Some observers at the University of Alaska, Anchorage gathered on a campus rooftop, peering at Venus through special filtered glasses and telescopes. "It's not really spectacular when you're ...

Right now, Venus is high in the west as darkness falls. It’s bright enough to be visible in a clear blue daytime sky if you know where to look.

Now, with the moon gone from the scene, it’s a great opportunity to check out Venus with a small telescope. My first view of Venus through a scope came some 60 years ago.

My first chance to capture Venus transiting the sun was on June 8, 2004. I used a 5-inch apochromatic telescope at f9 in conjunction with an over-the-aperture solar filter. Any time one views or ...

From Maui to Mumbai, Mexico to Norway, much of the world watched the 6-hour, 40-minute celestial showcase through special telescopes, live streams on the Internet or with the naked eye through ...

Filtering the sun's light to a miniscule fraction of its true power allowed sky-gazers over the world to watch a silhouetted Venus travel across Earth's closest star, an extremely rare spectacle ...

In 1987, Venus and the moon aligned for the camera of Victor Rogus as he stood — trespassed, really — in a farmer's cornfield outside Chicago.

Venus, Jupiter conjunction to dazzle night skies in March: ... But at about 5,700 light years away, the Eagle Nebula is not easy to spot through a backyard telescope. In 1995, ...

Venus and Saturn will appear extraordinarily close together in the night sky overnight on Jan. 17 ... but viewing each planet individually through a telescope could help bring out details such ...

Venus through the telescope, with a magnifying power (speaking from memory) of 135, looked about the size of an old guinea, i.e., of a crescent cut off from that coin.

Look up through the month for a dazzling parade of planets Four of the planets will be bright, but you might spot a few others with a telescope. January 21, 2025 ...