As you may have heard, Betelgeuse, a large red supergiant in the Orion constellation, has recently been dimming, first noticed by astronomers in October 2019.

Though they’re not often talked about as frequently, small bodies, such as asteroids and comets, are just as essential to our understanding of the universe as large planets and stars.

On November 11th, 2019, the NASA Parker Solar Probe (PSP) successfully completed its third rotation around the Sun, in an ongoing effort to collect detailed data about the heliosphere region.

On January 6th, 2020, researchers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) announced they discovered a new exoplanet in the planetary system TOI 700.

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.