Hi All, I already know about "UK Astronomy Astro Ads" (how I miss Chris' old text based pages), and David Hines' free ads, etc, but can any of you...

I wonder if the universe is cannibalistic, but I think it IS eating itself, just until the day nothing is left.Then it will vomit everything across space...

Hi, I made my first attempt at imaging the moon tonight using my 8" Meade LX90 and the Meade LPI that shipped with it. The results are far from perfect but...

Here's a rework of my Clavius capture from the end of August. A little less aggressive and a better tonal range (I think anyway ;-)...

Photon engines have already been suggested. Probably, this kind of the engine too, but I don't know. We shall receive the engine, if we attach a reflector to a...

Due to a serious family illness I will not be able to attend the Equinox event in Norfolk this year and knowing this event to be fully booked would anyone...

Hi folks, I've not posted in this group before and I'd just like to know if the partial solar eclipse on 3rd Oct will be visible from Cyprus. That's where my...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/200 5/09/13/db1301.xml I recall attending a fascinating lecture on the subject of...

I think that: There is a northern pole star because when I point my scope to the centre of the earths rotational axis , or as close to the centre...

If you subscribe to aurorawatch alerts and have been wondering why you have not had any recently, when there has supposed to have been some major solar...

Here's an astronomy question (I'm a newcomer here) which never seems to be answered anywhere. I've tried books, various online resources and 'Ask Alan' etc....

In article , John Schilling writes: Two sunlike stars falling into one another involves, if I haven't...

In article , writes: Stellar collisions do seem to happen now and then. We've...

Is there a site for predicting a local pass of the NOSS triple satellites? TIA. Nytecam

The particles that make up Saturn's rings are more like "fluffy" snowballs than hard ice cubes, as some scientists had previously described them. And these...

Astronomers have identified the most distant ever gamma ray burst, a cosmic event that took place when the universe was a mere 900 million years old, less than...

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...

"An astronomer is someone who can't get the order of magnitude of his magnitudes correct" Anyone shed any light on this quote? Gareth -- "Stupid...

On a tv (might of been BBC news 24) someone suggested that there was a possibilty of another inner planet btween the Sun and Mercury. Has anyone else heard...

Astronomers have discovered the fastest rotating object for its size in the Solar System. The Kuiper Belt Object 2003 EL61, discovered in July, rotates once...