We're at a full moon. Over the next few days I'll see a waning gibbous moon with the left hand side of the moon illuminated, and the right hand side dark, and...

with the building of my new permanent scope setup in my garden, my mind has turned to the possibilty of it getting stolen. some sort of alarm will help of...

Hi all, A couple of results from yesterday... Here's a 2hr timelapse of AR10892, a spot group on the Sun. An amazing amount of movement in such a short...

Hi Guys, Saw a great noctilucent display over Larne last night. Kicked off after midnight, was still going when I retired at 0315 BST. My first, and what...

Here's a shot of Jupiter obtained last night. The sky conditions were slowly sinking into the mire...

Hi group I have an ETX125 that will not run when connected to an external power source. It runs fine off the internal batteries but not when an...

...posted here http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/pstfixx.htm resolved a friend's PST that no longer tuned to H-alpha. Site contains a PST warrantee...

When in the Northern hemisphere and an object is referred to as (say) West of North, is the reference to North from the (true) North Horizon upto the Zenith,...

Hi all, here's a mosaic of the two active regions AR10892 and AR10893 currently rotating into view on the Sun. Approximately 20 images were used to construct...

"A trio of Neptune-sized worlds has been spotted circling a star 41 light years away, in the southern constellation Puppis. One of the planets is by far the...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_5050000/newsid_5051400/bb_rm_5051456.stm -- Nick in Northallerton Also @ www.whelan.me.uk And...

if these makes were put in order for optical quality and mount quality what do think? not in any order meade celestron helios(skywatcher) bresser tal (this...

Hello, clear skies last week over France, so I was able to take three new pictures of the Moon. First one is a 2 days old Moon, a bit of turbulence near the...

Hi, Can anyone help please? I need to know how to calculate the time of sunset, given in BST, on September 2nd 2006 at Lat 54:07:15N, Lon 1:11:52 W. Any...

East Sussex Astronomical Society Proudly announces that its Observatory is to have its grand opening by it's Honorary President on 17th June. www.esas.org.uk

We have an 8" Meade LX90 with an Autostar computer (second hand, if that makes a difference). The few times we have used the Autostar we have had a glitch...

Anyone here a user of the joyousness that is OS X ;) I'm looking for a cool astronomy program, something like SkyMap Pro for Windows. I did use to have the...

Dear All, I currently set up my LX200 outside in the garden and when I am using a camera I sit in my darkened conservatory with the laptop - this is fine,...

The June edition of the Jodcast, an astronomy podcast from Jodrell Bank Observatory (University of Manchester) is now available to download...

Hi, The question is as the title : given that we see it edge on, then how is it known that the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy with arms and all...