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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

Full Moon over the Grand Canyon

The Sky This Week from February 23 to March 1: Catch a chilly Full Snow Moon

Vaonis’ Vespera is a portable smart scope that can be used for night — or day — sky viewing.

Telescopes and Equipment

Vaonis’ Vespera smart scope reviewed