Astrophotography, and astronomy in general, takes some fairly specialized tools and a high amount of precision. Setting up the equipment can also take a lot of time, especially for amateurs traveling ...

The Herschels, Messiers, Barnards, and others did much of the early, heavy lifting of discovering and cataloguing deep-sky objects scattered around our sky. But some faint objects awaited much longer ...

Astrophotography, and astronomy in general, takes some fairly specialized tools and a high amount of precision. Setting up the equipment can also take a lot of time, especially for amateurs traveling ...

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. July 1: Venus in Leo High in the north late ...

The sky is filled with thousands of amazing objects for you to explore with binoculars or a small telescope. I’ll be highlighting an interesting object or group of objects in this new daily series, ...

Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher captured a haunting vista in July earlier this year, in which several deep-sky objects take on the collective appearance of a colossal cosmic shark hunting in the ...

To celebrate Colorado’s 150th anniversary, 150 dark sky parties will take place all over the state, including at Hecla ...