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AstroBackyard
- How to Photograph the Orion Nebula December 4, 2024This article was last updated on December 4th, 2024. In this post, I’ll break down how to photograph the Orion Nebula, one of the most spectacular deep-sky objects in the night sky. While it may just look like a smudge to the naked eye, Orion is the nearest, large star-forming region to Earth at just... […]Trevor Jones
- What To Consider When Buying a Telescope November 29, 2024If you’re looking to buy your first telescope—or your first good telescope—this guide is for you. I’ll cover the most important aspects of a telescope, how much you should expect to spend, and provide four excellent examples to consider. The following choices are obviously not the only ones to choose from, but they offer a... […]Trevor Jones
- Dwarf 3 Smart Telescope Review November 23, 2024The Dwarf 3 smart telescope is a compact, ultra-portable device that was designed to make astrophotography easy and fun. While this device is in its third iteration, it is the first DwarfLab product I’ve ever used. It combines a small telescope, an astronomy camera, and a computerized mount to track and photograph objects in space.... […]Trevor Jones
NASA Solar System & Beyond
- NASA’s Hubble Celebrates Decade of Tracking Outer Planets December 9, 2024Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system. Collectively, since their launch in 1977, the twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft discovered that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune were far more complex than scientists had imagined. There was a lot […]
- Leader of NASA’s VERITAS Mission Honored With AGU’s Whipple Award December 9, 2024Suzanne Smrekar, geophysicist and principal investigator of the agency’s upcoming VERITAS mission to Venus, is NASA JPL’s first recipient of the prestigious award. Suzanne Smrekar, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, received the Fred Whipple Award on Monday, Dec. 9, in Washington at the fall meeting of the American […]Anthony Greicius
- NASA invita a los medios a firma de Acuerdos de Artemis con Panamá y Austria December 9, 2024Read this release in English here. El miércoles 11 de diciembre, Panamá y Austria firmarán los Acuerdos de Artemis en la sede de la NASA en Washington. Tras las ceremonias de firma, el administrador de la NASA, Bill Nelson, se reunirá con los medios de comunicación para destacar avances de los acuerdos, entre ellos el haber […]Tiernan P. Doyle
Sky & Telescope
- New Webb Telescope View Shows Unexpectedly Crowded Asteroid Belt December 9, 2024A new view of archival Webb telescope data reveals small asteroids in the main asteroid belt are more numerous than we thought. The post New Webb Telescope View Shows Unexpectedly Crowded Asteroid Belt appeared first on Sky & Telescope.David L. Chandler
- You're Invited to Jupiter's Big, Bright Opposition Bash December 6, 2024Don't let the cold keep you inside — Jupiter beckons with a brand new storm! The post You're Invited to Jupiter's Big, Bright Opposition Bash appeared first on Sky & Telescope.Bob King
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, December 6 – 15 December 6, 2024The Moon this week shines with Saturn at first quarter, then with Jupiter when full. No surprise; the two giant planets are almost exactly 90° apart. Jupiter is at opposition, and Saturn is at quadrature. The post This Week's Sky at a Glance, December 6 – 15 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.Alan MacRobert
Phil’s Astronomy Blog
- Hello out there? October 12, 2021Anybody still coming here?Phil
- Markarian's Chain in Virgo April 13, 2018My own Hubble View! These galaxies lie between 10 to 50 million light years away. How many galaxies do you see? A pretty tricky part of the sky to image, really. You're utilizing almost your entire field of view with an 80mm scope, so dealing with all that comes with wide-field. This is the best […]Phil
- M51 Whirlpool Galaxy April 9, 2018A nice clear night last night until around 12:30 when clouds rolled in. Managed to get this image of the lovely M51 Whirlpool galaxy. It lies around 23 million light years away and it is interacting with a smaller galaxy (yellow~ish bulge to the left). Three supernova (star explosions) have been detected in this galaxy […]Phil