BBC Sky at Night Magazine September 2010 issue

 - The new season starts here…Will Gater provides the indispensable guide to sights to observe during the new season of astronomy.

- How to predict clear skies – Steve Richards covers how you can make more accurate weather forecasts for observing

- Patrick Moore discusses the great astronomers who have been remembered for putting a foot wrong

- Beginners’ guide to…Jupiter’s moons

- 10 essential observing and imaging software programs, plans to help you make a Crayford focuser, observing forms and Jupiter’s moons events on the coverdisc.

- We show you how to build a Crayford style focuser

- LOFAR – we visit the site of a new radio telescope in rural Hampshire that will revolutionize radio astronomy.

- Edwardians in space – we report on the BBC’s TV version of the HG Well’s classic The First Men in the Moon

- Guides covering how to capture the fine detail in M27, sketch Messier 39 and observe the lunar crater Langrenus.

- The world’s biggest and best skyguide to the what you can see in the night skies in September including the cut out and

keep Deep-Sky Tour of faint fuzzies in the September skies.

- The monthly Bulletin pages which bring you up to date on all the latest astronomical news as well as Cutting Edge analysis articles which highlight brand new research.

- Our Scope Doctor answers your technical kit questions.

- Reviews: we review the Sky-Watcher SynGuider in First Light and eight planetary eyepieces in our Group Test.

- Interactive: your letters, tweets, forum posts and readers’ scopes

- Gear – Vincent Whiteman rounds up the latest astronomical accessories

- What’s On listings – find out what astronomy events are on near you (also with astronomy related radio listings.)

- 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

- What I really want to know is – Chris Bramley talks to John Rowlands who wants to know…how often do noctilucent clouds appear?