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Astro Bob: Journey to the deep sky with Cassiopeia as your guide Like the Winter Hexagon, the W of Cassiopeia is a key to the sky. We'll use it to find three deep-sky binocular favorites. Written By: Bob King for the Duluth News Tribune | 2:16 pm, Feb. 10, 2021 × Starting at the W of Cassiopeia, we'll use the star-hop method to find the Double Cluster, the Andromeda Galaxy and the star cluster NGC 752 in binoculars. (Bob King) How would you like to see what's behind the stars? When I was a boy I couldn't wait to find the Orion Nebula, the Hercules globular cluster and m...

A Rosette Nebula. For February 2021, the Moon is last quarter on Feb. 4, and new on Feb. 11.  The waxing crescent passes just south of Mars on Feb. 18, and is first quarter the following evening.  The full moon is the Hunger or Wolf Moon, and is on Feb. 27. Except for Mars, all the planets lie too close to the sun for easy observation this month.  Even Mars is disappointing telescopically, for the earth has left it far behind since the close opposition last fall, and it is only a tiny red disk high in the evening sky in Aries at nightfall.  But next month Jupiter and Saturn return to ...

Sky-Watcher Star Discovery P150i Wi-Fi telescope The Star Discovery P150i Wi-Fi comes in two boxes and is straightforward to assemble, allowing you to be up and running in 10 to 15 minutes. Advertisement The tube assembly is in one box while the tripod, single-arm mount, spreader tray and a box with the eyepieces, finder and bubble level is in the second. It’s best to assemble the mount onto the tripod first and then to attach the telescope, before completing it with the red dot finder. The mount is powered either by eight AA...

When we look at the night sky, how far back in time can we see? January 8, 2021 at 11:22 am When we look up at the stars, we are looking back in time. The light entering our eyes from these distant objects set off years, decades or millennia earlier. Every time we look at something ‘up there’ we’re seeing it as it was in the past. Advertisement With enormous modern telescopes and sensitive detectors, professional astronomers can see far beyond what most back garden telescopes are capable of. The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) was created by using 10 years of Hubble Space Telescope i...

William Optics Zenithstar 61 II APO with UniGuide guidescope We could sum up the William Optics Zenithstar 61 II APO refractor as tiny and serious or seriously tiny. It’s a small, portable instrument with a 61mm air-spaced, colour-corrected doublet lens, which definitely packs a punch, especially when used for astrophotography. Advertisement The main tube is white with a black clamping ring and focuser barrel, while a choice of colours – grey, gold or red – is used on the dust cap, dew shield, eyepiece clamp and mounting b...