May buy myself a present this year. Does anyone have experience with the Celstron NexStar SE series? Already own three other Celestron StarSeekers, but this...

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Tom St Denis wrote: Thanks for the attention, please return to the regular scheduled usenet melee. Tom ...

Galileo (NOT Einstein) is inventor of Second postulate of Relativity Einstein’s June 1905, paper is known as Special Theory of Relativity? The reference to...

When pressing "rate" and then the direction keys the rate stays at "*2" and will not move to another speed, very slow when adjusttng the alignment. Has anyone...

For thse in the Los Angeles basin, the current forecast for Wednesday on Intellicast is for clear skies. Weather Underground forecasts partly cloudy...

Slow Nights in Rosamond Friday Night I was set up early as the moon was already up and before dark. Most times with a nearly full moon I have more people...

Dear Friends, Finally a small break in the bad weather we have been experiencing the past few weeks with a brief 3.5-hr window of opportunity after the moon...

Question, If the directorship of the Los Angleles Griffith Observatoy is a civil service position, how did Ed Krupp get the job without ever taking a Civil...

Humour me if you have it in your capacity. Nobody has ever shown the concrete existence of UFOs, aliens or their artifacts. Yet too many have seen supposedly...

I shot a roll of K14 Kodachome film and now I'm having trouble finding a lab to do the film. One I found chages $25.00 a roll, OUCH. Does anyone know of a...

Three of the nearest red dwarf stars with planets all have less iron than the Sun, say astronomers in Texas. The discovery is a surprise, because heavy...

A long time ago a man had a very unusual dream. He dreamed about seven very, very skinny cows. Then, in the dream the seven very, very skinny cows ate seven...

Dear All, I would like to introduce the Virtual Telescope inviting you to look at our first images, some of them showing comet C/2006 M4 SWAN; you will also...

Thank you Inbox Craig Somerford to Apple, Katrinas, Harvard, New, Local, Tunner, (bcc:azagorski), (bcc:postmaster), (bcc:Natural), (bcc:New) More options ...

Hi all, According to some preliminary calculations, neptune should be in the same position as 164y ago in 2010. But can someone tell me when Hershell...

A few photos of the solar filter i made this morning for my Tele Vue 76 using Baader solar film... http://www.pbase.com/fboyd/solar_filter The mounting...

Einstein’s E=mc2 . Should Newton , De Pretto , Preston, Hasenohrl and Soddi, Planck be given credit for discovery of E=mc2. ? The French chemist Antoine...

Vatican & Dalai Lama bless SETI http://www.geocities.com/priapus_dionysos/vaticanoE.html Clear & dark skies! Bruno Moretti IK2WQA SETI ITALIA Team G....

Hi all, According to some preliminary calculations, neptune should be in the same position as 164y ago in 2010. But can someone tell me when Hershell...