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How much mass is in the asteroid belt. Enough to make a planet? OR mars as big as earth? -- Hike High Mountains Fish for Wild Trout

So I was looking through my new (used) 10 inch dobs last night. Saturn looked great I could even see a band. (or maybe it was the Cassini space craft---...

I just don't get this. I should have left the secondary alone as it came from Orion. Damn it. I purchased a laser and an Orion collimation eyepiece, and when...

Last Christmas I got as a present for myself a 10 in Dob (Orion Intelliscope). My other scope is the Skyquest 4.5 in Dob, with which I've had a lot of fun...

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Hello ! I just had to tell somebody... I just wanted to share that I had a wonderful three nights in a row now. Clear and cold air, the small dipper of Ursa...

A real American hero died today.... http://news.yahoo.com/neil-armstrong-1st-man-moon-dies-193954975.html I find it some how fitting that I was watching Star...

The ever changing orbital orientation of the Earth is just about to align with fixed axial orientation with the imaginary lines of longitudes passing almost...

Follow a local observation further and further into space using modern imaging...

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/is-the-leap-second-good-or-bad-we-have-until-2023-to-find-out An entire root and branch treatment where timekeeping meshes...

Hi, I just bought a pair of Nikon 8x42 ATB Monarch which is sold as waterproof and fog-proof. I live in Florida where the humidity can be amazing and when I...

FOR RELEASE: June 17, 2004 NEWS NUGGET NO.: STScI-NN040617 A REALLY NEAT CLOSE-UP OF COMET NEAT FROM KITT PEAK OBSERVATORY This image of comet C/2001 Q4...

This image beats my previous best of 22h45m old by some margin. A freezing hour spent on Selsey's west beach for this...

After the end of a lengthy, summer, evening twilight in rural Montana I went out to a waiting pair of tripod-mounted 25x100 binoculars (...

A 30-year study of gambling and half that of astrology has revealed unique 'beak' shapes present in your planetary transits on winning days, whether in the...

When I was young (or more likely before I was born) my father, a do-it-yourselfer, built a telescope. This would have been probably around 1955-1960 or so. I...

Earth science intersects with planetary science ergo...astronomy. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12081697/

By Tom Rankin - Vice President of the Mid-Hudson Astronomy Association My wife and I journeyed to Star Hill Inn ( http://www.starhillinn.com ), June 27th,...

A Revised Classification of the Variable Star NSV 620 01 44 38.00 -77 22 12.0 (Hydrus) The period of 47.2 days taken together with the scatter in the...