Stellarium is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. This time, I clicked on 'Windows x86_64; Windows 10+' to download it. In File Explorer, open the file you just downloaded. Select 'Japanese' as ...

On astronomical telescopes of even middling power, a small “finderscope” is often mounted in parallel to the main optics to assist in getting the larger instrument on target. The low magnification of ...

One of my favorite pastimes is being outside walking at night and looking into the stars. One issue was I had no way to tell what star was what and where various planets were. Of course there were a ...

Stellarium is a well-known name to astronomy buffs that have long used the open-source program on Windows, Mac, or Linux desktops. Stellarium Mobile (for iPad), created by two of the developers of the ...

There are thousands of stars visible to the naked eye in the night sky. Unfortunately, the sky isn’t that dark in cities where light pollution obscures the beauty of the universe. But one doesn’t need ...