Claude Plymate calls his backyard home observatory the clubhouse that he never had as a child. The solar astronomer and his wife, Teresa Bippert-Plymate, ordered the white 10-by-10-foot domed ...

In a recent feature published by Space.com, Vermont-based astrophotographer Dr. Michele Hernandez Bayliss has revealed a stunning set of deep-sky portraits captured entirely from her own backyard ...

Dr. Ralph Chou, past president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto Centre, says he'll be staying up late to capture pictures of the blood moon using his backyard observatory. (Ken ...

If you are a frequent reader of Astronomy, then you likely have seen images on its pages of objects from the famous Lynds’ Catalogue of Dark Nebulae. These mysterious dark clouds of interstellar dust ...

City lights brighten the sky west of David Levy's backyard observatory in the Vail area, but the skies are darker and starrier to the east. Those contrasting views illustrate what could be at stake ...