Are sunspots really in decline?: Our recent solar activity has seen a tailing off of sunspot numbers. Is this the start of a new solar cycle?, Deep sky, dark forest: We visit Northumberland’s Kielder Observatory, set in Europe’s largest dark sky park, Apollo 10: May 1969: The story of NASA’s test mission for the Moon landing, which did everything but touch the surface...

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2023
We reveal the astonishing top images in astronomy’s most prestigious photo competition.

Observing off the beaten track
Swap your everyday targets for these 10 exciting new sights.

Highlights of the autumn skies
Your guide to the best stargazing ahead as dark-sky season begins.

10 targets to get you started in astrophotography
Inspiring projects to introduce you to night-sky photography.

The rock hunter returns
What happens when OSIRIS-REx brings its asteroid samples home?

Prime time for the PERSEIDS
Why summer’s best meteor shower promises a spectacular display.

A year with JWST
A look at the mind-blowing findings from the scope’s first year.

Stargazing in Utah: the darkest state
We visit the US state that’s heaven on Earth for stargazers.

Euclid: shedding light on the dark Universe
Will the new space telescope solve the dark matter mystery?

The first women of space
The story of trailblazers Valentina Tereshkova and Sally Ride.

Noctilucent clouds on the rise.
Why the beautiful, rare night clouds are now more common..

The riddle of the hypergiants
What we know about these staggeringly huge stars.

Cosmology crash course
How is it we can still see the afterglow of the Big Bang?

Darkness on the moors
Yorkshire’s pitch-dark skies and the fight to keep them that way..

Mercury returns to twilight
The tiniest planet is back! We show you how to spot it.

Cosmology crash course
As our series continues, we ask: does the Universe have an edge?

The new space age
We report from the international conference on all things space..

GET TO KNOW VENUSTHE EVENING STAR.INVESTIGATING THE AURORA #214 MARCH 2023
PATRICK MOORE AT 100: CELEBRATING HIS LIFE
What drives the Northern Lights and why now is the best time to see them.

First date with a DSLR
Tips for taking great night shots with these versatile cameras.

Observing variable stars
Uncover how stars work through tracking changes in brightness..

Stargazing and spaceflight in 2023
The unmissable sights and flights coming up this year.

Spaceflight takes off in the UK
Ready for launch! We look at the booming UK space industry..

25 sights of Christmas
A fabulous, festive countdown of stunning astronomical sights to see before the big day.

Magnificent Mars at its best
Your essential guide to the Red Planet riches on offer this month.

Apollo 17
50 years on, we look back on the final triumphant Apollo mission..

The dark Universe with the Vera Rubin Observatory
We visit the giant new instrument joining the hunt for dark energy.

Imaging the deep sky with an altaz platform
Nebulae aren’t just for equatorials..

ARTEMIS
READY FOR THE MOON
Meet the people behind
NASA's return to the Moon
 
FÉLICETTE, THE CAT THAT FLEW TO SPACE

ANCIENT LUNAR HISTORY WRITTEN IN SANDSTONE
 
NEW ASTRO IMAGING KIT RATED AND REVIEWED

DRAMATIC FIRST IMAGES
WONDERFUL WEBB
What JWST's stunning first photos really show PLUS its science journey explained.

Glorious globulars
15 gorgeous star clusters to find in the sky this month..

A parade of planetary nebulae
Six spectacular targets to seek out in late-summer skies.

12 astrophotography pitfalls
Common mistakes to avoid in your next night imaging session.

OUR GALAXY'S
DARK HEART
The story behind the first image of the Milky Way's central black hole

21 TOP SUMMER TARGETS FOR URBAN ASTRONOMERS

THE ROSWELL INCIDENT AT 75: WHERE ARE ALL THE ALIENS?

GETTING CLOSER TO THE SUN THAN EVER BEFORE 

THE ASTRONOMER ROYAL ON 50 YEARS OF DISCOVERY

THE FUTURE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
A rare discovery reveals the far off fate of our Sun and planets.

Freeware explored
We round up the free software that will improve your observations..

From particles to parsecs
Why the study of the smallest things in the Universe can inform our understanding of the largest.

Pioneers of dark matter
Seven key scientists who shed light on the cosmos’s biggest mystery..

FROM CITY LIGHTS TO DEEP SPACE
Discover the deep-sky objects you can observe from urban skies this season.

APOLLO 16 REMEMBERED
The penultimate landing recalled, 50 years on.

WALES'S DARK HEART
Stargazing holidays in the nation with more dark skies than any other..

Get to know the shapes of the aurora
A pictorial guide to the features to spot in a Northern Lights display.

Clear skies ahead?
Expert tips on how to forecast the weather for an observing session.

Shooting for the Moon
All about NASA’s giant SLS rocket, soon to launch on its first test flight.

Eyepiece expectations
How what you’ll see through a scope compares with astrophotos..

THE CRESCENT PLANET - Observe the changing face of Venus this month.

A COSMIC MYSTERY - Search for the source of strange deep-space signals.

The neutron star that makes no sense
This puzzling dead star core is fascinating astronomers who see it as a test-bed for particle physics. 

DART: A mission with impact
The asteroid-deflecting experiment is ready for launch and could save Earth from a future collision.

Ready for launch: The promise of JWST
What the largest space telescope ever will reveal about the cosmos.

Remembering Rosetta
As Comet 67P nears the Sun, the mission that visited it still delivers..

Astronomy photographer of the year 2021 – The Winners
We reveal the stunning top entries in astronomy’s most prestigious photography competition.

Urban stargazing: astronomy under light-polluted skies
You’ll be surprised at how much there is to observe from brightly lit cities and towns.

THE TELESCOPES THAT CHANGED ASTRONOMY
Discover the instruments that have revolutionised the way we see the Universe.

METROPOLIS ON THE MOON
Observe the 'streets' of Gruithuisen's lunar city.

PERSEID PERFECTION
Get ready for great conditions to watch summer's best meteor shower.

JUNO'S JOURNEY CONTINUES
What a 4-year extension means for the mission at Jupiter.

Earth’s altered atmosphere
How satellites are helping monitor Earth’s atmosphere and climate..

Naked black holes
Established theories suggest black holes must have an event horizon, but is this always the case?

A twilight night’s tour
Discover the enchanting targets to observe as dusk approaches.

Apollo 15’s 50th anniversary
The Moon buggy’s first outing and the ‘Genesis Rock’ discovery..

GET READY FOR THE ECLIPSE!
Watch a spectacular partial solar eclipse across the UK this month.

A FORECAST FOR THE SUN
The challenge of predicting when solar activity will peak.

A beginner’s guide to DSLR cameras
Capture your best photos of the night sky with a DSLR camera.

RVO Horizon 60ED Doublet imaging refractor..

October 2023

September 2023

August 2023

July 2023

June 2023

May 2023

April 2023

March 2023

February 2023

January 2023

December 2022

November 2022

October 2022

September 2022

August 2022

July 2022

Complementing the much-loved BBC television programme, Sky at Night Magazine is your practical guide to astronomy. Each issue features columns by renowned experts such as Sir Patrick Moore as well as in-depth cosmological features, practical observing tutorials, comprehensive equipment reviews, astrophotography master classes and much, much more. And with easy-to follow star charts and expert advice on how to get the most out of the observing month, Sky at Night Magazine is essential reading for both the novice and experienced astronomer.

1. You agree that the use of Magzter.com, the application and its services, are at solely at your own risk. Neither Magzter.com nor its associates nor employees nor third party content providers guarantee that the service will be completely uninterrupted or error-free or foolproof against miscreant activities. Nor do they warranty that you will get the exact results as expected or promised by the website or product.

10. THE SERVICE AND ALL PUBLICATIONS ARE PROVIDED ON AN 'AS IS' AND 'AS AVAILABLE' BASIS. MAGZTER, ITS AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS, LICENSORS AND AGENTS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, NEITHER MAGZTER NOR ITS AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS, LICENSORS OR AGENTS, MAKES ANY WARRANTY THAT (I) THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (II) THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (III) THE INFORMATION THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE OR THAT MAY BE CONTAINED IN THE PUBLICATIONS WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, OR (IV) THE QUALITY OF ANY PUBLICATIONS OR THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBTAINING AND MAINTAINING RELIABLE INTERNET CONNECTIVITY AND YOUR DEVICE. MAGZTER IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR INABILITY TO DOWNLOAD CONTENT. ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR MOBILE DEVICE OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM MAGZTER OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY.

2.You will maintain and promptly update that information to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account, including the selection and use of all content and services.

3. In no event will Magzter.com or any person or entity or third party involved in the creation, production and distribution of the content on the website and the application be liable in contract or legally for any damages, including and not limited to, direct, indirect, incidental, special, and consequential incurred to you while or on using Magzter.com. By registering on the website or downloading the application, you agree that the provisions mentioned in this section shall apply to all use of and content on the website and the application.

3. Without prior written or authorised permission from Magzter, you should not modify, copy, distribute or sell any content obtained from Magzter as everything published here is the proprietary property of Magzter or its licensors. As such unauthorised use may also violate applicable laws including copyright and trademark laws, Magzter strictly prohibits these and will terminate your access and account if any such illegal activity is proved or detected. You should also stand liable for the damages caused by these unauthorised activities. Except as permitted by the Publication's lawful owner, you acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading Publications accessed through the Service. Except as explicitly required under copyright law or permitted by the features of the Service you may not modify, reverse engineer, publish, transmit, display, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works of, or in any way commercially exploit or provide to a third party the content of the App, the Publications, or any portion of them without the express permission of Magzter and the owner of such content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of Magzter or Magzter's licensors.

5. You specifically acknowledge that Magzter.com is not liable for any kind of defamatory or offensive or illegal conduct of other users or third parties or their content and that the risk of injury from the foregoing rests entirely with you.

7. Magzter reserves all rights to monitor the content published and inputted by you for the purpose of determining whether you are compliant with these terms and conditions and other operating rules determined by Magzter. Magzter has the right to take decisions about the content and delete them at its own will.

8. Magzter is a distributor and NOT a publisher of the Publications and so Magzter has no editorial control over the content, including opinions, advice, statements, services, offers etc., that is represented in the magazines. So Magzter will not take responsibility for the accuracy or the reliability for any information or facts provided therein or that is made available through the service, by anyone other than authorised Magzter employees who are acting on their official capacities. Accordingly, we have no editorial control over the Publications. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including those made in Publications offered by the Service, are those of the respective author(s) or publisher(s) and not of Magzter. Magzter will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on information obtained through the Service or from the Publications. The Service may contain links to other Internet sites and third-party resources and Magzter does not assume any responsibility or liability for communications or materials available at such linked sites. These links are provided for your convenience only. You are solely responsible for understanding any terms and conditions that may apply when you visit or place an order through a third-party site.

Access to, browsing and use of the Magzter website, Internet services and mobile device apps ('App') are subject to the following Terms and Conditions ('Terms'). Please read these Terms carefully. Creating an account with Magzter ('we', 'us') or otherwise using any Magzter or Magzter related service or App will signify that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. These Terms constitute a binding agreement between you and Magzter Inc. and affiliates. If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not use the Service. THESE TERMS CONTAIN WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS AND OTHER PROVISIONS THAT LIMIT THE LIABILITY OF MAGZTER, SO PLEASE READ THESE TERMS IN THEIR ENTIRETY. Magzter reserves the right to immediately terminate your access to the website, service or Magzter related app, if you do not comply with this agreement. The Magzter website, Internet services and mobile device apps collectively constitute the 'Service'. This Service is owned and operated by Magzter Inc. The Service includes the website www.magzter.com and the App that provides you the capability to order, subscribe to and receive the delivery of various magazines, books, news and magazine and publication related content (collectively known as 'Publications') and to have these digital versions of the Publications delivered to you.

Details of the objectionable content, including its link on our platform

Download your favorite titles and read them offline, anytime and anywhere

Gift your loved ones with a Magzter Gift Card instantly and give them the freedom to read their favorite magazines and newspapers from thousands of best-selling titles.

Gift your loved ones with a Magzter Gift Card instantly and give them the freedom to read their favorite magazines from thousands of best-selling titles.

Gift your loved ones with a Magzter Gift Card instantly and give them the freedom to read their favorite magazines from {{magCount}} best-selling international titles.

Girish Ramdas is the Co-founder and CEO of Magzter, a New York based startup that has been making waves in the global digital publishing business. Magzter has crossed 80 million users since its inception in 2011 from more than 150+ countries with 1000s of magazines, newspapers and books from more than 4,500 publishers worldwide. He has more than 25 years of experience in cross-platform publishing, including print, mobile, and Web development. During this period, he has co-founded and run three successful start-up businesses. He has enabled magazine companies to go digital and helps them monetize their content across the digital world. Girish's deep industry experience in online, mobile and publishing ecosystems has made him an expert in acquisition, marketing and monetizing digital content across platforms globally.

In the event that you encounter any objectionable content on our platform, we have put in place a grievance redressal policy to address your concerns.

Magzter Inc. (“Company”, “we”, “us” or “our”) knows that you care about how your personal information is used and shared. Please read the following privacy policy (the “Policy”) to learn more about our privacy practices. By visiting any of the websites operated by the Company, and any sub-domains thereof, or using any of our mobile applications and other methods of content distribution (collectively, the “Service”), you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Policy, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use, and share your information in the following ways.

Magzter Inc. is the World's largest and fastest growing self-service, cross-platform digital newsstand with over 80 million users since its inception in 2011 and thousands of magazines and newspapers across 40+ categories and 60+ languages. Headquartered in New York, Magzter has its local presence in Amsterdam, London, Mexico City, Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Singapore, and will soon be expanding to other countries. Founded by global entrepreneurs, Girish Ramdas and Vijay Radhakrishnan in June 2011, Magzter enables magazine and newspaper publishers around the world to create and deliver digital editions of their titles to global consumers.

Magzter is committed to providing a safe and secure platform for our users. Please note that Magzter is merely a platform for publishers to distribute their content. We do not control or endorse the content published on our platform. We cannot be held responsible for the actions of our publishers or their content.

Magzter is not responsible for compensating any party that has suffered damages or incurred costs due to any content, or part of the content, that violates their rights. Magzter is not liable to face any legal action in civil court for any violation of rights caused by any content, or part of the content, that infringes the rights of a third party.

Magzter offers the world’s largest “All-You-Can-Read” subscription service called Magzter GOLD which gives digital readers unlimited access to 8,000+ magazines and newspapers for a monthly subscription price. Magzter also has the largest number of stories in the world with its game-changing ezRead 2.0 feature for its apps, which enables smartphone and small-screen mobile users to enjoy magazine content the way it was meant to be enjoyed, with article text that is easy to read and is accompanied by stunning videos and high resolution photography.

Name

Note: This will only share the cover and the publication information, but not the content.

Please fill out this form if you need any help regarding publishing your content on Magzter

Prior to Magzter, he was the President of Dot Com Infoway (DCI) and Galatta Media. His duties included strategic marketing, partnership development, and monetizing content globally. DCI grew from a small team of 3 in 2000 to 300 by 2011 and was dealing with web, software and app development for clients globally.

Since we launched, Magzter has been committed to partnering with global organizations to provide the greatest possible newsstand technology & service to our customers. Whether you are looking to offer magazine subscriptions to your customer database or just want to learn more, Magzter is committed to helping your business grow. To find out more, please fill out the questionnaire below:

The DMCA allows us to restore the removed content if the party filing the original DMCA Notice does not file a court action against you within ten business days of receiving the copy of your Counter Notice.

This Policy covers Company’s treatment of personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) and other information about you and your computer or device that Company gathers when you are accessing the Service. We may collect Personal Information from you, as explained in more detail below, and we use this Personal Information internally in connection with our Services, including to personalize, provide, and improve our products, services, content, and advertising, and to allow you to set up a user account and profile, to contact you, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, and to analyze how you use the Services. In certain cases, we may also share some Personal Information with third parties, but only as described in point 4.

This title is included with your Magzter GOLD subscription

To analyze the quality of content and provide appropriate feedback to publishers

We have designated a Grievance Officer to address any complaints related to objectionable content.

We request that any complaint related to objectionable content be sent to the Grievance Officer through email to the above-mentioned email address. We also request that you provide the following details when making a complaint:

c. We also collect information associated with your use of the application in order to make personalized recommendations. If you provide your third-party account credentials to us, you understand some content and/or information in those accounts (“Third Party Account Information”) may be transmitted into your account with us if you authorize such transmissions, and that Third Party Account Information transmitted to the Service is covered by this Policy.

f. The Personal Information we collect allows us to respond to your requests, improve our products and services, customize the advertising and content you see, and communicate with you about new products.

n. We will also use usage information in order to ensure users adhere to our Terms of Use. For example, a user’s usage information will help us confirm that a user only downloads a magazine or other content a permitted number of times or to a permitted number of devices.

BBC Sky at Night Magazine - May 2019

BBC Sky at Night Magazine - May 2019

In this issue

BBC Sky at Night Magazine Description: