Editorial

Spring has arrived - before we could blink, Winter has disappeared hardly noticed. Once again, Scorpio is above us in the evening sky in all its magnificence. Of all the constellations, it is probably the one, in our part of the heavens anyway, that most closely resembles the creature for which it is named. And at its heart, Antares, normally the brightest light in the region, but currently overshadowed, or should we say outshone, by a very much brighter Mars.

Before we go any further, an apology is in order.

Eben van Zyl wrote a really good article on the Evolution of the Galaxies which even merited a reference in last month's editorial. But somewhere in the editing, the article disappeared leaving only the reference to it on the contents page. We are very chastened Eben and apologise for managing to drop such an excellent article. It does however, appear in this month's issue, so please, all of you who missed it last month, read and enjoy it.

Amongst our regular contributors, Danie urges you to enjoy the occasional irregularities of Luyten's Flare Star, 0134-18 UV Ceti and Brian has given us the interesting happenings in the sky for the next two months.
Bill Wheaton gives us some interesting details about FUSE and discusses some of the Physics behind the project. This is a space-based telescope with a difference!

As is the norm for this time of the year - the pleas…( please )…to pay your subscriptions timeously so as to enable your committee to plan the projects for the year ahead.

The Editor

Chris   chris@aqua.co.za

 The 1999/2000 Committee of the Johannesburg Centre