For many years, a semiannual index to the just-completed 6-issue volume of Sky & Telescope has appeared in the magazine each June and December. It has largely been superseded by our full-text-searchable online archive at ProQuest.

For those who prefer a paper reference, we provide the latest author and department indexes here as Adobe PDF documents (about 200 kilobytes each) suitable for printing and photocopying.

Downloading the PDF

To download your free copy of Sky & Telescope's latest Index to Volume, click on one of the following links:

• Index to Volume 116, July–Dec. 2008
• Index to Volume 115, Jan.–June 2008 — Working on it. . .
• Index to Volume 114, July–Dec. 2007 — Coming soon.
• Index to Volume 113, Jan.–June 2007
• Index to Volume 112, July–Dec. 2006
• Index to Volume 111, Jan.–June 2006
• Index to Volume 110, July–Dec. 2005

Opening the PDF

One of two things will happen next:

1. If you don't already have Adobe Reader on your computer, or if you do but it isn't configured to launch automatically when you download a PDF file in your Web browser, a dialog box will pop up and ask you where on your computer you'd like to save the PDF file. Specify a location, and the file will be saved there. You can then open it later using Adobe Reader, available at no cost for computers running Windows, Mac OS, or Unix from Adobe's Web site.

2. If you've already installed Adobe Reader on your computer, and if it is configured to launch automatically when you download a PDF file in your Web browser, it will launch now and display the index.

In this second situation, the file is not yet saved on your computer! If you close your browser window, the file you just downloaded will close too — and you won't be able to reopen it. You must explicitly tell Adobe Reader to save the file to disk before you exit your browser.

Saving the PDF

When Adobe Reader launches within your browser, you'll see two toolbars: the browser toolbar at the top of the browser window and the Adobe Reader toolbar just above the displayed PDF file. Look at the left side of this second toolbar. You should see a floppy-disk icon. Click this icon to save a copy of the PDF file to your computer's disk, and make sure you pay attention to which directory (folder) you put it in so you can find it again later. If you don't manually save the PDF in this way, then when you exit your browser you'll lose the file.

For more information on using Adobe PDF documents, see "PDF Download Help" in our Help area or visit Adobe's Web site for technical support.

Thanks, and clear skies!