Astronomy Articles

Looking to capture the conjunction in a photograph, see it through a telescope, or just witness this event not seen since 1226 AD? this page gives you all the information you need to successfully photograph or observe Saturn and Jupiter's conjunction.

To get deep sky objects into an image form, you do need to spend a bit of money. But it need not be in the thousands of dollars to get good results, either.

Amateur astronomers often reflexively recommend an 8" Dobsonian, but for lesser budgets, there's perfectly good alternative: The small, 114mm to 130mm tabletop telescopes. Sometimes less is more.

Solar Cycle 25 is starting to produce multiple sunspots, visible in white light using proper solar filters to view the Sun. Learn more about it here.

Amateur astronomers deserve a list of objects that they can find and see through light pollution with small telescopes. But how do you find objects if fainter stars are washed out?