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It certainly seemed that way when I saw this news...

Your goal is to get the latest and largest aperture SCT from Celestron on the best *portable* GEM but you can't afford the obvious big mounts like Losmandy...

Hi All, Yes Comet Panstarrs is still up there and can be seen with binos and small telescopes. This image was taken on the evening of June 5, a combination...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23930675

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-183&1&utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NASAJPL&utm_content=daily20140610 Pretty cool, eh?

Hi All, My latest project, M63, consuming many nights with the 160EDF refractor, QSI683, 1600 mount, chasing down this beautiful object. Some 28 hours of...

NASA Science News for June 10, 2014 NASA and NOAA agree: Solar Max has arrived, but this "mini Max" is not like any other solar maximum of the Space...

With nothing around only the same boring political commentaries by a few magnification hobbyists perhaps it is a good time to deal with the fuss they had for...

On Wednesday, June 4, 2014 7:24:15 PM UTC-4, Uncarollo2 wrote: http://www.gizmag.com/teleport-quantum-information/32352/ That belongs in sci.astro

Hi Zico, For the past few decades I've lived and observed from an elevation between 900 and 1000m. My light pollution (according to Clear Sky Charts) has...

On Thursday, June 5, 2014 9:54:08 PM UTC-4, lal_truckee wrote: While height is certainly a criteria of merit, those 14er peaks in Colorado get cold even...

On Thursday, June 5, 2014 10:56:28 AM UTC-7, Quadibloc wrote: On Thursday, June 5, 2014 7:56:06 AM UTC-6, Sam Wormley wrote: All photons,...

On Thursday, June 5, 2014 7:35:53 PM UTC-5, wrote: hi group, being in eastern Canada i'm considering a trip (by car) to...

On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 17:35:53 -0700 (PDT), wrote: if i look for highest peaks in the US, naturally Colorado comes back with a ton of...

On Thursday, June 5, 2014 6:56:06 AM UTC-7, Sam Wormley wrote: On 6/5/14, 7:50 AM, Brad Guth wrote: Modern science and physics has demonstrated...

Space Weather News for May 23, 2014 http://spaceweather.com METEOR ALERT: This weekend, Earth will pass through a stream of debris from Comet...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27688511

Today on June 6th they are honoring the sacrifices of those men who landed on the beaches of Western Europe in a push to overthrow an ideology which caused a...

On June 4th 2014 Gerald (aka oriel36) wrote: "Were you to stand on the Greenwich meridian and count the number of times a circumpolar star crosses it,you...