May/June 1995 through July/August 2009

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July/August 2009

• Become a Better Observer: Sketch!
• A Galileo Moment: Unfathomable Stars
• The Marvellous Summer Milky Way
• Two New 100-Degree Eyepieces
• Globular Hunting in Hercules
• Milky Way Rapture
• Search for Other Earths Begins
• Charles Messier’s Catalogue, Part 2

May/June 2009

• A Galileo Moment: Imperfect Sun
• Common Proper-Motion Stars of Spring
• A Compact 70mm Apochromatic Refractor
• Last Call for Saturn
• Faint Spirals by the Dipper
• Hooked on Astronomy: ‘Saturn did it!’
• How Many Alien Civilizations Are Really Out There?
• A Tribute to Charles Messier, Part 1

March/April 2009

• Galileo Moments
• Saskatchewan Meteorites
• Is There Life After Galaxy Collisions?
• Canadian Planetary Conjunctions
• Saturn’s Rings On Edge
• Price Breakthrough Cameras
• All-Sky Star Chart for Canada, Northern U.S.A.

January/February 2009

• 10 Best Celestial Events of 2009
• Review: Sky-Watcher Collapsible Dobsonian
• Saturn’s Rings Edge-On
• Readers’ Gallery
• Winter Constellation Chart
• All-Sky Star Chart for Canada, Northern U.S.A

November/December 2008

• Total Eclipse Of The Sun
• 2009: International Year Of Astronomy
• Exploring The Night Sky
• Readers’ Gallery
• Late Fall/Early Winter Constellation Chart
• All-Sky Star Chart for Canada, Northern U.S.A.

September/October 2008

• Photo Of The Week Contest Winners
• Refining the Shape of Our Galaxy
• Exploring the Night Sky
• Product Review: Sky-Watcher Refractor and AstroTrac Platform
• Fall Constellation Chart
• All-Sky Star Chart for Canada, Northern U.S.A.

July/August 2008

• Exploring the Summer Milky Way
• Review: 4.7-inch Apo Refractor
• Scoping the Dragon
• Finding Neptune
• Summer Constellation Chart
• All-Sky Star Chart for Canada, Northern U.S.A.

May/June 2008

• Stargazing with Binoculars
• Review: The Ultimate Beginner’s Scope
• Mosquito vs. Stargazer: Getting the Upper Hand
• 2008 Summer Star Party Calendar
• Mystery Solstice Clouds
• New Close-Up of Martian Moon
• All-Sky Star Chart for Canada, Northern U.S.A.

March/April 2008

• Magnificient Mercury: The Unseen Side
• Prime Time For Saturn’s Rings
• Review: Are You Ready For The Cube?
• How Will The Universe End?
• Scoping Below Sirius
• Review: FotoSharp Focusing Aid
• All-Sky Star Chart for Canada, Northern U.S.A.

January/February 2008

• 12 Best Celestial Events in 2008
• Product Review: William Optics Megrez 110mm apo refractor
• Special Report: Comet Holmes
• See February’s Lunar Eclipse
• Planetary Portraits: New Views of Three Worlds
• All-Sky Star Chart for Canada, Northern U.S.A.

November/December 2007

• Probing Dwarf Planets
• August 2007 Total Lunar Eclipse Images
• Product Review: Tele Vue Ethos
• Product Review: 5-inch Newtonian
• Mars Approaches Earth
• Astronomial Gift Ideas
• All-Sky Star Chart for Canada, Northern U.S.A.

September/October 2007

• Photo of the Week Contest Winners
• Jupiter Cloud-Belt Mystery
• Guide to the First Quarter Moon
• Exploring the Night Sky
• 2007’s Best Pleiades Cover-Up
• Space Junk Threat
• All-Sky Star Chart for Canada, Northern U.S.A.

July/August 2007

• Over the Moon: Conjunctions and a total lunar eclipse
• REVIEW: SkyShed Pod Observatory
• Seeing Dark Nebulas
• Bleak Future for our Universe
• Overhyping a ‘Habitable Planet’
• Scoping the sky: Little Lyra Above the Lights
• On the Moon: Perusing Petavius
• One billion light-years to a quasar
• The Tears of St. Lawrence
• Summer sky chart for Canada and the Northern U.S.A.

May/June 2007

• Welcome to the Universe: Exploring the cosmos from your backyard
• Canada-wide listing of star parties
• REVIEW: Three of the latest DSLR cameras go head-to-head
• Spectacular Saturn: Images from the Cassini Spacecraft
• Find four planets in the evening sky
• Scoping the sky: Serpens Caput
• Huge lake found on Titan
• Late spring star chart for Canada and Northern U.S.A.
• Gemini Observatory’s new laser vision
• On the Moon: Tycho and its rays

March/April 2007

• January’s Surprise Twilight Comet
• Comet McNaught Photo Gallery
• Review: Celestron’s Computerized Backyard Telescopes
• March’s Total Eclipse of the Moon
• Canadian Robots in Space
• Scoping for Gemini’s Deep-Sky Gems
• Saturn for Astronomy Day
• Early-spring star chart for Canada and Northern U.S.A.
• Star-Forming Region NGC602
• Of Saturn, a Comet and Surgery

January/February 2007

• Your Guide to Celestial Events for 2007
• New Horizons: A 10-year mission to Pluto
• Review: Celestron’s new SkyScout personal planetarium
• Catching Comet Swan
• Gould’s Belt
• Scoping Orion
• Daytime deep-sky images
• Winter star chart for Canada
• The OB Associations of Winter
• Saturn shines at its best

November/December 2006

• The Edge of the Universe: Probing galaxies at 13 billion light-years
• Steve MacLean’s excellent space station adventure
• The “face” on Mars: New Mars Express Spacecraft images
• Why Pluto Got the boot
• Your guide to the Transit of Mercury
• Astrophotography while sleeping!
• Testing new William Optics APO refractors
• Late-Autumn star chart for Canada
• Deep-sky Readers’ Gallery
• Scoping the sky for Cassiopeia

September/October 2006

• Methane lakes on Saturn moon?
• M81 & M82 — Backyard Astronomy’s Oddest Couple
• Found: thousands of intergalactic vagabond clusters
• Small-telescope Moon map
• Guide to outer planets
• Autumn stargazing Sky Chart and data
• 2005 SkyNews Photo of the Week Contest Winners
• Scoping the Sky: small-scope star fields in Delphinus:
• David Levy explains why Canada’s better in summer
• Ken Hewitt-White waxes poetic

July/August 2006

• Jupiter’s intriguing new red spot
• New Meade truss-tube Dobsonian scope review
• Split comet visible
• Starfest at 25: The evolution of a Star Party
• Eclipse gallery
• Summer stargazing Sky Chart and data
• Jupiter now has two red spots
• Scoping the Sky: Starry steam above the Teapot
• Hubble Space Telescope measures ’10th Planet’
• A cometary voyage

May/June 2006

• Wall-Sized Poster Insert: M101, Earthshine
• New Sky-Watcher scopes and mounts review
• Split comet visible
• Summer Star Parties calendar
• Canadian Astronomy Clubs List
• Late spring Sky Chart
• How bright is the night sky?
• Scoping the Sky: Tandem targets in Ursa Major
• Peering back to the universe’s first instant
• Singin’ the blues in B.C.

March/April 2006

• Wall-Sized Poster Insert: Orion, Crab Nebulas
• Jack Newton’s Nirvana
• Cluster contrasts in Cancer
• Readers’ Gallery
• Smallest extra-solar planet detected
• Early spring Sky Chart

January/February 2006

• Hubble’s Star-Birth Nebula, The Beauty of the Universe—New Images
• Martian Close Encounter
• Readers’ Mars Gallery
• Tele Vue’s Dioptrx: A First Look
• Winter Sky Chart For Canada

November/December 2005

• What’s the Definition of a Planet? The 10th Planet Question
• Guide to Watching Mars
• Readers Capture Cosmic Alignments
• Tips for Buying a First Telescope
• Comet Impact Results
• Stockign Stuffers Gift Ideas
• Scoping the Skies in Perseus
• Amateur Astronomer’s Superb Planet Pics
• Late Autumn Sky Chart

September/October 2005

• Making Contact: Deep Impact Scores a Direct Hit
• Photo Contest Winners
• September’s Harvest Moon
• 2005 Close Encounter with Mars
• Manitoba Meteorites
• Scoping the Skies in Cygnus
• Quest for Exoplanets
• Includes Double Poster: Moon and Planets

July/August 2005

• 5-inch Maksutov-Cassegrain Review
• Meade 5000 Series Eyepiece Review
• Filter Review
• Double Poster

May/June 2005

• 10th Anniversary Issue
• The Next Supernova
• Includes Double Poster

March/April 2005

• Digital SLR Cameras
• Testing ‘Earth Centred Universe’
• Titan Landing
• Manitoba Meteorites

January/February 2005

• November Aurora
• Cold Comfort Attire
• Best Uranus Photos

November/December 2004

• 2005 Events Preview
• Geminid Shower
• Jupiter Occultation

September/October 2004

• Venus Transit Photos
• Total Lunar Eclipse
• Double Poster

July/August 2004

• Transit of Venus
• Cassini at Saturn
• Software Showdown

May/June 2004

• New World Found Beyond Pluto
• Comets in May

March/April 2004

• Close Encounter with a Comet
• Planetary Webcam Review

January/February 2004

• Saturn at its finest
• Clear Sky Clock
• Double Poster

November/December 2003

• November Lunar Eclipse
• Best Mars Pic
• New Saturn Image

September/October 2003

• Mars Landings
• Celestron CGE 1100
• Pentax XW Eyepiece Review

July/August 2003

• Mars Nearest Earth
• Neptune and Uranus
• SkyNews 50th issue

May/June 2003

• Star Parties
• Photo Contest Winners
• Astronomy Clubs Listing

March/April 2003

• Binoculars for Stargazing
• New Moons for Neptune

January/February 2003

• Best Solar Images
• 10-inch Dob Review
• Double Poster

November/December 2002

• The Best Telescopes
• Leonid Meteors
• September 7 Aurora Pics

September/October 2002

• Shooting Great Astrophotos
• Saskatchewan Meteorites Bonanza

July/August 2002

• Planetary Lineup Gallery
• Meteor Magic
• More Ikeya-Zhang Pics

May/June 2002

• Star Parties
• Comet Ikeya-Zhang Pics
• Astronomy Clubs Listing

March/April 2002

• Five Planet Line-up
• Chandra Galactic Core
• Meteor Photos

January/February 2002

• North America’s Light Pollution
• Star Clusters for Binoculars

November/December 2001

• Canadian Comet
• Leonids Storm
• Nexstar 11 Review

September/October 2001

• African Eclipse
• Occulation Gallery
• Mars Dust Storm

July/August 2001

• Sagittarius/Scorpius
• 8-inch Dobsonian Review

May/June 2001

• Virgo Galaxy Cluster
• Extra-solar Planets
• Summer Star Parties

March/April 2001

• Chris Hadfield
• Giant Planet
• Xmas Eclipse

January/February 2001

• Winter Sky Guide
• Cassini’s Jupiter
• Readers’ Gallery

November/December 2000

• Christmas Eclipse
• Astronomer’s Look For Increased Funds

September/October 2000

• Best Astrofilms
• Digital Cameras
• Software Showdown

July/August 2000

• Summer Triangle Finderchart
• Edge-On Galaxy

May/June 2000

• Astronomy Clubs
• Editor’s Bookshelf
• Lunar Eclipse Gallery

March/April 2000

• Meteorites in Canada
• Testing Two “Smart” Scopes

January/February 2000

• Beginner Telescope Reviews
• Great Hubble Shots

November/December 1999

• Solar Eclipse Photos
• Dobsonian Telescope Review

September/October 1999

• Hubble Deep Field
• Gemini Observatory

July/August 1999

• Taking Your First Astrophotos
• Colliding Galaxies

May/June 1999

• Conjunction Photos
• Noctilucent Clouds

March/April 1999

• The Nearest Star Clusters
• Moon Photography

January/February 1999

• Winter Sky Treasures
• Meade ETX Review

November/December 1998

• Planets of Other Suns
• Leonid Meteors

September/October 1998

• Arctic Sky Lore
• Jupiter’s Red Spot

July/August 1998

• Hubble Satellite Photos
• Gamma-Ray Bursts

May/June 1998

• Photo Contest
• Caribbean Total Solar Eclipse

March/April 1998

• Deep-Sky Wonders
• Equatorial Mounts Primer

January/February 1998

• Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
• Northern Lights

November/December 1997

• Asteroid Danger to Earth?
• Pathfinder At Mars

September/October 1997

• Cassini To Saturn
• Cosmic Influences

July/August 1997

• Special Comet Hale-Bopp Issue

May/June 1997

• Hubble Telescope
• Photographing Star Trails

March/April 1997

• Comet Hale-Bopp
• Comet Photography

January/February 1997

• Sold Out

November/December 1996

• Hubble Deep Field
• Fossil Life From Mars

September/October 1996

• Jack Newton’s Universe
• Choosing a First Telescope

July/August 1996

• This issue is sold out

May/June 1996

• Binoculars for Stargazing
• Blue Moon Mythology

March/April 1996

• Moonlight Photography
• Build Your Own Telescope

January/February 1996

• This issue is sold out

November/December 1995

• Canada’s Planetariums
• Beginners’ Telescope Test

September/October 1995

• Kuiper Belt Comets
• Naked-Eye Observing

July/August,1995

• Sold Out

May/June 1995

• Premier Issue
• David Levy’s Comet Quest