The TeleVue web site recommends that a 2" barlow not be insterted into a Paracorr, as it may contact and scratch the topmost element. I assume this advice is...

Right now the weather in the Netherlands and Belgium couldn't be bettter. Theres is abolutely no cloud to be seen! Join our live webcasts of the Venus Transit...

Greetings all.... I have an 8" Orion reflector that I am going to disassemble and flock. I noticed Orion's mirrors are 87% reflective. Should I put new...

I'm planning on a New Mexico vacation in July. Can't afford New Mexico Skies, but will be able (I think) to squeeze a small APO and mount in between the kids'...

I'm out of town tomorrow night. I'm in California and was planning on being up late viewing the Transit on some of the webcasts and maybe the Soho...

Ive been thinking about purchasing a pair of Oberwerk 22x100mm binoculars. Does anyone have a set of these that could comment on the quality and how they like...

I have a Supercircuits (SC) PC23c survellience camera that takes a C/CS camera to lens. I have an (Orion?) adapter that gets me from C to 35mm but this adapter...

Hi, I'm using an 8" F/10 SCT (Meade LX90). Normally the disk of the sun fits just fine in my FOV, however I am now using a a CCD camera that, because of the...

"Adam Russell" wrote Why are venus eclipses so rare? A venus year is 225 days so I would think it would pass us about every 1.6 years. Is it not on...

July 26th. Happy b'day Mick!

Does anyone have any idea what the longest focal length available on a commercially made, presently available, unmodified telescope is? Thanks, AGSanchez

Or is there nowhere to register on the cloudy nights forum? I can't seem to find it. D.

Okay, I hope you will excuse the subject heading (those of you with children, I hope, appreciate the reference to the B Book). I have read through my share of...

Hey everyone. I wrote an essay for my english class here at the University of Washington. It's about amateur astronomy. If any of you are exceedingly board...

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As I prepare to go out to my newly discovered observation spot I stopped and took a look in my car, what happened I asked myself? I started out just a man and...

Hi. Just finished making the first panoramic image of our faiclity http://www.wmich-astro.org/home_pics/tt2.jpg. Now I need help converting this image into a...

On 6 Jun 2004 16:56:04 +0200, Star Master wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- blah blah -adjudicated by Daniel...

I know that no one has any first hand experience with Venus transits, but what do you think would be the minimum magnification needed to see the black drop...

Brought a tear to my eye this one (and not just because of it's proximity to the Sun!)... http://www.pbl33.fast24.co.uk/Venus_060604_1523.jpg Hard work to...