Sky and Telescope 2000: Vol 99 Index

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Index to Volume 99 |
i titles
No Ordinary Binocular Mount, 6:61 Thomas E., see Olson, Donald W
Notes on Focal Length 1:136 McCarthy, Donald W. Jr High Observatory
Anatomy of an Aurora Kimberl) Burtny Photographing h the Analemma, 3:135 venture at Astronomy Camp, 4:80
Aurora Watcher’s Guide An, Robert H. Ea 3:42 li¢ cco, Dennis, and Gary Seri lik, Go To Telescope McDowell, Jonathan, Mission Update
Beyond the Hubble Sequence, Gregor) Showdown, 2c:5A4 3:27, 4:26, 5:26, 6:28
30 Dobbins, Thomas, see Sheehi McLaughlin, Bill, A Place for Astro Ima 2-134
Catching a Falling Star, Jack D. Drummond Douglass, Eric ]., How to Predict Seeing, 1:128 MacRobert, Alan M Six 8-Inch Dobsonians, 1:60
Chester S. Gardner, and Michael C. Kelley, 6:46 Drummond, Jack D., Chester S. Gardner, and Malin, David F., Images, 3:58
Conjunctions That Changed the World, Bradl Michael C. Kelley, Catching a Falling Star, 6:46 Maran, Stephen P., Selling Astrophysics in a Crystal
E. Schaefer, 5:28 Dunham, David W., Lunar Occultation Highlights Palace, 5:46
Gerbert d Aurillac: Y1K’s Science Guy, Ji ‘ya for 2000, 1:114 Merchetti, Enric« see Ragazzoni, Roberto
2:38 Planetary Occultations for 2000, 2-100 Meciiler, Gary book review, 4 3
ealing Hubble, John M. Grunsfeld, 4:3 Dyer, Alan, SkySensor 2000-PC: a la Carte Go To Medkeff, Jeff, The ASCOM Revolution
High Tides and The Canterbury Screen Shot, 5:69
Olson, Edgar S. Laird, and Thema Robert H., An Aurora Watcher’s Guide, 3:42 Xceptional” Astronomica: Softy 2:65
Leonids’ Rising Stars, The, Daniel Fischer, 6:3: Elmegreen, I Mel ind Bruce Elmegreen Meeus Jean Nhere Eclipses Come Thrice, 4:63
Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Will th Images 04 Midiri Robert A letter, 3:12
Storms Continue? Joe Rao, 6:30 Ferris, William D. letter, 6 Minton, R. B letter, 3:12
Looking Backward: Themes of 20th-Century As Finkbeiner, Ann K., Risky Business, 4:10 M it‘c hell, Jac queline Seavury book review, 1:79
tronomy, Virginia Trimble, 1:50 Fischer, Daniel, The Leonids’ Rising Stars, 6:38 Nielsen, Holger, Astronomy Olympiads in the
Selling Astrophysics in a Crystal Palace Jeff, Screen Shot . 0 Caucasus, 3:36
Maran, 5:46 ] ran, Jay Rey nolds, Deep-Sky Notebook, 1:131 O'Dell, C. Robert, Images, 2:50
Solar Storms: The Silent Menace, Sten( “ French, Su Small-Scope Sampler, 1:101 QZ Odeh, Mohammad Shawkat Amateur Astronomy
0) n Jordan, 1:85
Storm Chasers, J. Kelly Beatty, 6:42 Odenwald, Sten, Solar Storms: The Silent Menac«
1100 MM ost IInn spiringg |I mag, eso ff tthhee ( Centt ury 0)
IX 1TIS« 1:3 Tauri, | O’Leai Robert, 0 to 60: An Excessive-Compulsive
Ten Years and Counting: HST in Orbit Backyard Spec Gets Into Astronomy, 6:10
Smith ) scopy, 5 Olson, Donald W,, ind Thomas E. Lytle, Tidal
Thomas Dick’s “Sublime Science,” R. A er sendler, Robert, Takahashi’s FSQ-106 Fluorite Re Forces on May 5, 2000, 5:109
46 ctor, 4:134 Donald W., Edgar S. Laird, and 7
Astronomers Are: A Stagnant ury singrich, Mark, letter, 3:14 tle, High Tides and The Canterbury Tales, 4:44
Rarity of Tidal Alignments, 4:48
Astronomy Astronom Online O'Meara, Stephen James An Awesome | lipse of
mble, 2:28 1:68, 5 6:6 the Moon, 1:109
Some Odds and Ends, 6:64 New Zealand's StarDate 2000, 5:88
Guillermo, letter, 5:1 Observing in Lewis and Clark Country
», Deep-Sky Notebook Observing the Zodiacal Light, 4:108
Your Weather, an inkenier, David W, \etter, 2:12
Petersen, Carolyn Collins, Wyoming's First Star
Amateurs Find Superfaint Grunsfeld, John M Healing Hubble Summit, 1:39
Comet, 4:84 Haas, Sissy Double Stars off Mizar Pfannenschmidt, Ernie, Homemade Barlow Lenses
Measuring a Barlow Lens, 2:130 Hall, John H., Jr letter, 6:14 +199
Observer's Notebook, 2:120 Hards, Chuck Woodshop Eyepieces Pierson, Jerry, letter
Students Find 73 Novae in M31, 6:80 Heafuer, Joe Screen Shot, 4:66 Ragazzoni, Roberto, Enrico Marchetti, and Gian
see also Joson, Imelda B Heck, André, Where the Astronomers Are: A Stag paolo Valente letter, 5
Argiielles, Luis, Double Stars: The Spirit of 33 nant Century 32 Rao, Joe Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Will the
Avent, Anthon letter, 4j :12 Hennessev, R. A. § Thomas Dick’s “Sublime Sci Leonid Storms Continue? 6:30
Bartels, Mel, Common Polishing Mistakes, 5:138 ence,’ 2:46 Ratledge, David, Screen Shot, 3:75,
Motorizing a Dobsonian, 4:128 Hewitt-White, Ken, Deep-Sxy Ne tebook, 2:116, see also Lee, Steven
Battaglia, Michael, Extreme Astronomy, 3:10 e115 Re nypiang Xte
Beatty, J. Kelly, book review, 1:78 don Ale xande r ] letter, 4:14 Robinson, Leif J., Spectrum, 1:8, 2:8, 3:8, 4:8, 5:8, 6:8
May’s Punchless Solar Wind, 3:56 xckey, Thomas, The Grand Illusion” of 10 Most Inspiring Images of the Century, The
Pro-Am Revolution, The, 6 /6 April-May 2000, 5:10 i:3
Storm Chasers, 6:42 Jakiel, Richard, Deep-Sky Notebook, 3:126 Roth, Joshua, Three Wide-Field Reflectors, 3:63
Surprising Lunar Leonids,” The, 6:36 Joson, Imelda B and Edwin | Aguirre The World video review, 6:70
Benn, David, Scripting: A Programming Alterna and the Universe Meet at Castel Gandolfo Ryan. Jay, Gerbert d’ Aurillac: Y1K’s Science Guy
tive 79 5 ) 2:38
Mel, letter, 6:14 ley, Michael C., see Drummond, Jack D SkyWise, !:122, 2:109, 3:114, 4:114 6:10
;
hn E., book review, 5:76 Klosinski, Mark, letter, 5:14 Salamon Sandra N book review, 5:78
Gregory D., Beyond the Hubble Sequence Krupp, E. C., Rambling Through the Skies, Samworth, Roger, letter, 5:14
2:8 3:94 93, 5:95, 6:86 Sasian, José M., Optimal Polish for Optimal Optics
Burtnyk, Kimberly, Anatomy of an Aurora, 3:3 Kulesa, Craig Spectroscopy at Astronomy Camp 5135
Burton, Bill, letter, 2:12 1:82 Sasser, John, letter, 3:14
Chris topher J., S.J., History of Vatican Lago, Don, First Light, 2:10 Schaaf, Fred, Cross Hairs on Corvus, the Crow, 5:98
Observatory, 5:85 Laird, Edgar S., see Olson, Donald W Hallmarks of the Gemini Hour, 3:98
Cox, Allen, letter, 4:12 Lazuka, Thomas, letter, 6:1¢ Herdsman, Crown, and Serpent, 6:90
Dembowski, Bill, letter, 3:14 Lee Steven, and David Ratledge, letter, 6:12 Light-Pollution Notes: IDA Breakthroughs
di Cicco, Dennis, And the Winner Is..., 4:60 Legault, Thierry, Thoughts on High-Resolution 3-104
Ben Mayer, 1925-99, 4:84 Imaging, /:148 Light-Pollution Triumphs and Heartbreak, /:104
Big Binoculars on a Budget, 6:56 Levy, David H., Star Trails, 1:90, 2:82, 3:91, 4:86, More Light-Pollution Breakthroughs, 4:104
Doghouse Detail, 6 125 90, 6:81 Near Sky, The: Call for Cold Observations, 2:96
Leo J. Scanlon, 1903-1999, 3:92 Ling, Alister, letter, 3:14 Near Sky, The: Keeping a Weather Log, 5:104
Sky & Telescope June 2000
Novae in M31, 6:80 Tidal Forces on May 5, 2000, 5:109
uiverse Meet at Castel Gan Uranus, Neptune in 2000, 4:113
Computers in Astronomy
Wyoming s First Star Summit ASCOM Revolution, The, 5:66
Astro Imaging Astronomy Online, 2:72, 3:76, 4:68
allery 156 140, 3:142, 4:140 XEphem, 2:66
yn Focal Length, 4:136 Lining Yourself Up with Linux, 2:68
*hotographing the Analemma S&T Test Report: “Xceptional” Astronomical
for Astro Imagers, A, 2:134 Software, 2:65
Report: Takahashi's FSQ-106 Fluorite Screen Shot 0, 3:75, 4:66, 5:69; 6:66
wr. 4 + scripting: A Programming Alternative
yughts on High-Resolution In Some Odds and Ends, 6:64
Books & Beyend Where Eclipses Come Thrice
Astronomical Aimanac for th 50 & 25 Years Ago, /:14
cal Almanac Office, 1°82 Focal Point
tlendar 2000, Guy Ottewell, 1:8 Extreme Astronomy
Pocket Diary 2000, The, Norbert
of April-May 2000
earbook 2000
for Dummies, Stephen | » 60: An Excessive
Astronomy, 6:10
raphy for the Amateur Guide to the Evening Sky —
Michael A. Covington Binocular Highlight, 1:100, 2:92
; 9. 6:74 : = 10, 6°92
Keay Davidson 9 Cross Hairosn Corvus, the Crow
Life in the Cosmos, William Hallmarks of the Gemini Hour, 3:98
Herdsman, Crown, and Serpent, 6:90
omets, Vol Licht-Pollution Notes: IDA Breakthroughs
104
1t-Pollution Triumphs and Heartbreak
ind Jean
ution Breakthroughs, 4:104
British Astronomical Associa r Cold Observations
Ja queline Mitton, ed., 1:82
e, David Malin, 4 Near Sky, The: Keeping a Weather Log, 5:104
Ken Croswell, 4:73 Near Sky, Th Problems with Airglow, 6:96
vs from Here to Infini Northern Hen vere Sky, 1:99, 2:91, 3:99
yy
he Moon: A History Orions Mighty Steliar Retinue, /:98
ywraphy and % Nomenclature Pattern-Filling Stars of Winter, The
Whitaker Small-Scope Sampler: A Hero's Quest
Small-Scope Sampler: Bear Up! 4:10
Bishop, ed Small-Scope Sampler: Chasing Tre
Under the Dipper, 5:101
( Small-Scope Sampler: Dazzling Doubles, Glit
he Magnetism and Thrill of tering Globulars, 6:93
Exploration, S. Alan Stern, ed Small-Scope Sampler: Touring Orion's Sword
QZ
McNab and James Small-Scope Sampler: Winter Clusters Galore
101
vrence M. Krauss, 6 Southern Hemisphere Sky, 1:106, 2:98, 3:106,
Cosmos, lavant \ 1-106, 5:106, 6:98
Sun, Moon, and Planets, The
et Handbook, Syuichi Nakano and 103, 4:103, 5:103, 6:95
Mi departments en, eds., 1: Treast ; } il Night, 4:98
2 the Universe: An Introduction Images, 2
nomy, Alex Filippenko, 6:70 Letters, !/:12 |
Amateur Astronomers Celestial Calendar Mission Update, /:2/
Eclipse of the N 1, An New Product Showcase,
eroids for Binoculars, 3:108 News Notes —
109 114,4 Amateurs and the AAS, 5:24
Another Sign of the Milky Way’s Bar, /
Astronomers Declare New Variable-Star Class
16
Baby Cluster in Our Backyard, A, 6:22
Black Hole for Nearly Every Galaxy, A, 5:2
thts for 2000. 1:114 Brown Dwarf or Loose Planet? 3:1
id the Zodiacal Light, 4:110 \ Close-Up of the Dynamic Bubble Nebula, 6
Zodiacal Light, 4:108 Cassini Glimpses 2685 Masursky, 6:24
103 Centaurus A, 2:2
Chandra’s X-ray Visions, 2:2(
Close-Call Meteorite Yields Primordial Water
18
Crash Yields No Lunar Water, /:23
2:109, 3:114, 4:114, 5:116, 6:10
Creating Uranus and Neptune, 4:24
rising Comeback of the June Boétid Meteor Dark Planet of Tau Boétis, The, 1:26
lowe 4°100 Diamond Hail in Uranus and Neptune, 4:24
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Different Wobble for Upsilon Andromedae Double Stars: The Spirit of 33, 2:111
Enjoying and Surviving Your First Messier
Distance for Every Gamma-Ray Burst, A? Marathon, 3:119 Experience the
distancing Dwingeloo 1, 3:23 Exploring the Hubble Sequence by Eye, 5:120
ta Carinae Untangled, 4:16 How to Predict Seeing, 1:128 wonder of the
xtrasolar Planet Seen Transiting Its Star Lunar Notebook, /:134, 2:118, 3:128, 4:125
ar Ultraviolet Unveiled, The, 6:2,6 5;130, 6:118
night sky as only
1aXy Ages Probed Anew 2) Mesmerized by Mercury, 6:109
salaxy Bars Seen Edge On, 1:18 Observer's Notebook, /:136 120, 3:129
Scotty Houston
;amma-Ray Bursts Yield Up Secrets 1116, 5:132, 6:120
;anymede’s Glows, 3:24 Under Mercury’s Shadow, 2:1 >>
sanymede’s Snows, 3:24 You, Your Weather, and Your Skies, 1:125 could
;00dbye Disks, Hello Planetary Systems Rambling Through the Skies, The Big Room, 1:9;
vity Experiment Weighs In for Einstein Clean sweep 9D describe it.
sreen Light for Africa’s Giant Eye, 6:20 From Here to Eternity
Heavy Elements from Neutron Stars, 3 Lost Worlds, 4:93
Holes Dark and Lonely, 5:23 Slithering Toward Solstic«
How Did Globulars Get Here? 3:18 Theft of Light, 3:94
Hubble Back in Action, 4:22 Software Showcase,
Hubble Details Galaxy Duo Spectrum, /:8 8
Hubble Discovers Twin Quasar’s Host Galaxy Telescopes Plus
19 And the Winner Is 1:60
Hubble on Stamps, 5:18 Interoffice E-Chat: Dennis and Gary Choose
los Fountain of Fire, 4:18 2:6)
Is Dark Matter Just Plain Hydrogen S&T Test Report: Backyard Spectroscopy, 5:5
Light Speed Is Colorblind, 1:20 S&T Test Report: Big Binoculars on a Budget
Local Group Gains a Galaxy, 3:18 f y¢
Lunar Surface Change: A False Alarm S&T Test Report: Go To Telescope Showdown
M83 by VLT, 3:20 4
Mapping Galaxies’ Dark Halos, 5:20 S&T Test Report: No Ordinary Binocular
Mapping the Local Interstellar Cloud Mount, 6:61
Markarian 421 and Its Companion } S&T Test Report h Dobsonians
lartian Meteorite Discovered in California S&T Test Report sensor 2000-PC: al a
Martian Solar Eclipse, A ] Carte Go lo
Massive Lightning Storms May Drive Jupiter ] est Report: Three 1W ide-Field Reflectors
Adapted From his cokemmns in Sky & Telescope
Chemistr 25 3° -
Massive Lightning Storms May Drive Jupiter’s Sizing Up the Secondary Mirror uw
Weather, 5:24 Telescope Techniques
Meteorite Perfume Common Polishing Mistakes
Mild Comet Shower Forecast, 6 Doghouse Detail, 6:1 DEEP-SKY
More Martian Floods, 6:24 Homemade Barlow Lenses
More Super-Sharp [mages trom Keck, 4:18 Low-Tech Motor System
Nail in the Coffin” for Bombarding Mini Magic Box” Solar Telesc«
comets, 5:1 Measuring a Barlow Lens WONDERS
Naked-Eye Nova in Aquila, A, 2:18 More Reader Tele-Tips
NEAR Embraces Eros, 5:16 Motorizing a Dobsonian, 4:128
New Asteroid Satellite, 2:18 Optimal Polish for Optimal Optics,
No Panspermia Between Stars, 5:23 Using a Motorized Dob, 4:130 by Walter Scott Houston
Opening Up to Terahertz Astronomy, 6:26 Woodshop Eyepieces, 2:12> 5
Piercing the Crab’s Heart, 1:24
Planet of Tau Bodtis, The: Not So Dark After
All? 3:20 Adapted from Houston's long-running
@ subjects
Planet Orbiting a Binary Star, A? 1:24 column in Sky & Telescope
Remains of a Gobbled Galaxy? 2:25
Seafloor Stardust? 1:21 Amateur activities: Arizona astronomy camp Selected and introduced by expert visual
SOHO'’s Sungrazing Comets: 100 and Counting 1:80; Astronomy Day award for 1999, 5:92; as observer Stephen James O'Meara
18 tronomy events for fund raising, 3:91; Can
Stellar Quadruplets Put Theories to the Test, | 6 dace’s Chain, 2:78; Center for Backyard Astr« 133 black-and-white photographs
Stormy Neptune Revealed, 3:21 physics, 6:81; in China, 6:12; cooperative and «liagrams
Supermassive Black Holes: Immigrants or Na dark-sky site in Oregon, | 2:134; electronic mai!
Each monthly chapter contains a table of
tives? 3:22 ing list for club management, 5:14; “extreme
Supernova and Its Companion, A, 4:1 astronomy, 3:10; finding gamma-ray burst data for all the objects mentioned.
Surveying Galactic Hydrogen Clouds, 5:20 6:120; Internationa! Bright Lunar Rays Project
[aking Stock of a Southern Starburst, 2:24 3:14; in Jordan, 1:85; keeping a weather log 320 pages, 6 by 9 inches, hardcover
[rouble in Hubble's Key Project? 6:18 1:125; 5:104; Messier Marathons, 3:119; 6:12; 4693X ... $29.95 plus shipping
[wo Extrasolar Saturns, 6:21 online double-star club, 2:111; Oregon Star
Very, Very Early Galaxies, 4:23 Party 7; professional! imateur Cooperation,
Virgo Cluster’s Intergalactic Planetaries, The 1:24; 6:76, 81; spectroscopy, 4:82; 5:57; Star
4:25 Date 2000 in New Zealand, 5:88; The Amateur
White Dwarfs Hiding in the Halo? 5:21 Sky Survey (TASS), 6:76; Vatican Observatory ®
White Dwarfs in the Milky Way’s Outer Halo Summer School (VOSS) in Italy, 5:82; Winter & TELESCOPE
> Star Party, 5:89; Wyoming Star Summit, 1:89
Yukon Meteorite Bonanza, 6:22 ) Archaeoastronomy: Great Serpent Mound in
Zooming In on M87’s Jets, 4:20 Ohio, 6:88; Kern Effigies in Ohio, 6:87; “nine To order, call 800-253-0245
Observer’s Log — planets” of Hindu and Chinese, 4:94; “super or order from our secure online
Daylight Sightings, 4:120 nova pictograph,” 4:12 store at www.skypub.com
Deep-Sky Notebook, /:131, 2:116, 3:126, 4:12 > Asteroids (minor planets): brightest when at op
92128, 6:115 position near ecliptic, 6:16; 1 Ceres, 3:109; 568
Sky & Telescope | June 2000
»-100: 433 Eros ind NGC 5195, 5:102 tional Astronomical Union symposium, 4:104
ermania Local Group see also Miiky We) Camelopar International Dark-Sky Association s Outdoor
dalis A 3:18; M31 6:80 Lighting Code Handbook, 3:104; New England
ky Way cold molecular hvdrogen, 6:26; evi Light Pollution Advisory Group, 4:88; Ip anel
); 554 Peraga lence for bar, 1:23; hot gas surrounding, discussion in New England, 4:88; progress of
ermifrnome odccu ltation of 6 6; white dwarfs in halo, 1:22 5:21 legislation, 1:104
6 Proserpina, 4:113 satellite of rmal”: Dwingeloo 1, 3:22 3, 127; Dwingeloo Meteorites: extraterrestrial water in, 1:18; fresh
18 R6 Sieger 100 4 Vesta 3 127; M63, 10 2; M65, 4:122; M66 carbonaceous chondrite, 6:22 : Los Angeles
44 Vibilia 2; M81, 4:100, 101; 5:54; M82, 4:100 9:17; from Mars, 5:17 Monahans, / 18; per
Astronomical constants: ssmological onstant M83, 3:20; M84, 5:120; M86, 5:120 fume, 5:2’ 2; Yukon, 6 >ie )
4 Hubble constant, 4:33; 6:18 5:120; M88, 5:120; M91, 5:121; M99, Meteors: Jun¢ Bodétid shower, 6:100; Xi Boétid
Astronomy and society: astronomy as aV i sual sc } l M100, 5:121; M104, 4:122; M106 shower, 5:132; dust-trail model, 6:38; Geminid
plurality of w yrids AE 100 M108, 4:101; M109, 4:102; Maffei 1 shower, 3:129; 4:87; impactso n Moon, 2:121
omy around globe 3:126 Maffei 3:127; IC 342, 3:126; NG 6:36; Leonid Multi-instrument Aircraft Cam
planetary alig 1:20; 4:124; NGC 1187, 2:117; NG paign, 6:42; Leonid storm predictions, 6:30, 38
tions. 4 | »3) d 2-116 NGC 1297 2:117; NGC 1 300 Lyrid, i 44 :113 1999 Leonid shower, 2:120 4:86
from solar NGC 1421 2:117; NGC 1560, 3:12 6:30, 38, 42 46; observing by radio, 1:85 study
torm 12u NG NGC 1600, 2-116: NG¢ of trails, 6:46
Atlases and catalogs: ‘ 1601 1603, 2:116; NGC 1604 Millimeter and submillimeter astronomy: first
Atmospheric phenomena: 6: NGC 1606, 2:116; NGC 1618, 2:116 ground-based observations at terahertz fre
Auroras: origin ; y gl 16 NGC 1622, 2 116; NGC 1625 116; NGC quency, 6:26
172 116 NGC 1723, 2:116; NGC 1725 Moon: age of craters, 4:125; Apennine Bench
Bioastronomy: p 116: NGC 1728 2 116 NGC 3628, 4:122 3:128; crater Gassendi 2:118; crater Lalande A,
NGC 4214, 5:121 NG( $395 121; NGC : 130; International Bright I unar Rays Project,
Black holes: see Collapsed objects $449, 5:121; NGC 4461 5:120; NGC 4477 3:14; Lamont complex, /:134; Leonid meteor
Collapsed objects: bai s black holes 5-120 NG( 4486B, 5:12! NGC 4562 impacts observed, 2:121 6:36; lunar transien
Cra vebula pulsa +; heavy elements NG( 4565, 4:122 NGC 7457, 2:78 phenomena false alarm, 3 22; Mare Marginis
planets around 6138 6:115; NG( 6141, 6:115; NG¢ 6:118; no evidence for water from Lunar
ck holes ) 6146 6:115; NGC 614 Prospector crash, 1:23; predicting visibility of
ky Way halo 15; NGC 6:116 NGC 6150B young crescent | :86; young craters 4:125
6:116; NGC 61 60 6:116; NGC 6166, 6 1 Nebulae:
f faint, 4:84; H NGC 6173, 6:116 NGC 6174, 6:1 16; NG( Bright: IC 1396, 3:14; I¢ 2118 Witch Head
vavasni P/1997 Bl 61 ¢ 116 NG( 6184 6:117; UGC 9749 2:117; M42 Orion), / 100 2:50,9 3; M43
999 DN 4:84 Mach l rsa Minor dwarf), 2:79 UG( A 86, 3:12 94 Sharpless 2 240 Simets 147), 1:131
Pons-Win Gamma-ray astronomy: gamma-ray bursts, 3:16 NGC 1435 Me rope 1:133; NGC 1499
ries fron SOHO 6 Uv California), 1:102 NGC 1973/75/77, 3 58
Gravitation: combined tidal forces of all planets NGC 2024 (Flame), / 131; NGC 7635
Computing: Astr mon Object Model 09; lensing revealing bare, stellar-mass biack Bubble), 6:20 Rw osetie+e , (11-15229
ASCO vi 66; astron vfitware for Linux holes 23 nicrolensing event reveals possible Barnard 33 (Horsehead), /:131; Cone
65; Et MAScript ' iding locations of planet orbiting binary star, 1:24; Twin Quasar
t timeframe, 4:63; in ¢ intergalactic, 4:25; M97, 4:101 NG6
rl@home project History: astrology and Nazi Germany, 5:33; cen 1535 2:116; NGC 2392, 4:22; NGC 2438
tennial edition of Astrophys ical J murnal, 6:8 3:101; NGC 7009, 4:8
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, 4:44; Chinese Neutron stars: see Collapsed objects
Mandate of Heaven, 5:30; Egyptian monu Novae: Aquilae 1999 No. 2, 2:18; in M31
Conjunctions: histori y 2 nts and Ramesses II, 2:87; electromagnetic Observatories:
tary groupil } ) sky, 2:8; first millennium teachings of Gerbert {mateur and public: Dennis di Cicco’s “dog
Constellation study: Co é illac 38; Genghis Khan, 5:31 impor
house 6 ! »5
Cosmology: anci« tronomical findings in 20th century nal: tours of on Internet, 6:67; Vatican
rse 94 piring astronomical images, 1:3
Dark matter: zuma and zodiacal light, 4 108; observa Observing techniques: geostationary satellites
lroget hite dwarts y tions of Mercury 6:109; planetary conjunc 12; 6:16; predicting seeing 128; understand
vay tions 8; predictions of end-of-the-world ing weather effects 125; zodiacal light, 4:108
Detectors floods Victorian amateur astronomers Occultations June 10 2000, of Venus by the Sun,
Eclipses Hubble Space Telescope: commemorative U.S 6:10
ostage stamps, 5:18; determining Hubble Online databases and communications (see also
4:33; interacting galaxies IC 2163 Computing astronomical quizzes, 3:76; cor
Key | *roject on the Dis ite Web sites finding geographic co
NG 635 Bubble Nebula ordinates, 5 history-related Web sites, 4:68
1:32; significant discoveries Internet Relay Chat IRC 6:65; virtual obser
8; supermassive black holes, 4:31 rv tours, 6:67
Uth anniversary 4:28 third servicing Optics: adaptive, 4 18; amplification factor of
mission (3A), 4:36 Twin Quasar, 6:19 Barlov lens, 2:130; camera teleconverter lens
Imaging: es, 2:129; 5:14; changing focal lengths of
Astrophotography: capturing the analemma Cassegrain telescopes 4:136 effective focal
cooperative dark-sky site in Oregon length, 2:126; 4:136 polishing mirrors, 5:135
4; aurora photography guide, 3:46 People: Antoniadi, E., 6:112; Asher, D., 6:38
upled devices (CCDs): amateur view Bethe, H., 1:54; Cannon, A., 1:54; d’Aurillac
Or jupiter 136; high-resolution, 1:148 G. (Sylvester II 38; da Vinci, L., 3:14; Den
Infrared astronomy: Orion Nebula, - 50; Strato ning, W., 6:109 Dethloff, C., 2:80; Dick, T
$I her ¢ Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ?:46; Fath, E., | 95; Federer, ¢ 1:8 Fleenor,
SOFIA), 2:26 very early galaxies 4:23 } G., 5°90 Foster, ¢ , 6:64; Gerasimovich, B.,
Interferometry: inner jets of M87, 4:20 1:56; Genghis Khan 5:31; Helmholtz, H., 1:54
Intergalactic matter: planetary nebulae, 4:2 Hess, R., 5:33 Hubble, E., 1:53; McNaught, R
Interplanetary matter: zodiacal light, 4:108 6:38; Mayer, B 4:84; Mayer, J., 1:54; Mees, ¢
Interstellar matter: cold hydrogen clouds, 5:20 1:55 Merrill, P., 1:55; Payne, C., 1:54 Peltier,
6:26; Local Interstellar Cloud, 4:1 L., 2:82; Pratt, C., 2:78; Scanlon, I 3:92; Schi
Light pollution: brightness maps, 2:12; Interna aparelli, \ , 6:109; Schumacher, H., 1:56; Shap
June 2000 Sky & Telescope
ley, H., 1:52; Stebbins, J., 1:55; Thomson, W and 884 (Double Cluster), 1:102; NG(
Lord Kelvin), 1:54; von Weizsacker, C., | 1545, 1:102; NGC 1977, 2:94; NGC 198
Waterson, J., 1:54 2:94; NGC 2237/38/44, 1:132; NGC 2264
Physics: equivalence principle, 2:23; wavelength Christmas Tree 1:131; NGC 2423, 3:101;
independence of the speed of light, 1:20 NGC 3603, 2:24; NGC 7789, 1:132
Planetariums: Hayden (New York), 5:46; Freder Stars: brown dwarf $ Ori 4 closest approach
ick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for to solar system, 6:22; formation, 2:35; 4:30
Earth and Space, 5:46 spectral class L, 3:1
Planets and their satellites: Double and multiple: lota Boétis AB, 5:112;
Earth (see also Moon): finding geographic c Kappa Bodotis, 5:112; Alpha Canum Venati
ordinates, 5:72 corum (Cor Caroli), 5:101; 16 and 17 Dra
trasolar: Upsilon Andromedae, 1:22; Tau conis, 5:112; 17 Draconis AB, 5:112; 20
Bobtis, 1:26; 3:20; 79 Ceti, 6:21; dating for Draconis AB, 5:112; Eta Draconis AB
iation of circumstellar disks, 2:22; evolu 112; Dubhe, 4:101; h2268, 2:112; Mizar
tion of, 2:34; first found orbiting pulsar 36 112; 23 Orionis, 2:112; 31 Orionis
6:14; HD 46375, 6:21; HD 209458, 2:16 112; 42 Orionis, 2:112; 52 Orionis, 2:112
massive than Saturn? 6:21; orbiting bin 99 Orionis, 2:112; 75 Orionis, 2:112; Beta
24; seen transiting star, 2:16 Orionis (Rigel), 2:1 Delta Orionis, 2:112
Jupiter: amateur CCD images, 1:136; aurora¢ Zeta Orionis, 2:112; Eta Orionis, 2
on Ganymede, 3:24; changes in South Theta’ Orionis (Trapezium
Equatorial Belt, 3:129; depths and temper Theta’ Orionis, 2:112; lota Orionis
tures of belts and zones, 3:12; lightning 112; Lambda Orionis Rho Orionis,
24, 25; observations in daylight, 1:13 Sigma Orionis 12; Tau Orionis
4:120; snowy surface on Ganymede, 3 ; Psi Orionis Otto Struve 111,
volcanic eruption seen on Io, 4:18 Otto Struve 123 AB, 5:112; Otto
Mars: evidence for large floods on, 6:24 138 AB, 5:112; Sh 49, 2:112; Struve
of Phobos by Mars Global Surveyor 5, 5:112; Struve 589, 2:112; Struve 609,
shadow of Phobos, 2:1 112; Struve 701 112; Struve 712, 2:112;
ury: best ground-based image, 6:11 Struve 745, Stru 4 2:94, 112
tory of observations, 6:109; November Struve 7 112 757, 2:112; Struve
15-16, 1999, transit, 2:122 61, 2:112 c y 2; Struve 853
ptune: diamonds in, 4:24; formation, 4 ; Struve 85 112; Struve 880, 2:112
storms on, 3:21 Struve 1120, 3 ; Struve 112i, 3:101
ranus: diamonds in, 4:24; formation, 4:24 Struve 1695 112; Struve 177
Venus: on Native American pictograph, 4:! Struve 1829 2; Struve 18 ;
Pulsars: see Collapsed objects Struve 1878 2; Struve 1882 AB, 5:112;
Quasars: 4:32; relationship to active galactic nu Struve 19. ; Struve 1984 AB, 5:112
clei, 2:28; 3C 273, 4:82; Twin Quasar Struve 2006 AB, 5:112; Struve 2054 Aa-B.
Relativity: equivalence principle, 2:23 97112; 78 Ursae Majoris, 5:112
Sky lore: crows and ravens, 3:94; snakes and Individual: Gliese 710, 6 Tore HOME
seasons, 6:86; structure of the universe, 1:94 Variable: Aigoi, 1:101; 9 Aurigae, 1:16;Y
Spacecraft (see also Hubble Space Telescope): Ac Canum Venaticorum, 5:101; Eta Carinae
tive Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor 4:16; Cepheids and extragalactic distances
ARCIM), 4:26; Astro E, 1:28; 5:26; Cassini 6:18; Gamma Doradus, /:16; new class, 1:16
30; 6:24; Chandra X-ray Observatory, 1:24 Sun: coronal mass ejections and auroras, 3:35;
28; 2:20; Cluster, 1:30; Compton Gamma-Ray Maunder Minimum, 2:12; 5:12; potential for
Observatory, 5:26; Cosmic Hot Interstellar damage from solar storms, 3:50; slow solar
Plasma Spectrometer Satellite, 4:2,6 ; D' eep wind of May 1999, 3:56
Space 2, 2:26; Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Supernovae: evidence in seafloor sediment, /:21
Explorer (FUSE), 6:26; Full-sky Astrometric and gamma-ray bursts, 3:16; modeling Type
Mapping Explorer (FAME), 3:27; Galileo, 4:18 la, 4:1
28; Gravity Probe B, 1:28; 4:26; High Energy Telescope making: adjusting a Dobsonian’s mo
Solar Spectroscopic Imager, 1:28; High Energy tions, 1:68; car roof-rack as telescope mount,
[ransient Experiment 2, 1:28; 5:26; Highly Ad 3:133; computer-controlled, motorized binoc
vanced Laboratory for Communications and ular chair, 6:65; correct size of Newtonian’s
Astronomy (HALCA), 6:28; Hipparcos, 1:23 secondary mirror, 1:67; counterweight as bat
Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global tery holder, 3:133; dual-tier Dobsonian, 3:132
Exploration (IMAGI 30; Koronas F, 6:28 homemade Barlow lens from photographic
2L:1u7,n ar 33P;r o6s:2p4e;c toMra,r s 1:2P3o;l arM arLsa nderGl,o ba2 :26;s urMvie yor, t>e l1e25c;o nvlearrtgeer pillelnso,w c2a:s1e2 j forh odmuestm acdoeve r, eye3p:i1e3c3;e s, \ o pess cription
crowave Anisotropy Probe (MAP), 1:28; Near motorized Dobsonian, 4:128, 130, 132; Newt
Ea2r6t; h 5:A1s6;t eroNido zoRmeind,e zv6:2o8;u so bse(rNEvAiRn)g, ge1o:s3t0a tion snaolf twvairber,a ti6o:n6s5,; r3u:b1b32e;r terriapsoedr -letog dsahemlpveesn, d3i:a13g3o —9_ apes eyou™r enew 89
ary satellites, 1:12; 6:16; Odin, 1:30; Solar and Telescopes:
Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), 5:18; Star Amateur: Mel Bartels’s 20-inch motorized Dob
dust, 5:26; Swift, 3:27; Thermosphere-lonos sonian, 4:128; Chuck Shaw’s 14.5-inch mo
phere-Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics torized Dobsonian, 4:128; Pal Virag’s “magic
TIMED), 1:30; X-ray Multi-mirror Mission box” sunscope, 1:141; Gary Wolanski’s 16
XMM), 1:28, 3:27 inch lightweight motorized Dobsonian, 4:128
Space policy: Chinese space program, 3:27 Professional: Heinrich Hertz (10-meter), 6:26;
Star clusters: Hobby-Eberly (9.2-meter), 6:20; Keck (10
Associations: closest to Sun, 6:22; TW Hydrae, meter), 4:18; Mount Lemmon (60-inch)
6:22; Alpha Persei, 1:101 4{ :81; Southern African Large 9.2> -meter
Globular: M3, 5:101; Omega Centauri as possible 6:20; Very Large (8.2-meter), 2:24, 3:20
galaxy nucleus, 2:25; origin of, 3:18 Ultraviolet astronomy: cold molecular hydrogen,
Open: ¢ ollinder 249 (Caldwell 100), 6:12; 6:26; hot gas surrounding Milky Way, 6:26
M34, 1:101; M41, 2:92; M46, 3:101; M47, X-ray astronomy: Centaurus A, 2:21; Crab Nebula
3:101; M48, 3:101; M50, 3:101; NGC 869 pulsar, 1:24; N132D, 2:20; 3C 295, 2:20
Sky & Telescope June 2000