From a garden bursting with roses, violets, burgeoning cabbages and broken furniture in the remote West Siberian town of Barnaul rises a rickety wooden tower capped with an aluminum dome. World War II ...

When Rich Lohman decided to move to Woodacre from Alameda County 18 years ago, he was drawn to its rurality and dark night skies. It was the perfect place for the astronomer to spend his evenings ...

It's a project some say is out of this world... "This is just perfect," explains Roger Joyner. "I can walk outside, open it up." A homemade observatory, that seemed to fit right into Roger's scope of ...

ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, N.C. -- It's a project some say is out of this world... "This is just perfect," explains Roger Joyner. "I can walk outside, open it up." A homemade observatory, that seemed to fit ...

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Greg Parker is a professor of electronics at Southampton University. He’s also a wizard. Like his co-author Noel Carboni. Real wizards, capable of obtaining some images that rival the best of Hubble’s ...

A self-taught amateur has captured an event astronomers have been trying to see for years – the shock breakout of a supernova. Victor Buso was giving his new CCD camera a trial run in his homemade ...

I read the recently published Q&A with Woodacre astronomer Rich Loman with interest (“West Marin man brings the moon, stars and more to others with homemade observatory,” Dec. 18). Like Loman, I moved ...