Astronomers have discovered that the planet Uranus has a blue ring - only the second found in the Solar System. More at...

"April 5, 2006: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has uncovered new evidence that planets might rise up out of a dead star's ashes." More at...

Hi there, After possibly four months of asking questions on this fantastic site and missing out on a Bresser Skylux at Lidl by about five minutes,...

It's amazing how a passing thought lunchtime today has been resurrected by the earlier "Loo" thread this evening. I think I was reading the SaN article Cosmic...

The lobster is the inspiration for a new type of European X-ray telescope. The observatory is designed to have an extremely wide field of view - just as the...

http://www.astrobuysell.com/uk/propview.php?view=5694 Selling for £165 or will Part-Ex for WO scope (80/480 f6) -- Cheers David...

Howdy double star fans! The Spring 2006 issue of our (it's published out of the Physics Department here at the University of South Alabama) little journal...

At last caught up with the group after wanadoo pulled the plug. Anyway, I was just wondering where Jupiter will be in the sky this as I want to view it.

one of those pointless hypothetical what-if questions... So, assuming the rule of "you can't go faster than light" (E=MC2 and all that) what would happen if we...

Got back today from Turkey. We viewed the eclipse under perfect blue skies. It was quite incredible and everyone there was suitably impressed. I've seen other...

Thought I'd try pointing the new toy skywards on its own given the disappointment of finding that it isn't really practical to put it on the ETX-105 :-( OK, I...

It's not quite finished but the main stuff is in there. The images down the side of the main page lead to larger versions or additional images. I hope you...

Just a few days after the total eclipse, the Sky at Night will be presenting a programme on the event on BBC1 on Monday the 3rd of April at 00:45 in the...

First in browsing the astronomy groups I came upon sci.astronomy only to find it is no longer in use. Or is it just Google no longer posting to it? How come it...

Hi all, Just back from a wonderful week in Turkey. The Eclipse (my first total) was fantastic! I have put a rushed web page on my website with Videos and...

Sorry about the new post but I wanted to make sure this one got...

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Can anyone please comment if this is good value: http://tinyurl.com/rubd3 I had a look at one in the shop yesterday, seems quite well constructed, rubber...

I've just got back today. Fulfilled! Third time lucky for me, after a thin veil of cloud in Mexico 1991, and totally overcast in Germany 1999. Eclipse 2006...

Does anyone have (or can point me to) a satellite image showing the eclipse shadow over Turkey? Les Cowley