17 March 2026

Moon Watching: It's just a Phase

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Lunar X and V The Moon is a wonderful object to behold. It brings us ever-changing patterns as it orbits our home planet every 29 days. Each...
17 February 2026

It's Good to be King: Mighty Jupiter

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Track of Jupiter The planets create lovely patterns across the night sky and this February there is a good alignment of planets in the eveni...
19 January 2026

Your New Telescope 101: Peering Deep into the Night Sky

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A big telescope reveals the beauty and majesty of the universe. It's truly astonishing what you can see when the conditions are just rig...
11 December 2025

A Close-up Look at the Southern Skies

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The Southern Sky For us 'northerners' who live north of the equator, traveling south of the equator means that you see the heavens f...
04 November 2025

The Darkest Skies on Earth

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Southern Sky & Milky Way For many years, my astronomy dream has been to spend time in a dark location with excellent viewing and reliabl...
02 October 2025

Eyes on the Infinite: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory

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Earlier this year, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory came online and has been delivering amazing astronomy. The observatory incorporates the la...
19 August 2025

The Magic of the Milky Way

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We live in an SBc galaxy, a Barred Spiral galaxy, according to the Hubble Sequence classification method. What does that mean? Well actual...
10 July 2025

The Midnight Sun

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Above the Arctic Circle, days during the summer are very unusual. At some point in May or early June the sun does not set, but instead stays...