Hi Group, Does anyone know of a retail store that sells Zeiss Victory IIs around Bristol UK ? Many places will order them in, but no one seems to have them...

Hi all, Here's a sequence of 13 calcium-K shots of AR10960 as it crossed the Sun's disk from June 1st to June 13th. A full disk sequence is also under...

Sorry to drag this old chestnut up, but Im still baffled by the whole thing, if the farthest stars are somewhere in the region of 14 billion light years away,...

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

I'm new to astronomy and received my first pair of binoculars on Tuesday, the Celestron Skymaster 15x70s. It was full moon coincidentally, the skies cleared,...

Hi all might be a scam or something similar.......but I just saw a Meade 16" sc for sale on ebay about 9 hours to go and only at about £320 ??? give it...

Anyone using this eyepeiece and care to comment and its performance? I'me looking at this focal length and have been using a 22mm sueperwide with great...

In home page: Comet and C14 + Canon 30D (best frame) http://www.astrosurf.com/alpha Regards Giorgio Mengoli e-mail:

Hi all, Here's my first Registax'd result from last nights session - the first where there were no damned clouds in the way! The 'pretty' images will follow...

Thinking of building an 18" dob (well, my dad's great with wood and making things so that's where most of the work will be done!). I'm aware of the tracking...

Did anyone else read this article on spaceflightnow.com? http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0310/23spacestorm/ How severe was this storm in comparison to...

Does anyone know of a website that will have the names of Comets visible from the UK in the 1970's I remember seeing one while waking a girl home on a clear...

A clear nigh finally, o I took the opportunity to test out my new Tal 2m... Pretty impressed. First target was the moon... this fills the 25mm eyepiece nicely...

AuroraWatch Alert, 19:01 UT 07 Nov 2004: Large increase in local activity, possible SSC. http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/aurorawatch/ This email has been...

Anyone with a large aperture scope viewing comet Machholz tonight 01/01/2005 ? My computer program is telling me Comet Machholz ( 0.35AU distant) and...

Hi' Following on from the recent postings regarding image file capture size limit of 2 Gig, I've done some extensive browsing on the net and discovered some...

I've got this from a friend in the USofA... The time ot this event should be checked according to the geographic location Two moons on 27 August)) *Aug 27...

Chums I've got a modest scope, but as I got just the tube itself when I bought it, it's stuck on a photographic tripod at present. I have two questions 1 -...

Many popular telescope software programs feature two main methods of telescope alignment. One star alignment for mounts which are perfectly equatorially...

Sky@Night and ch4 20:00 the recent meteor/ite wanna-be Tunguska event, seemingly wanting to outdo BBC-Horizon on such stuff -- Southampton public talks on...