Backyard astronomer from Broken Hill contributes to world-first Saturn discovery

An amateur astronomer helps discover a mysterious decagon on Saturn's south pole, which he tracked from his homemade backyard ...
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Homemade Backyard Digital Observatory’s Spectacular Images Rivals Hubble’s

Greg Parker is a professor of electronics at Southampton University. He’s also a wizard. Like his co-author Noel Carboni. Real wizards, capable of obtaining some images that rival the best of Hubble’s ...

In 1925, a Kansas farm boy built his own telescope from scratch. Five years later, his homemade astronomy led him to discover Pluto

Long before Clyde Tombaugh was searching the skies from an observatory in Arizona, he was a farm boy trying to make sense of ...