A series of articles written for the beginner. Astronomy can be dauntingly complex at the start. Mastering the basics is not hard, you just have to get started somewhere…
Skills and Info
- Finding Your Way in the Sky
- Light-years, Light-minutes and Light-seconds
- Degrees, Arc-Minutes and Arc-Seconds
- Magnitude
- Elongations, Conjunctions and Oppositions
- Lunar Apogee and Perigee
- Lahina Noon
Observing
- Meteor Watching
- Comet? Where?
- Tracking the Aurora Borealis
- Seeing Planets in the Daytime Sky
- A Brief Guide to Public Observing
Astrophotography
