My club has a Edmund Scientific 4" edscope. The focuser gears seem to be stripped. I'd like to replace it with a standard 1-1/4" focuser, but need one to...

Dear all, I need to build an accessories case for everything I need when I travel to darker skies. Things like eyepieces, power chords and everything should...

I'm thinking of going on my first eclipse jaunt: October 2005 Madrid for the annular. It's supposed to be a dry run for the following year's total in the...

Hello, all, What in your opinion or experience is the minimum aperture necessary for satisfying views of globular clusters and galaxies? Thanks, Bill Meyers

Any tips for basic shots? Regards, Doink Try everything you have thought of and see what works. It doesn't cost anything and you will learn a...

This picture shows tracks made by dust devils. Was it these tracks that were mistaken for canals by Lowell? Could he have resolved large ones with his Clarke...

Where oh where can the new Rukl's be???

An unusually bright supernova has appeared in the nearby galaxy NGC 6946. Extragalactic supernovae are typically fainter than 15th magnitude, but this one is...

Hi, I'm looking for a light-weight, high quality 10x50 binoculars. I'm considering Celestron Regal LS, ($424), 29oz, 9' close focus Pentax 10 x 50mm DCF SP...

Just thought I let you guys know about my new and improved space wallpaper site. You can now register on the site, post comments and rate the images. The url...

Great. A clear night happens only to be intruded upon by a small well lit city travelling across the skies. It is quite something how much reflectivity that...

Like multiple exposures during the eclipse, etc?

Hi, I'm helping a friend get started and he has a small short tube refractor in mounted via a fixed clamshell to an EQ mount. The problem is that the...

XxXxXxX says... Hey Folks, I have a Toshiba 5200/100 laptop with a Red Gas Plasma VGA display. The display is PERFECT for Astronomical...

Just curious about an article I saw yesterday in the Dallas Morning News. It was about the recently discovered interaction of "colliding" galaxy clusters. The...

I bought a Discovery 12.5" PDHQ skeleton for my Meade 12.5" F4.8 optics. The sonotube is 6" longer than I need, and removing the excess up at the focuser end...

Now that the Meade 12.5" F4.8 optics transplant to the Discovery 12.5" F5 structure is a successfully completed, what do I do about the original focuser...

AA Institute wrote: It can be so much more fun! Once the asteroid is in a captured orbit around the Earth, then the excavation flights of fancy can...

I'd like to lock down the mirror. Maybe there's a fix to do this or some commercial attachment that'll do the trick. I was told that a Crayford focuser (JMI)...

Greetings To date, I have just manually tracked all my targets using the the RA knob on my EQ mount with occasional treak of the DEC. I have drives installed...