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The lunar nearside

Every Full Moon, you can see the craters made famous in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Penumbral lunar eclipse

The Sky This Week from March 22 to 29: The Full Moon eclipsed

A simple finder scope mounted to a piece of lumber projects a clear image of the Sun.

2024 Solar Eclipse

Build a Sun projector with a finder scope or cheap binoculars

March 21, 2024, 30 minutes before sunrise, looking east

The Sky This Week from March 15 to 22: A conjunction of Venus and Saturn

M8 The Lagoon Nebula

The Sky This Week from March 8 to 15: Messier marathon 2024, take 1

Observing, Telescopes and Equipment

Interview: Celestron CEO Corey Lee on the revolutionary Origin Intelligent Home Observatory

The Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146) is a reflection and emission nebula that lies 4,000 light-years away in Cygnus. The author captured this image with HαRGB filters and exposures of six, three, three, and three hours, respectively.

Telescopes and Equipment

Review: The amazing Stellarvue 180mm refractor

NGC 4565, the Needle Galaxy, was imaged with a ZWO ASI294MC Pro on a Takahashi FSQ-106N with 18 hours and 50 minutes of exposure.

Deep-Sky Objects, Observing Basics

Here are a few targets Messier missed that are worth a visit

During the dry season at Botswana’s Makgadikgadi salt pan, temperature inversions lead to all manner of mirages.

Observing, The Sun

Secret Sky: Tropical Novaya Zemlya effects

Mercury during 2023

Sky This Month: March 2024

Zodiacal light

The Sky This Week from March 1 to 8: False dusk gently glows

A stunning long-exposure photograph of the Perseid meteors 2023. The vertical Milky Way gives off the illusion that the inactive Mount Erciyes volcano, is active again! Credit: Kayseri Erciyes A.Ş. Ski Resort.

Astronomy invites you to view the Perseids from an inactive Turkish volcano