I'm a newbe to Astronomy. I have a new Celestron C8-NGT. It's an 8" newtonian on the Celestron GT mount. I'm having problems with the goto.... My main...

Hello Star Gazers, I am interested in hooking my camera up to the telescope. Anyone know if the T-Ring (http://www.ehobbies.com/1004-1467.html) and T-Adapter...

"Matt T" wrote in message ... Hiya. I know there are a lot of good...

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 10:11:55 +0200, "Søren Kjærsgaard" wrote: Hi, I'm planning to get the C8-SGT, -is there anyone out there with...

I have just returned home from showing about 200 people mars through my telescope. I had arranged with my son's school to set up on their sports field tonight...

Pete, thanks for the tempting tip. The 10x50 model seems to be a bit heavy over 33 oz. David

Ok, Elliott McKinley from Buffalo sprayed his truss poles with flat black truck Bed Coating, and I liked the way they looked...so I plan on the same. My...

Last night the rift in Mars' polar cap was very obvious. This image was taken from south Florida with a TEC 250 f/20, 2x powermate, Maxview EP, and...

I am planning on buying Binoculars for mainly Astronomy but am unsure which would be the best specs for what I will be doing. I would like to use them for...

Hi there, I feel sure that this has been asked before, but I DAGS and didn't really find anything about it. I'm wondering if anyone has experience with the...

I am considering buying the atlas mount from Orion. I have an f7 8" dob with a sonotube tube. They say it will work, but they are selling it, so I am...

I've been away from the hobby for a few years and would like to get back at it. Was wonderin' if starting from the bottom up, equip. wise, made sense. By...

Matt wrote: I am trying to decide between a 10" Dob and a set of Panoptics or a 12.5" truss dob and my current mid-grade eps. Portability is a factor as I...

Overcorrected. If Bill Clinton owned a telescope, it would give false color. C'mon...we can have some fun like this... You're next. Give it your best...

What is the proper way to clean eyepieces. They are optics just like camera lenses, and use the same coatings. Lens cleaning solutions and techniques for...

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You have it wrong. The truth of the bible exceeds all documents, bar none. But a mystic, an activity the bible specifically forbids, sees things that are just...

Scribe2b wrote: looking at M31, so magnificent, however... andromeda is 100k LY in diameter. ok. so the light ,from the far side of M31, reaches...

I looked at one at AstroFest last year, and there is a reason it is cheap. Everything on the one I looked at was loose or had play. Unless you are willing to...

I have recently inspected the optics of my Super C8+ which has been long neglected (years), sitting in its footlocker in my garage. After removing the...