McNaught is still easily seen in binoculars this morning 5° to the lower-left of the sun. And not only that but Mercury is within a degree of the comet!...

Between some poor weather and high mountains to my west i have not yet been able to spot comet McNaught from my home. However today, Saturday, from my...

Hello, I'm Olli from the google discussion groups and thanks you're been very helpfull. When i ask the opinion from very know amateur astronomers from(belgium)...

A few days back, in a long-forgotten thread, someone mentioned a book titled "The Light-Hearted Astronomer," by Ken Fulton. Being a bit curious, having...

Hi All, McNaught found 7 degrees East of the Sun at 1:20 P.M. local. Used Orion 8x25 binos with house roof eave as shade protection. Using the bright nucleus...

McNaught will be within 5 arcmins of Mercury at 17 UTC on 1-14-2007. For those advanced observers with the skill to make near Sun daylight observations, it may...

everyone is so quiet in the morning

Clouds in the east in the AM, clouds in the west in the PM...My wife says she thought she might have seen it yesterday (I was still trapped between the...

there is no star gazing planned for me all week. it is sooooooooo cloudy and way too warm for winter in nj. global warming sucks.

I post a lot but trying to understand the answers i get is as easy as trying to get my sister get up every morning. No offence.(ITS HARD)

Kepler's 10th argument for the Copernican arrangement - Epitome Of Copernican Astronomy by Johannes Kepler Finally by what arguments do you prove that the...

If black holes contain so enough gravity to spaghettify (i think i spelled that wrong):-( an object, then wouldn't that gravity also bring down the walls of...

The Unified Field Theory -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIME is the force that unifies all forces. TIME is...

For my school newspaper I once did an article on absolute 0 and i know that so far scientists have not reached that tempurature on earth. And because of the...

I'm making preparations for my new scope (hasn't arrived yet). If it's not too much trouble, would a fellow XT-12 Intel owner please measure and post the...

Dear Friends, Unless I am mistaken, the beautiful open cluster M35 is the only Messier object in Gemini. For an LRGB result from a few days ago, please...

Again caught the stunning C2006P1 McNaught at sunset on 00:23 UTC 1/14/2006 from 41 N and 111.8 W. Civil sunset was at 00:22 UTC, but 2 degree high mountains...

There is a starmax 127 on sale at Astromart on a custom mount (It is some sort of lowend tasco/nexstar mount.) This scope was allegedly an example project in...

its comet mcnot for me too. i have to babysit and i think it passed my town yesterday any too.

theres no star gazing planned for me all week. Its sooooooo cloudy and it is also too warm for winter in NJ. Global Warming sucks.