Hey guys. I've just spent the evening dusted off my 10 year old Tal 2M and am fancying having a bit of a bash at some planetary photography - I've...

Hi folks, Some of you may have visited my website and seen some of my images in my gallery. Last weekend was clear and like many I was out imaging. I have...

Anyone have any advice on getting rid of the moisture *inside* my 10" LX200 OTA? Once it fogs the inside of the corrector plate, there's little I can do to...

....will you be watching/recording the 'opposition effect' tomorrow night? Nytecam 51N 0.1W

Why did I bother last night ? Dragged out the 10" Dob , set up , tried Saturn but it was just mush in the low mist and haze. Mars was not good either. I...

The SheffieldAS has now recieved planning permission to build an astronomy education centre. If you would like to learn more you can visit our...

Hi All, A few days ago I noticed that the charger supplied with the Power...

"An international team of astronomers has found the smallest yet Earth-like planet outside our Solar System. The new planet has five times the Earth's mass...

Wednesday, 25 January 2006, 18:02 GMT Smallest Earth-like planet found By Rebecca Morelle BBC News science reporter Scientists used the microlensing...

Wednesday January 25th at 18.45 UT Saturn occults the star SAO 98054, mag 7.9. It seems that you British guys will be far more lucky than us in...

Captured with a Mintron camera using an equatorially mounted PST and a 2x Barlow. Here are 7 frames from the video sequence taken around midday on the 21st Jan...

Strange glowing ball hovering over Selsey. Filming for the S@N in Sir Patrick Moore's garden, there were loads of solar telescopes available to look through,...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0601/llori_orion_hst_f.jpg Can someone here please explain to me what the object in this picture is? It appears to be...

Please can someone confirm that Astrofest this year is 3-4th Febraury? http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/venueskensington/general/events.asp So looks like it is the...

Hiya, Looking out of the bedroom window at aprox 7.00A.M. I saw a bright object rising in the south-east (no it wasn't the Sun) and another to the right of the...

Hi, I was observing Saturn last night between 8:30 and 9:30 GMT using my 8" SCT (LX90) and I was hoping to see the Cassini division. According to several...

OK - so what do you lot think of this technique ? It seems to me that collimation on my scope is different with or without a diagonal, but it's much easier to...

Hi Folks, Our next Star Camp is due for March/April 31st-2nd 2006. We have plenty of talks on for the weekend, plenty of drink and food and hopefully, some of...

I use SpaceBanter.com for my newgroup reader/ contributions mostly to 'UK astronomy' and 'sci.astro.amateur' and can post images below the msg. Can these be...

My first Saturn photos are here for anyone interested: http://adm.smugmug.com/gallery/974519 These are the first 2 process runs from a set of 5 .avis taken...