BBC Sky at Night

Sky at Night magazine is your practical guide to astronomy. Each issue features the world’s biggest and best night sky guide complete with star charts, observing tutorials and in-depth equipment reviews to ensure that amateur astronomers never miss those must-see events.

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Extra content ONLINE • Visit www.skyatnightmagazine.com/bonus-content/VOCFQDB to access this month’s selection of exclusive Bonus Content

JWST LIGHTS UP THE UNIVERSE • In July, a momentous new era in space science began when NASA released, the first full-colour images from the James Webb Space Telescope. We look at the first five that stunned the world

BULLETIN • The latest astronomy and space news, written by Ezzy Pearson

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NEWS IN BRIEF

CUTTING EDGE • Our experts examine the hottest new research

INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT • As the first images from JWST come in, Mikako Matsuura recalls how she won not just one but two observing opportunities on the world’s most anticipated telescope

Looking back: The Sky at Night • 19 September 1957

The Sky at Night SEPTEMBER

INTERACTIVE • Emails – Letters – Tweets – Facebook – Instagram – Kit questions

Making good times with a DIY sundial

SCOPE DOCTOR • Our equipment specialist cures your optical ailments and technical maladies With Steve Richards

Sky at Night

WHAT’S ON • We pick the best live and virtual astronomy events and resources this month

PICK OF THE MONTH

FIELD OF VIEW • Scott Levine has a soft spot for the superstar asterism of the warmer months

JWST begins its SCIENCE JOURNEY • As we gaze astonished at the James Webb Space Telescope’s first science images, Colin Stuart takes a look at the questions it will answer over its decade-long voyage of astronomical discovery

Interview: Hannah Wakeford • One of the astronomers studying JWST’s exoplanet data tells us about the many new worlds the telescope will be exploring

Prepare for the PLANET PARADE • Five planets and an asteroid will be putting on a show this month. Stuart Atkinson shows us where and when to catch the spectacle

More to explore • Once you’ve taken in the planet parade, there’s a wealth of other celestial delights to see in the night sky this month

The periodic table of Messier objects • Observing deep-sky objects just got a little bit easier thanks to Tom Urbain’s at-a-glance guide to the targets of the Messier Catalogue

The Sky Guide

SEPTEMBER HIGHLIGHTS • Your guide to the night sky this month

NEED TO KNOW • The terms and symbols used in The Sky Guide

THE BIG THREE • The top sights to observe or image this month

THE PLANETS • Our celestial neighbourhood in September

JUPITER’S MOONS: SEP

THE NIGHT SKY – SEPTEMBER • Explore the celestial sphere with our Northern Hemisphere all-sky chart

MOONWATCH • September’s top lunar feature to observe

COMETS AND ASTEROIDS • The 11st-largest asteroid, 3 Juno, reaches opposition this month

STAR OF THE MONTH • Alderamin, the brightest star in Cepheus

BINOCULAR TOUR • A spin around the Circlet, pop in on Neptune and try to split some doubles

THE SKY GUIDE CHALLENGE • Observe how the shadows of the Jovian moons shift around at opposition

DEEP-SKY TOUR • This month we take a trip around the equine delights of Pegasus and Equuleus

AT A GLANCE • How the Sky Guide events will appear in September

Glorious GLOBULARS • From fuzzy blobs to star cities, Paul Money...