I'm looking to get a bed time book for my 3-3/4 year old daughter. She loves pointing out the Moon, and has looked at the Moon and stars in one of my spotting...

Is there such thing as black light? Well. When you look at the eyepice of an SCT. You can notice the central obstruction at the center field reducing...

Hi, where can I find 14" (or so) newtonian mirror only? How much does it cost? I plan to build the tube and mount and just get the mirror to save bucks and...

Hello all... How is that price fixing seems to be permissible with Astro gear? I thought that practice wasn't legal. But, Televue eyepieces cost exactly the...

Pouring in south-east England this morning and forecast not much better for this week but nice views of sun's proms yesterday with pic posted...

How is this possible? We all know how f-ratio is determined, take the focal length of the scope, divide by the diameter of the objective and you have it. But...

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This has always struck me as odd. The module was white and look at how it reflects like a mirror. http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/Apollo10/A10_CSMfull.gif

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Has anyone ever seen this effect before? I took this shot about 6 months ago. Spikes of light going up into the air. No, it's not a lens flare or CCD...

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:39:33 -0400, RichA wrote: How is this possible? We all know how f-ratio is determined, take the focal length of the...

There are point and shoot cameras and DSLRs. Both can be used on a telescope. In order to increase the f.l. of a DSLR lens, you mount a teleconverter (negative...

It's starting to get to me, like "Six Feet Under" or "The Wire". C'mon, Dennis. Let's have it. Uncle Bob

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Hi Gang: Yes, the Spring 2005 issue of my FREE newsletter, Skywatch, is late. But I think you'll agree it was worth the wait. It's a fat 17 pages of Astro-fun...

How were the talks at NEAF this year? It'd be great to hear more reports of people's days/weekends there... a vicarious astro-fix for those of us who couldn't...

Using star fields around Deneb, I measured the field of view of several 2" eyepieces and was surprised to discover just how off their apparent fov specs...

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Exp. with eq-mounts like the Orion EQ-2 Equatorial...

It has been mentioned a lot of times that the view of galaxy spirals or arms when viewed thru an SCT (8" for example) is not so clear compared to a 4"...