AstroPioneer

I was in the South Downs, a dark sky site, looking at the night sky and I thought it was a great opportunity to explain how easy it is to find Polaris.

Here are some of the astronomical and stargazing highlights for October 2023. All times are in your local time zone as reported by your browser.

Several nights ago, I tried to see the Perseid Meteor Shower in Charmouth, an idyllic south coast town, but the weather wasn't cooperating. I was also using my DSLR to try and capture some of the fainter meteors. I, however, noticed an unusual object when I was going through the photos later on that I wasn't sure how to identify, so in this article I'll share what I did to identify that object, and maybe this will help you identify objects in the night sky as well that you are unsure about.

Here are some of the astronomical and stargazing highlights for September 2023. All times are in your local time zone as reported by your browser.

Here are some of the astronomical and stargazing highlights for August 2023. All times are in your local time zone as reported by your browser.

Have you ever wanted to know how you can spot the International Space Station for yourself and capture pictures like the one? This article tells you how.

Here are some of the astronomical and stargazing highlights for July 2023. All times are in your local time zone as reported by your browser.

Sometimes rather than just experiencing meteor showers , we actually get a meteorite that hits the ground. The Natural History Museum in London contains one of the best collections of meteorites in the world, so we have to start this tour of the meteorites of London there. Once entering the Natural History Museum you can head up to the mineral section of the museum where they have a good selection of meteorites. The best example of which is the large iron meteorite from the Campo del Cielo meteorite impact which hit four to five thousand years ago. The impact created 26 craters with the original meteor being 4 meters in diameter. As this is an iron meteorite the public are allowed to touch it. But the truly special meteorites can be found in the vault at the back of the mineral section. The first special meteorite is a very rare mars meteorite. There are less than 70 known Martian meteorites, it is believed that 11 million years ago a large impact hit Mars and threw material into spac

Here are some of the astronomical and stargazing highlights for June 2023. All times are in your local time zone as reported by your browser.

Have you ever wondered how astronomy has changed over the years? Well I certainly have! It wasn't until I was in a second hand bookshop that I had an opportunity to discover what has changed for myself.