1972 Oct SKY & TELESCOPE solar flares SOUNDING ROCKETS solar eclipse SATELLITES

Description: Title: Sky and Telescope Date: October, 1972 Pagination: about 64pp (pp 213–276 in this issue) Condition: Good; covers scuffed and a bit dingy from storage; no address label visible; some issues in this collection have had a bit of highlighting (they belonged to an Astronomy teacher), but none apparent here [OCR is approximate, as always] OCTOBER, 1972 COVER: At Springfield, Vermont, on August 4th shortly before 10 p.m. Eastern daylight time, a homogeneous auroral are appeared in the northern sky, where stars of Perseus and Andromeda shine at right of center. The streaks in the foreground were made by red-capped flashlights as telescope makers moved among the instruments set up for observing and testing at the 38th Stellafane The amateurs filed in for a look at the M13 cluster in Hercules with the Porter turret telescope (left of center), its large perforated flat being visible next to the roofs apex. For this seven-minute exposure, R. W. Sinnott used a 24-mm. lens at f/2.8 and High Speed Ektachrome. (See page 237.) AUGUST SOLAR ACTIVITY AND ITS GEOPHYSICAL EFFECTS — Patrick S. Melntosh SOUNDING ROCKETS IN SPACE ASTRONOMY — George R. Carruthers A WIDELY OBSERVED PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE 214 218 222 THE GREAT SOLAR FLARES OF AUGUST, 1972 — David M. Rust AN ASTRONOMY SATELLITE NAMED COPERNICUS 226 231 THE ABUNDANCE OF HELIUM IN THE COSMOS - II — Margherita Hack 233 AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS Stellafane — The Telescope Makers Mecca ASTRONOMICAL SCRAPBOOK John Tebbutt, His Observatory, and a Probable Nova BOOKS AND THE SKY The Life of Benjamin Banneker Astronomy: Fundamentals and Frontiers The Euler-Mayer Correspondence (1751-1755) and Tobias Mayers Opera Inedita CELESTIAL CALENDAR A Request for Algol Observations GLEANINGS FOR ATMs A Wisconsin Amateurs 20-inch Newtonian Reflector An Inexpensive Mounting with Fixed Eyepiece NEWS NOTES OBSERVERS PAGE Notes from Lunar Eclipse Observers Observers Notebook A Great Daylight Fireball Over the Northwest RAMBLING THROUGH OCTOBER SKIES SOUTHERN STARS Take a close look at the auction images for details of contents and condition. If you have any questions at all please send a message through eBay before bidding. NOTE: There may be more images in this listing than eBay shows in the top "gallery". Be sure to scroll down to view the full set, if so. Be sure to check our eBay Store for thousands of other listings like this one. Orders will be sent out within three business days of receipt of payment. If youre in a hurry and would like expedited shipping (Priority or Express shipping), please let us know before paying so we can adjust your invoice. Books are sent Media Rate within the US, and other small items are sent Parcel by default. If you would like combined shipping, please (1) contact us to let us know, and then (2) wait to pay until youre finished shopping (but try to keep it within a 4 day period, please). Just leave the items in your eBay Cart and then request an updated invoice after youre done. If you pay for an item, we are obliged to ship it to you, and cannot combine it with subsequent purchases. If youre waiting for a separate auction item to finish, please contact us to let us know. _gsrx_vers_1680 (GS 9.8.3 (1680))

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