John Steinberg wrote: I haven't watched Jeopardy since Art Fleming was replaced by the ever so smarmy Alex Trebek, but tonight my wife said you just have...

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Hi All, Here's a half-sized copy of the colorized version of one of my July 21 full-disk solar images, processed to bring out the proms, "hairy" limbs,...

Now I am a believer. Received a PST on Wed and the clouds allowed my 5 min of use (it had been clear for the last 7 days). And no Sun here since. Phil

Yesterday morning a big group of sunspots (0653) was visible with the naked eye, as the sun was shining through the mist. Later that day, I followed them...

Does anyone have a Konus 1790 6" Refractor? If so have you found it satisfactory? I'm thinking of buying one, but I had a stroke a few years ago and can't...

Meade 16" LX200, alt/az with field derotator at f10 2x60 minutes hypered Kodak PPF 400 1x90 minutes hypered Kodak Tech...

First some background. I already own an Orion Scenix 10x50, Celestron Optiview 10x50LPR, and vintage Meade 11x80 (mid eighties probably Japanese made). I am in...

Date: Night of Wednesday, 21-July-2004 Location: Palm Springs, California Equipment: Tele Vue 76 (3" f/6.3) refractor Another nice early morning...

Its a term I have seen over and over again with little explanation. If I understand it correctly this is a measurement of tolerance for...

It was the summer of '69. Director John Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy" had won the Oscar for Best Picture; the Rolling Stones' newly released "Honky Tonk...

I just saw the Peacekeeper launch from Vandenberg AFB (California). Excellent view from San Jose - I've seen several launches from here, and this one was in...

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With new browser (required by Herb York), I was functioning at Astromart, I had two transactions going, then suddenly with no warning, I cannot log in at...

Hi all, I would like to purchase a Celestron AS-Go To mount and I would like to know if it performs well., or as bad as Meade LXD-55. The mount is a CG-5, but...

Heading out last night, I stopped by the 7-11 and noticed they had packages sushi in the cooler. Hmmm. I like sushi, and this looked pretty harmless. Setting...

Killed all the batteries again for my finder. (I have about a 50% success rate in remembering to turn it off!) Stopped at Radio Shack this AM and found I...

Does anyone have the procedure for setting up the original Lumicom Digital Setting circle unit? I think it was called the Sky Vector One.

OK, I'm cheap. I have an Orion 10" Newtonion. I'm not one for taking risks but I'm not one for laying out chunks of cash either. What would be the best...

First a little background, there is a roughly elliptical region of stellar overdensity in Canis Major at l=240, b=-7 ( Martin, Ibata, et al, 2004 MNRAS, 384,...