We have lost Dr. Comet http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=54&u_sid=1213592 last week it was James Westphal... Matthew Ota

I wonder if trees from Earth would grow on Mars, maybe they should send a few seeds with the next probe, of course to a place where water (ice) is located ?

Hi there, can you please provide the names/addresses of any astro-shops in Las Vegas stocking Thousand Oaks & Lumicon nebular filters? Thanks in advance Hari...

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:50:06 GMT, Ed Majden wrote: Anyone know where I can get a "film" spectra measuring engine or a moving-carriage...

Hi all, Cloudy skies and too much free time will do this to you: I've made these two images which I plan to print out and make into stickers. The first is...

I am interested in buying a flip mirror for astrophotography with a six inch Newt. I understand back focus travel of the eyepiece is a limiting constraint,...

ED80 on an a Celestron AS Goto CG-5 Mount. Perfect match for visual use! Big Dob with a Howie Glatter Barlowed Laser. Can't beat it :-) Mike

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 07:48:42 -0700, (Ian Beardsley) wrote: If the heliacal rising of Sirius in Rome is August 12 and they are...

Is he O.K., just focusing on rushing SPL eyepieces ? Has not posted for some time... Even the aries group is dead, only the customers calling for...

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 20:17:20 GMT, "Atm" wrote: If another hurricane smashes FLA, Bush will haveto declare Florida closed until further...

http://cgi.ebay.it/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3841680055&ssPageName=ADME:B:LC:IT:1 -- Agostino

Hello my friends... If I am at longitude 122.9 w (41.5N) and I am holding a compass, how do I determine true north? In other words, for North America is...

I am considering a 4" f/5 refractor (Celestron Wide View 102) as a guidescope using a Pictor 216XT CCD camera as an autoguider. What is the best focal ratio...

Hi all, I'm contemplating getting an Orion ED80 for wide field viewing and imaging. My original thought was to piggy back it on my Meade LX90, but it'd be...

Fellas, it just dawned on me that galaxies look like cyclones. So galaxies must be "low pressure points on the 'continuum of matter'".

DS090904 RECENT OBSERVATIONS by David Knisely DATE: September 9th, 2004, 0130 to 0650 hrs UTC. LOCATION: Rockford Lake, Nebraska 40.227N,...

While digging around in the tons of text files on my old Atari TT030, I found the following file. JOHN DOBSON John Dobson was born in Peking. China, on...

On 9-28,29,30-2004, when viewed from my midwest location near Chicago, it looks like Mars,Mercury and Jupiter will join Venus and Saturn in the eastern sky...

Anyone know if Roger N Clark's book, _Visual Astronomy of the Deep Sky_, is still available? Has anyone read this book and/or have an opinion of it? Thanks,...

Hi group, I've updated my website with new images of Venus with violet filter. I found 5 days of good seeing and the results are good, especially for image of...