Hi, As there was a hole in the clouds this week-end, I realized a new Moon mosaïc : the Moon on the 17th day. You can see the result here (the picture is...

Hi all a newbie here, so i got a telescope for xmas just a cheapy one so my question is ive had a really good look at the moon and it looks cool but id like to...

Most camera makers refer to their light sensing chips as CCDs (Charge Coupled Device) while Canon refer to their CMOS sensor (Complementary Metal Oxide...

Happy New Year! Typically, it cleared last night when we were due to visit some friends for a New Year's Eve celebration. Risking divorce, I took advantage...

Just out of interest, how big a meteorite would be needed to cause a equivalent tsunami to the one in south east Asia ? Not an easy question I guess. H.

Lovely sight tonight. The Pleiades make finding the comet a...

I am newcomer to astronomy. I have a 6" Newtonian relector f/5. it was supplied with a 25mm wide angle lens & a 10mm lens. I have spent some time getting to...

I have been reading up on his work and it is very good but who is he. i am intrigued by his work.

Can any shed some light on the "Support Ring" output obtained from Plop? I'm just tinkering with some cell figures and am looking at an 18 point cell. This...

I want to create a base on the sun.How can I terraform the sun, so that I don't roat my butt???

Wow! Perfect seeing conditions at sunset in Manchester this afternoon! (If you'll forgive the verbless "sentence".) Looked up and there it was in all its...

Hello, After spending the last 8 years of my Life living in London, I've now moved back to the wonderful darkened skies of Northumberland. I'm really...

Equipment : Orion Optics(UK) Europa 250 ("Mini-Hubble") on HEQ5 Conditions: Clear, slightly windy. No moon. Clarity and visibility both fair. More light...

There was a thread about this a while back. but this is OT Are there any easy image enhancement programmes out there - I have 4 frames from a video of a...

Hi All I have seen some references to "Starry Night" here in this newsgroup, and as I am looking long and hard at the "Pro" version; I thought I would drop...

I've made a similar post on one of the Yahoo DSI usergroups, apologies if this is a duplicate for any of you. With the recent weather I've taken to modifying...

Ok - I asked about distilled water and got some sound responses. Martin Brown's comments about testing the water by leaving it to evaporate seemed to make...

Hi, anybody seen one of these yet? I've had one on order since September, and I see the expected date has now moved to a somewhat vague January. Regards Shim

Did anyone else just (~0955 GMT) see a large, very bright, slow moving meteor in the Plough? There was no sound. Or did I just see a firework? Andy...

I will shortly have the stripped down remains of the 1992 Disco I bought for its engine available for sale. The vehicle was a scrapper, and there is no V5....