Why the stars do not twinkle in space
Twinkling is the air's doing. Above it, stars are steady points in true colours, which changes how you look on Selka and Veyra, and explains why pictures of bright planets show no stars.
Twinkling is the air's doing. Above it, stars are steady points in true colours, which changes how you look on Selka and Veyra, and explains why pictures of bright planets show no stars.
Where to start, what to look for and how to train your eyes: a first-night route round the Lantern's regions from Brightwater, from the Twin Fires to the faint Veil.
Green curtains, red fringes and seven weeks late in Calder's year: how to watch the aurora from a night flight out of Port Kestrel, or looking down from Halcyon's Long Window.
Halcyon's 300-metre observation deck has reopened after its refit. What has changed, what you will see through the new glass, how to behave on the deck and how to book a dawn session.
A pale smudge to the eye, a blaze of green and red in Brightwater's infrared pictures. What the Lantern nebula is, what its false colours mean and where in the Reach to see it yourself.