I would like to contact the editor responsible for the publication of books at Willmann-Bell. A careful trawl through their website failed to turn up any name,...

Hi, has anyone made a high quality larger mirror (20" or larger) using BVC? Impressions vs fine annealed pyrex? Thanks, Chuck

Hoping someone knows the answer. Is it "gwan-sheng" , "ging-sheng" ? Something different ?

Yesterday's big prom coming around on east limb posted at http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/pstmg.htm Maurice Gaavin@WPO-UK

Never saw any of these since i live in another country,interested in ordering them however, in the pictures and ads i saw, both the 2" and 1.25" seem to have...

Any truth to the rumours that Synta have taken over Celestron? Gaz

Mohib.N.Durrani wrote: Whoever you are, thank you. IMO your posts are on topic in sci.astro.amateur, and interesting to boot. I also notice some ignorant...

Does anyone know what happened to the NOAA clear air turbulence web site, http://www.orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov/? Are they temporarily down or did they move again?

A few days ago I speculated about how deep a 5" APO could go with a DSLR. Check the link below, I'm seeing galaxies listed as mag...

I'm wondering what the currently accepted thinking in the scientific community is on a couple of items, and hope y'all will indulge & enlighten me. 1) _Why_...

The Annapolis, Maryland area had complete cloud cover. I was not ready, but I was watchful. The western sky cleared at mid-eclipse. I got ready in a...

This is a great Astronomy PodCast. It's great fun and topical. http://www.slackerastronomy.org/ Cheers, Margaret

Hi, I'm buying a new scope and was wondering which one is the better value between the Orion XT10 Classic Dobsonian, or the Celestron StarHopper 10 inch...

..=2E..if you have to recommend two premium EP's to 'convert' a "=A340 per EP" cheapskate like me what would they be? One around 5-9mm the other 15-20mm? I've...

Hey guys . . . I am new to the entire astronomy thing. I was talked into buying an Oberwerk 11x56 binoculars and get some decent views but am not getting the...

I posted this to my local Astronomy Club and thought it might be of interest here as well. I'm not looking to start a Meade vs Celestron debate. These are...

Was bumping around Yahoo Groups today and spied a post (by a well known German telescope dealer, ok - Markus :) which indicated that a Synta 120 f=1000 ED is...

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www.finalfrontier.za.org has just reached the 300 space wallpaper mark. The site has been up and running for close to a year now and offers only the best high...

IF people want to avoid the gross markups on scopes due to useless middlemen in North America or Europe, the trick is to form a group to buy and go direct. ...