I have an SLR with no functioning lightmeter and a 500mm mirror lens (f8 I think) plus a 2x tele converter the camera is loaded with 800 asa film and I will...

I had been hoping to collimate my 4.5" newt with a star test before the transit (and then be very, very gentle with it!), but it's looking like that may not be...

I've just made a Baader filter for a friends Nexstar 8 inch and it does show ahint of granulation which is nice - but dammit, there's only a pair of minute...

The Astronomy Centre, Todmorden, West Yorks. will be open from before the crack of dawn on Tuesday morning for those wishing to see the Venus transit. We have...

10 hrs UTC and bright sunshine near London, therefore after a look at the 4 rather small sunspot groups ~ decided to examine Venus ( 150mm aperture...

If you were to go to mars (go with me on this one), would you be able to see a transit of earth? Would you also be able to see transits of venus? This is just...

It's still visible but only just. A bit too close to the Sun for me to get during the day and it sets very soon after the Sun. Nothing spectacular and a few...

13.20 BST, BBC2 this afternoon, Saturday

On 3 Jun 2004 07:22:21 -0700, (andrea tasselli) wrote: Good question, in a way. I can offer this as an answer: a number of people...

No - not the very hot one! Noticed this while I was waiting for the clouds to clear today... http://www.pbl33.fast24.co.uk/corona_300504.jpg -- Pete...

Our Society has organised a Transit viewing for the general public and local school children, and some of our members are worried whether our Public Liability...

Anyone know if Reading will be doing a transit event like they did for the Mercury transit last year at the Oracal shopping center. Thx

I hope you all watched "The Truth behind the Moon Landings" on Channel Five. And I've got another idea for the conspiracy theorists. I mentioned the secrecy...

It only happens a dozen times a millennium, it last occurred over a century ago and no living soul has witnessed it. But on Tuesday June 8th you'll be able to...

I presume everyone has now heard about the official report about Beagles demise. Despite my misgivings about the merits of space flight I did have...

Managed to pick Venus up tonight after sunset. Took a number of images but when Venus is low down in the twilight sky it tends to suffer from a lot of...

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c3/512/ Is that Venus creeping in on the left there? Tony

On 3 Jun 2004 00:24:39 -0700, (Chris.B) wrote: All such near perfection is still nothing like standing in the cold under the stars....

I checked metcheck.com last week for my area of Kent (for the 8th June) and it gave, iirc, about 70% chance of cloud. Today it forecasts 29°C, no rain and 1%...

(andrea tasselli) wrote in message ... I still don't see how anyone can have a...