I think I might be developing age-related cataracts. They are early stage and the only symptoms are a faint halo around bright objects such as Venus viewed...

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To try and keep my young son's interest in all things astronomic we have been satellite spotting using data from the excellent Heavens Above site. Can anybody...

Titan's first visitor nears touchdown 08 January 2005 NewScientist.com news service Stephen Battersby More Stories Explo earth AFTER seven years riding...

..at the Cavendish Lab Cambridge just off the M11 J13 tomorrow Saturday June 24 from 1030 - 1700. Try these maps.......

Hi, I have a question about orbit. Assume we are going from Earth to an inner planet, like Venus, Mercury for example, and we will be using a Hohmann trasfer,...

Afternoon all, Just thought I'd share the image that I took last night of SN2006X in M100 (type Ia for those who are interested). I used the OU's Meade...

Wouldn't you just know it, that the first of the Venus EXPRESS 6 composite images as having been officially processed for delivering to us village idiots the...

Just stumbled on this awesome video, thought it would be appropriate to post it he The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever...

"Phineas T Puddleduck" wrote in message And this excuses your favourite bunch of space cadets HOW? Take your meds...

The Gamma Cygni Nebula – A big image from a small telescope The Gamma Cygni Nebula is much larger and far more complex that most astronomers realise. For...

It's been mentioned under another thread header so it's probably worth reiterating the fact that Saturday night on BBC4 is Astronomy Night. Listings he...

Ok chaps. We've all had a bit of fun with this pathetic troll but as Tonkers correctly points out we should really ignore him. It's been cloudy/moony and I...

Take a look at this monster: http://www.hanf-poos.de/stathis/atm/erhard_1meter_dob_itv2003.htm - Mike

Beutiful curtains just formed over Aberdeen this minute. Wonderful!!!! :) Alan LeHun

Just completed my toucam pro2 mod but i have noticed with exposures of 15 seconds or more the picture gets washed out, so any one know how to...

I take it by reading a thread "LX90 First Light (longish)", most people here have a laptop to go out with to do star gazing. I have one too, its a 700Mhz one,...

Dear Friends, A link to some VERY rare aurora photos for this region of the world are available at http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Aurorae.htm .... Christmas came...

If it does, is there a functional seismometer on Mars? http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news151.html "Designated 2007 WD5, the asteroid was discovered on Nov....

How can I fit an equatorial drive to my TAL1?