OBSERVATIONS: A star buzzing through the outer solar system? Bring it on A dwarf star, currently 63 light-years away, will very likely dip into the outer edge...

A cracked comet March 24, 2010 C2007 Q3 Siding Spring as imaged by Nick Howes using the Faulkes Telescope...

Is carbon fiber OTA better than aluminum for the C-9.25?

Does the CGEM mount allow for autoguiding capability?

Is this product good for flattening the field and astrophotography with the C8 , 9.25, and 11?

March 23, 2010 NASA Mars Rover Getting Smarter as it Gets Older NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, now in its seventh year on Mars, has a new...

The state of South Dakota has deeply embarrassed itself with a resolution regarding teaching climate science in schools. The...

At lat +42, due north +48 declination is just above the horizon (south -48, east and west 0). If 0h is culminating, how would I compute (say) the lowest...

Once again, economic conduitions are forcing educators to lay off teachers, close programs and buildings, and trim educational expectations. Club's who can...

Cosmic telephoto lens shows intense, early star formation A recently discovered galaxy gives a detailed view of stellar birth in the young...

All the guys who call themselves astronomers here should have no difficulty in expressing what is happening presently as all latitudes experience the symmetry...

On Mar 14, 11:21*am, Mike Jr wrote: On Mar 13, 11:47*pm, oriel36 wrote: On Mar 14, 2:38*am, Mike Jr...

Hey all, I've just got a 2nd hand 8" dob and am thinking that I'm going to have to clean the primary mirror (eek). Rather than just a fine layer of dust, it...

NASA Science News for March 19, 2010 Grab your binoculars. The crescent Moon and the Pleiades star cluster are gathering for a beautiful close encounter on...

Total astronomy moron here but saw something pretty spectacular in the southern/southwestern sky last night. Very bright star-like object fairly low in the...

I am looking for Web sites of university or college where he studied astronomy. Regards

NASA Science News for March 12, 2010 A massive "current of fire" on the sun has started running at high speed, surprising researchers and challenging some...

Hello all, I have run into a few older papers that have some angular measure notation with which I'm unfamiliar. For example, 0.'25 and 0."25, with the quote...

Yes, there WILL be a momentous astronomical event in the year 2012! But it won't be the end of the world, since we had another one like it in 2004. And in...

6 Fun Facts about the James Webb Space Telescope The mammoth infrared observatory, scheduled to launch in 2014, will look back to the first stars in the...