The signs that astronomy is in recovery would include productive research on the Earth's climate. People who argue about ‘climate change’ using the...

"I've never played golf" "I'm not from Kenya" etc. Let's hear yours...

The $150 BILLION spent on that orbiting junkpile, the ISS. Or all the "Earth monitoring" probes and satellites. What could they have done? 1. Would have had...

About a decade ago I looked at the issue of exposed viscous compositions and the uneven rotational gradient between equatorial and polar latitudes otherwise...

Few naked eye celestial spectacles can compare with the beauty of a crescent moon near Venus in the morning or evening sky. This evening the thin, illuminated...

St. Augustine once famously said: "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know." Since...

On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 8:09:12 PM UTC-5, RichA wrote: On Wednesday, 27 January 2016 16:29:58 UTC-5, lal_truckee wrote: News is predicable. ...

Saw this article: http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/that-70s-myth-did-climate-science-really-call-for-a-coming-ice-age/ which provides some more facts...

http://phys.org/news/2016-10-detector-pollution-brighter-areas.html

NASA has joined with the US Army Game Studio and released their first of many-to-come space shoot-em-up games called "Moonbase Alpha" which is available *FREE*...

WTF is with all this climate **** all of a sudden...THIS IS AN ASTRONOMY NG assholes !!

Hmmmm, what's next? Green shirts with armbands? UN-IPCC relocation camps for the dissidents and/or disbelievers? Firing squads for those who eat beans and fart...

Chris Marriott wrote: The first "powered flights" were powered airships. I have a vague feeling (but no more than that) that it was a Frenchman who first...

Sad, but true. But then, I've said that, haven't I? If I tried to say it again, I'd be hard pressed to do it any better than you just did... -- To reply,...

I've only been to 5 star parties, and there has only been one person like that that I've seen. He was a danger to people and equipment and finally had the...

I feel like such an idiot for not getting this to work. Any help would be appreciated. I'm going to describe exactly what I am doing, so hopefully someone...

42° N 76° W UT: 05:00- 07:30 Seeing: 7-8 Transparency: 8-9 6" f/9.4 Astro Physics Starfire 5mm Tak LE (287X) 4mm Zeiss Abbe (359X) To say that I had a...

I'm going to hate myself for asking this, I suppose, but should I abandon my long-planned purchase of an XT-10 in favor of an ETX-125? I've almost got the...

I am convinced that I need one of these. I have an 8" Newt on EQ mount and it takes me forever to aim at a target. I am good with my charts and know where...

Ron Baalke wrote: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/09jul_marsdust.htm Mars Dust NASA Science News July 9, 2003 Using only backyard...