10/3/06. The following article, about some early Royal Society manuscripts by Robert Hooke which have recently been rediscovered, will be included in the next...

I would be obliged if anyone here could post a quick yes or no,no on the MEADE ETX 105 PE TELESCOPE ! I would be ever so grateful! Fred

Hi All, I don't know if this has hit the UK news group yet, but I just received it. Good news. __________________________________ UPDATE ON SIR PATRICK...

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The German "Bild" newspaper published last days an article about an asteroid of around 500 km in diameter on collision course with Earth expected to eventually...

Hi All, This may be a very long shot, but if we don't ask . . . . . . . :-). The York AS needs to move a portacabin and a 40" steel shipping...

Sir Patrick has been fitted with a pacemaker. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4785340.stm Brief clip from that: The 83-year-old was admitted to St...

"The most detailed image ever made of a spiral galaxy has been compiled from 51 Hubble Space Telescope images. It may shed light on the cause of mysteriously...

This has been mentioned before on this newsgroup but just in case you forget - it's on tonight. Look out for the spectroscope from hell, assuming it's been...

Prepare yourself... it's not a close up ;-) It's a composite of two wide field shots of the Moon taken with my 80mm refractor. I've tried to compose the...

Is it really so hard for the publishers of the S@N magazine (who send ads out) to get their spelling right? DJ

Anyone getting any jabs for the eclipse? (I mean the people going to Turkey, not the people staying in the UK. That'd just be silly, wouldn't it?). I phoned...

"Three-quarters of the street light columns in a part of Teesside are to be replaced in a massive £46m project. Redcar and Cleveland Council is to replace...

Admitted to hospital today. Check BBC news page. Best wishes to Sir Patrick.

Forgive the creation of a new thread but this one looks quite different from the last one and finally represents what I've been after for quite some time. It...

I popped down to the beach to capture a quick picture of Mercury. It was perishing tonight. Took one shot and decided to try and be clever and take a sequence....

In message , Gary Heston writes In article , Bryan...

"March 3, 2006: Backyard astronomers, grab your telescopes. Jupiter is growing a new red spot. Christopher Go of the Philippines photographed it on February...

"March 6, 2006: Every year in February, the students of Mrs. Phillips's 5th grade class in Bishop, California, celebrate Galileo's birthday (Feb. 15th) by...

Well, it's a bit different ;-) http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/lunar/20060304_Earthshine.html -- Pete http://www.digitalsky.org.uk