Hi, Are there any facilities in France, like the Portugese COAA ? Thanks Steve

Can any of you folks shed any light on the following article http://www.zetatalk.com/index/f2f0516.htm Clear Skies James Dill

Spent a few minutes last night trying to find NEAT. Am I looking in the wrong place or does NEAT appear like a very faint fuzzy now. I sort of hopped 25degs up...

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in the event of an near extinction level event (for humans) like a great big asteroid coming to hit us, is there a repository of the combined knowledge of the...

I'm trying to attach a camera (Canon EOS 300D) to my Celestron Firstscope 114EQ, but it's proving harder than I expected. I bought the recommended Celestron...

Taken from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3749919.stm By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science editor The giant Lovell Telescope is at Merlin's...

Hi all, A little back, I was asking in this newsgroup for first-time advice on astrophotography. I was having difficulty getting my Logitech Quickcam (cmos)...

Sorry for the short notice... Part of the Jeremiah Horrocks memorial lecture series. Thursday 27th May, 7.30pm, Harrington Lecture...

Thanks for the continuing messages guys I really appreciate the support, and will continue to wear it :-) http://www.g8ina.enta.net/astronomy.htm for the...

A second, if crude, spectrum obtained last night shows emission lines posted at http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/encke.htm Success probably due this time to...

Hi, I have a laptop to control my telescope but to escape the mosquitoes and other nasty bugs I want to now control the laptop using my Wifi from my LAN PC...

I have just started to use a digital camera for astrophotography. As a starter I intend to look at the moon and try for sunspots. My intention is to try to...

I have purchased a cable to link my ETX 125 to my computer. Could anyone recommend any good software to control the scope with?

Hi All, At some stage in the future I'm thinking of selling my Tak FS102 and 10" Meade LX 200 classic to get funds together to obtain my next scope. Given that...

A chap earlier asked the question is there a vault of stored knowledge in case of asteroid extinction. Firstly what would be the point in what way would...

My PST, ordered January: paid for March; arrived today. So the Sun came out and showed me a breathtaking view of prominences and filaments round the central...

Sorry its OT but energy conservationists will be interested in the Daily Mirror page 6; Wed 26th May 2004 feature "Why garden centres are killing the...

I was recently looking in Mallas & Kreimer's 1978 book "The Messier Album". It reminded me that a few months ago someone mentioned that he had read somewhere...

Equipment: Orion Optics Europa 250 Newt ('Mini-Hubble') (250mm, f4.8) on HEQ5 mount, 10x50 bins. Conditions: Initially clear, steady. Wind from the west, slow....