Astronomy

After seven years, the dust covers on my Dobsonian telescope needed replacing. In this article, I explain what I did...

With Winter in the Northern Hemisphere nearly over, Orion will start setting into the West sooner and sooner each night...

I detail my process for finding the planet Neptune, using Stellarium, binoculars, and finally sketching through my Dobsonian telescope.

During this month's Lunar Eclipse, I witnessed a bright and large meteor streak from approximately Zenith into the Southwest.

When I talk to people about astronomy, they sometimes mistake it as astrology. But astronomy and astrology are diametrically opposed.

I will say this for cloudy weekdays – at least I don’t have to make up excuses for not taking...

A February without a Full Moon makes for a January and March with two Full Moons each.

On Thursday night, a few hours after I photographed the Orion Nebula, I searched for the asteroid and dwarf planet...

I thought I saw a cluster of light immediately to the right of Jupiter. Could that have been a moon?

What can be said about dreaming of life in another star system?