Astronomy Articles Redux

Two years ago, I wrote a series of articles regarding astronomy to try to help out with the International Year of Astronomy. The articles were very successful, each one being downloaded several hundred times by visitors from around the world. Anyway, they were sitting in a ZOHO web site, which did all sorts of bad stuff to their formatting. I spent several hours this evening updating the articles and converting them to more respectable-looking .PDF files. They are now available via Google Docs, accessed through the same links at the upper right of my blog.

To recap, here are the articles on offer:

• Astronomy without a Telescope
• Plan Your Observing Session: Choosing What to Observe
• Plan Your Observing Session: Choosing When to Observe
• Plan Your Observing Session: Choosing Where to Observe

I'm also working on some new articles which should appear soon, including how to choose a telescope, as well as astrophotography work flow. Stay tuned!

Additionally, I have done some work to  make this site more accessible. This includes:

1. Making a mobile-device ready version of the blog which should mean less download time on your iWidget.
2. Posting to Twitter

Cheers,
Phil

New Article: Planning Your Observing Session - Choosing When to Observe

Here is Article #2! Again, this is to help beginners in their pursuit of practical astronomy.

This article is concerned with planning your observing sessions whilst taking schedule and weather factors into account. It may seem silly, but being able to effectively plan around both of these things will enable you to have more fruitful and relaxed observing sessions, for the most part.

Click on the picture below to download the article (you'll need a .PDF reader!).

















The next article will be another "Plan Your Observing Session" article, but will be focused on how to choose a decent observing site.

As always, comments and feedback welcome!