February is an interesting skywatching month. In February nights are becoming shorter in northern hemisphere, and for example in southern Finland nights are 13 hours long in the beginning of February, while in the end of February they are only less than 12 hours long. In January the nights for observing the sky …

Are you watching the night sky from Australia, Chile, South Africa or other countries in southern hemisphere? If ye, you probably find the pictures of HomeboyAstronomy tips weird. The reason is that the sky looks different from your location compared to our location here in north. It looks like your sky, or our …

As we know, stars do not move. Stars are like our sun. They are stationary and do not move, but planets and moons do move. They orbit stars. Anyhow, why it looks like that stars move? As you watch the sky in early night, it looks different than later at night. Stars change …

Planet Saturn is a very interesting object to observe, may be because of its awesome disks. Right now in February, Saturn can be seen in northern hemisphere, just like it was seen also in January. Planet Saturn starts climbing from between East and North-East direction. Saturn comes visible at about 6:30 pm. here …

Observing planets and deep space is probably the most common way of skywatching. Even though they are fascinating objects and the deep space has enough to observe for the rest of our lives, there are also other things in the sky to observe. Satellites, rockets and space debris can also be observed from …

Not all amateur astronomers have binoculars or a telescope. Some folks might be interested in watching by the naked eye, some might not have money enough to purchase a telescope, some might be looking for the right instruments for him/herself. Whatever the reason is, the fact is that not everybody owns a telescope …

Yesterday I wrote how Jupiter and Venus are close to each other right now in the morning sky. It is an interesting phenomenon that can be seen only during few days. Sad but true, it has been very lousy weather for astronomers here in Finland, and therefore I have not been able to …

Some of the planets can be seen very well in January, but two of them are in interesting position right now. Venus and Jupiter are located close to each other (from our viewpoint on Earth) and can be observed around one hour before the sunrise in northern hemisphere.
Venus and Jupiter can be seen …

Some time ago I wrote about the 15 brightest stars on night sky. Capella is the sixth brightest star we can see and it is located in constellation Auriga. Constellation Auriga and Capella can both be seen in winter in northern hemisphere. The constellation Auriga is in meridian in early February at 10 …

I live close to Helsinki in Finland, in a small city called Kerava. This is a typical suburban city from where people drive to work at Helsinki city center. Our house is located near fields and a small forest and the amount of artificial light here is smaller than in the center of …