Amateur Astronomy Tutorial

My new Amateur Astronomy Tutorial is under construction and hopefully will be up soon. Here, I will try to share everything that I have learned so far in my personal exploration of the cosmos. I also thank Mr. Alex Lacson for supporting me in pushing through with this blog.

You can visit it here:

http://marvinastronomytutorial.blogspot.com/

Here is the content outline of the blog:

Prologue

I. Finding your way into astronomy.

A. Getting acquainted with the night sky.

a.1 Constellations and stars
a.2 Star Charts

B. Equipment for astronomy

b.1 Eyes
b.2 Binoculars
b.3 Telescopes
b.3.1 Refractor
b.3.2 Reflector
b.3.3 Schmidt – Cassegrain
b.4 Mountings
b.41 Alt-Azimuth Mount
b.4.2 Dobsonian Mount
b.4.3 German Equatorial Mount
b.5 Eyepieces, Diagonals and Barlows
b.5.1 Eyepieces
b.5.2 Diagonals
b.5.3 Barlows
b.6 Other important tools for astronomy

C. Observation Begins

c.1 Observing without a telescope
c.2 The moon through a telescope
c.3 The Planets
c.4 Deep-Sky objects

D. Limiting Factors in Observing

d.1 Clouds
d.2 Light Pollution
d.3 Trees and Structures
d.4 Wind and Bugs

II. Amateur astronomy in the Philippines

A. Local Orgaizations and Clubs
B. Where to buy equipment
C. The Philippine night sky

Epilogue


Let's all hope that this blog tutorial will be a success. I hope to hear from fellow amateur astronomers soon!