Got the scope loaded into the old Battlecar, about 6pm or so, will go up to the corner and set up. Will start by training on a good bright star and wait for...

I just received the following from a friend. Please help the less fortunate. Mike Simmons Please donate any unused cans of food to help feed the hungry...

I was out in my backyard from 12:40am to 1:30am and counted=20 32 meteors during that time. Every 10 mins or so i'd move my=20 chair around the yard and face a...

Is ED glass FK01 corrected in the C - F range?

Aloha! I was quite intrigued with a unique process J. -P. Metsavainio shared in this month's Sky and Telescope... lunar reprojection! Simply stated, an image...

I am looking for recomendations for drive motors for my C8 SuperPolaris. I have found that JMI and Vixen have them. Are there any other manufacturers? Is...

Date: 2004-12-13 (yyyy-mm-dd) Time: UT 18:00 - 20:30 (the hours either side of local midnight) Location: 42.5N 71.5W (Shirley, Massachusetts USA) Equipment:...

What can I do now?

It is surprisingly easy to self-moderate any newsgroup. Once you realise that it is not obligatory to read every post and every reply to every post, a great...

Hi all, An informal poll, For those of you who participate in sidewalk sessions at public places, who also enjoys also looking at DSO's from dark sites? Would...

How good these hardin DOB's are? Seems very cheap, but any good? Any one using them? JS

Can someone please explain the basics of how the Hubble (or any optical device in orbit) is able to shoot stationary picts? For Earth based Astronomy, the...

Well???? -Rich

I found a green filter at a surplus shop. It's a sandwich of some kind, gold coated inside one side, silver on the other. A very deep green maybe 2x that of a...

to read this group, just so I can have a killfile to eliminate that crossposting moron Min. The lousy new google beta pushed me over the edge.

You might as well be ringing the dinner bell for the Terrorists. Anyone know of a trip that will be at Sea for Totality? I am happy to go to Italy and...

Arriving in Bay St. Louis, MS, on Jan 7; moving into apartment. Bid on a house fell through, will start house-hunting again as soon as we move in. Please...

When I want to print one of my astro images, I take a CD to my local Walmart and have them do the printing. This is certainly cheap and I don't get charged...

This is for version 4.5 for PC and Mac. New in box. $21.95. No shipping charges. Sorry to spam, but I've participated in these forums before, this isn't...

Location: near Eagle Lake, TX Date: Saturday December 11, 2004 Telescope: 14.5" f/5.4 Newtonian reflector Seeing: 4/10 Visibility: Mag 6+ at...