The Dobsonian telescope design is hugely popular with amateur astronomers. The design was developed in the 1960s by John Dobson, an amateur astronomer who wanted to create an inexpensive and easy ...

In a rare and remarkable achievement, an amateur astronomer from Austria, Felix Schöfbänker, has captured detailed images of ...

Satellite tracker and photographer Felix Schöfbänker has captured a variety of secret spacecraft on camera, revealing "things ...

But what if you’re using star diagonal or you have a Dobsonian (Newtonian) telescope? We’ve flipped the chart orientations for you! Look below and click on the link for your type of telescope and the ...

As the name suggests, this project is based around a Dobsonian-style telescope: Newtonian tube with simple altazimuth base. Aside from the mechanical construction, this system uses an ESP32 as its ...

Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year winners announced including nebulae, skyscapes, and more.

In the book, the way in which we show objects on the Moon is how they appear using binoculars or the naked eye in the northern hemisphere (this is the same orientation as with a Dobsonian telescope in ...

Leonid meteor showers will be visible starting about 11 p.m., with the best displays expected just before dawn and peak on ...

A Dobsonian telescope can be put together fairly quickly sometimes using off-the-shelf parts from IKEA.

Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomy Photographer of the Year winners include far away galaxies, supernovas, aurora, the ...

It was also photographed from New Delhi, India by Sona Shahani Shukla using an 8-inch Skywatcher Flextube Dobsonian telescope. A couple of days later astrophotographer Matt Smith captured a rare ...

LAC LA BICHE - It was a late-night double feature at Sir Winston Churchill Park on Saturday, as visitors had a chance to not ...