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Buying your first telescope

What is the Milky Way?

Readers’ images: top galaxy astrophotos

Image of Pluto taken by New Horizons

What’s warming Pluto’s icy heart?

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Stargazing for beginners

New to astronomy? Get started with our newcomers' guides.

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The importance of portable astronomy kit

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What’s in a mount?

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Things new stargazers should know

Astronomy equipment reviews

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Visionary 20x80 HD binoculars

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Nikon D810A DSLR camera review

£2699 Price correct at time of review

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Altair Lightwave 72ED-R refractor

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Space science

Uranus's rings imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1997 in infrared and visible light
Image credit: Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona), and NASA/ESA

40 years of Uranus’s rings

US-eclipse-2017

A tale of two eclipses

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A guide to galaxies

Weather in the Solar System

Astronomy guides

While equatorial mounts will help you take crisp nightscape images, star trails can be used to add a unique effect to astrophotos. Chap Him Wong won the 'People and Space' category in the 2015 competition with this amazing shot. Credit: Chap Him Wong

How to create star trail astrophotos

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A guide to Chile’s best stargazing sites

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Astrophotography

How to image the night sky

Starry night sky over the mountains of the North Caucasus. Binoculars for travelers to observe the stars of the Milky Way. Summer evening twilight time.

The value of binoculars

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Astrophotography

Guides and galleries to help you get imaging the night sky

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Astrophotography

10 simple tips for budding astro imagers

While equatorial mounts will help you take crisp nightscape images, star trails can be used to add a unique effect to astrophotos. Chap Him Wong won the 'People and Space' category in the 2015 competition with this amazing shot. Credit: Chap Him Wong

How to create star trail astrophotos

Imaging deep-sky objects, like the globular cluster M13, captures the beauty of distant space

Astrophotography guides

Introducing deep-sky photography

$Rad Djeliov, Northamptonshire. Rad says: "We were lucky enough to get a few minutes' break in the clouds and it just happened to coincide with the moonrise. This photo is something I've tried to do over many nights of chasing the Moon, and I'm very happy I caught it with some foreground (a local communications tower). Equipment: Canon 100D DSLR camera, Celestron C80ED refractor$

14 November 2016 supermoon: in pictures

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How to take a photo of the International Space Station

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How to photograph the Moon with a digital camera

Astrophotography galleries

23rd November 2015. Saturn’s moon Tethys floating in the foreground of its parent planet. The moon is composed mainly of water ice, much like the rings of Saturn. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

Cassini’s top 10 images of Saturn and its moons

Astronaut Bruce McCandless makes the first ever untethered spacewalk with the aid of his nitrogen jet propelled backpack, February 1984.

NASA Space Age photos up for auction

The US astronaut relaxing onboard the USS Noa after it picked him up following the Friendship 7's landing in the Atlantic Ocean, 1,200km southeast of Bermuda. (Credit: NASA)

Remembering astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth

Scintillating Sirius
Steve Brown (UK)

Location: Stokesley, North Yorkshire, UK, 11 January 2016

Equipment: Canon EOS 600D DSLR camera, 250mm lens, Star Adventurer tracking mount.

Astrophotography

Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year: 2017 shortlist revealed

Gene Cernan takes the Lunar Roving Vehicle for a ride on the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission. (NASA)

Remembering astronaut Gene Cernan, the ‘last man on the Moon’

Podcasts

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New Horizons and event horizons

The New Horizons probe has given us incredible and unprecedented views of Pluto
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Podcast: New Horizons and event horizons

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Lunar eclipses, 2019 space missions and green stars

'How to' guides

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Build a smartphone holder for your telescope

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How to build a wheeled telescope tripod

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How to make a small refractor telescope

In the magazine

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March 2019

February 2019

Inside this month’s new-look issue:

November 2018

November 2018

October 2018

October 2018