Sky at Night Magazine The editors’ view
Graham Southern launched the magazine and was editor until issue 76, in September 2011
How did the idea for the magazine come about?
It began in 2002, when I was deputy editor of Focus (now BBC Science Focus), the popular science magazine. At that time it was covering a lot of interesting space and astronomy stories like Beagle 2 on its way to Mars, WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) finding clues to the Big Bang and the International Space Station (ISS) being built. So in 2003 I submitted a proposal for a space and astronomy magazine called ‘Cosmos’ and then, in 2004, when we came under the wing of BBC Magazines, my proposal was developed into BBC Sky at Night Magazine.
What were the key elements in your vision for the magazine?
I was keen for us to
