Here’s what you’ll find in the April 2018 issue of Australian Sky & Telescope magazine — on sale now!

FEATURES:

• The Planet Hunter — NASA’s new TESS mission will scan 200,000 star systems
• Dynamo Earth — Is our planet’s magnetism on the wane?
• Sky scopes — Doing astronomy by balloon
• The Zodiac — Where did all those constellations come from?
• Telescope care — How to keep Schmidt-Cassegrain optics aligned
• My dad and the telescope — A father’s love found new expression in celestial vistas.

OBSERVING & EXPLORING:

• Binocular highlight — Under Theta Carinae’s hot, blue radiance
• Under the stars — Sirius isn’t Canis Major’s only ‘star’
• Planets — A good time to observe Mercury
• Meteors — The ever-reliable Eta Aquariids
• Double stars — Wander west through Centaurus’ stars
• Variable stars — V Pyxidis and its perplexing changes
• Comets — C/2016 R2 puts on a remarkable display
• Deep sky — Swim with Crab (Cancer) and Sea Monster (Hydra)
• Exploring the Moon — Revealing the lunar surface’s watery secrets
• Exploring the Solar System — A crazy theory about Venus

REGULAR FEATURES:

• Test report — We put the QHY16200A Monochrome CCD camera through its paces
• Astronomer’s workbench — Make a binocular mount that works!
• Focal point — Where has my astro hobby gone?

…and much more.

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