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Andrew Abbot, in the Campaign for Dark Skies is petitioning the Prime Minister to ban flood-lighting of public buildings in order to cut down energy wastage,...

Seeing conditions weren't too bad on the morning of the 29th. This is my second RGB attempt at Saturn using my new...

Leaving Wembley Arena, walking South (or SE) saw a large object burn up in the atmosphere. Much larger than a shooting star... Frient saw it and I guess lots...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/6191462.stm -- Gareth Slee http://www.meroffice.com

Anyone have any thoughts/info on this oddity? Is it genuine? Is it associated with metoer showers? Has it ever been...

i failed in my monthly quota of posts. im only human. sorry!

fetid OT misdemeanour and gratuitous crossposting snipped for brevity "JimmY Z" expounded in message...

A member of our astronomy society is wishing to re-silver a mirror. Can you guy recommend a list of possible mirror silvering companies in the UK or Northern...

Does anyone have any back issues of the American magazine "Astronomy" they no longer require? Steve

Hi guys. I'm stuck on a really annoying problem at the moment. Basically, I've been tracking the positions of a number of asteroids over the last 2 months and...

"Trace chemicals ejected from the Sun and collected by NASA's Genesis mission have solved a long-standing lunar mystery that threatened to rewrite our...

"Mexican President Vicente Fox has inaugurated a giant telescope that could help scientists uncover clues about the creation of the universe. The telescope,...

The average radius of the Earth is 6,374kilometres. The volume of a sphere is 4/3phi r3 Pressure at the surface is 760mm of mercury. The density of mercury is...

Craig Oldfield verbally sodomised in news:MPG.1fcab0e7e3166a37989b3b@localhost: In article...

cuz given the fact that there's only 8 days of the month left, i may fail to reach my cosmically required quota of 331 posts. prepare for the milky spill. and...

Hi all, sorry to bother you, maybe someone can help. I'm looking to buy collections/job lots of NASA, ESA, Litho's & pictures other space related items,...

Can anybody explain why the frequency of an observed source of EM radiation cannot be proportional to the distance the radiation has travelled to the...

It is generally accepted now that space is expanding (the Hubble expansion which accounts for red-shift among other things). When it was more recently...

I saw, given as an aside in a recent web-based commentary on current events in astronomy (sorry, can't find the link at mo), that a supernova of a relatively...