Pointing at stars may seem easy on the surface—just mount a telescope to a tripod and you’re done, right? As anyone who’s spent time with a telescope can tell you, it’s not that simple, given that the ...

Michael J. I. Brown receives research funding from the Australian Research Council and Monash University, and has developed space-related titles for Monash University's MWorld educational app. He owns ...

Celestron FirstScope 76: Very affordable and ideal for kids or as a quick backyard scope. Despite the small size, you can easily catch the craters of the moon and even glimpse Jupiter’s moons.

This is the equatorial mount for for the George Dollond refracting telescope in the collection. It belonged to, and was given in memory of, Charles C. Carey (1903-1963), President of the General Radio ...