A recent circular issued by the Astronomical Observatory makes a plea for co-operation in observing variable stars. The number of variable stars of long period is now so great that the observation of ...

Arguably, a hobby’s greatest benefit is derived from its rewards. I’ve been an avid backyard astronomer for 60 years. I still recall the night in 1963 when my high school friend Ray Gerbi showed me ...

Greetings stargazers. Occasionally, the calendar aligns so that I get to complain about daylight saving time in this column on the same weekend it goes into effect. I need to take the chance to do ...

Humans are natural explorers. Once we were clothed, fed, and found shelter, we started wondering, “How does nature work? What’s around us? How did we come to be? What is our place in the universe?” To ...

Ancient Egyptian astronomers may have discovered variable stars, and calculated the period of a well-known one called Algol, thousands of years before Europeans. But they buried those observations in ...