ScopeTronix, Orion, and Lumicon offer devices that clamp to the telescope and have a little platform onto which the camera is mounted. The first two clamp to...

Please reply with your comments about the movie. This video hosted by Dr. Maurice Rawlings, a noted cardiologist, investigates life after death and his...

Wes Higgins, KC Pau and Giorgio Mengoli are co-authors with Chuck Wood (S&T Lunar Columnist) on a presentation accepted for next month's Lunar and Planetary...

Please reply with your comments about the movie. This video hosted by Dr. Maurice Rawlings, a noted cardiologist, investigates life after death and his...

Taking advantage of the brief break in the cloudy weather, I ran up to Lake Sonoma after work on Thursday night (February 3) and arrived about 6:00 to find Bob...

Today I had an amazing day. The science teacher at my son's local school ask if I would come in and to give a presentation to the 6th grade class. They just...

I keep seeing allot of posts bagging telescopes or brands of telescopes, I think people are missing an important point. When I first started in this hobby I...

My 10" LX200 Classic has great optics, but not-so-good tracking (despite many, many hours of tuning, balancing and PEC training). I had intended to fix the...

I live in Europe. In the next few weeks I'm going to spend 5 days in the US for business (Orlando/Florida and New York). For the occasion I prepared a list of...

My 2" Pentax 40 mm 65 deg eyepiece vignettes visually in my old Ultima C11 OTA using the Celestron .6 focus reducer! I see a dark ring around the edge of the...

I'm trying to find societies that are conducting amateur scientific observations and get some feel as to the numbers, compared to those who conduct...

Hi, Is there a group specific to telescope making? I have just completed an ultralight 12" dob, and am interested in feedback and/or new ideas. I am also...

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=16050 Personally, I think it's a great idea. Dave Mitsky

An Atlas 3B rocket is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral on 2005 Feb 03 at 07:41 UTC (2:41 AM EST). I expect the launch window to begin 14 min earlier...

Gakona, Alaska -- scientists are pumping a megawatt of radio juice into the sky and making sparkling green auroral displays. Science site has details and link...

In article , "Jeff Findley" wrote: wrote in message ...

FOR RELEASE: 9:00 am (EST) February 3, 2005 PHOTO NO.: STScI-PRC05-02 LIGHT CONTINUES TO ECHO THREE YEARS AFTER STELLAR OUTBURST The Hubble Space...

OK, I'm a rank newbie, so please be gentle. I've got a 7-year old budding astronomer; she's been interested in getting a scope for a couple of years. We've...

The review of the Meade 14" SCT in the March '05 "Astronomy" is pretty useless vis-a-vis the optical performance of this scope. It should not be too hard to...

With all the discussions about the Chinese 80ED refractors entering the market, one detail that always seems to be overlooked is "Where do you buy one the...