Newbury Amateur Astronomical Society Beginners

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Programme
  • News
  • What's Up
  • Articles

Astronomy Articles

These are some of the articles listed in recent magazines.

Monthly Magazines

Click the link above to access the most recent beginners magazines.

For a defenition or specific word try the a to z.

Introduction to Astronomy

  • First Steps
  • Binoculars
  • Telescopes
  • More about Telescopes
  • Buying a Telescope
  • Preparing to use a Telescope
  • Observing the Moon
  • Observing Planets and Messier Objects

Absolute Beginners

  • Objects in our Sky
  • Meteors and Meteorites
  • Aurorae
  • Introduction to the Night Sky
  • Thinking About your First Telescope
  • The Messier Objects
  • Magnitudes of Stars
  • The Colours of Stars
  • Galaxies
  • Classifying Stars
  • The Life of a Star
  • Is There Life on Other Planets?
  • The Solar System
  • The Constellations
  • Black Holes
  • Comets
  • Are we Alone?
  • Dark Matter in the Universe
  • Giant Planets
  • Using an Astronomical Telescope
  • The History of Star Charts
  • The Sun, our Sun
  • Finding your way around the Night Sky
  • Star Clusters and Galaxies
  • Big Bangs, Little Bangs
  • Uranus and Neptune

Hints on Observing

  • Using Binoculars
  • Getting Started
  • Magnitudes and Colours of Stars
  • Expectations
  • Using a Dobsonian Telescope
  • Using an Equatorial Mounted Telescope
  • Observing the Sun Safely

A to Z

More articles will be added later as new magazines come out.


Newbury Amateur Astronomical Society is a registered charity and a non-profit making organisation
A Member of the Federation of Astronomical Societies.