Index to Volume 116 July - December 2008 ■ Authors Planet Quests, 3:26 book review: Lights in the Sky, by Michael Vital Signs, 2:10 Maunder, 4:44 Aguirre, Edwin L., book review: Book Digital Flanders, Tony, book review: Stargazing with Kramer, Michael, see Lazio, Joseph Astrophotography, by Stefan Seip, 6:90 Binoculars, by Robin Scagell, 4:45 Krupp, E. C., Astronomical Wonders, 5:83 How many stars are discretely visible to book review: Setting-up a Small Observatory, Dinner Date, 2:43 the unaided eye at one time on a dark Getting the Picture, 1:47 by David Arditti, 3:42 night? 6:92 Labor Day, 3:73 Allum, Andrew, Looking Back and Ahead, 4:12 French, Sue, 12 Labors of Hercules, The, 1:78 Anderson, Jay, see Espenak, Fred Space Opera, 4:75 Arion’s Dolphin, 4:71 Ashford, Adrian R., Celestron’s Omni XLT 127 Voice in the Wilderness, 6:85 Darkling Fish, The, 6:79 Schmidt-Cassegrain, 6:43 Laber, Bernd, Jonesing for Pharaohs, 3:12 Frederick’s Glory, 5:71 Barnes, Jason, Titan: Earth in Deep Freeze, 6:26 Lazio, Joseph, Michael Kramer, and Bryan Gaensler, Magic Nights of Stars, 3:69 Beatty, J. Kelly, Briefly Noted: Field Guide to Tuning In to the Universe, 1:20 Stars Unnumbered, 2:73 Meteors and Meteorites, by O. Richard Norton Levy, David H., Countown 2 Landing, 4:23 Frybarger, Duane, Street-level Stargazing, 2:96 and Lawrence A. Chitwood, 5:78 European AstroFest 2008, 2:77 Gaensler, Bryan, see Lazio, Joseph Briefly Noted: Keep Watching the Skies, Not the Stellafane Way, 3:77 Garcia, Ruben, and Geoffrey Notkin, Touching the by W. Patrick McCray, 5:78 Vail Astronomy Unclub, The, 1:82 Martian Wonderland, A, 4:22 Stars Without Leaving Home, 4:32 Lewis, Barbara-Ann, Don’t Be Dirty, 6:12 Polar Prospector, 3:22 Garfinkle, Robert A., book review: de Vaucouleurs Lodriguss, Jerry, Improving Your DSLR Photos, 4:80 Still Debating Pluto’s Fate, 6:34 Atlas of Galaxies, The, by Ronald J. Buta, MacRobert, Alan M., August 2008’s Partial Lunar Birriel, Jennifer, book review: Jupiter and How to Harold G. Corwin Jr., and Stephen C. Eclipse, 2:67 Observe It, by John W. McAnnaly, 2:40 Odewahn, 3:42 Death of Amateur Astronomy . or New Black, Larry, Looking Back and Ahead, 4:12 book review: Total Solar Eclipses and How To Birth? 3:30 Blades, J. Chris, Fixing Hubble One Last Time, 4:26 Observe Them, by Martin Mobberley, 5:77 Dodge the Moon the Perseids, 2:65 Bohigian, MD, George, Ancient Eye Test Tested, 1:12 Gay, Pamela L., book review: Women Astronomers, Europe’s Occultation of Venus, 6:67 Bos, Brent J., Red Planet Resolve, 3:96 by Mabel Armstrong, 1:43 Fast Fact: Largest Solar-System Model on Earth, Bryant, Greg, Southern Hemisphere Sky, 1:57, Goldman, Stuart J., Briefly Noted: Hubble, 6:93 3:53, 4:53, 5:57, 6:61 by David DeVorkin and Robert W. Smith, 6:90 Bryant, Greg, and Alan M. MacRobert, Tiny Players Moon Crosses the Pleiades, 3:64 Briefly Noted: The Lunar Exploration on Jupiter’s Stage, 1:62 More Asteroid Occultations, 6:69 Scrapbook, by Robert Godwin, 4:45 Burchell, Tania, book review: Ice, Rock, and October Meteors, 4:67 Briefly Noted: The Sun and the Moon, by Beauty, by David Brodie, 5:77 Solar Eclipse over Eurasia, 2:66 Matthew Goodman, 6:90 book review: Stars & Planets, by Ian Ridpath Three Asteroid Occultations, 5:68 Briefly Noted: Total Solar Eclipse of 2009 July and Wil Tirion, 3:43 Three Blood Drops on the Swan’s Wing, 2:69 22, by Fred Espenak and Jay Anderson, 5:78 Caldwell, Robert B., Of Plutoids and Planets, 6:10 Uranus and Neptune After Dark, 3:63 Carlisle, Camille M., Briefly Noted: Eleven Planets, Delving into Hubble’s Hoard, 5:80 Vesta Circles the Whale’s Head, 5:67 by David A. Aguilar, 5:78 Gallery Hopping, 6:52 Why do emission nebulae look red in photo- Creed, Phillip J., Clear(er) Skies Ahead, 2:24 Microsoft’s Cosmic Marvel, 3:44 graphs but greenish gray in the eyepiece? Croswell, Ken, Planetary Peculiarities, 3:26 Gordon, Rodger W., Superior Celestial Eye Exam, 5:11 3:82 di Cicco, Dennis, Briefly Noted: Digital SLR Habas, Gregory, Keep on Tinkering! 5:11 Would a light-pollution filter help find Pluto Astrophotography, by Michael A. Covington, 1:44 Heafner, Joe, Sky Voyager, 1:32 with a 10-inch reflector? 5:91 Quick Look: Astro-Tech AT80EDT Refractor, 3:39 Hewitt-White, Kenneth, Aries and Beyond, 6:59 Year’s Best Asteroid Occultation, The, 3:65 Quick Look: Astro-Tech Voyager Mount, 1:36 Celestial Swan, The, 2:51 see also Bryant, Greg Quick Look: iOptron’s MiniTower, 6:48 Contrasting Cass Clusters, 5:55 Maor, Eli, Blame Sagan, 5:12 di Cicco, Dennis, and Sean Walker, Gearheads in Coy Cluster in Capricornus, 4:51 Mason, Todd, and Robin Mason, Palomar’s Big Eye, Paradise, 2:36 Lyra’s Dandy Doughnut, 3:51 6:36 Diaz, Eric F., Critical Galaxy Guide, 6:10 Star Cluster Wars, 1:55 McDowell, Jonathan, Akari Warms Up, 1:15 Doescher, Russell L., see Olson, Donald W. Hoffman, Roy, Record Moons, 4:12 Collecting Interstellar Atoms, 2:15 Durrell, Mark W., Why Spend on Astronomy? 5:11 Illig, Leona, There’s No Place Like Dome, 5:104 Faster Solar Snapshots, 3:15 Dyer, Alan, Guiding on a Budget, 5:43 Ilovaisky, Sergio, Amateur Glass Only Half Full, GLAST Reaches Orbit, 3:15 Espenak, Fred, and Jay Anderson, Great Total Eclipse 2:12 Hinode Has a Hitch, 3:15 of 2009, The, 6:74 Ireland, R. Scott, Layer Magic for Your Astrophotos, Infrared Eye of WISE, The, 6:18 Ferrio, Michael, Early All-Sky Surveys, 6:10 1:88 International X-ray Observatory, 5:22 Fienberg, Richard Tresch, book review: Observing Isaacs, Julian, Space Priorities, 3:12 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Delayed, 5:22 the Sun with Coronado Telescopes, Jedicke, Peter, and Robert Jedicke, Coming Giant Sky Messenger Returns to Mercury, 4:18 by Philip Pugh, 1:43 Patrols, The, 3:30 Nanosatellites Reach Orbit, 2:15 Fond Farewell, A, 3:10 Kanipe, Jeff, book review: History of Astronomy, Phoenix Races the Calendar, 6:18 Out with the Old, 1:10 The, by Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest, 1:44 Rosetta’s First Asteroid, 4:18 1 sky & telescope • SkyandTelescope.com Index to Volume 116 • July - December 2008 Russian Phoenix Rises, A, 1:15 29th (leap day)? 3:82 History of Astronomy, by Heather Couper and Miller, Grant, Divinity Divide, 2:12 How can the Gaia spacecraft measure star Nigel Henbest, The, 1:44 Misch, Tony, and William Sheehan, Pioneering positions to 7 microarcseconds? 6:92 Hubble, by David DeVorkin and Robert W. Telescope Turns 100, 5:38 How long after sunset is the sky truly “dark”? Smith, 6:90 Molnar, Michael R., Misinterpreting the Magi, 6:112 3:82 Ice, Rock, and Beauty, by David Brodie, 5:77 Mortfield, Paul, Data Mining for Astro-Gold, 6:96 Our Readers Measure Earth’s Shadow, 1:75 International Atlas of Lunar Exploration, The, Naeye, Robert, Red Giant Shock Breakout, 5:30 Skoch, Bernard K., Why Spend on Astronomy? by Philip J. Stooke, 6:89 Taking the Helm, 4:10 5:11 Jupiter and How to Observe It, by John W. They Came from Mars, 4:36 Soderberg, Alicia, X Rays Mark the Spot: A McAnnaly, 2:40 Unforgettable Night on Mount Wilson, An, 5:8 Newborn Supernova, 5:26 Keep Watching the Skies, by W. Patrick What’s Earth’s Closest Relative? 6:8 Steinicke, Wolfgang, Early All-Sky Surveys, 6:10 McCray, 5:78 What’s the greatest distance at which it is Trotta, Steve, Why We Bother, 1:12 Lights in the Sky, by Michael Maunder, 4:44 practical to detect extrasolar planets? 6:92 Tyson, Richard, Looking Back and Ahead, 4:14 Lunar Exploration Scrapbook, The, by Robert Notkin, Geoffrey, see Garcia, Ruben Tytell, David, book review: Titan Unveiled, by Ralph Godwin, 4:45 Olson, Donald W., Russell L. Doescher, and Texas Lorenz and Jacqueline Mitton, 6:89 Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images, by Greg State Honors Students, Caesar’s Invasion of Briefly Noted: Rejuvenating the Sun,by Martin Parker, 1:44 Britain, 2:18 Beech, 4:45 Observing the Sun with Coronado Telescopes, Panek, Richard, Quest for Dark Matter, The, 2:30 Why isn’t the Moon always oriented the same by Philip Pugh, 1:43 Patterson, Joseph, Solving a Halloween Mystery, 1:26 way in the sky? 3:82 Rejuvenating the Sun, by Martin Beech, 4:45 Petersen, Carolyn Collins, book review: Ulivi, Paolo, Shocking Truth, 2:12 Setting-up a Small Observatory, by David Cosmological Engmas, by Mark Kidger, 2:40 Unger, Rebecca, Of Plutoids and Planets, 6:10 Arditti, 3:42 book review: Empire of the Stars, by Arthur I. Walker, Sean, Briefly Noted: Making Beautiful Stargazing with Binoculars, by Robin Scagell, Miller, 4:44 Deep-Sky Images, by Greg Parker, 1:44 4:45 Rao, Joe, Multi-Hued Palette, A, 1:72 Is it good or bad to have an infrared-blocking Stars & Planets, by Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion, Reade, Gordon, Looking Back and Ahead, 4:12 feature on a camera? 5:91 3:43 Rifkin, Alan, Flash Astronomy, 1:104 Quick Look: HoTech SCA Laser Collimator, Sun and the Moon, The, by Matthew Goodman, Robertson, Donald F., book review: International 6:44 6:90 Atlas of Lunar Exploration, The, by Philip J. Totality 2008: First Look, 5:24 Titan Unveiled, by Ralph Lorenz and Jacqueline Stooke, 6:89 see also di Cicco, Dennis Mitton, 6:89 Robinson, Leif J., 50 & 25 Years Ago, 2:16, Watson, Thomas T., Game Plan, 4:96 Total Solar Eclipse of 2009 July 22, by Fred 3:16, 5:12, 6:12 Weinberger, Alycia J., Building Planets in Disks of Espenak and Jay Anderson, 5:78 75, 50 & 25 Years Ago, 1:16, 4:14 Chaos, 5:32 Total Solar Eclipses and How To Observe Schaaf, Fred, Apart, Yet Joined, 1:52 Wilkinson, Clint, Space Priorities, 3:12 Them, by Martin Mobberley, 5:77 Close Encounters, 6:62 Wood, Charles A., Big Picture, The, 5:64 Women Astronomers, by Mabel Armstrong, Dazzling Venus and Jupiter Meet, 5:58 Colorful Moon, A,