Hello there, Anyone know of a map showing the location of observatoies around the world? Even a list of lat/lon coordinates would be good. I found a few and...

Hi all. Already I'm hooked on this stargazing lark, even though I just got a scope for xmas, it's only a 76mm reflector. I'd like to get a more powerful...

A Happy New Year to everyone here (including Oriel and Larry and all the other little nutcases). Isaac Newton invented gravity - where would we be without...

http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/pdf/POSC_13_1_74_0.pdf The 'Panus Quadregesimalis' on page 86 is the second greatest astronomical representation after the...

Hi all, My wife purchased a telescope for me for xmas from a site called "bestoptics". It's a Bushnell Northstar reflector, 76mm aperture, 900mm length with...

A beautiful sunset this evening followed by a low Moon skirting along the southern horizon. Clouds interfered but probably enhance the final photos (despite...

...Anybody else noticed this? Not quoted in manual....must have an inverting lens within the tube. Finally can directly compare finder field with naked eye...

....well nearly. I took these last month and haven't had time to process the lower one. This image isn't calibrate (no darks or flats applied yet) and I've...

Two rare patterns of solar eclipses heretofore perhaps not well-known to many are geographically significant in relation to each other. One is a pattern that...

This time of year it is traditional to look back over the past year so I thought I would try to go back a little further! With a redshift of 3.87 and a...

BBC1 1:00AM (January 2nd) in my listings (West Sussex). Happy New Year!

World renown mathematician and expert in ancient astronomy claimed that Thales could not have predicted the 585BCE solar eclipse because of lack of expertise...

not exactly related to everyday observing i know, but bearing in mind how man has gone faster in the last couple of hundred years or so... does anyone think a...

Hi, I'm a newcomer to Astronomy but have used binoculars on and off over the years and read a few books because it's a subject that has always...

Hi All - Here's a link for those of you interested in 'proper' astronomy. It sheds some helpful light on the different mindsets and ideology discussed at such...

Hi, I've been lurking and gaining a great deal of knowledge from this newsgroup for quite some time now but I have a very basic question that I have not seen...

My name is Frank Kooiman and I am looking for amateur meteorologists who would like to put up a lightning detection site that operates on a 24/7 basis. My...

Apologies if this is in the FAQ (don't you hate people that say that?) but I have a friend in South Africa currently loading his boat to sail off to Brasil,...

i wont be around later so i`ll say it now have a great night everyone & happy new year!

I don't normally use the newsgroups. Do you know if there is a uk.sci.astronomy group on yahoo? I suppose I could look, but I thought a few others might be...