On the 8th of December provided that you are blessed with clear skies, don’t hesitate to go out and enjoy a beautiful conjunction between the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. If you turn towards the southwest after sunset, you’ll see the three bodies beautifully aligned…
Lunar eclipses happen on Full Moons, when the Earth stands between the Moon and the Sun and when the Moon enters into the cone of shadow cast by our planet. When the three bodies align in such a way, our natural satellite receives less or…
Urban heavily light-polluted skies are not the ideal for stargazing with a telescope. There are, however, things like the Moon, the planets and even the Sun that can be observed from a city (observing the Sun requires specially designed filters, otherwise serious injuries and permanent…
So, you’ve spent a fair amount of time researching telescopes at your local astronomy shop as well as online and you’ve skimmed through all the Internet forums and websites you could find in the hope of deciding on your first telescope. You want to observe…
Visual astronomy means observing the night sky directly through the eyepiece of a telescope, which means that the inherent limitations of the human eye must be taken into consideration, mainly that you can’t see colors in the dark and you need a certain quantity of…