If you are out walking the dog tomorrow morning, look above the Eastern horizon and look for the crescent Moon…
Make a Jupiter and Venus conjunction flip book
2012 will be a year full of memorable astronomical events. One of the first will be an apparent close encounter…
Make a scale model of the Sun, Earth and Moon system
Space is big! Just how big is difficult to comprehend. One starting point on the journey to attempt to understand…
Make a Southern Cross finder and demonstrate how the stars move due to the Earth’s rotation
One of the first things that most people learn to do when they are getting started in astronomy is to…
Explore the Moons phases with an old fashioned flip book
Do you remember the old fashioned flip books? Here is a chance for you to make one with an astronomical…
September 2011 Sky & Space Events
These notes are intended to provide a casual sky watcher or someone already into amateur astronomy living on the East…
Yes an asteroid is that easy to view!
Further to my blog about viewing Vesta (which reached opposition a couple of days ago), I thought I take a…
Step outside and see the asteroid Vesta using just binoculars
With the asteroid Vesta reaching opposition tomorrow, now is the time to step outside to look for it. It is…
Make your own scaled Sun, Earth and Moon scaled model
Space is big! Just how big is difficult to comprehend. One starting point on the journey to attempt to understand…
Exploring the sky using a new star atlas
I recently purchased a copy of The Cambridge Double Star Atlas (highly recommended and have just ticked off my list…