We are proud to announce the collaborative partnership between Light-Year Astronomical Association and Skymapper Inc! In this partnership we maintain the goals to make astronomy accessible to all! No matter the background, origin, or community. We love what Franck Marchis and his team are doing at Skymapper and we are honored to be able to contribute in this dynamic with Skymapper through the use of the Light-Year Mobile Observatory Initiative and Skymapper's technology known

We had a phenomenal time at Thornton Library in Oxford, NC with the great local sci-fi author Faye Peacock Wilson. Faye invited us to the Oxford, NC Library to show a tour of the cosmos while she introduced people to her riveting sci-fi adventure "The Rescue". Our astronomer Rebekah Leigh Denton (Halley) gave a presentation of intereactive media we have taken with our telescope showing others the ideas behind the Mobile Observatory and future technologies that make Space read

Mars colonization has fired the imagination of humanity for decades. From Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter to the Martian rovers of...

Europa! Europa is Jupiter's fourth-largest natural satellite and the sixth-largest moon in the solar system. Europa is a fantastic frigid...