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I don't understand how people get such great pictures of Mars showing features with as little as 4" of aperture when all we see is a small bright disc with...

I've have a Meade ETX 90 as well as a Nikon D70 with the adapter to connect the both. I've taken a few moon-shots and my results made me look this group up...

Hi all, I've been able to make a couple of trips to Lowell Observatory and have posted a few shots to my pBase...

Found this in one of David Levy's books, a ditty originally published in the Harvard Observatory Pinafore on December 31, 1929: An astronomer is a sorry...

After visiting the White Sands Missile Range Museum and the White Sands National Monument (browse http://www.wsmr-history.org/ and http://www.nps.gov/whsa/ for...

Hey SCT scope nuts: I have a chance to buy an old C-8 with the Byres drive fork mount and tripod. It's complete except for the power cord, and thus I can't...

http://www.astromart.com/classifieds/details.asp?classified_id=386219 Check it out, Meads's new line of truss-Dobs. Can't wait to read a review about...

NASA names constellation program managers Jeffrey Hanley has been appointed manager of NASA's Constellation Program to lead development of the nation's new...

Hi group; after many days of bad weather, I can see the stars at last! Mars is very interesting in these days, I took some images with my C9,25. In my homepage...

As the orbit of Mars is now going into retrograde against the stellar background or rather, that the faster Earth on an inner circuit is overtaking the slower...

What is it with this site? Can anyone enlighten me? Went to log in and OOPS! it suddenly doesn't work any more (for no reason I can fathom). Sent an email to...

I have a Konus Mak and have recently noticed the buildup from over a year's use. A friend suggested some specific lens cleaning cloths (packaged separately),...

Would this work: use one large square shaped sheet of polished stainless steel bent to a parabolic arc, as the primary mirror. This would focus the light into...

A history book I recently read stated that the founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, Dekanahwidah, convinced the Seneca to join the confederacy by causing a...

With Orion appearing in early morning skies it struck me that Betelgeuse looks quite a bit dimmer than I remember from a couple of years ago (when I first...

When will we be treated to another good naked eye comet like Hale Bopp? It has been eight years since Hale Bopp and none of the comets have been anywhere near...

An amateur writes; Could I have some help with this one... Is gravity a form of eletromegnetic radiation. One of the four forces of our understandable...

hi there i`ve just subscribed to this neswgroup and i was just wondering if anyone else feels the same wat i do? The way in which i think that all the...

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