The Cone Nebula and its surroundings, the Christmas Tree Cluster and the Fox-Fur Nebula, are extremely interesting objects for astronomers and provide stunning views.
This vast Gas cloud complex was originally discovered by the British astronomer William Herschel, the discoverer of Uranus, in 1785. Also known as Sh2-273, this nebulous complex is an active star-forming region. […]

If you’ve ever peeked your head out at night at the countryside and gazed at the stars, I bet you could feel the awe that the night sky provokes.
Like many other hobbie or professional astronomers, I feel that observing the sky raises deep philosophical questions. I’m constantly meeting people who tend to forget that the […]

Anyone who has gazed at the sky has asked himself/herself what that little tight knot of stars was in during the winter. This articles will be focusing on two things:

What are the Pleiades? What are there story?
How to get a better look at them.

What are the Pleiades? What are there story?
The Pleiades are an open […]

It took me two full hours to understand the concept of equatorial mount when I first started off as an amateur astronomer. First of all, the diagrams which I had where really terrible, and only mixed things up even more than the text only of the book I had. This is why I’m going to […]

There really is two types of observations, two types of amateur astronomers: those who take pictures of objects they like, and others that stick to regular eye observation. Both are very distinct actually, because it’s not the same feeling you get.
Personally, I’m part of the second category. Even though I do like photography in everyday […]

Hyperion is one of the many moons of Saturn. The Cassini mission revealed it in great detail when approaching Saturn in 2005. Composed mainly of ice, the moon orbits Saturn in approximately 21 days.
The moon is named after a Greek Titan (a greek god). The Mossy aspect of the moon is largely confirmed by […]

A new buzz in the astronosphere. In the night between October 23 and 24, comet P/17 Holmes, a small little comet of magnitude 17, suddenly became extremely bright, multiplying its brightness by a factor of 1 million! The comet now has a magnitude of 2.7 . The causes are still unknown, however astronomers have reported […]

Has Hubble found its successor? Will the James Webb Space Telescope take up to the challenge?
Well, there are nearly all of the keys for this little (big) telescope to take up on what Hubble has left it to work with, because there’s still plenty of things to be discovered. With its 6.5 meter diameter, in […]