Astronomy magazines.

None of the shops i have checked sell such mags as "The Sky at Night" or any of the other biggies.

I have not checked such places as Easons yet. Should i?

Maybe i should just subscribe online to a couple.

What would be YOUR choice?

I get the AI mag monthly and i really do like it.

But i'm hungry for MORE.

There are only two good English language magazines:

1. Sky and Telescope.
www.skyandtelescope.com/

2. Scientific American (Covers all the sciences but is excellent for astronomy.):
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=astronomers...rnovas-first-moments

The rest are for beginners.

Personally I get both "The Sky at Night" and "Astronomy Now" and find them both excellent nothing too heavy but easy to pick up and scan through during lunch.

I've tried "Sky and Telescope" a few times and although their good articles I just don't like the way it's laid out (I used to do that for a living). I would agree that "Scientific American" is good for all round science but you can normally get those good articles on their website.

Ask yourself do you want a quick read, a magazine you can pick up and put down or do you want a serious scientific magazine which will get quite technical. Personally I'm quit happy with the first option.

Easons does carry most of these magazines.

Of the US ones, I prefer Astronomy to Sky and Telescope. But the observing guides aren't as useful in either of them since they cover a different range of latitude and longitude.

For local content I used to prefer Astronomy Now, even though I find the layout and presentation of the magazine quite amateurish. Lately I've been buying Sky at Night more often....

-- Jeff.

Easons carries S&T.

Have to agree with Petermark for once! S&T is really the only one worth getting. And SciAm, when it does astronomy stuff, is great. Nature is imo better than Sci am if you can find it. Most of the really cool stuff will be in SciAm & Nature a month before the Astro mags print it.

So if I was subscribing again I'd go for S&T & Nature.

Well PJ, my view is that it all depends.
I reckon you can't beat the Sky at Night Mag.
Its great for beginners and intermediate level interest.
It comes with a cd with the last SAN tv show and also a
monthly whats up segment voiced over by moore & lintot.

It covers all areas broadly and it's great that it's local.

I get S&T and S@N.