I'm on the lookout for a refractor scope. Up to £150 inc. post. Anyone got anything suitable? Telescope House have a Meade 2070 for £150ish this weekend, as...

I'm after a starter scope, and after looking at hundreds of web sites and ebay pages, it seems like these: http://www.telescopehouse.com/ have just about the...

Having got a little bit of a bug for star gazing again, I'd like to purchase a compact scope for occasional use. I have a cheap x60 spotting scope, which is...

I'm after a cheap refractor scope, what should be the minimum spec I should buy? Does the name mean anything on cheap £150 scopes? What to avoid, and any...

Anyone here know of an applet that can give you a real time view of the disk of Mars at a precise instant? I don't have Starry Night pro or anything like that,...

One of the thousands of asteroids orbiting the sun has been found to have a mini planetary system of its own. University of California, Berkeley, assistant...

What is the status of any public uproars (well, public uproars only in the astronomy community, that is!) on curbing this *disease* that's out to ruin all...

.... this ship is not for you! But then you will miss all those *dream* deep sky views of the Milky Way and colourful nebulae whilst mining for fuel in the...

Listen up, you may win a prize if you get this right!!! Question 1: ------------ What is the *second* *reddest* star in the entire night sky to shine above...

Before anybody gives me that look...this question is totally in the context of a "what if" kind of hypothetical scenario. Suppose an asteroid somehow, through...

Some texts (notably one or two books I vaguely recall of Patrick Moore's) often show projections of *brightest* and *closest* stars in the several thousand...

According to the ephemeris in my BAA Handbook, this object is going to *brush* past the Earth at just 1 million miles ( 0.015 AUs) at closest approach in late...

Friday night proved to be somewhat of a new "revelation" for me on the observation of close visual binaries. The sky was generally quite hazy and disappointing...

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...

Earlier this year I was on holiday with my family in the UK. My son took the photos at the links below. They are completely unretouched or manipulated in any...

hi, i would like to see if somebody can confirm an observation this evening, a black trail, smoke alike, appearing from the south of the moon, crossing the...

On Nov 21, 12:29 am, "Angelo Campanella" wrote: Rather than a cavity, the region is one of zero gravity! Sorry: The region (core)...

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I borrowed a 60mm refractor at the weekend as the start point for my quest to buy a scope -done 8 months 'training' with bins! The scope is a Skywatcher 609...

If its not a strange question to ask - If you have been observing for quite a while and seen most of the easy objects then where typically do you start looking...