Southern Astronomy / Sky & Space Magazine Index 1988-92

Indexed up to 1992 by Dwight Walker

covers the first five volumes 1(1)-5(6), 1988-92

Sky & Space is a great Australian astronomy magazine covering the Southern Hemisphere, an area hard to find information on. The magazine covers astronomy, space and astrophysics and has a broad range of black and white and colour astrophotography. It is aimed at the amateur astronomer, high school student and semiprofessional.

Index for the enthusiast and astronomy club

This product is invaluable for accessing detailed information from the relevant back issues of Southern Astronomy/Sky and Space.

Nearly all astronomical objects have been covered including galaxies, stars and quasars plus all the photographs. Now you should be able to find what you are looking for in the night sky!

The organisation of the Index

volume by volume - the index is organised by volume e.g. all volume 1 entries then all volume 2
or
cumulated index - all the volumes are merged into one series of entries e.g. all volumes dealing with galaxies are together

Availability

Off the market.

Research

We do ad-hoc astronomy research. Contact us with your query. We are a professional research librarian with science background.

Post 1992 Material

For later material, search the index in SAGE bibliographic database from RMIT Publishing's Informit Search available in most High School and some public libraries.

Back Issues

Sky & Space is available by back order from the Sky & Space Publishing or from your local library. The two titles are:

Southern Astronomy (ISSN 1030-0015) Vol.1(1)-5(5), Apr/May 1988-Sep/Oct 1992
Sky & Space Magazine (ISSN 1035-932X) Vol.5(6)-20(4), Nov 1992-Sep/Oct 2007

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