I'm often asked to recommend a telescope, especially around the holidays, when gift-giving is on our minds. Today I'll share a few suggestions, but before we talk specifics, let's look at the ...

For many, fascination with the heavens is as endless as space itself. If we could just get a glimpse of another world, maybe ours would make more sense? The right telescope reveals the wonders of the ...

The Robert Ferguson Observatory in Kenwood will mark International Observe the Moon Night on Oct. 4 with a special ‘Moon ...

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The 24-inch Boller & Chivens f/8 Cassegrain was installed in the dome of Sommers-Bausch Observatory in 1973. Originally equipped for visual viewing, 4x5 film photography, photomultiplier photometry, ...

On October 7, police escorted a wooden crate two lanes wide through the streets of the South Side, arriving at the new High Bay Research Building on East 56th Street and South Maryland Avenue. Inside ...

This review, “The big easy,” appeared in the May 2005 issue of Astronomy magazine. Spring nights beckon observers. As amateur astronomers whose dreams usually outstrip our budgets, my little stargazer ...

In a happy alignment of the stars, the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales fest falls in the part of the year when the evenings get darker earlier and conditions are ideal to start star gazing and ...

The Astronomical Society of the Palm Beaches has built a machine that penetrates South Florida’s dark sky desert for a peek at celestial spectacles thousands of light years from Earth. Housed at the ...

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