Does anyone know where I can obtain some magnetic weights that I could use to attach to the optical tube assembly of my equatorially mounted reflector in order...

Anyone used 1 for astro imaging????

Greetings and a happy new year to one and all I have a theodolite wihich I use for looking at the sky. It has excellent optics but the angle circles are not...

Textbook entry, descent and landing Tones properly received during descent UHF telemetry recorded by MGS - now playing back to ops Landed base petal side...

For those who don't have this link already http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

I appear to be getting some pings on 48.250.2 (SSB), mixed in with what sounds like sporadic E (wrong time of year? -- but I'm no expert on this!)....

Dear Friends, First and foremost I would like to wish everyone all the best for a safe New Year's celebration and a new year filled with health and prosperity...

Hi all Spirit has apparenly been sending back pictures and these have been shown on the news services however the NASA site has only one photo and this is...

Congratulations to NASA, another great land mark today with the landing of thier latest Mars probe. Just seen the first spectacular pictures of the...

At least with Spirit had anything gone wrong the MC team would have had an idea of when it went wrong. It was great to watch it live (and suffer!!) with MC....

I have my machine, Sony laptop, by a triple window on the seventh floor of these flats, the view is due east Out of the corner of my eye to my left I saw the...

Around 4-5 seen casually in 20 min around midnight when setting up the video with the camera. 24 seen from 04:35-05:15 in 4/10 thin cloud and bright setting...

Where abouts in the sky do I need to be looking to see the Quadrantids meteor shower tonight/tomorrow morning?

http://www.dhinds.co.uk/80mm.htm Sold my 200mm reflector due to disability, now looking for a smaller lighter replacement, but main use will be terrestrial...

Spirit landing was successful, fantastic. It carries lot of cameras that will keep the public busy for a while, enjoying the images from Mars. Stereoscopic, 3D...

Hi all, Last night I had my first observing session of 2004. The Moon was the main observing target and I had a chance to test the Nikon Coolpix 4500 with my...

Maybe I'm missing something, but there seems to be a severe lack of updates on the Mars Rover web site: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html Oh,...

We are organising a Star Party at Kelling Heath Norfolk on Friday 19th March to Sunday 21st March 2004. It is called the 1st Spring Equinox Star Party. The...

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/space/2335356 Best, Stephen Remove footfrommouth to reply -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +...

Hi all About 4 years ago I was one of several million people who signed up to have their names engraved on a mini-cd which was attached to one...