Living The Backyard Astronomer: Tonight's the night for the Full Flower Blood Moon total eclipse The total lunar eclipse is the only one visible this year, with a partial lunar eclipse in November.
Living The Backyard Astronomer: How to time travel to the days of the dinosaurs without looking at fossils A telescope lets you, literally, look at stars as they were millions of years ago.
Living The Backyard Astronomer: Orion the Hunter, birthplace of stars, stalks the winter sky Embrace the night sky for all it has to offer, no matter what time of year.
Living The Backyard Astronomer: For the first time in 40 centuries, a Christmas Star conjunction in the night sky Many are associating this with the Star of the Magi (or the Christmas Star) in the Christian nativity story.
Living The Backyard Astronomer: How to buy a telescope for Christmas With this telescope, I have viewed spectacular lunar craters and the rings of Saturn, as well as the bands of Jupiter and moons of both planets.
Living The Backyard Astronomer: High tech puts astrophotography in everyone's hands You will be amazed at what your DSLR camera can record in the night sky.
Living The Backyard Astronomer: Mars, the Rusty Planet, is about to get really close and bright The planet's orange-red colour is due to the presence of iron oxide—rust—in its soil.
Living The Backyard Astronomer: How to spot our neighbouring galaxy without a telescope or binoculars Andromeda is our closest neighbouring galaxy, and it contains about a trillion stars.
Living The Backyard Astronomer: Spectacular new comet visible to naked eye The celestial visitor won't be back for thousands of years.
Living The backyard astronomer: Lovely Venus, where it rains battery acid and a pizza would cook outside in nine seconds Venus is the brightest nighttime object—and for good reason.