Today is Friday, the second day of the 2008 Northeast Astro Imaging Conference (NEAIC) at Rockland Community College , in Suffern, New York. Because the college’s classes are still in session, NEAIC annually asks one of the participants to lecture to one or two classes about an astronomical subject....

You know, it’s not often that I get excited about a partial lunar eclipse. Yes, the “near-perfect” alignment is cool, but it doesn’t get all that dark, and I just find myself wishing the event was a total eclipse. Well, here’s an image I’m really jazzed about. It came to me (as Photo Editor) from one...

My wife and I attended a friend’s wedding this past weekend. When I told the groom’s mother what I did, she let forth the following: “Oh, you work for Astronomy magazine?! My husband is totally hooked on the Galaxy Zoo Project !” Turns out “totally hooked” is an understatement. Her husband told me he...

As Astronomy ’s photo editor, I get some cool images pretty much on a daily basis. Monday, I opened my e-mail to find that one of the magazine’s long-time imagers, Keith Quattrocchi, in association with Matt Helm, has imaged a hitherto undesignated planetary nebula in the constellation Cygnus. And, it...

I spent Day 2 at the Pacific Astronomy and Telescope Show (PATS) mostly talking. I talked to manufacturers about new products, I talked to amateur astronomers about our magazine , I chatted with astroimagers about their photography, and I interacted with some of the event's keynote speakers. Everyone...

We have a section on Astronomy.com where you can download stunning astroimages to put on your computer desktop wallpaper . Each month, we add a few more to the collection. Choose from stars, galaxies, nebulae, planets, observatories, comets, and other miscellaneous astronomical subjects. We'll be...

STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES This morning, the husband and wife observing team of Imelda Joson and Edwin Aguirre forwarded to Astronomy an image and an animation of the asteroid 2008 TC3 they received from amateur astronomer friends in Italy. Imelda runs an image service company and is a contributor to Astronomy...

The people I’ve met who are more than armchair astronomers fall into two categories: observers and astrophotographers. The latter combine a passion for astronomy with photography to make dazzling images of distant objects in the night sky. Adam Block is one of the best of them, and people are starting...

Astronomy magazine columnist Stephen James O'Meara sent us an image he took while observing the Orionid meteor shower. Here's the message he sent along with the image: "Despite the last-quarter Moon on October 21st, the Orionid meteor shower put on a good show over Hawaii. Between 2:30 am...

Noted astrophotographer and Astronomy contributor John Chumack sent us a cool video of the 2008 Orionid meteor shower ... this on the heels of a stunning Orionid image from magazine columnist Stephen James O’Meara. Both express a lot of enthusiasm for this year’s display. Read John’s comments below,...