Hello, Finally, after many attempts, I managed to capture the ISS on my webcam (toucam on an ETX125). http://www.gogo.me.uk/iss130208.jpg I know it's just a...

Hi All, just completed processing a shot of NGC 4945 at wide field, taken from the gorgeus Namibia skies. Hope you like. Comments and criticisms...

Ok I updated my Meade Scopes Autostar to the latest software use Meade's ASU program, it loaded the latest ROM file/Patch 43Eg but everytime I switch it on...

The Messier Ten Minute Challenge M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy in Canes Venatici This image was created by median combining 7 x 90 second unfiltered images...

Supernova 2008af - Imaged February 11th 2008 Discovered 2008/02/09.173 by Tom Boles. Found in UGC 9640 at R.A. = 14h59m28s.50, Decl. = +16°39'12".3 ...

Hi all, I have been doing a bit of research on the 'HIRES' spectrograph, sold by Shelyak. This intrument is a bit beyond my current needs but its baby...

Dear all, This is a friendly reminder that we still accept manuscript submissions to the Statistica Sinica theme topic on multiscale methods up until the end...

Pairs of Asteroids - December 19th 2007 #269 Justitia at 2.3072 AU (345.2 million km) at magnitude 14.5 plus #882 Swetlana 2.0902 at AU (312.7 million km) at...

The NGC Ten Minute Challenge NGC 3628 - Galaxy in Leo NGC 3628 forms the "Leo Triplet" with M65 and M66. NGC 3628 is seen edge-on with a broad band of dust...

Our nearest neighbours - ROSS 128 ROSS 128, sometimes called FI VIR - Currently in 11th place This is a M4.0 dwarf star at a distance of 10.9 light years....

On Feb 10, 12:15 am, Weatherlawyer wrote: This seems to illustrate what I mean, though the clouds are hardly sea level: ...

Images of Saturn (1) - Spotting the Shepherd Moon Across the darkened expanse of Saturn's rings, the Cassini spacecraft spies one of the F-ring shepherd...

Were the universe uniformly populated with matter, the density of the universe* would be constant across all scales; as the mass enclosed in a sphere of...

Stephen Hawking inhales on a helium balloon, then details what happened prior to the Big Bang. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JN96aQo14s David...

Why on a same day the temperature of different objects like, blue sky and bricks, concrete, grass asphalt etc in shade and sun light varies while measured by a...

FFS the first proper clear night in ages, and it seems the guy out the back has decided to install a security light. Which blazed all night. In fact, it is...

Why do people try to train monkeys to type random words on a keyboard and post the resulting garbage for the world to see. Get a life! "Mike"...

Decline of AT CNC - December 2007 onwards Dwarf Novae are close binary systems with an accretion disc around the white dwarf component. Outbursts from 2 to 9...

Supernova 2008q - Imaged January 30th 2008 Discovered 2008/01/26.75 by Giancarlo Cortini. Found in NGC 524 at R.A. = 01h24m57s.23, Decl. =...

There's no denying that Neil Armstrong is hiding from the public and the media. We are supposed to believe that he is a shy, introverted freak. A more...