Reminds me of some of the hilarious ads for telescopes in the Sears catalog or on the Home Shopping Network. Hi: They've got some good people...

I'm close to placing an order for a 14 inch I.D. 5 ft long Sonotube and I was just wondering if anyone knew whether a fiberglass tube would weigh more than a...

M104 like never before http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/spitzer/spitzer-050405-browse.jpg It is a composite of IR from spitzer and visible light from HST. ...

The answer to my question is probably so elementary that I'm probably making myself look like an idiot for asking it. As someone who's always been fascinated...

Not as off-topic as it sounds. We have a female cat (Lyra) and a female dog (Capella) and are getting a male cat after our other male cat (Castor) died....

Say it with me. ;-)

This question has come up recently in some college discussion and I'm curious as to the possible answers: what would happen if one was truly motionless with...

I got the following e-mail last night, I answered it, but maybe someone here might want to add their 2 cents to it. " which type of telescope has proven most...

Moving to a small town, away from big city light pollution. Thinking about getting a large light bucket primarily for DSO,s and later possibly adding ccd...

A pretty detailed report with lots of internal pictures of these scopes. I can see now where some of the extra cost over the SCTs comes from. However, the...

Picking up a related conversation we left off a while ago (or at least I did), I'd like to discuss the subject header a bit further. In the...

....was a (about, more or less) 50mm leather-wrapped brass collapsible (telescoping, right?) refractor that had been my grandfather's... My Dad showed me a...

More on power use; He claimed powers up to 6000x on his telescopes. He regularly claimed to have used powers beyond 1000x. His favorite scope was a 7." Now...

I think you need to read up on limit theory. Your argument is very similar to Zeno's Paradox. By a similar argument, nothing can ever go into motion after...

Click away .... http://mars.lyle.org/titan/ indexed images http://spacescience.ca/titan/raw/ raw...

I am a student in high school. For our monthly topics, this time I choose the aforementioned question. The cheese would be in the form of a cube, about 3"...

Wow, what a life. Get up at 5 a.m. and uncover a 16-inch Newtonian and observe Mars. Do some 15 minutes, cover up scope, get into hot tub, relax with cup of...

I am wanting to buy a watch that tells ( local Apparent )Sideral Time. Does anyone know if a watch like that exists and where could I buy one ? Thanks, Fred...

I have an 8"f6 Dob and a scopetronics setup for my digital camera. I am able to take 1/30 second shots of say Jupiter and Saturn. Unfortunately I do not have...

I hate that tiny little ring of smoke ... There I said it!