Re: ATM "Say it ain't so!"

[Stephen Tonkin <sft@aegis1.demon.co.uk>]

"Fred Maxwell - No spam e-mail accepted." <fmaxwell@erols.com> wrote:
>If there is no column devoted to amateur telescope making in a given
>month, I will buy Astronomy or one of the Canadian or British astronomy
>magazines instead of Sky and Telescope. 

Well, you can give the UK ones a miss for a start. Since the sad demise
of Practical Astronomy, AFAIK the last ATM feature in a UK astro monthly
was one I had published in October last year in (also now, but less
sadly, defunct) AA&ES.

I may be doing them a disservice, but I think Astronomy Now averages
less than one ATM feature a year!

One reason so many of us over here buy S&T is the quality of the home-
produced monthly. Mine hasn't hit the doormat yet, but it seems as
though S&T may be taking lessons from AN. Where Britain leads, America
follows. Pity.


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Stephen Tonkin