The solar system’s largest planet shines bright as the Moon wanes and Saturn’s moons dance in the sky this week.

McKim Observatory still houses many of its original instruments, including a 9.53 inch Clark Refractor telescope, a meridian transit telescope, and a gravity driven chronograph. Missing from the early ...

On June 5th in North and Central America, and June 6th in Asia, Australia, and most of Europe, the planet Venus will cross in front of the Sun. This will be only the eighth such transit of Venus since ...

The first observation using the Airy Transit Circle telescope, a device that functioned for over a hundred years, was taken ...