Photo credit: Gabriel Morgan[/caption] All in all, we think the SkyMaster Pros are the best pick out there for most people. With their premium XLT optical treatment and huge objective lenses, they ...

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The Celestron Skymaster 25x100 is dirt cheap ahead of Cyber Monday and is our best binoculars for magnification, perfect for gazing at galaxies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

For many of us, light pollution has robbed our skies of once readily visible objects. That’s why many residential observers have turned away from nebulae and galaxies to pursue other targets, such as ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If you find yourself increasingly intrigued by the night sky and yearn to see more than what is visible with the naked eye, you don’t need to buy a fancy ...

The premier issue of Astronomy featured a column called “Constellation Close-up” written by Thomas C. Bretl. The first installment profiled the zodiacal constellation Capricornus. In honor of the ...

Have you ever seen an asteroid with your own eyes? If not, now through March presents an excellent opportunity to find Vesta, the brightest. In fact, it's just bright enough to glimpse without optical ...

The Hawke Endurance ED 8x25 strikes a good balance between portability and performance. It’s light and compact, yet still provides a clear, sharp image and a surprisingly wide field of view for its ...

On Oct. 10, Austrian astrophotographer Michael Jaeger captured this stunning image of Comet Lemmon with a telescope. It shows a greenish head from fluorescing carbon gases, a sharply defined, ...

Human vision is pretty remarkable relative to the rest of the animal kingdom. We can pick out large objects miles away, but even “eagle-eyed” people with perfect vision struggle to make out details ...

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