Abdul Ahad wrote: How bright is interstellar space? http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Sept01/Bernstein/BFM_contents.html And they give you the...

Hi there, I'm feeling a bit disillusioned with my Skywatcher 200 reflector. It's big, heavy and tricky to store and handle. I was wondering about changing to...

We are always going to observe stuff that we cannot immediately explain...stuff that is unidentified. At that point I part company with the nutters who then go...

Does anyone know of a UK distributor for the Tectron collimation toolkit, that's the $115 full set of tools +...

This is a popular summer question no doubt... Now that Cygnus is getting higher in the evening skies, I was going to have my first look at the star HD 226868...

Looking at the simulated views of Saturn at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/operations/present-position.cfm I noticed in the first view (upper-left image) the...

theres a Bosch and Lomb telescope on ebay would it be any good for CCD imaging of deep space objects as well as planets? its a 4 inch cat. f12 are they any...

For Sale: Meade ETX-105 UHTC Telescope plus Tripod & Autostar, only 3...

Did you know that Rudyard Kipling predicted light pollution? :-) I've just been re-reading his lovely short story "With the Night Mail" (published 1908, "a...

I have just purchased a second hand scope which came without a bung for the eyepiece holder. Has anyone any suggestions as to what could be used as a cheap...

Hi., I dropped my pair of small binoculars (Nikon travelite IV 10x25) and they are now "misaligned". I went to the camera/binoculars shop nearby and the guy...

Have just read a message saying that Cassini has emerged from behind the Sun - I hadn't realised it ad been off-line since July 5th. It seems odd that...

Hi Having been locked out of my 5 formerly Freeserve websites for weeks I just have discovered a new page link on Wanadoo's (formerly Freeserve) Sitebuilder...

hello i am thinking of making a dobsonian in the distant future, and i am threrfore spending hours on the net reading up on the subject. However all of the...

A bit of a novelty this one because I actually managed to get up ;-) ! http://www.pbl33.fast24.co.uk/2004-07-13_M+Va.jpg Nice to see Venus again (my first...

This looks interesting. Needs photoshop 7 which I haven't got http://www.spacetelescope.org/projects/fits_liberator/download.html Anybody had a...

Check out www.spaceweather.com Also if you look at the latest images on the SOHO http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/ website thers ALOT of activeity on the limb...

I was casually checking the weekly mission data archived he- http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/weekly-reports/index.htm when I noted the velocities of...

OK, bit of fun... Watching a program on discovery last night about UFO's where it stated that one group of people that rarely reported UFO sightings was...

I've just got my first 2 inch eyepiece, which means I now have both 2 inch and 1 1/4 inch eyepieces. This is no problem because my focuser has 2 inch and 1 1/4...