The multiple star HJ 3780 is a colorful and pleasing binocular object in the somewhat neglected constellation of Lepus, crouching just south of Orion. The blazing star in the Simbad image above is Arneb, a 2nd magnitude class F0 1b supergiant, the brightest star in...
This post is for a special friend who recently had trouble locating Hind’s Crimson Star, aka R Leporis. R Leporis is a famously red carbon star of spectral class C7,4e in the constellation Lepus, the hare. It’s a Mira-type variable 1300 light years from...
In astronomy “first light” means the first views one has with a new instrument. That is the first celestial light – the first stars one sees; the first starfields; the first deep sky objects. Here is the first light post for my new astronomy blog....
About Welcome to my binocular astronomy blog. The idea of starting a site devoted to binocular astronomy had been on my mind for a while when Kevin Busarow, owner and founder of Oberwerk Corporation, asked if I would like to write a binocular astronomy blog sponsored...
