Most camera makers refer to their light sensing chips as CCDs (Charge Coupled Device) while Canon refer to their CMOS sensor (Complementary Metal Oxide...

Might be worth a listen. This from DigiGuide SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTARY: Worlds Beyond Channel: BBC Radio Four 854 Date: Wednesday 29th December 2004 Time:...

Anyone with a large aperture scope viewing comet Machholz tonight 01/01/2005 ? My computer program is telling me Comet Machholz ( 0.35AU distant) and...

Anyone here shoot deep space objects? If so, is it possible for me to take my Coolpix 8700 and shoot by somehow connecting it to my 10" Dobsonian scope...

I'm sure somebody will explain it better than I can but here goes... The 'big bang' wasn't an explosion of matter *into* space, rather it was the expansansion...

Starlight wrote on the screen--- There are two things that one has to get right :: (i) brightness of Milky Way glow and (ii) adgregate of individual stars in...

Hi, I've updated my website with some pictures of sunsets http://images.ciel.free.fr/Eversion/Sunset.html#set2 and a page about the way I build a lunar...

For those of you who go out observing and have equipment that runs of 12volts (LX-90 etc) you may be interested in...

uksa I've setup a website with the aim of raising £100 for the victims of the tsunami in SE Asia. Please try to help in any way you...

Can I call on someone out there for some advice? I was observing the other night when it was cold a very damp, I noticed when got all the kit back inside that...

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Comet Machholz seen and recorded in SE an hour before moonrise with image posted at http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/digsky.htm Gone hazy now under moonlight...

Anyone know where i can get a decent set of RA/DEC control knobs the plastic ones for my CG5 are really bugging me!! Cheers Damian -- Damian Burrin UKRA...

The world can exhale a collective sigh of relief. A newfound asteroid tagged with the highest warning level ever issued will not strike Earth, scientists said...

Found this on Google via the Astronomy Physics forum: Kerela Wilton wrote: There are two things that one has to get right :: (i) brightness of Milky Way...

Luigi Caselli wrote: HiDouble-A I remember one of my "What if" I posted about a year ago hit upon this. I like when my thinking comes around over...

i just had for christmas a celestron power seeker 114 telescope, is it possible you could answer some of my questions it comes with the following ...

Was the comet a naked eye object under full moonlight this evening nearing Taurus ?? Canon 300D image at http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/digsky.htm

HAPPY NEW YEAR ....... whith my site : Ephemeris of: 96153 asteroids 513 comets All satellites of solar system All planets

Hi all a newbie here, so i got a telescope for xmas just a cheapy one so my question is ive had a really good look at the moon and it looks cool but id like to...