In 2009, Contributing Editor Mike Reynolds conducted a series of “family meteorite workshops” at Florida State College in Jacksonville, Florida. He will present several more at the North East Astronomy Forum in April. Mike Reynolds photo On April 17 and...

Astronauts aboard the STS-125 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope brought along IMAX 3-D cameras. During the May 2009 mission, they documented their spacewalks. NASA, in collaboration with the IMAX Collaboration and Warner Bros. Pictures, combined...

In recognition of its 50th anniversary, Celestron has just posted the first of six planned videos in its “Path of Light” series. Episode 1, “Generation of Dreamers” explains how the company’s founder, Tom Johnson, developed the first commercial Schmidt...

The Orion Nebula (M42) imaged by Gene Turner with the 14-inch SCT at Astronomy Magazine Observatory, a Hyperstar correcting lens system, and a Canon XTI DSLR camera. It‘s a composite of five 15-second exposures at f/2. On Wednesday night, March 17, Gene...

Yesterday, I blogged about an e-mail I received from developer Gene Turner, who runs the Rancho Hidalgo Astronomy and Equestrian Village near Animas, New Mexico. He had hosted an astronomy group , and they had a great time. We thought it would be a nice...

I just received an e-mail from developer Gene Turner, who runs the Rancho Hidalgo Astronomy and Equestrian Village near Animas, New Mexico. This site is one of the clearest, darkest, and steadiest in North America. Apparently, Gene has been talking up...

Celestron’s C8-NGT Newtonian reflecting telescope has always been one of the company’s seminal scopes, with the modern version living up to even higher standards than the original. Celestron Surely most of our readers here are familiar with Celestron...

A few weeks ago, Astronomy Editor David J. Eicher visited the astronomy and equestrian village at Rancho Hidalgo near Animas, New Mexico. While Dave was there, developer Gene Turner surprised him by unveiling a second Astronomy Magazine Observatory ,...

Readers of this site (and magazine) may be accustomed to using magnification to look at the very big, very far away. But, apart from any biology or chemistry enthusiasts out there, what about using magnification to look at the very, very small? When’s...

Three weeks ago during my stay at Rancho Hidalgo, Gene Turner’s astronomy village near Animas, New Mexico, I had the pleasure of being introduced to Glynn Burke by our mutual friend Gene. Gene explained that Glynn is a brilliant engineer who is setting...

Neil deGrasse Tyson is the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, which caused controversy with how it categorized the solar system into three groups, placing Pluto not with the other planets but with the Kuiper Belt objects at the outskirts...

Earlier this week, I received this short note from Enrico Sacchetti, a commercial photographer based in South Florida: Dear Michael, 
I wanted to show you a few images I recently shot at the European Northern Observatory’s Roque de los...