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November Planetary Events!

November, from the Latin novem for nine, is the eleventh month of the year. The name comes from a time when

In this installment, we travel to Kitt Peak in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert to “speckle” binary stars and finally learn what

An “opposition” happens on the day that Earth and an outer planet line up on the same side of the

By the 1970s amateur astronomers had noticed that all 110 Messier objects (a list of notable objects in the northern

A New Year means a fresh opportunity for viewing new targets and old friends in the sky. Start marking up

The Jupiter and Saturn “Great Conjunction” was well-publicized and well-imaged. Even though the closest approach between the planets was Monday,

Great Conjunction: Countdown to December 21st! On December 16th, Jupiter and Saturn will be a full-Moon’s width apart at dusk

Tele Vue Sells Out of Limited Edition Apollo 11 Eyepiece! Last year, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the

According to a recent Solar Activity Update by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center, “Solar

Is it just us or did it seem that 2020 was a longer than usual year? Yet while both the