Stargazing is something that we can all do. You just need to look up at the night sky. But there are ways to improve your experience. We have put together some tools for you. They should help you to plan your stargazing and help you understand what you see. 

Select a month and type in a year to check what the phase of the Moon will be.

Have you ever noticed you can see more stars from the countryside than from a town? This is probably due to light pollution.

Astronomical seeing is why objects in the night sky appear to blur and twinkle. The worse the seeing, the more they blur. It is changes in the Earth's atmosphere. which causes the seeing conditions. The less steady the atmosphere, the worse the seeing becomes.