Sky & Space is a great Australian astronomy
magazine covering the Southern Hemisphere, an area hard to find
information on. The magazine covers astronomy, space and
astrophysics and has a broad range of black and white and colour
astrophotography. It is aimed at the amateur astronomer, high
school student and semiprofessional.
Index for the enthusiast and astronomy club
This product is invaluable for accessing detailed information
from the relevant back issues of Southern Astronomy/Sky and
Space.
Nearly all
astronomical objects have been covered including galaxies, stars
and quasars plus all the photographs. Now you should be able to
find what you are looking for in the night sky!
The organisation of the Index
volume by volume - the index is organised by
volume e.g. all volume 1 entries then all volume 2
or
cumulated index - all the volumes are merged into
one series of entries e.g. all volumes dealing with
galaxies are together
Availability
Off the market.
Research
We do ad-hoc astronomy research. Contact us with your query. We are a professional research librarian with science background.
Post 1992 Material
For later material, search the index in SAGE bibliographic database (1990-2019) (archive) from
RMIT Publishing's Informit Search available in most High School and some public libraries.
Back Issues
Sky & Space is available from your local library. The two titles are:
In August 2015, I discovered this has same editor as Critical Comms, the previous editor of Southern Astronomy Jonathan Nally! This is where Australian astronomy ended.
In November 2018, I discovered this new astronomy ecommmerce and information site run by Jonathan Nally past editor of Sky & Space and current editor of Australian Sky & Telescope.
The subject index was based on T-Rex, the astronomy thesaurus
produced by the Anglo-Australian
Observatory, Sydney. It is now searchable via Web interface and can no longer be downloaded freely in Mac, PC
or UNIX format.
ASCOM - Windows telescope scripting standard for automated telescope control
Mobile Apps
In South Bank, Brisbane, at World Science Festival in 2018, I went to astronomy night and tried large telescopes and saw many mobile apps that control motorised telescopes to help locate a star or planet.
Person picks object in app in night sky then app sends signal to motor drive in telescope and it moves the telescope to find the object ready for person to view.
I saw Mars, Jewel Box Constellation (Crux) and the craters in the Moon.
There was Brisbane Astronomical Society in New Farm helping out by loaning large telescope to let people have a look with aid of volunteers.
I had several mobile apps that allowed me to point phone camera at sky with overlay so I could identify objects in night sky.
In July 2019, I watched GSLV MKIII launch on Facebook in watch party of electrical and electronics engineers group I am in.
By 7 Sep 2019, GSLV MKIII will land an unmanned lunar lander on south pole of moon for scientific experiments.
Lander rolled over when landing and has not been righted or observed as it is on dark side of moon and is waiting for another lander from another country to right it or find out what happened to it (9/19).
