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You will read in issue 16 : 

Features:


The smallest particle of the universe against the greatest scientist, Neutrino versus Einstein( Part 1)

By: Farshad Ashkbous


Journey to the land of eternal winds

Exclusive interview with professor "Fran Bagenal", the scientist of a four generations of Jupiter explorers, about "Juno" and Jupiter.
By: Ehsan Sanaei


Journey to the land of Mayas and Aztecs

By: Ahmad Dalaki

I always had a fascination with the culture of old tribes of America and always wanted to study about their ancient civilization and culture of astronomy, calendar, and also their beliefs about the sky and the space. So in winter 2010 I was given this opportunity to have a scientific trip to the land of the first equatorial tribes in Mexico. 

 

 

A glance at the history of human's flight (Part5)

By: Cyrus Borzu

What you have ahead is a short glance at the historical trend of human's flight to the space. In this series we will introduce the biography of astronauts, manned cosmic ships   and some of the special terms

Interview with David Dunham

President of International occultation timing association

By: Atila Peru

International occultation timing association is one of the few scientific institutes in the world who has a well organized universal organization in a specified branch of amateur- professional astronomy. 

Wandering in the beginning of the existence (Part4)

By: Ehsan Sanaei

In last episode of this series, we continue our journey to the tunnel of LHC as we enter the magic land of Alice sensor. 

7 sisters is autumnal sky

By: Negin Naghbaei

Many people know Pleiades. Elder ones could easily find it in the sky. If you want to observe it, watch the sky a couple of hours before midnight and you will see a foggy stain which you will find 7 stars inside. Try your eyesight by counting the stars of Pleiades cluster.

 

 Sailing in stars world

By: Seyyed Mehdi Davoodi

Sextant is an observation tools which is usually being used to measure the height of celestial objects and it has many application in today's sailing.

 Time study in amateur astronomy

By: Atila Peru

 Most of the information we have about the sky is through light. The light which we receive from stars and other objects is a valuable source of information about physical features and intervals. Along with the light, time and timing play a major role in studying celestial events.  

Motion of shadows

By: Ehsan Ebrahimian

Surveying the motion of shadows is one of the instructive issues in spherical astronomy which is also being questioned in Olympiad.

 

TRANSLATED ARTICLES

The space colony that never was

Why did 1970's plans to built habitats in space turn out to be just castles in the sky?

By: Piers Bizony

Translated by: Iman Miri

Focusing your DSLR on the sky

Make deep-sky shooting easy but first you have to focus them at infinity. Here’s how.

By: Alan Dyer

Translated by: Abbas Ahmadi

  

Photo Gallery

Nature at night; By: Nazanin Alibeik

Sun spots; Canon; By: Hossein Haeri Ardekani

Iss crossing; Majid Elahi & Neda Godarzi

Stars trail in Milkyway; By: Ali Torkaman

Sky of Shirkooh in Yazd; By: Sohrab Alidoosti

The Milky Way; By: Zohreh Nejadmoghadam

 

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Pictorial report from Zvyozdny meuseum, cosmonaut’s home and training center     

By: Cyrus Borzu

Messages for the first birthday of IOTA/ME

By: Farida Farsian 

Occultation of the moon

By: Atila Peru

 Aseman-e-shab in word Space week

Aseman-e-shab in International fair of press and news agencies-Tehran

 

In every Issue 

Editorial

By: Nafiseh KarimPour

Astronomy news

Edited & Translated By: Abbas Ahmadi

Selected By: Ahmad Reza Ghaedi

The sky at this month

Young adults astronomy: Uranus, Neptune and Pluto

By:Nadia PourVaghar; Maryam MoradPour