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Equipment
Anselm Bauer makes the case for a small set of overlooked accessories — a proper observing chair, a calibrated red flashlight, a notebook, a folding table — that change the experience of a night under the sky.
Equipment
Iolanda Ferro examines her own eyepiece case after twenty-two years of amateur observing and finds that she uses four of the eleven eyepieces inside it.
Solar
Beatriz Garcia talks to three amateur eclipse chasers about what they have learned across decades of pursuit, and what the discipline costs and gives.
Equipment
Cosmo Tate spent six months learning a small German equatorial mount in a Cambridge driveway, and reports on the experience for the observer who is considering one.
Meteors
Cosmo Tate spent three nights in December 2025 with an amateur observing group near Craftsbury, Vermont. The Geminids did not disappoint, and the cold was instructive.
Equipment
Iolanda Ferro tested six pairs of binoculars across a Neapolitan winter, from a thirty-euro Bushnell to a fifteen-hundred-euro Nikon, and reports what the eye actually saw.