Hi all, I tried to update my Autostar last night, but the serial cable got knocked out during the update cycle (at about 7%), got a message on the screen to...

Bear with me; I do not understand astronomical mapping terms. .. Yesterday, 7th Oct 08. Wolverhampton/Dudley border 21:05 approx, facing east. A very bright,...

Binary and Double Stars Stellar Twins in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey http://www.martin-nicholson.info/astroprojects/3cd.htm The Amateur Red Dwarf Survey...

The York AS would like to invite you to the British Astronomical Association (BAA) "Back to Basics" Workshop which we are hosting on Saturday 1st November. ...

Hello Group, Has any one here in this group who uses Demon (Turnpike) in the UK to collect Newsgroups, especially "alt. binaries. Pictures. Astro."...

FYI : 2008-10-07 Tue - Aten asteroid 2008 TC3 likely to hit Earth's atmosphere over N Sudan, 02:46 UT; ~ 1 kT airburst, harmless. spaceweather.com seen...

Hi, I recently picked up a pair of Nikon Action EX waterproofs 12x50 binoculars which weigh in at one kilogram!! Suffice it to say I would like some kind of...

Hi everyone , Here is my latest images (FFC & BRC250 and ST-10XME). Home page: http://www.danilopivato.com/ FFC...

Doug wrote: On 6 Oct, 07:35, "Graculus" wrote: "Doug" wrote in message ...

Can anybody recommend an Alt-Az mount which I could use with a TAL 100RS OTA? I already have an equatorial mount but want to use something simpler. Any help...

Pembrokeshire is to decide whether to become the second county in Wales to switch off non-essential street lights after midnight to save on energy bills. The...

Just wondering if it possible to fit a dovetail bar to the base of an ETX-90 OTA, and then attach it to a Celestron Nexstar goto mount? I can't see there...

I believe they started as a huge rock metal core greater than the mass of the earth that was capable of gathering their huge gas atmospheres through great...

Anybody had any experience with the software 'Starry Night Enthusiast 6.2'? In particular, does it work with Vista? Evidently a lot of people have been told...

I hope someone can give me some advise here..... Anyway, today I went to clean my very grimy LX200 corrector plate and after an initial wash with isopropyl...

On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:41:36 +0000, Guy Macon wrote: BradGuth wrote: Average or typical terrestrial coal has an albedo of 0.1 (10%) "Coal has an...

Hi All In the questions and answers page of Tuesday's Daily Mail is the following question. Q: Images of distant galaxies contain both light and dark matter...

Yesterday evening (Friday) at just after 8pm, I was in my garden and saw a very bright object (as bright as Venus) moving E-W. It passed almost directly...

For many years (since Micronet days) I have been bouncing around the Newsgroups. To all of you who know me or have heard of me I bid you a fond farewell in...

An object that brightened intensely and then faded back into obscurity over a period of about seven months is unlike anything astronomers have seen before, a...