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Hi group http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geoff.smith5/eclipse.jpg Nice clear sky up here for the whole event! Geoff

Hi All, I know how you feel Pete :-). We have a few initial pics from Belek, Turkey on our web site if anyone wants a look. www.yorkastro.co.uk The weather...

Friend just bought himself a Meade 105 and I would like to buy him a book that would give him Do's and Dont's for Telescope info. He is ( like myself) a...

MUHAMMAD (May peace and blessings of God Almighty be upon him) You may be an atheist or an agnostic; or you may belong to anyone of the religious denominations...

thro partial cloud. Nytecam

I decided to put my first full years S@N on ebay now. The last 2 copies will be posted to the winner as they...

It's time to clean out my library before the floor collapses or my wife cuts off my Amazon account. :-) All books include book jackets (if sold with them)....

...it's total eclipse day for north Africa SE Europe and partial for most of Europe including UK. From London this morning in slowly clearing skies, prior...

Please can someone confirm the specs of the bolts that fit into the underside of the base plate of the LX200 10" scope? Poking aorund on the web, MAPUG and by...

Hi all, I've been in Turkey since last Saturday visiting the Omega Holidays hotels (it's a tough job but someone needs to do it!). Weather was glorious...

The earth is sufficiently large compared with the distance to the moon that the apparent size of the moon from different locations on the earth's surface must...

The Sky At Night magazine says the 'bite' out the sun will be biggest at 10.33 UT. But won't we be on BST by then? So it'll be 11.33 by our watches. Right? --

I have just purchased the April edition of Sky & Telescope and in my opinion the quality and content has already started to slide following the recent 'sell...

03.24.06 -- The first test images of Mars from NASA's newest spacecraft provide a tantalizing preview of what the orbiter will reveal when its main science...

"In 1995, Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 did something unexpected: it fell apart. For no apparent reason, the comet's nucleus split into at least three...

"Sensational Sights from Saturn New raw images from Cassini have captured breathtaking views of Saturn's splendid moons and rings." Images at...

"Three "rivers" of stars have been discovered stretching thousands of light years across the northern sky. The smoothness of their trailing arcs may help...

"NASA's Stardust spacecraft, which recently returned samples from Comet Wild 2, could be called back into action to study the comet hit hard by the Deep Impact...

Hi all, I've never done any solar observing before and I would like to know if there is a relatively inexpensive way of converting my 5" Newtonian reflector to...