Don't let light pollution put you off stargazing or astrophotography, I managed to see galaxies, nebulas and star clusters all in Bortle 7 and 8 class night skies. Stargazing is a wonderful pursuit ...

Light pollution reduction (LPR) filters function by selectively blocking specific wavelengths of light emitted by certain artificial sources, such as high-pressure sodium streetlights, which ...

Customers send their telescopes to Starfront Observatories, where amateur stargazers can view the night sky unencumbered by ...

Light pollution can make it difficult to see such wonders of the night sky, but a possible solution is sprouting up on a farm ...

"These two things cannot be in the same place. It's as simple as that." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers are sounding ...

David L. Crawford, an astronomer and one of the pioneers of the modern dark-sky movement, died peacefully July 22 in Carlsbad, California. During a decadeslong tenure at Kitt Peak National Observatory ...

Earth's satellite problem is only getting worse as time goes on and more satellites are sent into orbit. One of the chief issues with the number of satellites in orbit is how much they can affect our ...

Sacramento is one of California’s most light polluted cities. The Bortle scale is a nine-level numeric scale measuring the night sky's brightness of specific locations with one being perfect ...

The effects of a proposed green-energy facility in Chile could be devastating for some of the most powerful instruments available to astronomers. A massive green hydrogen plant proposed for ...