Alan Dillard wrote: Looking for opinions from anyone who has read The Meaning of Relativity. I collect books in fine bindings for my home library and...

I was in Oxford today and got the december issue of Sky and Telescope. Just a word of caution: the price on their database when they scanned the barcode was...

Hello, I'm considering getting a new scope, 12" Meade Lightbridge Dobsonian. Does anybody have any experience of this scope and any comments or...

Lidl seem to have a new supply of the Bresser refractors advertised on next week's leaflet. There was a lot of interest recently but they were in very short...

"The Cassini spacecraft has spied the tallest mountains yet seen on Titan, Saturn's major moon. The range is about 150km long (93 miles), 30km (19 miles) wide...

You might be interested in my proposals for microformats for marking-up geographical references, on web pages, such as yours, to places on Mars: ...

Is there such a thing as an astroscope with zoom? To minimise shake the zoom would have to be on a decoupled wheel (preferred) or electric. It would be a great...

"A project to build the world's biggest telescope has been given the go-ahead to move into its final design stage. European Southern Observatory (Eso)...

Came across this wonderfully clear presentation describing the sun-earth-moon relationship, with explanations of tides and...

The lataest email I got from Nasa, shows a flow of liquid water that must have happend in last 10 years (10 year old image of same place shows...

Auroras and space weather around Earth are not governed by the strength of the solar wind alone, but by the interplay between the Earth's and the Sun's...

I am looking to obtain a copy of the following article: Rackham, T. W. 1962. Studies in Lunar Topography, Ix: Lunar Shadow Measuring Techniques and...

This is to announce a website the distributes an Excel spreadsheet for Windows that prepares an annual dark sky calendar and a lunar...

Hi there, I'm something of a eginner at astronomy and have been thoroughly enjoying using the Bresser Messier N203 8" Newtonian I bought last year. The...

Why are the news so keen to point out that the shuttle has launched at night for the first time in 4 years or so ?. Surely it makes no difference as it's lit...

A friend sent the photo of the moon and sun taken at the North Pole I've posted to my Yahoo blog as being just about the only place I can think of to post it...

I have an 11" f6 Newtonian Reflector and I am thinking of upgrading the German Equatorial Mount for a more modern version electrically driven with possibly a...

Hello Can anybody point me in the direction of a good lunar map, preferably online but a book is ok too. cheers, mark

Hi Wonder if anyone can help please. Let me explain questions to be asked. I go caravaning and a site I wish to book at the start of May ish also rents it...

It all becomes clear now, the official deffinition of an astronomer... http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Astronomer jc