1975 Oct SKY & TELESCOPE Greenwich Tercentenary BRIGHTEST NOVA Lunar Eclipse &c

Description: Title: Sky and Telescope Date: October, 1975 Pagination: about 70pp in each issue (pp 209–270 in this issue) Condition: Good; covers scuffed and dingy from storage; no address label visible; some issues in this collection have had a bit of highlighting (they belonged to an Astronomy teacher); some foxing on fore-edge and bottom of text block where it sat on the shelf [OCR is approximate, as always] OCTOBER, 1975 COVER: Riding atop a pillar of flame, a Titan 3E-Centaur with the first Viking payload thunders away from Launch Complex 41 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This four-stage rocket, which has a launch thrust of 2.4 million pounds, had been successfully used on only one other occasion. Less than half an hour after the August 20th liftoff at 5:22 p.m. Eastern daylight time, the Centaur upper stage was reignited for more than five minutes, placing the spacecraft on a trajectory that will intercept Mars in June of next year. If all goes according to plan, the first of two Viking landers will touch down on the Martian surface early next July to perform an elaborate series of scientific experiments. NASA photograph. (See story at right.) THE LEAGUE CONVENES IN GEORGIA 208 NEW STUDIES OF JUPITER - W. B. Hubbard and J. R. Jokipii .. 212 GREENWICH TERCENTENARY SYMPOSIUM - Owen Gingerich 217 SOME RESULTS FROM MAYS LUNAR ECLIPSE 219 THE 153-INCH ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN TELESCOPE — E. Joseph Wampler .. 225 BRIGHTEST NOVA IN 33 YEARS 229 AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS 232 The Rockford Planetarium Dream BOOKS AND THE SKY 247 Astrophysical Formulae The Galactic Club The Astronomical Telescope Pioneer Odyssey: Encounter with a Giant CELESTIAL CALENDAR 242 Jovian Satellite Events Near Opposition GLEANINGS FOR ATMs 255 Stellafane: A Year for the Newtonian NEWS NOTES 230 OBSERVERS PAGE 261 Pictures of Comet Kobayashi-Berger -Milon RAMBLING THROUGH OCTOBER SKIES 238 THE SUN, MOON, AND PLANETS THIS MONTH Take a close look at the auction images for details of contents and condition. If you have any questions at all please send a message through eBay before bidding. NOTE: There may be more images in this listing than eBay shows in the top "gallery". Be sure to scroll down to view the full set, if so. Be sure to check our eBay Store for thousands of other listings like this one. Orders will be sent out within three business days of receipt of payment. If youre in a hurry and would like expedited shipping (Priority or Express shipping), please let us know before paying so we can adjust your invoice. Books are sent Media Rate within the US, and other small items are sent Parcel by default. If you would like combined shipping, please (1) contact us to let us know, and then (2) wait to pay until youre finished shopping (but try to keep it within a 4 day period, please). Just leave the items in your eBay Cart and then request an updated invoice after youre done. If you pay for an item, we are obliged to ship it to you, and cannot combine it with subsequent purchases. If youre waiting for a separate auction item to finish, please contact us to let us know. _gsrx_vers_1680 (GS 9.8.3 (1680))

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