A Crash Course in Basic Stargazing

Learning your way around the night sky should be no harder than learning your way around a new city or town.  But as with learning many new skills, the hardest part is getting started. With this 5-part course in basic stargazing, you'll be able to find bright stars and constellations in just a few days. Even if you're a total beginner.

This short course shows you the astonishing array of sights to be seen by a backyard stargazer, and helps you find your way around the sky in the northern and southern hemisphere. It also gives practical advice on how (and when) to select and use binoculars and telescopes, and how to condition and use your unaided eye for maximum sensitivity to faint celestial objects.

There’s a lot of information here, so don’t try to read it all at once.  Once you register your account at Stargazer U, you can come back to this course any time you like.  If you don't already have them, get your user name and password over on the right side of the page.  Then you're ready to get started.  Best of all... this course is free!

Here's what you'll learn...