...bought before last Christmas from UK Lidl Stores for a very modest £50 it gives a fair performance as pic below . Nytecam 51N 0.1W

At 0612 this morning, saw a bright meteor, which might almost be described as a fireball, to the north. It was descending towards the NE horizon at an angle...

Interesting remark by Chris Lintott in "The Sky at Night". 'Mauna Kea, the highest mountain in the world".

First off I am really happy to have found this group. I live in Brooklyn NY. I am 22 years old and use a wheelchair. as a kid with my uncle using a really...

At approx 7.00 this morning (a break in the clouds) I saw a very bright star approx 30deg West of South and approx 30 deg Elevation. (Location...

I can't find any online reviews of this scope. Does it go by another name, or is it a reincarnation of a previous model, perhaps with a different brand name?...

I've just finished putting an astronomy forum together for the Night Sky Observer website which you can reach at: http://forum.nightskyobserver.com Since the...

JOINT KPC/SEKAS MEETING Simon Mitton TUES 7th February. 7.30 pm in Rutherford Lecture Theatre. Conflict in the Cosmos: the turbulent scientific life of Fred...

Hello chaps, I was blessed with some good seeing until 9pm last night and found the moon and Pleiades looked quite stunning. Eventually I elected to try and...

As the skies were clear and there was little wind last night, I decided to have a go at taking a sequence of shots to animate Saturn's moons. The capture went...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4667100.stm An icy, rocky world reported last year to be orbiting the Sun in the distant reaches of the Solar System...

Does anybody out there know the front thread size on the Meade DSI? I think it is about 42mm but I don't know the thread pitch.

Hi there all, I'm sure some of you know about this already, but I thought it worthwhile to relay this to a wide audience.. On Saturday 11th March, Liverpool...

The Jodcast - a podcast (mp3 file based 'radio' show) by astronomers at the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory covering all aspects of...

Tonight's BBC News 6pm News : Baker Street Planetarium closes to make way for more wax celebs - like Chantelle ! Nytecam

"An icy, rocky world reported last year to be orbiting the Sun in the distant reaches of the Solar System really is bigger than Pluto, scientists say. New...

7th Feb - Martin Farmer - 'Webcam Imaging' more details here .... http://www.btinternet.com/~duncan.richardson1/febmeet.html

i know its rubbish compared to some of the pics posted here but here is my first image of saturn... im happy with it but will try to...

Hi all, I'm interested in getting my first telescope and I found this package for sale. http://www.scopesnskies.com/prod/243.html It seems awfully cheap, is...

...under a low winter sun and some haze has many filaments on the disk and four smallish proms on the west limb with best sample below. Nytecam 51N 0.1W