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Astronomy is a monthly science and hobby magazine with more than 100,000 readers, and our website Astronomy.com is visited by millions of readers per month..
Astronomy Magazine
Subscribe Today The world's best-selling astronomy magazine offers you the most exciting, visually stunning, and timely coverage of the heavens above..
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A Wisconsin native, Steve Walther founded Astronomy magazine in 1973 as an outgrowth of a college journalism project at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Seven years later, it had become the largest-circulation magazine on the topic in the world and has remained so since.
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August 1973On May 27, 1973, a young journalist named Stephen Walther filed incorporation papers to begin publishing Astronomy magazine.
The first issue was August 1973; by 1981, it was the largest-circulation title on the subject.
It retains this distinction by a factor of two..
Kalmbach Media (formerly Kalmbach Publishing Co.) is an American publisher of books and magazines, many of them railroad-related, located in Waukesha, Wisconsin..
In 2017 the company hired digital media veteran Dan Hickey as its sixth chief executive officer.
Hickey was the first Kalmbach leader hired from outside the company in its 84-year history.
The company was renamed Kalmbach Media in 2018..
Based near Milwaukee in Waukesha, Wisconsin, it is produced by Kalmbach Publishing.
Astronomy's readers include those interested in astronomy and those who want to know about sky events, observing techniques, astrophotography, and amateur astronomy in general..
AstroMedia Corp., the company Walther had founded to publish Astronomy in Milwaukee, brought in Richard Berry as editor.
Berry also created the offshoot Odyssey, aimed at young readers, and the specialized Telescope Making.
In 1985, Milwaukee hobby publisher Kalmbach bought Astronomy..
Learn more The world's best-selling astronomy magazine brings you a calendar filled with dramatic images of nebulae
Spiral galaxies
Star-forming regions
And other mysteries of deep space.
Each month details planet visibility
Meteor showers
And other observing opportunities
As well as moon phases and major astronomical events.
Kalmbach began publishing its annual Great Model Railroads in November 1990.
In 1991
Kalmbach purchased Greenberg Publishing of Sykesville
Maryland.
Also included in the purchase was Greenberg Shows
Which sponsored nearly two dozen combined model railroad and doll house shows on the East Coast.
Learn more The world's best-selling astronomy magazine brings you a calendar filled with dramatic images of nebulae
And other mysteries of deep space.
Each month details planet visibility
And other observing opportunities
As well as moon phases and major astronomical events.
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American book and magazine publisher
Kalmbach Media is an American publisher of books and magazines
Many of them railroad-related
