With a large variety of astronomical events happening this year, from supermoons to meteor showers to eclipses, 2020 is going to be an incredible time for astronomy enthusiasts around the world.

After more than four years we decided to shut down operations at Warrambungle Observatory in Australia, decommission our Meade LX200, and move home to a new observatory located nearby, nearby Yass – NSW, Australia, where

My name is Erik Bryssinck and I am a Belgian amateur astronomer who focuses mainly on observing comets, not directly for the beautiful picture but for data with more scientific meaning.

Our flagship El Sauce Observatory located in the Rio Hurtardo Valley, Chile, provides the best skies to make use of our telescopes located there.

Not that long ago, viewing the wonders of the cosmos required years of study and incredibly complex, and subsequently expensive, equipment.

Distributed networks of robotic telescopes have the power to make a significant contribution to the scientific community, in a variety of fields.