I bit the bullet at Astrofest and bought an LX-200SCT-UHTC-GPS etc. 10" from Telescope House - having peered through other scopes off and on for 30 years I...

I spent the day cobbling a wooden adaptor for my C5 to the CG5 mount, and the finderscope to the C5; both a boodge, but have to start somewhere, it won't be...

A date for your diary. The Forestry Commission and Sunderland Astronomical Society are staging the 2005 Kielder Forest Star Camp from 8 - 11 September. The...

I'm considering building my first 'scope. Not so sure about mirror grinding so I'm looking for a source of finished mirrors, probably about 8". Where might I...

Tim Haynes wrote: JPEGs are necessarily 8-bit creatures. Your monitor should have much greater depth than that: 16-, 24-bit maybe. I thought Jpeg was 8...

Scientists gathered in Aspen, Colorado USA have speculated that some extrasolar planets may have carbon-based crusts leading to many-kilometres deep diamond...

Chaps, Chappettes. I have, tonight made my first attempt at stacking a captured AVI. The subject is saturn and i plucked the best frames(30) from a total of...

Hi, I have just bought my first scope, Europa 250 F4.8, from Orion Optics (uk). With the scope I received two Plossl eyepiece (25 and 12.5mm). I would like...

Was just heading to bed, glanced out of the window and -- no clouds! Fairly mucky sky, but this is the first night since I got my LX90 that I've seen a star. ...

I've posted some pictures of Astrofest on my web site at http://www.merseia.fsnet.co.uk/index.html. A few random thoughts - I thought it got off to a shaky...

With regard to the Oort cloud, I understanf that it is believed to extend somewhere in the region of 3 light years from the Sun. Given that this is true and...

Just to let you all know that whatever you may have been reading on certain yahoo groups House Of Optics are STILL trading and continue to do so. If anyone...

With the almost constant cloud in the Midlands for the last few weeks I am getting bored of studying the cloud and I am getting desperate to play with all my...

Has anyone purchased any of these from ebay? they look to be really good value for money Anyone got any opinions on them as I was thinking of buying a...

I've just bought a 2" 30mm wide-angle eyepiece at Astrofest for my Helios 200mm f5 Dobsonian, which claims to have a 2" capable focusser. So I removed the 1¼"...

The author of SkyTools (Greg Crinklaw http://www.skyhound.com/ ) sent me a copy of the program for review a good number of months (years - oops) ago. I made...

Interesting that BCF are offering 10% off orders placed online this weekend - except that they haven't given prices for some of the equipment! NG

An exploding star: http://heritage.stsci.edu/2005/02/big.html Which was blazoned across the front page of the Independent newspaper...

Anyone got any pics they have taken from the Parador on Tenerife they would let me see. I am off there for a weeks observing end of May so would...

The annual European Astrofest returns to Kensington Town Hall - London today and tomorrow and hope to see you there. I'll be hovering around our Ewell AS...