obsessive circle jerkers. Somebody placed tests of a number of refractors on the Yahoo Refracor Group which gave TEC high marks and AP not so high, albeit, on...

Rod, Best wishes to you & Miss Dorothy. Hope that you fair well in the next few days. Best to anyone here down that way.. Take care and let her through! Ed...

If the American economy is so flat, (as Liberals jump to point out) then how come wait times for scopes like AP which are luxury items and a bell-weather of...

Has anyone noticed the horrible new paper in the October issue of S&T? Its overly slick glossiness totally lacks the charming, pulpy texture I was used to from...

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READ THIS! I'm Glad I did! This pertains to this group because you can buy whatever you want with all the money you'll easily get 'cause you read this! Best...

I have been considering purchasing this unit for some time. However, the pricetag seems a little high and I have some questions maybe someone can help...

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It's about 9:30 p.m. local, and dark. We just got back from the cottage. Unpacking, I looked up and saw what I thought at first was a faint jet contrail, light...

Hi, rather than setting up a telescope I was wondering what web sites might offer me a 'live feed' of an object that I wish to look at, in real-time as it...

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1762074,00.html Meteorite hits Zimbabwe 30/08/2005 11:07 - (SA) Harare - People in a remote northern...

Hi all, I'm new here. Looking for an ultra-portable way to view the stars. I live in a flat, so I want something I can take downstairs to the rear gardens at...

I recently found and then lost a URL to a grating spectrometer for amateur astronometers. It was modest priced in the $150 range. Can someone help me. Thanks...

After decades of searching, astronomers discovered the first definite brown dwarf only ten years ago. Now, a new analysis of Hubble Space Telescope...

Tele Vue has a new accessory http://www.televue.com/engine/page.asp?ID=3D259 that fits over an eyepiece and corrects for astigmatism. This costs about $100....

I've been looking at equatorial mounts for large aperature telescopes - especially newtonians - and it seems to me that the most stable are split-ring mounts....

I had great views tonight with the Lumicon O-III filter on Veil nebula and others.Now I want to buy one. Seems, the Lumicon O-III is twice the price of the...

As far as people stopping to look, it was slow, BUT I did give away over 30 flyers of info about MARS and what it will do this year. Seems they had come to...

I have a 360mm Mamya RB67 lens that I would like to use for CCD imaging. To do this I need an adaptor for a 1.25" nose piece. Does anyone know if such...

What are the best diagonals (2" for a refractor) in the under $50 and under $100 range? I'm starting to run out of money in this hobby :) Thanks, BigKhat