Join Custer Observatory for our first-ever Messier Marathon! This is the ultimate deep-sky challenge: we’ll attempt to locate all 110 objects in Charles Messier’s famous catalog—from galaxies to ...

Astronomy buffs are invited to dust off their telescopes this weekend for Custer Institute & Observatory’s first-ever ...

Each spring, amateur astronomers attempt the ultimate stargazing challenge—an overnight quest to spot every galaxy, nebula, ...

Here is a list with three objects per season which appear really large in the nighttime sky. Please note they aren’t all the brightest, but parts of the objects will be visible through binoculars. And ...

Northern Cepheus contains a strange nebula with a very long name. Gyulbudaghian's Nebula (JAI-al-boo-dag-ian) was discovered by Armenian astronomer Armen Gyulbudaghian in 1977 and its variability was ...

The Pagosa Sidewalk Astronomers will host free, educational public events at which you can use your binoculars to see large deep-sky objects. Two nights during spring break weeks are scheduled ...

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 ...

In context: Astronomers have been observing the wheel-shaped nebula NGC 1514 for over three centuries. In 1790, William Herschel described it as the first deep-sky object that looked cloudy. Unlike ...

Of all the objects that you can view through a telescope, some of the most stunning to behold are the planets in our solar system, and the galaxies that lie far beyond it. But if you want to see more ...

March evenings offer some of the best observing conditions of the late-winter sky, with the Moon gradually fading from a ...

Levy, of the famous comet-hunting team Shoemaker-Levy, compiles a comprehensive catalog of objects which can be observed in all light conditions and usually with low-power equipment. Targeting novice ...