Feature Articles Archive

"Mojave Desert star parties unite space lovers together under the stars" story by Caitlin Esch, features great quotes from Jane and Mojo at the Mojave National Preserve dark sky party.

Our Spring 2013 dark sky party at Mojave National Preserve attracted record attendance and spawned this great article in the La Canada Valley Sun by Tiffany Kelly

Gorgeous video featuring jaw-dropping time-lapse photography of the night sky from Yosemite National Park. Jane and Mojo from the Sidewalk Astronomers are featured prominently.

Stephen Coleman joined us to observe the moon on International Observe the Moon Night and captured some great natural-light images of astronomers and accidental astronomers.

(Updated for 2011!) Jane outlines an observing project for Saturn's strange two-colored moon Iapetus.

Brief story from our favorite desert observing location, with pictures and astrophotos.

Jane writes an observing report from a desert night that featured ten planets.

Story and photo album (with some ultra-cute tortoise video) of our "Herping Star Party" in Mojave National Preserve, April 25, 2009

This three-minute NASA video produced for the International Year of Astronomy 2009 features astronomers from the Old Town Sidewalk Astronomers at our observing site in Monrovia.

Bob Cesarone of JPL moonlights as an acoustic musician, and wrote this song some years back for his favorite telescope man, John Dobson. This link is direct to the MP3 file.

The sky was clouded out, but it didn't stop us from having a good time, talking about lighting and telescopes. (Mojo finally did something we've been accused of for years – just showing a picture.)

Jane observed the Hesiodus sunrise ray during a sidewalk session, and writes about observing these fun lunar phenomena.

Jane's article on this fascinating sky phenomenon we saw at Bryce Canyon.

Jane and Mojo travel to the North Rim and Bryce Canyon for a week of astronomy with John Dobson and Barry Peckham