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• AstroAmerica’s Daily Ephemeris 2010-2020 Midnight

  I once had a nice 20th century ephemeris, with good, clean, easy to read layouts, eclipses at the very top of the page where I could find them, lunar phases and void-ofcourse that I could actually make sense of, with a nice, clear aspectarian at the bottom. It was a French thing (later a Kansas [...]

• Visiting Chicago’s Exciting Adler Planetarium

  Chicago’s Adler Planetarium is one of the city’s most popular attractions, and with good reason. Comprised of a museum which exhibits many fascinating items, including the space suit of one Buzz Aldrin, as well as a plethora of family-friendly educational games where kids can learn just how outer space operates, there’s plenty to take in [...]

• Titan Unveiled: Saturn’s Mysterious Moon Explored (New in Paper)

  For twenty-five years following the Voyager mission, scientists speculated about Saturn’s largest moon, a mysterious orb clouded in orange haze. Finally, in 2005, the Cassini-Huygens probe successfully parachuted down through Titan’s atmosphere, all the while transmitting images and data. In the early 1980s, when the two Voyager spacecraft skimmed past Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, they [...]

• The Futurisme of Asteroids

    There is a lot of exciting stuff going on in the stars above us that make astronomy so much fun.  The truth is the universe is a constantly changing, moving, some would say “living” thing because you just never know what you are going to see on any given night of stargazing.   Related [...]

• Making Your Own Telescope

  Complete, detailed instructions and numerous diagrams for constructing a do-it-yourself telescope. No complicated mathematics are involved, and no prior knowledge of optics or astronomy is needed to follow the text’s step-by-step directions. Contents cover, among other topics, materials and equipment; tube parts and alignment; eyepieces, and related problems; setting circles; and optical principles. 1973 ed. [...]