The Smoking Gun in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was out there even before the first shot rang out in Dealey Paza on Nov. 22, 1963, but...

I'm looking for people who own telescope(s) equipped with an accurate GOTO system. By accurate I mean one that can put objects on the CCD chip of the SBIG...

Hi, Is there a "searchable" database of stars online or that can be purchased anywhere? I want something where I can enter in the start relative distance...

Dear group, Finally there is some activity on Sol. Just coming around into view is the sunspot group AR10960 which has generated a fairly impressive...

======================= BULLETIN ======================= STOCKHOLM (Rueters) -- The Nobel Foundation announced today that the winner...

Moon, June 5, 0h UTC coords: 20 13 s 23 16 cent long trmntr: e 38.477d sin long: 0.622 ecc ell: 0.725 dist: 239 714 mi / 385 783 km diam: 31.0' illum: 84.4%

Dear group, Pete Lawrence and I pooled our work from yesterday surrounding the near-occultation of Regulus by the moon to produce an interesting view of how...

This was a serendipitous discovery made using an unexposed black Fuji Sensia slide film tail I was about to throw away. It is well known that the dye based...

First published by Lulu Publications, 2007, www.lulu.com/astrology. Copyright 2007 By Klaudio Zic. All Rights Reserved. No part of this abstract may be...

Phil Harrington asked me to spread the word about the fledgling Starfest star party. It takes place in the Catskills on June 15-17. Browse...

Just wanted to get a feel on what the general public thought. Thanks for any input! http://www.thepollspace.com/polls.php?pollid=1568

Hello, I've owned a Celestron CI700 mount for probably around 8 years now, and am still struggling with inconsistencies in the motion of the worm gears...

I am compiling a list of distance estimates of deep sky objects, just for my own purposes. I want to annotate my observing notes with distances and...

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Moon, June 4, 0h UTC coords: 19 18 s 26 19 cent long trmntr: e 50.76d sin long: 0.774 ecc ell: 0.568 dist: 241 933 mi / 389 354 km diam: 30.69' illum: 91.1%

( my apologies if this was posted twice- my first message didn't appear in the group) Suggestions for a filter for a 4.5 Dob? I want to view Messier objects-...

Nothing but the hype from a useless knonothing. -- The Lone Sidewalk Astronomer of Rosamond Telescope Buyers FAQ http://home.inreach.com/starlord Sidewalk...

Moon, June 3, 0h UTC coords: 18 21 s 28 57 cent long trmntr: e 62.88d sine long: 0.88 ecc ell: 0.568 dist: 244 054mi/ 392 768 km diam: 30.4' illum: 96%

A man with a gun from a hovering UFO which the Air Force had rebuilt from area 51, the men on the ground were decoys

Yes, you could win a fabulous astro-prize at Shingletown Star Party 2007, which takes place from July 9-16, 30 miles east of Redding, California! You could win...