Have had Babylon 8 trained on Mars for the last hour, after I covered one driveway light I see the planet over the trees of the park. There is just...

I have two questions regarding the use of digital cameras. 1. does a DC work fast enough to capture the image of a meteorite shooting across the sky? 2....

Aditya Naredi wrote: Hi everyone, A few days back I heard from my hometown in India that people observed a 'northern shift' of Sun during sunrise....

Early this year, shortly after I bought my first scope, I had the misfortune of being infected with that dreaded disease Eyepiece Fever. The fever has run its...

About 5 years ago I started thinking about the star..I am one those people who always have a hobby of one kind or another..for some reason I keep getting drawn...

Hi, I'm hoping to be able to view Mars with reasonable high magnification and would appreciate advice and suggestions. It happens that Mars will be closer to...

A friend was busting my chops the other day, "Your 8'' is gigantic, but it can't see thru clouds?" I got to thinking. On some hazy, overcast nights, you look...

I called Scope City to inquire further into the possibility of having Parks custom-manufacture an 8" f/5 reflector O.T.A. for me. I found out that, yes, they...

Muon wrote: Any comparisons? I don't know about a Tasco, but if you change it to a 4mm Meade, I see a direct relationship between...

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:52:50 GMT, Starstuffed penned: From my spot on Mt. Pilchuck, last night I noticed a couple of extremely faint stars immediately to...

Hi, On July 22 2003 I managed to get a fairly good image of the International Space Station with my 14.5 Starmaster , if anyone wants to take a look at the...

Bill, using only a telrad, T-Lyrae is just as far south of Vega as Epsilon is to the NE, so the angle off of Eps thru Vega is about 135 degrees....to save...

Richard Jarnagin wrote: "Rob Fatland" wrote in message ... ok, first of all: How do we know the...

I recently observed NGC7129 and posted a short report on that observation to this group. . .a report which included an aspect which turned out not to exist. ...

I was invited to join a small group for free use of the 60-inch reflector on Mount Palomar for direct viewing on a moonless night (July 26). What...

Sad, but true. But then, I've said that, haven't I? If I tried to say it again, I'd be hard pressed to do it any better than you just did... -- To reply,...

http://www.deepsky2003.net Deepsky 2003 (for Windows) is a collection of observer friendly software tools designed to make your observing sessions more...

I've been doing some calculation. It appears that for planetary resolution and the Moon (not DSOs) and ignoring the difference in contrast and brightness,...

Roly Poly Man wrote: The other night while looking through a scope I was thinking about the fainter galaxies. When these things are barely on the...

"R. Douglas Hulse" wrote in message ... I am considering a very wide field ocular for...