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- ZWO Seestar S30 Review July 6, 2025The ZWO Seestar S30 is a compact, all-in-one smart telescope designed to make astrophotography simple and approachable. With its built-in camera, motorized mount, and mobile app control, it takes a lot of the guesswork out of capturing the night sky. No cables, no polar alignment, no complicated setup required. For this reason, the S30 is... […]Ashley Northcotte
- ZWO ASI585MM Pro Review: An Affordable Mono Powerhouse June 19, 2025The ZWO ASI585MM Pro is ZWO’s most affordable cooled monochrome astronomy camera, and after two months of backyard imaging with it, I’ve come away pretty impressed. This little camera offers a lot of versatility—ideal for both planetary imaging and deep-sky astrophotography—thanks to its high frame rate and cooling capability. But like any gear, it has... […]Trevor Jones
- How a Star Tracker Can Transform Your Astrophotography May 31, 2025If you want to start taking incredible photos of the night sky, I highly recommend investing in a small star tracker. You can attach your existing camera and lens to a star tracker to take amazing photos of large nebulae and galaxies. Over the years, I have used many different star trackers, but the Sky-Watcher... […]Trevor Jones
NASA Solar System & Beyond
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4589 – 4592: Setting up to explore Volcán Peña Blanca July 7, 2025Written by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Thursday, July 3, 2025 The team was delighted this morning to learn that Wednesday’s drive had completed flawlessly, placing us in a stable position facing a ~3 foot high ridge located ~35 feet away. This ridge is the eastern edge […]
- Curiosity Blog, Sol 4588: Ridges and troughs July 7, 2025Written by Lucy Thompson, APXS Collaborator and Senior Research Scientist at the University of New Brunswick, CanadaEarth planning date: Wednesday, July 2, 2025As we traverse the boxwork terrain, we are encountering a series of more resistant ridges/bedrock patches, and areas that are more rubbly and tend to form lower relief polygonal or trough-like features. We […]
- Working in Space July 7, 2025In this May 23, 2025, image, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim works inside the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft completing cargo operations before it undocked from the International Space Station’s Harmony module several hours later. Kim launched to the International Space Station on April 8, 2025; this is his first mission. See what Kim and other space […]Monika Luabeya
Sky & Telescope
- Rare Interstellar Comet Buzzes Solar System July 7, 2025A newfound comet from a remote star system may become bright enough to see in amateur telescopes this November. The post Rare Interstellar Comet Buzzes Solar System appeared first on Sky & Telescope.Bob King
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 4 – 12 July 4, 2025On Sunday night the Moon occults Pi Scorpii for almost all of North America. Elsewhere in Scorpius, the Cat's Eyes point side-eye to the Little Cat's Eyes. The post This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 4 – 12 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.Alan MacRobert
- See Multiple International Space Station Passes This Fourth of July Weekend July 3, 2025Early July is a great time to catch multiple passes of the International Space Station passes in a single night. Here's why. The post See Multiple International Space Station Passes This Fourth of July Weekend appeared first on Sky & Telescope.David Dickinson
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