This article isn’t going to provide a how to guide for what to specifically to buy, but here are the basics for how to do Astrophotography. Astrophotography is neither financially cheap, nor is it technically…
Finding good weather and meteorological application focused and useful for astronomy can be a challenge as resources are numerous and provide a varying degree of data. Moreover, many sites provide the same data in a…
Called the Snow Moon of February, the full moon occurring during the shortest month of the year. The name represents the weather, which can be really cold and cloudy. The month of February is typically…
Named after the Beaver; the Full Beaver Moon of November is the time of the year that beavers are preparing for the winter. Therefore, hunters use this time to prepare the last beaver traps of…
Often the hottest month of the year, July is the middle of the summer season. Baseball is in full swing, kids are out of school and the dog days of summer are upon us. Although…
Named after the changes in the environment, the Pink Moon of April is a time for getting a new start. This can mean that the weather will start to consistently be better and allow for…
With the end of the winter season and start of the spring season, March is the time of change and new beginnings. The Worm Moon of March transitions from Winter to Spring with the Winter…
Although it brings an end to summer and a start of the autumn season, September is still a wonderful time to go observing. The Milky Way is still widely observable to the naked eye in…
Space–the “final” frontier as some would say; whereas, others would say a less-than-affordable frontier. Making space On Thursday March 30th, 2017, SpaceX launched a “recycled” or “flight proven” rocket that in April 2016 had launched…
A few days ago, NASA put a press release for a major announcement on Wednesday February 22nd, 2017. Rumor was rampant, with speculation everywhere. There was talk about members of the Spitzer Space Telescopes discovering…