The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars and constellations to bright planets, the moon, and sometimes special ...

Given that Venus is the third-brightest object in the sky after the sun and moon, an interesting observing exercise is to see how close to sunrise it becomes invisible against the brightening sky ...

and the moon itself. For the sky, Buchanan used a shorter exposure (10 seconds) to reveal the stars while keeping the landscape crisp. The foreground required much longer exposures — up to two ...