Last night our first Ewell astro society observing sessions at the ‘dark-of-the-moon’ since the summer break at our regular Headley Heath site near Box...

Anyone recommend good UK dealers who STOCK Meade LX200 10" and Celestron 9.25" / 11" to allow me to compare ?. Thanks

"The AP is reporting that Katrina has further jeopardized the already tenuous future of the Hubble space telescope. The hurricane damaged the Michoud Assembly...

Enthusiasm for visiting our red space neighbor seems to be growing. m4dm4n writes "A study carried out by MIT's Aeronautics and Astronautics department has...

"The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that the new Trans-Neptunian objects mentioned in the press earlier this year are being formally announced this week...

I remember seeing a very bright comet in the mid seventies when I was walking home late one night. There was nothing about it in the news and so my tales were...

Sunspot group #798, recorded earlier this week via the holographic 'x-ray' on the far side of the sun, appeared over the limb yesterday with excellent arching...

The Deep Impact comet collision is helping astronomers piece together the early ingredients that went into making the Solar System. And again more at...

The first results from the Deep Impact mission to the comet Tempel 1 have shown that the material inside the comet is different to that on the surface. This is...

I'll appreciate anyone familiar with nuclear physics answering this question. Here is a quote from a newspaper article on the atomic bombing of...

Here's a shot of the last quarter Moon captured a couple of weeks ago. The quarter is presented at 1/4 size (50% linear dimensions of the original). The...

This seems VERY unusual to be occuring so far into "solar minimum" cycle. Maybe we'll get some good Auroral displays in the next week or...

The sun has currently got a looped prominence on its 'top' limb forming 70% of a circle with a 2nd and larger loop forming above it. Pic at...

Hi, I took this photo tonight (approx 20 minutes ago) of the ISS passing over. I was using a standard digital camera - nothing high...

posted at http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/iss.htm Nytecam 51N 0.1W

Hi, I need to know the rx, tx and gnd pins on the 6 pin RJ11 connector on the celestron nexstar 114gt scope. its in the user manual which ive lost!!! ive done...

A shot of mars taken last night. Seeing was very poor. I'm looking forward to catching this over coming...

Hi everybody, Yesterday evening, a fine encounter of Venus, Jupiter and the Moon. I've taken this picture http://images.ciel.free.fr/test/IMG_0015br.jpg on...

In clear skies ISS passed over London near zenith at dusk at 20.11BST and will pass to north of zenith at 21.46BST. Enjoy! Nytecam 51N 0.1W

Superb multi-filamented tall pillar prom currently on 'top' of sun in PST eg east limb as http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/pstnew.htm H-alpha-ers catch it...