Roemer made the first calculation of the speed of light by noticing the different transit times of light from the eclipse of Jupiter's moon, as seen from one...

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

Cloudy up here in Aberdeen but http://www.dan.sp-agency.ca/www/rtoval.htm has shown a sudden burst of activity. Anyone seeing anything? Aboyne cam might be...

A simple email to Hampshire County Council about light trespass from a lamp at the bottom of the garden has resulted in a quick site visit and an offer of 1)...

Guys, please tell me it was overcast in Portsmouth last night ..... this was about the ONE night that I wasnt scanning the sky with my new binoculars as I...

Hello all, I wondered if anyone else has experienced this. I bought a pair of Pentax pcf 16x60 wp binoculars last week (mail order). Pretty impressed with...

Hello, I've spent a week looking on the web and in shops for my optimum pair of astro binoculars, and would like some help! What I want most of all is light...

The first rain we've had since July 3rd, 0.6 mm so far today. The monthly total is now 5.4 mm, about 10 per cent of what I would have expected at this...

For the first time astronomers have found a way to get a clean view of the elusive disks of matter surrounding supermassive black...

I would like to see Mars while it is close to Earth. I am trying to look at it through a pair of binoculars (10 x 50) on a tripod but can see no detail at all...

I was trying to look at Mars this evening through a large spotting scope. Once I found Mars, I had a good view but trying to find it with the scope took ages....

Hello, a friend and I have been performing basic astronomy for some time now, however we now feel we need better equipment to proceed. We're interested in...

Then try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzSUo-4ctcU Cheers, Alastair.

http://blog.physicsworld.com/2015/02/05/uk-to-open-its-first-pub-observatory/

This is probalbly a dumb question, but I was given a Jessops telescope for my Christmas and it is a bit stiff when pointing it at stars, and following them...

I have just read the following, which appears to me to assert that the Sun's photosphere is a liquid. Is this generally accepted? "Kirchhoff (1) demonstrated...

BBC News report at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33126885 Cheers, Alastair.

I have been asked to post the following question; "Sometime in the Third Millennium (or late Fourth) BC, there was a period when the Spring Equinox saw the...

Hi, I tried to capture a short sequence of the NLC display from Friday night(14th). This is an animated gif image of 35 pics taken from about 11.30 until...

Hi Gordon, Gordon wrote: SCS astro are now selling a GPS attachment for the LXD55, ETX and LX90 autostar systems. It costs about £150. It sets up the...