Title: Sky & Telescope
Bound Vol. 61 & 62, Jan.-Dec. 1981

Classification: Magazine Science Astronomy

Publication Information: Published monthly by Sky Publishing Corporation, Cambridge, Mass.

Additional Information: Each volume has pages numbered consecutively. One volume has 563+ pages and the other volume has 630 pages. Illustrated both in color and black & white.

Summary: Contents include:
• Rendezvous With A ringed Giant
• 50 Celestial Splendors to View
• Graphic Ephemeris 1981 – The Night Sky At A Glance
• Adventures In Fine-Grain Astrophotography
• Star Colors: An Astronomical Myth?
• Galactic Cannibalism
• In Pursuit Of Halley’s Comet
• Measuring Background Starlight
• In Quest Of Telescopes
• Getting To The 1860 Solar Eclipse
• Comets And How To Hunt Them
• The Discovery Of Uranus
• The Herschel House In Bath
• William Herschel And His Music
• Chaco Canyon Lures Astronomical Historians
• Are Quasars Luminous Nuclei Of Galaxies?
• Charting The Moons Of Saturn
• How To Observe Comets
• Early Phases Of Star Formation
• The Shadows Know
• Telescopes For The Record
• Protecting Radio Windows For Astronomy
• The Origin Of The Julian Day System
• What Shape Are Elliptical Galaxies?
• New Stars For Hiroshima
• Harold Clayton Urey: Chemist of The Cosmos
• The Mystery Of Urania’s Mirror
• A Mobile Telescope For Measuring Continental Drift
• Render Not Unto Tycho That Which Is Not Brahe’s
• Wings For A New Era
• “Columbia,” Flight Controllers, And The Future
• Radio Waves From M31 And M33
• Looking For Halley’s Comet
• Sky Atlas 2000.0
• Improved Techniques For Astrophotography
• Voyager 1 Pictorial Update
• New Italian Infrared Telescope
• The Skidi Pawnee Chart Of The Heavens
• A Loopy Asteroid: 1981 Midas
• SS433 – Enigma Of The Century
• How A Cometary Nucleus Turns On
• Extreme Perigees And Apogees Of The Moon
• Star Cluster Membership: Separating Sheep From Goats
• NGC6872: The Largest Known Barred Spiral
• Safe Solar Filters
• Big Bear’s Festival Of Wooden Telescopes
• The Great Moon Hoax – I & II
• The Canary Islands – An Astronomer’s Experiment
• Extraterrestrial Beings Don’t Exist
• Nature’s Own Particle Accelerator
• The Deep Sky In Color
• On The Trail Of The “Jupiter Effect”
• Unveiling Interstellar Clouds
• Are We Beginning To Understand T Tauri Stars?
• Darkness At Midday
• Reflections: Solar Eclipse ‘81
• Robots For The Longest Voyage
• Saturn: “An Even Better Look”
• The Chronology Of Archbishop James Ussher
• Surveying Velocioty Fields In Galaxies
• Crisis At Kitt Peak
• The Orion Nebulae In Color
• The Search For Antarctic Meteorites
• New Light On The Moon Hoax
• Voyager At Saturn, Act II
• The Milky Way At A Glance
• Etch A Meteorite
• Starscapes Near The Speed Of Light
• Paul Herget: Tracker Of The Skies
• Showcase For Scotland’s Royal Observatory
• Image Processing With Cosmos
• Magnetic Loops In The Sun’s Atmosphere
• Sun, Moon, Eclipse: All At Once
• The Largest Schmidt’s First 20 Years
• Monthly Articles include but may not be in every issue: Amateur Astronomers; Astronomical Scrapbook; Books and The Sky; Celestial Calendar; Comet Digest; Gleanings For ATM’s; Letters; News Notes; Observer’s Page; Rambling Through (Month) Skies; Sun, Moon, And Planets This Month; 50 And 25 Years Ago.

Condition: Hardcover, covers show slight wear, Ex-Lib – some marks but no pockets, text is sound and clean other then library stamps, pages edges are also stamped on the bottom and side, overall very good except one page has had an ad neatly clipped but when it was clipped it took the last part page of the article Gleanings For ATM’s in the Jan. issue.

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