Fantastic lunar eclipse and a nice clear sky too! http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geoff.smith5/lunar3mar.jpg

Its Patrick Moores Birthday today! Happy Birthday Patrick!

Hello all, Boo mentioned that ther was no heads up for Saturday's eclipse. (It was difficult to analyse) Anyway I post these little thumbnail alerts...

This one fair turns the head ... http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/stereoimages/preview/preview_transit.shtml I don't quite have my head around exactly...

Apologies for my ignorance, but is that Venus in the south west tonight ? It's HUGE !

I am surprised that there aren't loads of reports on this event today. I know much of the country was outside the occultation range. In spite of the earlier...

OK, let me be first to get an image up.... Not the best image in the world though. Taken with a Nikon D70 at prime focus with a William Optics Zenithstar...

I though I'd just point the telescope at 'that really bright star over there'. Wow! It's Saturn! First time I've seen a planet through a telescope - and...

Hi all, Seeing was reasonably good before this morning's lunnar occultation of Saturn. Here's a work-in-progress result from before the...

Hi Group, Just wanted to find out : The solar wind particles are electrically charged and arrive at the earth with great speed, then get trapped by the...

We finally managed to have a clear enough night to be able to see something other than bright stars. Unfortunately, the moon has been a bit bright, causing...

The rille that runs down the centre of the Moon's Alpine Valley has always eludede me in the past - admittedly, mainly because I keep forgetting to image...

Hi, I've been toying with the idea of getting a reticle eyepiece to assist me in doing drift alignment and for use with my flip mirror/camera setup. I found...

Hi all, About recent group discussion on open clusters I suggest to visit, for people eventually interested in photometric studies of this kind of objects,...

Dear Group, I have located a paper from Astronomy & Astrophysics which identified some of the oldest open clusters in our galaxy. I was wondering if someone...

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On the Equinoxes ,the orbital path of the Earth crosses line perpendicular to the maximum diameter of the Sun...

Dear group, What does one get when imaging an open star cluster with really good seeing (FWHM=1.52")? Here is an...

with the Chineese and the Americans both with plans to put Men/Women on the moon, there`s some similarities with the first race to the moon. over the next...

Hi all, An appauling run of weather broke (briefly) last night. The seeing wasn't fantastic but is was nice to be out again. Lots of moisture in the air - my...