A Beginner’s Complete Reference To Astronomy
This is our simple guide to learning how to enjoy the night sky above without losing your cool down here.
This is our simple guide to learning how to enjoy the night sky above without losing your cool down here.
There is no easier object to observe than the moon. You don’t need a fancy telescope or binoculars or anything like that. You really don’t even need it to be night time. Most of the time our closest celestial neighbor is simply forgotten. Yet up there on that cold rock there is a whole world…
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Contained here is the combined knowledge of the entire Modern Astronomy staff. Well not really. But what is here is an easy to digest listing of the most common astronomical terms that might still be a bit puzzling to the learning amateur astronomer. When applicable there are links to our own articles about the subject, or…
Step one: buy a telescope. Step two: stay up late. Step three: profit? No no that’s not right at all. But that’s how we all think it goes. We get our first telescope and suddenly we’re astronomers. That first night we set up the scope with our star charts in hand and aim for the…
We take a step away from the buying guides and the deep sky searches for the messier catalog to take a look inside on why amateur astronomers do what we do, and why being alone might be better. Alone in the dark? Astronomy lends itself to be a solitary hobby. Of course it has its…