Night Skies
Tracking Lunar Libration Across One Synodic Month
The slow wobble of the Moon, observed and sketched over twenty-nine and a half nights from a balcony in Trieste.
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Night Skies
Twelve months of the Milky Way at Cherry Springs, equipment-free naked-eye observing, the planets visible tonight.
Night Skies
An Evening with Albireo Through a 4-Inch Refractor
The most-shown double star in the sky, seen carefully from a back garden in Lyon, with notes on what the colours actually look like.
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Zodiacal Light from a High-Desert Site in March
The faint cone of scattered interplanetary dust, observed across nine evenings from a turnout on the Mogollon Rim.
Night Skies
Learning the Winter Hexagon as a Single Naked-Eye Object
Six bright stars, one large pattern, and the slow work of seeing the winter sky as a whole rather than a list of constellations.
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A January Star Party in Single-Digit Cold
What twenty-one observers brought, wore, and saw on a clear night at fourteen below zero in northern Vermont.
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The Planets Visible Tonight from a Mid-Northern Latitude
A short field guide to the five naked-eye planets as they appear in the late spring sky from forty degrees north.
Night Skies
A Year of Naked-Eye Observing, Without Equipment
What can be seen from a suburban backyard with no telescope, no binoculars, and only patience.
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Twelve Months of the Milky Way at Cherry Springs
A year of monthly visits to a small Pennsylvania state park, kept by an observer who logged each session in a black Moleskine.