As smartphone cameras improve, more people want to take photographs of the night sky with their smartphones. However, serious astrophotographers attach powerful, digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) ...

Amazon Prime Day offers lots of chances for skywatchers to upgrade their equipment. One of the deals on offer today (July 11) is theCelestron NexStar 127SLT Mak computerized telescope. The 5-inch (127 ...

Astronomy magazine's April 2004 issue featured a review of Konus U.S.A. Corp.'s Motormax-130 HM, a 5.1-inch (130mm) f/15.4 Maksutov Cassegrain telescope. The telescope boasts a 2000mm focal length, ...

It's called the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire, and extraordinary it is: the Spitzer Space Telescope created a 180-foot-long mosaic of 800,000 high-resolution snapshots, all ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Shooting the moon is fun, easy and very rewarding. This is because the moon is so bright and ...

In order to be seen, light from objects needs to reach our eyes. Therefore, objects that are far away don’t reflect enough light back for us to see them. The objective lens of a traditional telescope ...