Star Gazing for Beginners

What if someone told you that for starting to learn about the sky and the universe you don’t need an expensive telescope?
Wouldn’t that be intriguing?

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It is possible and actually quite easy to find some really spectacular sights in a starry night sky, for example…

• A misty patch of stars in the constellation Cancer… already used in ancient history by star gazers to give a weather forecast. (now it is known that this really is a white-blue star cluster – Galileo Galilei discovered this)

• A voluminous star field in the direction of the center of Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius, which hosts lots of star clusters and nebulae that can be seen even by a beginner with binoculars

• Two enormous  spiral galaxies that can be seen with the bare eye (and perfectly with binoculars). Their light has travelled longer than 2 million years to reach our planet through the vastness of space (there are no objects more distant than these that can still be seen without telescopes or binoculars)

• Two brilliant star clusters in the Taurus  constellation that look better in $50 binoculars than in an expensive pro telescope

• The birth of new stars in an interstellar gas cloud in the constellation of Orion

• Very old stars (Red Supergiants) that are just about to end their life in gigantic Super Novae

• And many things more…

– See more at: oneminuteastronomer.com