Welcome to Astronomy.se

This place is an attempt to give some inspiration for all to watch and preserve the night sky. Light pollution is a serious threat and there are generations growing up now who never have been able to experience a truly dark sky.

Nevertheless, most of the images shown here where taken under quite light polluted conditions, showing what the amateur can do with relatively modest equipent from typical suburban areas. All images at astronomy.se were taken by me and most of them from my home in Dalby.

So, why should anyone be interested in astronomy?

Well, for one thing I have always been fascinated by the telescope as a time machine. By looking farther and farther out in space we also look farther and farther back in time. At first this may seem unfortunate since we never can study things in space as they exist now, but only as they were seconds, minutes, hours, years or millennia ago. But this very fact also opens up the possibility for us to explore the history of the universe and try to unlock the secrets of how it evolved from the beginning to where we stand today, approximately 13.7 billion years after the beginning (at least according to WMAP data).

Furthermore, we are truly beings of star-stuff, a part of the universe which now begins to explore itself and coming into self-awareness. This is due to the fact that nearly all atoms in us, the Earth and everything on it were once created inside a star, thrown into space, and used as base materials for the creation of the solar system about 4.5 billion years ago.

That should be enough reason for anyone to be into astronomy!

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