Is there a website that show pictures of what should be seen though the eyepiese when looking for deep space objects?

Hello Skywatchers, Here is my revised equipment review. Please excuse aspects of any reposting as I believe the first one sent out was lost in...

I have an 8 inch dobsonian which came with a 9x straight through finder as well as a telrad finder. I found it difficult and time consuming to locate DSOs in...

If you want to convince your friends that you are "just plain folks" and astronomy is a blue collar hobby, not some effete intellectual hobby, here's what you...

So they can get material from pint-sized asteroids (second mission is planned) but we've yet to send and get back a probe to Mars. Why?

I decided to take a look at Subject recently, after not looking at it for years. I was a bit surprised there are no constellation charts. Even basic ones. He...

Hi, Some products from China do indeed have significant value for the $. As a matter of fact, compared to the low cost items out of Japan in the 50's, the...

Could someone explain something to me, I'm pretty clueless when it comes to telescopes and eyepieces? I have a Celestron 114mm telescope with two eyepieces, a...

Evening All I am having a real problem with the various discussions on scopes. There is obviously a Meade camp and a Celeron camp and then there is...

Dear friends, The following links contain some recent Mars image. The seeing for those shots were just fair and I am sure there is much room for improvement...

Have you been duped by a mass of propaganda about global warming? 21st Century Science & Technology Editor Laurence Hecht explains why the Earth is poised to...

I had two mounts delivered to my door this weekend I have not seen before. The first picture is of a Pentax Alt/Az geared mount. What makes this interesting is...

I am posting this for my next door neighbor (who doesn't do Usenet). The clock drive on his 1991 Celestron Ultima (11", fork mount) telescope stopped working....

At the suggestion of a couple of associates, I did a redo of the Crab Morph and added some details about it on my website. This animation is a morphing of an...

Hi Gang, Since it was a clear evening, I checked for Iridium Flares on Heavens-Above. I was surprised to see that there were 2 happening separated by 15...

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5. Rod Mollise 4. Televue Nagler eyepieces 3. Messier 42 2. Star parties And the number 1 thing to which pictures don't do justice is. . . .

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/saishin-e.html this site apparently illustrates the optical faults in the scanning mech of our eyes. since space is bent...

The package says: "Ideal for eyeglass lenses, camera lenses, BINOCULARS (let's throw telescopes in here), microscopes, and other delicate surfaces." Is it...