As a newbie, I though $4,000 was about the top end for portable telescopes. Does it get any better than...

Apparently Mercury is so dense...it is believed to be 2/3 iron. 1. Is there any evidence to suggest that Mercury might not have started out in its present...

Hi Nightbat The search for the truth is what science is all about.Best to leave out words like "facts" Beast to think in every direction,as long as it makes...

And the empty blather repeats... be sure and send him some money! So he can afford to do this too: URL:http://brainsluice.tripod.com/moonlanding.html "NJ"...

Hi all, Sorry if I annoy, but on Australian TV news I have just watched a segment on the rings of Saturn. We had the usual pic of a huge Saturn and...

Hi all, Yesterday I shot some images of the Sun with the Coolpix 4500 and the new Baader Continuum filter combined with a homemade filter cell using...

Always get email to explain my equation for the universe. This morning I got two. It speaks for itself. I came up with it in 1946 and many laughed at it. Today...

I have a 4"/100mm Celestron Refractor with EQ 4 Mount (drives to both Dec and RA). It has a home modified bracket that supports a star pointer at the same time...

"ETX_Astro_Boy" wrote in message ... You will probably...

Those famous magnetic levitations over superconducting medium surfaces turn out to be caused by a magnetic reflection. magnetic reflections? The reason for...

My husband & I live in Casselberry, FL, & at the same time & date did hear the loud explosion & extreme light that the first person explains. As did many...

Hi folks I am a new entrant to the hobby, and would appreciate some advice. I have purchased a 2nd hand 114mm Newtonian telescope, which has no setup guide...

This is a popular summer question no doubt... Now that Cygnus is getting higher in the evening skies, I was going to have my first look at the star HD 226868...

Explore our universe from Earth to the most distant of galaxies! Alpha Centauri's Universe is a colossal collection of space and astronomy material collected...

I saw a strange object in the western sky earlier today (Sydney Australia), very low on the horizon at about 5pm local time. It looked like very...

So what's the story on this new body? Is it a planet, a hunk of ice or what? Bill

I have a question for some clever egg who could answer a question. I am running the SETI program which is looking at something at 38Hr 56' 6" RA +17 deg 37'...

What would happen to the red shift of light for very distant objects if there was some sort of phenomena related to the very distant leading edge of the...

A short while ago, my lovely Mrs. purchased a Galileo, 4.5" telescope for me. Unfortunately, as this was a QVC or HSN purchase, there was no...

I started this page to help with my boredom. I have Chronic Lyme disease, so I'm stuck at home. I started collecting animations & jokes just to help with my...