Last summer, the global amateur astronomer community was rocked when it lost one of its giants. Don Machholz from Arizona passed away suddenly on Aug. 9, 2022, at the age of 69. Don was a preeminent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photographer Alan Dyer observes the star clusters Messier 7 and Messier 6 near the horizon above Montana’s Sweetgrass Hills—two of ...

This is a milestone column for me, as it is the 10th anniversary of my first What’s Up in Durango Skies. I always try to come up with some new astronomical topic to discuss, but there is also the ...

Thanks to eighteenth-century astronomer Charles Messier, amateur stargazing can be a marathon experience. Over the course of his life, Messier catalogued 110 deep-sky objects such as nebulae, galaxies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. French astronomer Charles Messier did not intend to be remembered for his discoveries of galaxies, nebulae, and stars clusters ...

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For one brief stretch each spring, amateur astronomers attempt one of backyard astronomy’s most ambitious challenges: spotting an entire catalog of deep-sky objects in a single night. Known as the ...