Table of contents
[1] Editorial
[2] News Notes
[8] Three in: Carina by Dave Blane & Auke Slotegraaf
[19] E3 — A curious globular cluster in Chamaeleon by Douglas Bullis
[28] Heartbeat of a Unicorn — Exploring the fascinating but often overlooked constellation of Monoceros by Carol Botha
[31] Birth of a Deep-Sky Marathon — A report from the 2014 Free State Star Party, with guidelines and recommendations for conducting a deep-sky observing marathon by Hannes & Pieter Pieterse
[50] At My Eyepiece — Veteran deep-sky observer Magda Streicher gives us a look at how she observes. by Magda Streicher
[56] Deep-Sky Projects
[57] Photo Gallery
[59] On The Cover
[appendix] Big 5 of the African Sky
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Deep-Sky News Notes
- UCT Astronomy Club
- ConCards
- Beasts of the Southern Wild: arXiv article, additional images
- Big 5 of the African Sky
- Planetary nebulae in the Hamburger Galaxy
- ASSA Top 100 Deep-Sky Objects
- A Survey of Irradiated Pillars, Globules, and Jets in the Carina Nebula
- eta Carinae monitoring project
“Three in: Carina” by Dave Blane & Auke Slotegraaf
- Rod Stubbings’ eta Carinae light curve
- CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility outreach pages
- NGC 3114 in DOCdb
- Glen Cozens’ PhD thesis, “Nicolas Lacaille, James Dunlop and John Herschel – An analysis of the First Three Catalogues Of Southern Star Clusters and Nebulae“
- JAHH article James Dunlop’s historical catalogue of southern nebulae and clusters
“E 3 – What are Yellow Stragglers?” by Douglas Bullis
References
- Bedin, L. R. et al. (2004) omega Centauri: The Population Puzzle Goes Deeper.
- Harris, W. E. (1996) A Catalog of Parameters for Globular Clusters in the Milky Way. 2010 edition.
- McClure, R. D. et al. (1985) CCD photometry of the sparse halo cluster E3.
- Piotto, G. et al (2007) A Triple Main Sequence in the Globular Cluster NGC 2808.
- Sarajedini, A. (2007) The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. I. Overview and Clusters without Previous Hubble Space Telescope Photometry.
- van den Bergh, S. et al. (1980) The dying globular cluster E3.
Further reading
- Carretta et al. (2007), Gieles & Heggie (2010), Hesser & McClure (1984), Mochejska & Kaluzny (2000), Shih et al. (2010), Siegel et al. (2007), Trenti (2010), and Veronesi (1996).
At the Eyepiece, “Heartbeat of a Unicorn”
“Birth of a Deep-Sky Marathon”, by Hannes and Pieter Pieterse
- Deep-Sky Observer’s Companion Database – DOCdb
- ASSA Top-100 Deep-Sky Observing List
- Saguaro Astronomy Club’s 2015 All Arizona Messier Marathon
- Southern Messier Catalogue
- Free State Star Party
- National Karoo Star Party
- “The Observing Guide to the Messier Marathon” by Don Macholz
- “The Year-Round Messier Marathon Field Guide” by Harvard Pennington
- “1,001 Celestial Wonders to See Before You Die” by Michael E. Bakich
- “Suid-Afrikaanse Weer en Atmosferiese Verskynsels” by Dries van Zyl
- Stellarium software
- Cartes du Ciel software
- Skytools 3 software
- TheSkyX software
- Jet stream predictions for Southern Africa
- Celestron 47003 Compact Barometric Weather Station