July 2018
This month’s features:
– Superflares: Earth Under Threat? – Marcus Chown on the risk of coronal mass ejections to our planet
– Journey to the Centre of the Solar System – how the Parker Solar Probe will study the Sun up close
– The American Rocket Dream – why NASA is looking to commercial companies to fly astronauts into space
– 60 years of NASA – Libby Jackson looks back on six decades of the US space agency
– Chasing the South American Eclipse – the path of totality for this year’s solar eclipse passes through Chile and Argentina
Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Equipment reviews
Explore Scientific Ultra Light 16-inch Dobsonian Generation II
Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED DS-Pro refractor
Altair Hypercam 183M V2 mono astronomy
Online Bonus Content
We speak to two scientists recreating the conditions around stars in the New Mexico dessert
Watch an episode of The Sky at Night in which the team look at the latest results from the Gaia mission to map the Milky Way
Pete Lawrence and Paul Abel guide us through July’s night skies in the Virtual Planetarium.
Also this month
Top tpips for observing the Sun
How to 1.25-inch filter wheel
Image processing – Integration using Astro Pixel Processor
Monthly Bulletin pages bring you up to date with all the latest astronomical news, as well as Cutting Edge revealing the highlights from brand new research
Our July Sky Guide featuring the 27 July lunar eclipse, aphelion day and Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner
Our Scope Doctor answers your technical kit questions
Interactive: your letters, tweets, forum posts and readers’ scopes
Gear – a round up of the latest astronomical accessories
What’s On listings – find out what astronomy events are on near you
Hotshots – this month’s pick of your very best astrophotos
Beautiful new images from space in Eye on the Sky
The latest astronomy books reviewed
