Shadows of Creation: quasar absorption lines abd the genesis of galaxies: by dissecting light from distant quasars, astronomers have found trces of the early univers’s invisible contents – p. 29
Bonuses of the microlensing business: as a byproduct of searches for gravitational lensing, stellar researchers are gaining an enormous welth of vaiable-star data – p. 38
A new look at the Milky Way : a small but sophisticated telescope prepares to map the nearby universe– p. 46
Meade’s Pictor 208XT and 216XT: two CCd cameras fron Meade – p. 49
looking back cosmologically : where were galaxies long ago and where are they now?Explore the consequences of an expanding universe – p. 59
Dreaming the sky – p. 72
Mars Watch ’97 summary: cloudy but qiuet – p. 99
Telescope Tecnique: mastering polar alignment – p. 106
