The past 2 nights, I have been trying to find Uranus - supposedly a bit above Mars. Onlime, I saw a pic of what the placement would be last night and I printed...

Hello all, I just got a good deal on a Celestar 8, and am looking for a case to transport it in that will be acceptable to airlines. Any favorites out there?...

have NASA lost contact with the spirit rover already? the JPL website says they didnt receive any signals from it yesterday it did't last long.

Hi I have a Celestron C102 OTA (The Japanese made one) and need a manual. I'm new with Refractors and don't understand all the screw on components of...

Imagine a 5 acre 200 foot high, 20 story translucent sem-cylindrical light bulb housing a rain forest - in Iowa. In Coralville, Iowa to be precise. What will...

Hey Roland, I copied this from your website: Consider these dimensions to be sure that the barrel of your accessories will not strike the mirror. When using...

Article from Yahoo News: Humans have long depended on machines to explore strange, new worlds; guiding mechanical rovers from millions of miles away, then...

I just read through the "Sound Transmission on Mars" thread--wow, you techies can get really mean!--and it is ever clearer to me why NASA got itself stuck in...

OK, here is another one of my harebrained ideas that is probably flawed in some obvious way that you fine people will point out to me. But here goes. It seems...

Normally I use glove liners when observing in cold weather, but they soon become waterlogged when driving an ice covered Dob. I found a pair of gloves at...

Hello all, I have been on the web looking for a cabin to take my family for two hour now with no luck--I'm looking for something suitable for looking at the...

A new e-mail virus that turns personal computers running Microsoft Windows into "spamming" machines spread on Friday in corporate and home computers Europe and...

Deepsky 2003 (for Windows) http://www.deepsky2003.net is a collection of observer friendly software tools designed to make your observing sessions more...

Go to http://www.google.com, type in "miserable failure" , and then click on "I'm feeling lucky"......... Magnus

Here's wishing everyone here a Happy, safe, and prosperous New Year!!!

First, mega congrats to all the folks at NASA and JPL involved in this awesome, awesome, landing. Haven't yet heard this question asked, but is there anything...

I have a pair of cordless headphones. I can pipe just about anything into them through my stereo system, including sound from my computer. At about the time...

I live near LA city. What is the darkest site within 300 miles of LA? Is there anything better than Joshua Tree? Many thanks!

Would the Bogen 3033/3233 or 3046/3246 tripods be appropriate with a TeleVue 76 at magnifications of around 200x? I'm concerned about damping time and...

Some have probably noticed for long that on microscopic images for the nasa rover, some 'spherules' have dark dots, here is a black dot on the spherule that...