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Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
Familiar Forms on Fried and Frozen Worlds
Recent discoveries on Titan and Venus show us that nature doesn’t need water to make features that remind us of home.
Stargazing versus Hiking
It's not easy to reconcile the demands of strenuous backpacking by day and intensive stargazing at night.
Corrected Light-Pollution Atlas
New work indicates that the venerable and highly respected World Atlas of Aritifical Night Sky Brightness was systematically distorted by snow cover when the underlying satellite data was obtained.
Have You Seen TWAN?
The World at Night website features the world's finest photos of earthly scenes set against the background of the night sky.
Hobby Q&A
How far away can we detect exoplanets? How many stars are visible to the unaided eye? Read Hobby Q&A to find answers to these and other questions.
Mount Wilson: Old and New
Mount Wilson is home to two of the world's greatest old telescopes, and also to some cutting-edge technology.
RTMC 2010, Part II
Amateur telescope making still plays a central role in our hobby.
RTMC 2010: the 42-inch CDK
The Corrected Dall-Kirkham design makes it possible to view through a huge telescope with your feet planted solidly on the ground.
Palomar Observatory
Palomar Observatory is still alive and well 62 years after the famous 200-inch Hale Telescope became operational.
RTMC 2010, Part I
For the first time in its history, the Riverside Telescope Maker's Conference was held at new Moon instead of on Memorial Day weekend. That allowed some wonderful views of galaxies under surprisingly dark skies.
Griffith Observatory
Griffith Observatory takes full advantage of Los Angeles's extraordinary natural advantages as a site for astronomy.
Travel Scopes
It's tough to reconcile all the different constraints placed on a telescope for the airplane-traveling stargazer.
2001, A Space Odyssey
A movie released in 1968 predicted that spaceflight ten years ago would be far more advanced than it actually is today. Why?
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
The Right Stuff?
Our columnist reports on his harrowing round of astronaut training.
The First Geek
Not all geeks are astronomers, but many astronomers are geeks. Let's take a look at the archetypal geek who died 22 centuries ago.
Stargazing and Science Fiction
Logically, science fiction is completely unrelated to stargazing — but human beings don't live by logic alone. In fact there's an intimate relationship between these two pastimes.
Debating Human Spaceflight
On March 15th a distinguished panel discussed the future of human spaceflight at New York's Hayden Planetarium.
Binocular Blogs
Binocular stargazing has a peaceful, organic quality that's hard to achieve through a telescope. Here's a list of some blogs the author has written on this subject.
Cosmic Relief with David Grinspoon
Lunar News Flash
Did scientists make LCROSS seem like a dud by raising expectations of a spectacle?
Stargazing Blogs
Here's an index to the Stargazing blogs written from 2007 to 2011.
