Sneaked out from the celebrations and set the camera on auto to capture a bit of ion tail under a full Moon illuminated field. These were done at ISO400. ...

Comet Machholz rises higher and just two hand widths from a near full moon so preliminary 30s image via Canon 300D/Rebel fair...

If yew are having some shiftless relatives or other chiselers and/or deadbeats over Christmas eve, like we dew hyar at the mansion frum time too time, often...

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/products/pdfs/tcFlyby20041221.pdf Loss of comms with Cassini-Huygens will be occurring in the next few hours as the...

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I've just been outside at 22:30 UT and comet Machholz is visible in 8 x 42 binos. It is faint but findable even with the Moon at the closest separation it can...

Taken from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4117861.stm The Universe still produces massive newborn galaxies full of baby stars, despite being billions of...

Taken from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4121717.stm The images show dust and gas illuminated by stars Astronomers have produced some amazing pictures...

I was wondering if anybody within the BAA or in the wider astronomical community could offer me advice on searching for nova. I currently opearte a Takahashi...

Pete Lawrence wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:01:15 -0000, "Simon Miller" wrote: Hi Group, This is my first post here,...

A group of observers from around the world have had a little project over the last few days. Getting co-incident cloud free observing sessions across great...

I have been subscribed to the MAPUG (LX200 group) for years - but suddenly the digest has stopped and my subscription checks have returned nothing. Does anyone...

I saw this Sunday's episode, my first since the series started, and I am very confused. The overall impression I walked away with was this-- -Pure and utter...

Mercury is an easy binocular object at present, trivial to locate as it is in the same FoV as Venus. Glimpsed a few minutes ago through a gap in the...

Hi all, After my usual cruise on ebay, I came across a range of telescopes made and supplied by a German company called Optrons. Does anyone out there know...

Comet Machholz easy bin object between two mag 4 stars through brief cloud break this evening and level with Rigel in Orion under bright moonlight. Canon...

The other day, I spotted a leaflet at Sainsbury's check-out that had the Virgin logo, and advertised a star-naming service. I did not pick it up so I don't...

For anyone interested in what its like for a beginning amateur astronomer living and working in central Tokyo, I've started a small blog of my...

For anyone interested in what its like for a beginning amateur astronomer living and working in central Tokyo, I've started a small blog of my...