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…
(With The Guardian) When a full moon rises, many people will pull out their mobile phones to try and take an Instagram-worthy picture, but unfortunately the moon is really challenging to get a great photo of. Two reasons: it is very far away and unless…
In 2017 began the crowdfunding campaign of the first automatic digital telescope on the market: the eVscope. Unistellar, the French startup at the origin of this project raised $2.2 million on Kickstarter and received the support from the SETI institute. Their idea was to design…
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…
