Modern Astronomy are selling dew heater bands for 8" tubes for £32 as opposed to those from Telescope house at around £45. Modern astronomy maintain that you...

Yes Guildford AS is 50 years old and to celebrate we're putting the G into Astronomy! We're holding a "GAS-The First 50 Years" Dinner at the University of...

Interesting that it is generally presumed that the Earth's rotation has slowed down over the years due to tidal drag but right now there is not a variation in...

A logical choice for the casual deep sky or planetary observer seeking a medium-aperture (150mm or 6") reflecting telescope that is extremely quick to set-up...

My GF has taken a sudden interest in gazing at the stars, she had been using the internet to read up about it and I bought her a little book for Xmas detailing...

I'm looking at getting myself a new scope, a big dob, now is it worth selling my neut to part pay for it. I've got an Skywatcher 130M OTA ~12months...

Galway Astronomy Club host their 3rd Connacht Star Party on Saturday January 28th 2006. This year's event is not themed and as you can see is geared towards a...

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It works at f/10 and looks like a regular LX200 so is it more than a wide-field RC corrector plate? Intregued! See www.telescopehouse.co.uk/ Nytecam 51N...

I have just purchased one of these as a postable 'fun' instrument but it is missing the little external plug-in battery pack which holds 8 size AA batteries....

Hi there, On the Astrofest info it says "Planetarium" anyone know which one it is? Cheers Andy

Goodbye green laser beam lightray! Us, to fight! T'would be more like an affray Polluting the skies, they said would not matter Us, sceptical? We never...

The operators of a rotating green laser beam display have admitted defeat by withdrawing a planning application for the device. However, they manage to...

Last night, I teamed up with a fellow astronomer to observe the Moon, Jupiter and a number of deepsky. We observed for 7 hours, and used several different...

I've put togther a free Astronomy Toolbar that will add a toolbar into Internet Explorer (and Firefox, following requests) with the following functions: -...

Question, Can fully exposed nexgative film be used as a make hift IR filter. I read somewhere online (can't find it now) that if you use two peices of...

HI, I've been sitting in all night waiting for the clear skies after 9pm forecast by Metcheck for Surrey and they haven't appeared which is...

A paper to appear in a scientific journal is raising eyebrows, claiming a strange red rain may have recently brought cells from space to Earth. (Article in...

Is the BBC just filling the post-Christmas wasteland with anything that comes to hand, or are they planning saturation coverage of the anniversary to well...

Hi, I am very new to astronomy (and you can probably guess what is coming...). I purchased a SEBEN Big Pack scope from ebay to get me started (I know I should...