Hello everybody, Last night, I've done Vallis Schroeteri and Schickard Pics with my chromacorr II enhanced 6" Achro refractor at very very good seeing. Find...

Optics are better now than ever. So why are magazine reviews the same as they were 20 years ago? Now that the market is awash in apos, and now that SCT optics...

The day started out with me dumping what gas I had and could get into the car, then talking to the guy I'm buying it from, his wife was suppost to pick me up...

I have decided on buying an Orion SkyQuest 4.5 dob. It is a compromise decision as I got three kids 13 and under and the 4.5 is also fairly portable. I was...

Had a nice outing with my little, new-to-me Celestron C90. Nice views of Saturn around 9:15 or so, fighting the moonshine. Spent a long while with a 15mm and...

I am looking for a light bucket to do spectrometry. Because the SBIG SGS is designed for the Meade/Celestron SCT, I am restricted to these options. My...

Recent novae have been very quickly assigned a permanent designation by the IAU (i.e. Nova Scorpii 2004 was designated V1186 Sco shortly after its discovery)....

To Tom Davis and the rest... It was my understanding that Burgess Optical and various folks with connections to BO were going to avoid commenting on products...

Now getting back into the astro hobby after a few years recess, I've noticed a trend towards refractors. I visited a local SP a few weeks ago and I'll bet...

Mount Wilson Observatory’s 100th Birthday Party to Feature New Film on Founder George Ellery Hale Free At Altadena Library, 2:30 P.M. Sunday Nov. 28 Please...

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=14591 "Having passed closer to Tethys than the Voyager 2 spacecraft, Cassini has returned the best-ever natural...

Here is what greeted me on the local paper this morning Was this a meteorite? By NIGEL ADLAM 24nov04 Territory scientists were last night studying what could...

Hi folks, I recently read Stephen Tonkin's excellent book on amateur spectroscopy and that has really set the little grey cells working. Many years ago I...

How many here use Weatherbug on their computers? I have it and at times I use the live camera part to view the cool cameras which gives views from ones across...

Hi, I have purchased an ETX-125 recently and have difficulty finding the M43. Are there any ETX-125 users here managing to find the M43? Cheers, Michael

Hi, After having fun with my ETX105 for almost 2 years, and getting more and more obsessed with astronomy, I will upgrade my to a bigger telescope. Of course,...

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What's the difference between these two? The Meade web site is not clear and refers to both as the DS-2114 until you look further into the specs. The ATSA is...

Hi, I'm looking at sources to buy an elliptical secondary (around 2.14") for my first Dob project. I see a lot of variation in prices ... reading some Google...