Astronomy September 2018

Featured Stories:

Take Control of a Mars Orbiter
By Alfred Mcewen
Imagine directing the highest resolution camera orbiting the Red Planet. That wish can now be a reality.

Minting a Celestial Memory
By Richard Jakiel
Coins made as far back as 400 B.C. may honor solar eclipses. The tradition continued for two millennia.

Sky This Month
By Martin Ratcliffe and Alister Ling
Neptune at its best.

StarDome and Path of the Planets
Richard Talcott; Illustrated By Roen Kelly

How William Huggins  Shaped Astrophysics
By Barbara J. Becker
In 1968, an English astronomer pioneered a way to measure the motion of stars and other objects.