Category - Skyward

Skyward: September 2020 By David H. Levy Have you ever wondered if you could see more than half the solar system at once? An opportunity to do so does not come about often, but it does...

Skyward: September 2020 By David H. Levy A few months ago I wrote in this space about Comet Atlas (C/2019 Y4), a comet that at the time showed signs of becoming a bright comet visible...

By David Levy A number of years ago, my friend Scott Roberts, then of Meade Instruments, sent Wendee and me two small “ETX” telescopes.  We brought them both out to a picnic table we...

By David Levy Ever since I saw my first major display of the northern lights on July 8, 1966, I have been fascinated and delighted by this always-welcome show of greenish lights in the sky...

By David Levy Something old, something new…Eureka instead of Echo. This is the story of my first telescope, of the comet it did not discover (and which later collided with Jupiter), and the...

By David H. Levy First Light. For those of us who are not astronomers, the phrase first light means dawn. If we are up early to go fishing, hunting, or to search for a missing person, we...