Hello All As a kid, I was always looking up. Folks bought me a "cheap" scope from Sears and I used it for many years. Had a great time with it, but once...

Space Weather News for July 14, 2005 http://spaceweather.com Solar activity has suddenly increased with a series of strong explosions from sunspot 786,...

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Hello. I am just wondering what is going on with NASA's shuttles all of the sudden. I mean before the explosion of discovery in February, they were...

http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2005/15jul05/murner1_big.jpg This shows a 3D vortex in an around the sunspot and magnetic loop. What a shot!

It's been well over a week since any update about deep impact has been made. Surely those guys have gleened more information by now. They sure are slow to...

Hi All - I have an older scope that (in my estimation) deserves a little investment of time and energy to restore. The main issue currently is the finder...

Memo for all EC, Council and Committee Members Astronomical League Inserted below is the first draft of the council agenda. We will be meeting on August 11...

Hi - I need to move my altitude bearings on my Meade Dob due to balance problems, but this will then cause the tube to hit the rocker box, so I'll need to...

Is using a 1.25" EP adapter with a 2" star diagonal on an 80mm refractor better than using a 1.25" star diagonal on a 2" focuser? Does it increase the FOV?

Hi! I am looking for opinions on a couple of large eyepieces. I'm definitely getting two...just a question of which two. Right now, my eyepiece collection...

I tried the SkyGlobe program and didn't like it. Now, can someone tell me how to get rid of the SG4DOS.exe file off of my desktop? Every time I try to delete...

Hello Dark Sky fans, I am up at our site on Mt Graham where over the last few years we obtain V band sky measurements between 21.7 and 21.9 Mag/sq arc second...

Just starting out trying to understand the sky. I have some very basic questions that I'm hoping to get some help with. Say Statement A = I live on the...

A question to scope-makers. I'm having a bit of a problem polishing out my 365mm primary mirror. It is being made of 25mm-thick porthole glass and is intended...

Strange Days in Rosamond Tuesday 7/11/05 The day started off with me needing something to eat besides my own fixings, so I had my first ( and last for...

Greetings I was out observing tonight and was stumped by how to describe the location of M103. It's about 3 degrees from Ruchbah in Cassiopeia. Ok, but...

New exoplanet defies theory (Jul 13) http://physicsweb.org/article/news/9/7/6 A new planet has been discovered orbiting around a star in a triple-star system...

tonight, first image with a Canon Rebel 300D at the focus of an 80*500 refractor http://images.ciel.free.fr/test/IMG_0108R.jpg 1/100sec exposure...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8569277/ This is a real gremlin story. As it is decribed, I fear the worse case whereby the source is in the shuttle...