Couple of great DS images by Nik Szymanek on Telescope House website...

I just wanted to mention in brief that this year's Stellafane was a blast. As usual, there were some beautiful and innovative telescopes entered in the ATM...

Strange Orbits Orbiting bodies can follow weird trajectories, from figure-eight loops to complex, interlocked...

Dear all, I don't know how many of you did know Marco Cavagna, discoverer of many asteroids at Sormano Astronomical Observatory, among which...

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-08-12T134836Z_01_BAU167246_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SPACE-MARS-DC.XML

We attended the Nebraska Star Party for the second time. There are very few camping spots with electricity, and we were unable to get electricity this year. I...

Well I struck lucky last night and among all the planes and satellites I managed to bag a spectrum of a bright Perseid at 22:59 UT. Full details and the image...

I'm almost too embarassed to even post this question, but it is causing me a lot of stress trying to learn to use my telescope, so here goes... I have a 6"...

Hello On 16 of july i was camping and i saw a bright light in the sky approximately at 21h51 and i thought that might be the ISS. The next week after de...

Last week some friends of mine had a get together at a great RV park in north west Texas about an hour south of Amarillo (about 5 miles south of a small town...

For the latest Hanwell report on Gamma Virginis - see: http://www.hanwellobservatory.org.uk/ and follow the links. Regards, Dave Randell

I've decided to start up my hobby again sometime in the near future (read: As extra funds become available), and was looking around at what's on the market...

Sun fairly inactive of late but three proms recorded this morning at http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/pstnew.htm Nytecam 51N 0.1W

Dear Friends, Worrying that I would not image any Perseids very early this morning (previous negative experience), I decided to play it safe and have a double...

Hi guys. I am just wondering why are some scopes like Questar and others so expensive, compared to the aperture of other scopes? Is it the coatings or what?...

If you're interested in reading yet more of my foolishness, why, just go he http://journals.aol.com/rmollise/UncleRodsAstroBlog/ Peace, Rod...

Hi, Among those of you creating high resolution renderings of celestial bodies, not the 5 cents illustrations but rather these ones at least 6 cents ;-)...

Sorry, I have asked everywhere else, so are trying another method. Does anyone reading this list have a reference to the invention of the Y-factor method of...

Situation: First scope. First post. =$500 to spend. Used is fine. Conditions: I live near Los Angeles at the beach. I can only see stars of magnitude -50...

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