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Travel log: Astronomers Paradise in New Mexico

Astronomy for RVers Astronomers Paradise: A little piece of heaven in southwest New Mexico By Chris Fellows, Serenity Mobile Observatory I don’t often write in this feature...

The upcoming Blood Moon – a rare treat!

Astronomy for RVers By Chris Fellows, Serenity Mobile Observatory Correction: The eclipse starts on January 20 around 10 p.m. on the East Coast and will run...

Andromeda – Our sister in the galactic family

Astronomy for RVers By Chris Fellows, Serenity Mobile Observatory Winter is here and that means some pretty cool, very large and, for some people, naked-eye objects...

Astronomy for RVers – Orion the Hunter

Winter's most recognizable constellation returns By Chris Fellows, Serenity Mobile Observatory As the temperatures drop and the nights get longer, a favorite constellation dominates the night...

Astronomy for RVers – The Big Picture (Part 4) – The large scale structure of the universe

As big as it gets – the large scale structure of the universe By Chris Fellows, Serenity Mobile Observatory (click any image to enlarge) Last time we met...

Astronomy for RVers – The Big Picture (Part 3) – Galaxies, the cosmic neighborhoods

By Chris Fellows, Serenity Mobile Observatory Hey, everyone. I hope you are all staying warm. It has started to get chilly here in Utah at...

Astronomy for RVers – The Big Picture (Part 2) – Nature’s power houses: the stars

By Chris Fellows, Serenity Mobile Observatory Last we met we talked about the smallest bits of the universe: the comets, asteroids, planets and other detritus...

Astronomy for RVers – The Big Picture (Part 1) – From rocks to stars

By Chris Fellows, Serenity Mobile Observatory (click any image to enlarge – except Chris's 😉 ) In my travels and conversations with folks during star parties...

Seeing double – Observing double stars, that is

By Chris Fellows, Serenity Mobile Observatory In this series of articles I like to keep my targets to objects that anyone can observe. (This isn’t...

Our island in the sky – the International Space Station

By Chris Fellows, Serenity Mobile Observatory The first components of the International Space Station (ISS) were launched in 1998 and it has been under perpetual...

Great balls of fire! The globular clusters of the Milky Way

By Chris Fellows, Serenity Mobile Observatory Planets are cool, nebula are fine, distant galaxies can be fun to track down and squint at for hours,...

Mars: The Red Planet is close by – check it out!

Mars: The Red Planet is at its closest approach to Earth since 2003 By Chris Fellows, Serenity Mobile Observatory Mars has always been a source of...