EXPLOSION ON JUPITER: Amateur astronomers are reporting a bright fireball on Jupiter--apparently the result of a small asteroid hitting the planet during the...

Astronomical unit gets redefined http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/2012/09/astronomical-unit-gets-redefined/ A vote at a meeting of the...

The Earth polar coordinates turn in a circle to the central Sun and in less than two weeks will turn through the circle of illumination as it has done two for...

I found a webpage describing observing in the parking lot there but it was last updated in 2001. Is the site still open to the public at night? -- FF

On Sep 13, 3:14*pm, "Lord Androcles, Zeroth Earl of Medway" wrote: The similarity between Dork Van de faggot and Antinous, the rent...

Could visitors drive up there and observe from the parking lot? -- FF

A cap fell off my scope today. It sort of looks like a thumb or gravestone, and has a trash can icon with an X through it. Where does it go? During...

Dear group ... and Oriel, An incredible stretch involving pristine clear skies the past 3.5 months is about to come to an end. Unfortunately the seeing was...

What happened to their radio program? They used to have a monthly calendar, and, in some locations, a daily local radio broadcast?

Dear group, An opportunity to pursue an exoplanet transit for HAT-P-32b in And last night and which was only announced June/2011. This is find is the most...

Uncarollo mentioned taking astronomical vacations in Chile, and on the whole that's something I'd very much like to do: the VLT site is clearly spectacular,...

I finally got a decent moon shot with my Tamron mirror lens: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35853148@N05/7960659668/sizes/l/in/photostream/ I was using ISO...

Dear group, Finally an opportunity to process some exoplanet transit data collected during the past two months now that the graphics software is up and...

Does lighting pollution poses risk? September 11, 2012 A panel of world experts discussed "Light Pollution and its Ecophysiological Consequences" and...

Bought a little starter telescope recently. It's a Newtonian reflector-style scope. Anyways, it's got two eyepieces included. One is called a "1.5x erecting...

Though of course they do come without the huge payload capability and they DO come with the shame. BBC: (New American space ride) It hopes this will save it...

William Shawcross has died. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/home/Bill-Shawcross-Remembrance-168770336.html

Infrared satellite telescope detects millions of black holes ...

Hey dudes I have a question for you guys.What happens to the matter that enters into a black hole.

Radio Meteor Observation Bulletin No. 229 of August 2012 (75K) is available now as http://www.rmob.org/rmobtext/rmob1208.txt More information and the...