Our timekeeping ancestors devised a system whereby they created an equable day and then applied it to the annual cycle,from there they devised the calendar...

Dear All, with some delay, I invite you to check the latest images I introduced in the Virtual Telescope gallery...

Our great daily sweep into the Earth's orbital shadow is often preceded by the effect generated where solar radiation ends and the orbital shadow of the...

This has fascinated me for a while; I must be overlooking something. Seemingly the sun's rays hit the moon at an angle that often don't make sense when...

can we get aurora warnings by text or email? the uni of lancs used to do them but stoped i think!

I found a best place for Older Women and Younger Men, or Older men and Younger women to interact with each other. Generation gap is not a problem here, but a...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6208456.stm cheers, mark

1. Human intelligence is largely hereditary. 2. Civilization depends totally upon innate intelligence. Without innate intelligence, civilization would never...

Mr Holmes, Whatever has prompted you to send me a weird personal email suggesting I am one Mike Corley? I assumed you were the off-topic, crossposting...

Hi folks Anyone know the specs for a C/CS mount please?. I am thinking of ordering one of the DMK21AF04 firewire cameras for my scope. The camera has a C/CS...

http://www.spaceguarduk.com/news.htm food for thought!

http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/plan/craterdepth/CraterDepthsApolloEra.html This is to announce a website regarding lunar crater depths for...

Can anybody advise if this telescope is worth buying. Have seen postings about previous Lidl offers but this looks...

http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/Structure/moongeo/MoonGeologyTable.html This is to announce an amateur website that provides an introduction...

Hello I put on my website some photos of the comet with a little animation of it's movement during 20 mn welcome page http://astroghost.ift.fr direct link

I've been reading Sagan's Cosmos recently and wondering about this question. Actually, there are some hypotheses: 1. Civilisations developing technology...

As the pound heads toward a value of $2, I wonder if there is any chance of the Coronado PST heading toward a price of less than £400? After reading about...

Hi everybody I am looking for lunar pictures taken before 1960 by professionnal obversatories, to use for a presentation. So can you help me giving to me...

I am looking for a font that can produce the symbols detailed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_symbols . If anyone can help, please let me...

All of it ! "Brad Guth" wrote: Just wondering as to how much if any of theis 'soc.culture.china' NG of Usenet is available to the...