Variable Stars for April, 4:62 What are phase-correction coatings for binocu- LBT Sees First Light, 2:24 Variable Stars for February, 2:64 lars? 6:96 Martian Auroras, 6:24 Variable Stars for January, 1:76 What is the best guess for the number of stars in New Herschel Comet? A, 1:27 Variable Stars for June, 6:68 the Milky Way? 5:98 Relativity Mission Completed, 1:27 Variable Stars for March, 3:62 What is the faintest object imaged by ground- Thunderstorm on Saturn, 6:24 Variable Stars for May, 5:64 based telescopes? 3:100 Tugboat Can Save Earth, 2:24 Very Close Comet Flyby, A, 5:60 When will (or did) the galactic equator intersect Best Transiting Exoplanet Yet, The, 1:20 Deep-Sky Wonders — the ecliptic at the solstice points? 4:92 Best-Ever Pluto Picture, The, 2:18 Canes Redux, 6:73 When will the last ever total solar eclipse occur? Binary-Star Planets Common, 4:22 Dear Chara, 5:71 2:96 Black-Hole News, 5:24 Dog-and-Pony Show, 3:66 Why are there two peaks in an exoplanet sys- Brown-Dwarf Enigma, 5:18 Icy Blue Diamonds, 2:69 tem’s light curve? 1:132 Case Strengthened for Inflation, 6:22 Leo’s 11th Hour, 4:67 Why do craters sometimes look like bulges or Colder Pluto, A, 4:18 Winter Wonders, 1:83 indentations? 6:96 Cosmic “Twister,” 4:20 Exploring the Moon — Why do we need a hydrogen-alpha filter to see Crater-Free Asteroid, A, 1:19 Extreme Basinology, 5:58 solar prominences? 2:96 Cratering Culprits Identified, 1:19 Human History on the Moon, 6:60 Why have recent Kuiper Belt discoveries been Creator Calling Card? 5:25 Little Lunar Volcanoes, 4:58 made while the objects are at aphelion? 5:98 Dark Matter in Ellipticals? 3:24 Looking Between Craters, 3:58 Letters — Detecting Deuterium, 3:22 Weird Crater Rays, 2:58 Adams Family, The, 1:14 Einsteinian Energy Bolstered, 4:23 Why Are Crater Rays Bright? 1:67 Backyard Maestro, 1:15 Elliptical Mergers: Caught in the Act, 4:23 Eye on the Sky — Cosmos 1 Jr.? 1:15 Eta Carinae: Nasty Neighbors, 2:22 Charon’s Canal, 3:64 Deep Impact, 2:12 Evidence Mounts for Brown-Dwarf Planets, 3:20 Eclipse Timetable, An, 4:64 Desert Visions, 3:12 Exploding Stars Explained? 2:20 Great Jupiter’s “Ghost”! 1:79 GALEX Lives, 4:12 Extreme Parallax, 4:22 M44: What’s the Buzz? Part I, 6:70 Galileo’s Pride and Prejudice, 5:12 Face of Copernicus? The, 2:18 Scattered Pearls, 2:66 Landing the Moon, 6:12 Going Deep in Virgo, 5:25 Spirits of the Air, 5:68 Lights Out, 6:12 Hayabusa Mission Gets Long Delay, 3:24 Feature — Lose the Jiggle, 1:15 Helix Exposed, The, 4:17 A Black Hole Hive? 4:41 Lowell’s Legacy, 4:12 Lasering the Galactic Center, 1:24 Amateur Contribution, The, 2:34 Mars Bigger, But Not Better, 3:12 Magnetar Magnificence, 2:16 Chandra: Taking the Universe’s X-ray, 1:36 Memories, 6:12 Mars: From Above and Below, 3:17 Comet Tale, A, 2:36 Moon Illusion, 4:12 Mars Polar Lander Still Missing, 1:22 Death from the Skies, 6:30 Observers Wanted, 5:12 Martian Ice: Wide and Deep, 6:18 Deciphering the Globular-Cluster Code, 3:30 Shadow Boxing, 2:12 Milky Way Roundup, 5:16 Envisioning the End of the World, 6:36 Wanton Destruction? 5:12 Missing Martian Carbonates, The, 1:22 Frosting Saturn’s Moons, 3:38 What Is a Planet? 1:14 More Einstein Rings, 3:20 GALEX: Seeing Starbirth, Near and Far, 1:40 Mission Update — NASA Science in Free Fall, 6:16 NASA’s Other Space Telescopes, 1:34 AGILE, 5:26 Neutron Stars Flying Pole-First, 2:20 New Breed of Black Hole, A, 4:36 Apollo Again? 1:28 New Low-Mass Exoplanet, A, 5:19 Out of the Dark Ages: The First Stars, 5:30 Dawn, 3:26 New Red Spot, A, 6:18 Reflections on Edvard Munch’s Girls on the Pier, Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, 5:26 New Type of Neutron Star, A, 3:18 5:38 Hubble Space Telescope, 2:24 One Weird Kuiper Belt Object, 4:18 Science Behind the Solar Corona, The, 4:28 New Horizons, 4:24 Peering into a Planetary Graveyard, 5:19 Spitzer: Living Life to the Fullest, 1:44 Stardust, 4:24 Pluto Adds Two New Moons, 2:18 Swift: The Satellite That’s Always On Call, 1:48 , 2:24 Probing Polaris, 4:17 Unveiling Distant Worlds, 2:28 Webb Space Telescope, 3:26 Spin Record Smashed, 5:24 50 & 25 Years Ago, 1:28, 2:24, 4:24, 5:26 New Product Showcase — Radio Array Finds a High, Dry Home, 3:22 Focal Point — Astronomy Technologies’ Refractor and Star Reionization Revealed, 4:20 Death of a Streetlight, 2:118 Diagonals, 6:80 Ring Around a Black Hole, 1:24 Here’s Dirt in Your Eye, 4:110 Atik Instruments’ Manual Filter Wheel, 2:86 Saturn’s Sponge Rock, 1:20 Rape of the Observatory, 6:110 CCDINspector and CCDStack, CCDWare, 3:80 Seeing Not-So-Ancient Supernovae, 5:22 Rose-Colored Glasses, 5:118 Deepsky Astronomy Software v.2006.01.01, Steven Seeing the Milky Way Take Shape, 1:26 There’s Mister Moon! 1:150 Tuma, 5:83 Short-Lived Spiral? A, 3:22 What Star Is That? 3:118 Digital Starlab, Learning Technologies, 5:82 Sirius B’s Mass Measured, 3:26 Gallery, 1:136, 2:106, 3:106, 4:98, 5:106, 6:98 DslrStar, Cercis Astro, 6:80 Sizing Distant Worlds, 5:20 Hobby Q&A — Explore the Planets CD-ROM, Tasa Graphic Arts, Snapshot of the First Stars? 2:17 Can an O III nebula filter be referred to as an 5:82 Speedy Star’s New Birthplace, A, 1:27 “oh-two” filter because of doubly ionized F50 finder, Stellarvue, 2:86 Stardust’s Tiny Treasures, 6:17 oxygen atoms? 2:96 Meade LightBridge Dobsonians, 5:82 Surprise! Most Star Systems Are Single, 5:17

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Titan Revisited, 3:16 Gold Dust, 2:43 Monoceros’s Many Wonders, 3:28 Too Big Too Soon? 1:18 Hanging by a Thread, 6:43 Moon’s North Pole, The, 5:28 Trojans from the Kuiper Belt, 5:20 75, 50 & 25 Years Ago, 3:26, 6:24 Slice of the Solar Spectrum, A, 6:26 Uranus’s New Rings, 4:18 S&T Test Report — Star Trails — Vega Mystery Solved, 4:16 Apogee RA-88-SA Right-Angle Binoculars, 4:74 Asteroid Alerts: A Risky Business, 4:90 Violence Within Virgo, 1:26 Atik Filter Wheel, 6:78 Four Decades of Comet Hunting, 3:91 Yerkes Bidders Go Public, 1:27 Canon 10 × 42 L IS WP Image-Stabilized Headed for Pluto and Beyond, 5:96 Northern Hemisphere’s Sky — Binoculars, 4:74 Master of Occultations, 6:90 Night’s Brightest Star, The, 2:46 Celestron CPC 800 GPS, 3:74 Ringside Seat, A, 2:93 Northern Binocular Highlight: Ancient Globular Hot New Products for 2006, 1:98 Tsutomu Seki and the Great Comet of 1965, 1:121 M5, 6:48 Meade’s RCX400, 2:78 Sun, Moon, and Planets — Beehive Cluster, The, 4:48 SkyNyx 2-0 Camera, 6:76 Mars Makes Way for Saturn, 1:60 Golden Betelgeuse, 3:48 Starry Night Pro Plus 5, 4:78 Mars Says Goodbye, and Giants Say Hello, 2:52 Orion’s Sword, 2:48 ZenithStar 66 Refractors, 5:76 Nights of the Giant Planets, 5:52 Pair of Leo Doubles, A, 5:48 Southern Hemisphere’s Sky — Planets Flirt with Star Clusters, 4:52 Watching the Demon Star, 1:56 Beacons of the Night, 5:51 Saturn and Mars Buzz the Beehive, 6:52 Northern Hemisphere’s Sky Chart, 1:55, 2:47, Enjoyable Latitude, An, 3:51 Saturn at Its Most Inviting, 3:52 3:47, 4:47, 5:47, 6:47 Fly Me to the Cross, 6:51 Targets — Rummaging in Hercules, 6:46 Lifetime in Orion, A, 2:51 Searching for Vulcanoids, 1:87 Secrets of the Lion’s Heart, 4:46 Sailing Along the Galactic Plane, 4:51 The Astronomy Scene — Tales of Charles’s Heart, 5:46 Southern Binocular Highlight: Canine Cluster China’s Boötes Shines, 6:87 When Spring Blooms in Cancer, 3:46 NGC 5822, 6:49 Community News: Amateurs Spot “10th Planet,” Observer’s Log — Cluster in Search of Nature, A, 3:49 6:88 Ansel Adams Encore, An, 1:93 Magnificent Tarantula, The, 2:49 Astronomy Outreach Book Now Available, 6:88 Hyperactive Sunspot, A, 1:94 NGC 3532: Best of the Best? 4:49 Historic Observatory’s Fund Drive a Success, Light-Pollution Notes, 1:95 See a Seyfert, 5:49 3:92 Look Back at Mars in 2005, A, 4:70 Summer Globular NGC 1851, 1:57 London Planetarium to Close, 5:91 Measuring the Distance to Teegarden’s Star, 2:73 Southern Hemisphere’s Sky Chart, 1:57, 2:49, Manufacturers Cut Back Film-Camera Near Sky, The: Return of the Venus Green 3:49, 4:49, 5:49, 6:49 Production, 5:91 Flashes — Part 1, 2:74 Tales of the Bull, 1:59 Martian Crater Named After Japanese Near Sky, The: Return of the Venus Green Spectrum — Amateur, 5:91 Flashes — Part 2, 3:72 Astronomy in the Spotlight, 2:8 SOHO Celebrates a Milestone, 3:92 Outer Limits, The: Observing Quasars at High Camera Always Lies, The, 3:8 Great Total Eclipse of 2006, The, 1:115 Redshifts, 3:69 Clouded Vision, 4:8 Light Pollution Notes, 5:91 Rambling Through the Skies — Just Plane Nuts, 6:8 Solar Eclipses on Stamps, 4:85 Antagonized by Poets, 5:43 My Trip to the Moon, 5:8 Where Amateurs and Professionals Come Bowl of Night, The, 3:43 Space Race Against Time, 1:8 Together, 5:90 Fooled by the Moon, 4:43 Spotlight On . . . — 1-2hor_pocket-fieldmap_insidesFresh Looks at Taurus, 1:54 3/23/06 Best 8:47 Bar inAM the PageNeighborhood, 1 The, 1:32

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