I need your help quickly! I borrowed a friends eyepiece that he said was real good. After using it for a few nights, I noticed that there were some smudges...

The Orion Nebula: Where Stars are born, by C. Robert O'Dell, a professional astronomer and emeritus Professor of Astronomy who devoted a lifetime to studies...

I think it was Norbert (on uk.sci.astronomy) who commented on the fact that one of my crescent Moon images showing Earthshine was older than he would have...

Welcome cloudless afternoon here in southeast England with all the planets Mercury-Saturn on view via LX200 scope goto with sun 8o above horizon at 6.30pm ...

I noticed both last night and today that I can't access the individual sky clocks. Anyone else getting this? Thanks, Jon

I had to share... I'm excited. :) Was out on the back porch BBQ'ing dinner, mostly in the dark, and I decided to get my wife's cheapo 10x25 binoculars and...

Hi Can someone help me with this problem (or maybe not a problem). I used to observe with my LX200 12" (fork mount) and never have balanced the scope, but...

Hello, SAA, Here is the very informative email response I received from eBay. My thought being it especially useful to share with the many reading that are...

Saterday night 3/27/04, it was not the best of viewing nights, I had gone up to my street corner after recovering during the past week after the last saterday...

Sedna can't be a planet because the planets are named after Roman gods. Sedna is named after an Inuit one, therefore it isn't a planet. ;-)

See my above post "The night started poorly but..." for the full story, but I finally got up the courage to try to find a galaxy last night. I chose M81/M82...

http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/eviej/surfin/donm.htm dear sue, j b...may have said the moon is sometimes darker than the sky. my photo at the above url or...

http://www.apogeeinc.com/ Top of the page... The 12x60 shown there look rather nice with that black texture painted metal unibody design. However, they...

Greetings. Just returned from an observing outing to Mendocino Woodlands State Park, near Mendocino, CA (about 150mi n of San Francisco). Actually, the...

I've noticed there isn't much discussion here on the subject of Newtonian secondary (diagonal) mirrors. How do you evaluate the quality of a secondary? What...

any chance? I've already got the mount. The chance has come up to buy the OTA quite cheaply, is the EQ2/3 'man' enough for visual work with this scope? Gaz

Fellow netizens: After many years, I have finally decided to take on Richard Hoagland's nonsense about Mars. He has been relentless with his rubbish on...

Early Saturday night I had good views of Jupiter's Great Red Spot transit through the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg's 12.5" f/6.5 Cave Newtonian and the...

I tried to get my eight-year-old granddaughter to see if she was able to observe Venus during daylight hours last week. Venus was in close proximity to the...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/03/11/russia.space.ap/index.html Inventor patents device for ads in space MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Orion, the Big Dipper and...