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Hi. Is there an application (free or otherwise) that lets you see the hevenly bodies from the perspective of standing on the earth and looking out into...

Hi. I've got a flat lawn (horizontal) and at the end of the lawn a perpendicular wall. In front of the lawn and wall is my house and during winter the sun...

hi do I understand J2000.0 equatorial coordinate system correctly? - reference plane is equatorial plane of earth at 1 Jan 2000 12:00 TT - vernal point is...

Hello All, After years of using my trusty ETX125 without major problem, last week-end, I didn't close the carry box properly and when I picked it up, it...

11 April talk by Dr Robert Crittenden , cosmologist, on the early Universe, in particular about the very first light, also known as the cosmic...

I'm working on a quasi-SkyChart program. At first, it showed a just a projection such as the Times would publish for its North Pole readers; Polaris in the...

Brian Cox on his prog last night twice mentioned this, as near enough the last throes of the dying universe - how does a black hole "evaporate"? ad: Talks in...

Hi all, Here is the Leo Triplett with the ST-10XME in Nikkor 300mm f/2,8 @ f/5,6 40 X 30o seconds (tot.: 3,3h) at my website. In the image there are 5 minor...

Roland Rieß wrote: Wer bräuchte Hirten, gäbe es keine Wölfe? (Wer hat gleich noch mal den Teufel, und wozu, erfunden?) Mich würde interessieren, auf...

Hi all, I wish to introduce to your attention this picture , that you can see at the following...

I need the Right Ascension and Declination of the "points" where the perpendiculars to the orbits of the Nine Planets meet the Celestial Sphere. Those would...

Hi all, I wonder if someone might help me settle something? I've heard a lot of theories about a brown dwarf star in our solar system or there about's. Some...

Weather permitting, there's a chance of seeing Johannes Kepler chasing the ISS on Wednesday...

Hi all, a photomosaic consisting in 17 shots that show the central part of the constellation of Orion. The mosaic measures approximately: 9°x8° (6464x5860...

Heaven help us all.

I was doing a Christmas lecture earlier in the the week on "Light and Colour". I had an unexpectedly strong positive audience reaction from a very simple and...

Hi all, a new image of the constellation of Cepheus made with a telephoto Nikon 300mm/2,8 @ f/4 and ST-10XME. More information is available on the...

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