Northern Berkshire Astronomical Society

13 objects with 'spooky' nicknames for Halloween!

How far is far? It depends on how you're traveling -- and astronomers pick their rulers the same way

The queen who never sets, presiding over one of the richest star-forming stretches of the Milky Way.

Four asteroids - four different stories!

Saturn at opposition, a vanishing Jupiter, the Orionids peak, and asteroid season!

This easy to find globular cluster has a hidden surprise!

Every meteor shower is a scheduled appointment with a comet — here's how to keep it.

Surrounding M 31 is a set of satellite galaxies spread out over a whole part of the Fall skies.

An overlooked open cluster in an overlooked constellation

Two early wake-up calls, both worth it.

Moving into the Fall Milky Way we start to look in a whole new direction

NBAS members enjoy the late-Summer skies

Can you match the popular names of nebulae with their pictures?

This oddly-shaped nebula inspired the term 'planetary nebula'

A public talk on planets and Pluto

Galaxies come in all shapes and sizes, but different inclinations reveal different parts of their structure

Hunting for Saturn's largest outer moon can test your detection skills!

The first star whose distance was measured, and a fly-by current neighbor to the Sun

The rings are back — and so is one of the best views in the sky