The vernal Equinox occured on March 20th at 1:49AM here in New York. I thought that on the Vernal Equinox the length of day and night are equal. 12 hours each...

Are the rover missions winding down now? we dont seem to get updates very regularly and images are trickling onto the web now - nothing new from spirit in days.

"John Savard" wrote in message ... Dave Rowe, of course, is an amateur astronomer...

For those of you adept in the "crossed-eye" method of viewing stereo images, I have assembled three of my favorite views of the Martian landscape as seen by...

Some of us wear glasses for distance seeing (myopia) and we prefer to leave them on with the telescope, mainly for using the finder and also so the eyepiece...

I bought an Meade ETX 90 in early 2000. I noticed that it could not go to or basically find anything in the sky. I posted to an astro news group and got a few...

Just curious what it would look like - I guess in particular - at night. Obviously it would be fairly small seeing as it is only a dust spec in comparison to...

Hi all, Just a quick question. When will be the next comet that can be seen from earth via binoculars and/or the naked eye. The reason behind the...

This is a quote from another post: " There is such a way, I've been doing it for years. What you need to be able to do is to generate your own fog, reverse...

Hi all, I live in Australia and have wanted to get into amateur astronomy since I was a kid. I've been looking at possibly getting a Celestron NexStar...

To those that have used CCD or video cameras: would you say that they are now good enough that you would to use them to the exclusion of a direct view? In...

I own a Meade 12" SCT and I've just made a disturbing discovery... the 2.5X Powermate I have actually seems to be making images smaller than they should be and...

Hi, if there was something like a beauty contest for telescopes, this one would be one of my favorites (unfortunatley out of my price range,...

This looks _very_ suspicious to me don't you...

I took my Celestron 20x80's to the top of a nearby hill to view the two-day-old crescent Moon and the five naked-eye planets on a very chilly Monday evening....

Hi Folks; Here's a 3 hour clip of Io and Ganymede shadows racing across Jupiter and the emergence of Europa from Jupiter's shadow taken Last Saturday. They...

In "Star Testing Astronomical Telescopes", Suiter wrote any reflector with a focal ratio less than F5 is compromising optical quality for portability. I know...

I have the OPT Starhunter 10" and have found that the azimuth bearings have some hysteresis. REALLY annoying at even moderate power, it make the...

Saturday, 10AM: Moon is 4 deg below the Sun, Mercury 15 deg left and Uranus is 25 deg right from the Sun. Means any thing? Julius

I think it would be great if Sky and Telescope would take all of their back issues and make them available on CD ROM or DVD. I realize they sell recent back...