Hi all, I guess this has been done to death but I want to buy a telescope and dont know what to get! I want a general purpose scope where I can see the...

My first attempt at posting this landed in uk.sci.weather, so here's hopeing I get it right this time... It's been quite a while since I last used a...

As an antidote to the long, normally cloudy, Scottish winter nights I built a Czerny Turner Spectroscope loosely based on Dale Mais' design in 'Practical...

Got up early this morning to catch my first glimpse of this famous recurrent Nova and I also managed to find a gap in the clouds to take a spectrum showing an...

How did the Apollo space suit cooling system work? (or not) They had backpacks which dissipated heat via the sublimation of ice from a porous plate located...

Hi all, So - I've got my flight booked and a hotel in Side, Turkey ready for the eclipse. Is anyone else here going along? Side is supposed to be almost...

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The current edition of MediaLine Radio is now available on-demand at http://medialineradio.com . In this edition: * More news about Pluto. * The weather on...

Hello everyone, If anyone is interested www.warehouseexpress.co.uk has a 6" dobsonian for £99. I don't know anything about it, just tought I would pass on...

My new 10" Dob arrived from telescope house today so be ready for some really bad weather in Lincolnshire Damian -- Damian Burrin UKRA 1159 Level 2 RSO EARS ...

My first lo-res spectrum of R Lep, with its unique carbon star profile, largely confirms the extreme colour image posted here earlier. Radiation peaks in...

I've final loaded this shareware CD v2.75.3 that came with my Bresser Skylux and I'm quite impressed;-). However I'd like to include the Gen Cat of Var Stars...

What would you buy to upgrade from a Toucam2 for use on Planets and DSI ? I've started to look at what's available and found.. ATIK 2C/2HS/16HR/16 Starlight...

On Monday January 23 I did some deepsky observing with the TAL 200K and the 85mm Zeiss refractor. The objects observed where M 42, M 43, the Eskimo nebula (NGC...

A couple of interesting short articles in the current BAA Journal http://www.britastro.org/journal/ "Chromospheric darkening around active areas" by Eric...

If anyone finds a gap in the clouds, reccurent Nova RS Ophiuchi is in outburst. Brighter than recent outbursts in 1958, 1967 and 1985, it is reported as mag...

My observing point (back garden) has a street light which shines down (and up!) into one corner. Its a low pressure sodium light. I'm thinking that a filter...

The astronomical working principles which Newton used in applying his ballistic agenda applied to planetary motion originated with Flamsteed rather than with...

No wonder there is a rennaissance of anti-Darwin / Intelligent Design with this sort of stuff coming from a scientist. Belief in a big-G of the god/allah...

The second in this year's 150th anniversary season of 'Penny Lectures' at the Birmingham & Midland Institute takes place on Saturday 25 February 2006 and is...