I was wondering why I rarely see amateur off-axis scopes. Looking at them diagramatically, they seem quite simple. The huge advantage of no central...

Can anyone recommend an introductory book on Stellar Cartography? I'm having trouble finding anything. Alternatively, any introductory articles or online...

Sorry, I was told that in my original posting I sounded like a Star Trek crank by asking about "Stellar" cartography. The correct term is apparently "Astro"...

all of my shots of planets seem to be way overexposed. auto exp and gain/offset changes dont seem to help bring it in. any hints?

On Sep 1, 3:25 pm, ukastronomy wrote: On 1 Sep, 16:18, kduc wrote: The idea of a FAQ for some of...

Know anything about astronomy? Well, read this www.martin-nicholson.info follow the astronomy projects, the details, the red dwarf stuff, the infrared...

well, except for Hannah, and Eric, and Carl, and James and others. Such pals that when they agree how great Martin Piers Nicholson is and how evil the people...

http://www.tass-survey.org/tass/mailarchive/2003-06/msg00147.html From Mr UKASTRONOMY himself. Written by him, about him, released by him. Of course he...

Professional astronomer Laszlo Kiss, well known variable star expert, highlighted the serious shortcomings of the self styled amateur astronomy expert Martin...

http://www.martin-nicholson.info/southernsky2/south2.htm The discoverer and identifier are the same person, one is his name, one is his title, although...

http://www.martin-nicholson.info/southernsky2/south2.htm The discoverer and identifier are the same person, one is his name, one is his title, although...

It's strange how there seems to be so little astronomy in this ukastronomy guy's hall of shame. Most of it is him griping about people and things. But even...

Remember this one? http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade-Uncensored/message/8319 or possibly the words of a professional might...

"Identifying Previously Uncatalogued Red Variable Stars in the Northern Sky Variability Survey" by Martin Piers Nicholson In this paper the author shows he...

Cut and pasted directly from halfway down the following web archive page http://www.astronomy-chat.net/NGC_6888__Crescent_Nebula_in_Cygnus_930994.html Simply...

This paper should be read http://www.aavso.org/publications/ejaavso/ej96.shtml People are encouraged to read it. Especially those interested in AAVSO...

Nicholson always witters on about debate. There is no debate, astronomy is a science, not a theology nor a philosophy nor a slanging match. People have to...

Originally sent to a wide range of recipients, names withdrawn to protect both the guilty and innocent from any potential blog or usenet hate...

This is strange, I thought John Greaves' agenda was to show that Martin Nicholson in eJAAVSO number 96 was willing to publish a paper containing unprovable...

Want to highlight your scheme or project, make it become well known? Post to many groups, preferably unmoderated ones, and creating numerous blogs and wikis...