Felix Schöfbänker, who used a telescope built to track and photograph satellites, observed phenomena that were “only ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Scanning the heavens with a telescope is a great way to spend long, clear winter nights, but using a manual telescope can get to be a drag. A motorized mount with altitude and azimuth control is ...

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 ...

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 ...