I own a TV upswing mount, but looking at the Borg alt-az mount, seems maybe a better option. Any one has experiance using the Borg and compare both? Would the...

Does anyone know of a good ray tracing program for Linux. Failing that, has anyone tried running Oslo or Zemax under Wine? Llanzlan.

You guys aren't going to *believe* this one.... back in January we had to send the drive base for our 16-inch LX-200 back to Meade for a second time, due to...

"MacYoda" Subject: PizzaGram - March 13th, 2004 Star Party Greetings Fellow Stargazer, "When the moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter...

"..." wrote in message ... Tonight, I had my first view of both Saturn and Jupiter...

First of all, this does NOT belong on this Astronomy News group and 2nd of all... GO TO HELL. I'm not gay or anything like that, but as long as they don't try...

Well NASA isn't saying anything about this but it is...

Ref: http://physicstoday.org/vol-57/iss-3/p29.html Hubble Sacrificed in Wake of President Bush's New Space Vision The Hubble Space Telescope has been...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/03/11/russia.space.ap/index.html I certainly hope this never happens.

Does Zeiss still sell any products for amateur astronomy? If so, what are they? Thank you. Bill

I'm in the planing stage of trying to put on, at my very public viewing corner, a one man Astronomy Day event. -- Dragons Must Fly when Thread's in the...

IMO, anyone who is human and has no desire to explore, no curiosity about things and whose only desire is to live for a living ought not to have been...

University of Rochester Rochester, New York NEW MACHINE SLASHES TIME, COST TO MAKE UNIQUE LENSES May 7, 1998 Engineers from the University of Rochester and...

I was sitting in a truck-stop bar just outside the Holland Tunnel in N.J. about twenty something or more years ago .(I was trying not to have lunch with...

Read this: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5867 From: Donald Rosenfield cardar@c... Date: Wed Mar 10, 2004...

I finally got some fairly decent shots of Jupiter with my Supercircuits (SC) video camera, pc23c; however, this leads to more questions. The camera has an...

It is amazing the amount of garbage that accumulates here from desperate people and their topics that really have little to do with backyard...

Roland said that QED technology for lenses is not good enough for telescopes and said that this method was only good for up to 40mm diameters. Well, he's...

I am looking for a simple (6th grade level) explanation for the precession of a Foucault pendulum at latitudes other than 0 and 90 degrees. The formula is...

Just thought you might like to know: The computer processor serving as the brains of NASA's two Mars Exploration Roversm Spirit and Opportunity, is Apple's...