Archive for the ‘Celestial Objects’ Category
- The Sky This Month – September 2010
- Three Sadly-Neglected Star Clusters in Ophiuchus
- The “Mad Bull” of the August Sky
- The Northern Coalsack
- A Dying Star in the Dragon’s Den
- Why Mars Will NOT Appear As Large As The Full Moon
- Two Must-See Star Clusters in Scorpius
- The Sky This Month – August 2010
- The Coalsack Nebula
- Constellation Crux – The Southern Cross
- Legends of the Southern Cross
- Summer Stargazing Without a Telescope
- Bucket List Object #8: A Total Solar Eclipse
- The Sky This Month – July 2010
- Five Destinations for the Astro-Tourist
- The Heart of the Scorpion
- Bucket List for Stargazers #9: Sunrise on the Moon
- Jupiter Gets Dinged… Again
- A Comet at Midsummer Dawn
- The Sky This Month – June 2010
- Bucket List Object #10: Omega Centauri
- The “Bucket List” for Backyard Stargazers
- The Constellation Leo
- Venus, Moon, and Two Spacecraft To Meet in the Western Sky
- Flames on the Sun
- The Sky This Month – May 2010
- Amazing Videos of the Awakening Sun
- The “Ghost of Jupiter”
- Messier’s “Lost” Star Cluster
- The Constellation Hydra
- Fly Me To… The Planet Saturn
- The Sky This Month – April 2010
- A Planet “Pretty Enough to Make a Grown Man Cry”
- How To Choose Binoculars For Astronomy
- Saturn Takes Center Stage
- Cluster Hunting with the “Big Dog”
- Binocular Basics
- The Sky This Month – March 2010
- The “Vampire” Star
- A Short History of Life on Mars
- Video of a Trip to Mars
- The Tiny Moons of Mars
- The Sky This Month – February 2010
- How To Observe Mars This Week
- Mars in a Nutshell
- An Olympic Test for Your Vision
- The “Raining Stars”
- The Sky This Month – January 2010
- The California Nebula
- The “Southern Beehive” Cluster
- The Sky This Month – December 2009
- Video Series – How To Choose A Telescope (II)
- Video Series – How To Choose A Telescope (I)
- An Elusive Nebula in the Northern Sky
- 3 Clusters in Cassiopeia
- The Sky This Month – November 2009
- The Moons of Jupiter
- Snapping Pictures of Jupiter
- A Meteor Shower in Orion
- Venus, Saturn, and Mercury in the Pre-Dawn Sky
- Get a Better View of Jupiter
- How To Make a Planet Into a Star
- Space Probe to Crash Into Moon (et cetera…)
- Do Sunspots Cause Global Warming?
- Discover the “Secrets of the Deep Sky”
- Seeing the “False Dawn”
- Sunspots, Solar Cycles, and the Little Ice Age
- All About Sunspots
- Jupiter’s Moons To Disappear
- Mars Plays Tag With A Star Cluster
- The Prettiest Globular in the Sky
- The Perseid Meteor Shower
- A Mysterious Eclipse Begins in Auriga
- Mars WILL NOT Appear As Large As The Full Moon
- A Busy Week for Skywatchers
- A Stargazing Lesson From Apollo 11
- An Astronomical Summer Romance
- What’s Up This Month – July 2009
- The “Blue Planetary”
- What’s Up This Month – June 2009
- Under The Dipper’s Handle, Part 3
- Under The Dipper’s Handle, Part 2
- Under The Dipper’s Handle, Part 1
- See A Galaxy Cluster From Your Backyard
- What’s Up This Month – May 2009
- Iota Cancri: Hard to Say, Easy to See
- The Cluster of “Piled Corpse Spirits”
- The “Southern Pleiades”
- The Jewel Box Cluster
- What’s Up This Month – April 2009
- A Modest But Attractive Star Cluster…
- Video of a Cosmic Close Call…
- M35, This Month’s Most Beautiful Star Cluster
- What’s Up This Month – March 2009
- Comet Lulin Update
- The “Clown” Nebula
- 5 Winter Wonders For Kids
- Two More Fine Multiple Stars
- What’s Up This Month – February 2009
- A Quintuple Star in Orion
- The Great Orion Nebula
- M41, A Winter Favorite
- What’s Up This Month – January 2009
- M33: The Farthest Thing You Can See
- What’s Up This Month – December 2008
- The Double Cluster
- M15 – A Dense Swarm of Ancient Stars
- The “Little Andromeda” Galaxy
- Algol, The “Demon Star”
- Mira, The “Wonderful” Star
- 47 Tucanae
- The “Castaway Cluster”
- NGC 6193: The “Four-In-One” Cluster
- M17 – The Swan Nebula
- False Comet Cluster
- A Pair of Delightful Double Stars
- M11 – The Wild Duck Cluster
- Albireo: A Spectacular Double Star
- Six Sights For Kids
- The Veil Nebula
- M87: Monster Galaxy in Virgo
- M104 – The Sombrero Galaxy
- The Dark Doodad
- M83: The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
- M81 & M82: Two Galaxies for The Price of One
- M64: The “Black-Eyed” Galaxy
- NGC 4565: The Flying Saucer Galaxy
- M44: A Hive Of Celestial Bees
- Getting Sirius: The Low-Down on the “Dog Star”
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