• Basic observing skills
• Observing asteroids
• Observing comets
• Observing meteors
• Observing the Moon
• Observing occultations
• Observing the planets
• Observing satellites
• Observing the Sun
• Observing double stars
• Observing variable stars
• Observing the deep-sky

Focus on the southern hemisphere

• Celestial direction finding in the southern hemisphere (PDF)
• Observing the Big 5
• Observing the ASSA top 100

“The amateur astronomer has access at all times to the original objects of his study; the masterpieces of the heavens belong to him as much as to the great observatories of the world. And there is no privilege like that of being allowed to stand in the presence of the original.” — Robert Burnham Jr.