《天文台杂志》是一本独立的期刊，由其编辑拥有和管理（尽管发表的文章中表达的观点不一定由他们共享）。因此，编辑可以自由地接受天文学家普遍感兴趣的资料，这些资料可能很难在大多数其他期刊的限制范围内容纳。
The Observatory Magazine is an independent journal, owned and managed by its Editors (although the views expressed in published contributions are not necessarily shared by them). The Editors are therefore free to accept, at their discretion, material of general interest to astronomers which might be difficult to accommodate within the more restricted remit of most other journals.
