CONTENTS

C = on the cover

COVER IMAGE: PETE LAWRENCE, THIS PAGE: PETE LAWRENCE, BERNHARD HUBL/CCDGUIDE.COM, NASA, @THESHED_ PHOTOSTUDIO, NASA/JOHNS HOPKINS APL, CEDIC TEAM/CHRISTOPH KALTSEIS/CCDGUIDE.COM, BBC

Features

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

How to deflect an asteroid

  • How DART’s great success was hitting rock bottom

62 Apollo 17

50 years on, we look back on the final triumphant Apollo mission

  • The legacy of Apollo
  • What NASA’s lunar odyssey meant for space science

Regulars

  • Eye on the sky
  • Bulletin
  • Cutting edge C
  • Inside The Sky at Night
  • Interactive
  • What’s on
  • Field of view
  • Subscribe to BBC Sky at Night Magazine
  • Explainer C
  • DIY astronomy C
  • Q&A: an extreme space weather scientist

Astrophotography

  • Capture
  • Processing
  • Gallery

Reviews

  • Sky-Watcher Explorer 130P AZ GO-2 C
  • Opticron Oregon Observation 11x70 binoculars
  • Books

Gear

The Sky Guide

  • Highlights
  • The big three C
  • The planets
  • December’s all-sky chart
  • Moonwatch
  • Comets and asteroids
  • Star of the month
  • Binocular tour
  • The Sky Guide challenge
  • Deep-sky tour
  • December at a glance
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