I came across a really nice website dedicated to the trapezium while researching the magnitudes of the e and f stars. FYI, they are mag 10.3 and 10.2...

I just got back from a week at a dark sky site in Costa Rica, about 10 degrees north. Five nights, all usable, lots of fun. The southern stuff was the reason...

Moon 0h UTC Feb 22,07 coords: 01 55 n 15 53 cent long trmntr: 33.138 deg sine long: 0.5466 ecc of ell: 0.863 dist: 227 509 mi / 366 205 km dia: 32.6...

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I've been working on the4 bottem disk of the rockerbox mounth for B8, I had ground out some high lamps and stuff, yesterday evening I sprayed it with no wind...

I remember the *first* time I tried using averted vision to look at a fuzzy. I was disappointed. I said to myself "this ain't no way to look at...

I've been given some money in my paypal account from revver and am thinking on buying some stuff. I noticed a planisphere at barnes and noble localy that they...

Hello, I am looking for a solution to my problem: I have a Meade LX200 14" GPS scope in an Ash Dome. The Dome shields the scopes GPS system from getting...

If DJM can transmute so quickly that he is inescapable, bird flu can probably do the same.

Dear space advocates: "Let's go!" These were the words spoken by Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin as he embarked on the historic first manned space flight on...

I've not seen an observing report here in a while (Where's Opus?). Last night started out pretty good. The sky was clear. The temperature was less than 10...

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Last night as the frost was setting in, I was out taking advantage of some really good weather. Although a little chilly, the transparency was excellent (with...

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If you know how many pixels there are on a CCD or CMOS and the resolution of the output, can you determine the pixel dimensions?

Moon 0h UTC Feb 21 coords: 01 01 n 09 33 cent long trmntr: 45.159 deg sine long: 0.709 ecc of ellipsoid: 0.72 dist: 225 779 mi / 363 357 km diam: 32.88...

Wanted to let any interested parties know I have some free astro tools on the web. I created a tool called Ted's Toolbox with many functions - from Lunar and...

Last night as the frost was setting in, I was out taking advantage of some really good weather. Although a little chilly, the transparency was excellent (with...

After a few months using a Meade ETX 80 AT goto scope, I feel like I'd like something more "stick shift". I've been looking at the Orion Maksutovs at the...

For People Who Like to Read Beginner-Level Astronomy Articles: Friends, I just took our old articles and the original booklet written back in 1992 when we...