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Dr Friends, Thin clouds covered local skies from early morning without any signs of clearing. Not wanting to forego the imaging of this large sunspot,...

A reminder for all you Rush-loving/Doog-bashing ditto-head astronomers out there. This is what Rush thinks about...

I apologize if this appears twice; it doesn't appear to have made it to the newsgroup the first time around... After a long summer of clouds, rains, and...

I thought some of you might enjoy this: http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~mjuric/universe/ Ed

Try getting it from S&T directly. Their phone number is 800-253-0245 On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 00:56:46 +0300, Anthony Ayiomamitis ...

What can you expect for $120? Al Nagler will not be loosing any sleep soon. Obviously at 1/3 the cost of a Nagler ocular you are not going to get two of them...

1. Celestron C-10 N (non goto) EQ mount 2. Celestron 6in refractor 3. Hardin 12 inch Deep Space Hunter Dob. base. All are about the same price. What would...

Hi, I'm trying to find magnitude of Encke comet these days, but I keep finding very different results: - Astronomy Daily: Sat 25 Oct - 10th magnitude...

Physics News Update -- Number 658, October 21, 2003 by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein, and James Riordon Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets Direct imaging...

Is there an Astronomy newsgroup which concentrates on just giving latest news updates, in the same way that sci.space.news does?

Oops #1 http://sciencekit.com/category.asp?c=361528 Oops #2 http://sciencekit.com/category.asp?c=361529

Can I assume that U-B (apparent color magnitude measured at UV minus apparent color magnitude measured at blue is equal to Mu-Mb (absolute color magnitude...

On Monday evening I paid another visit to Franklin & Marshall's Grundy Observatory, which is located just to the east of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I had wanted...

To the original poster: Let me put it in perspective: You were born sometime after the 1970's. You were not there. You didn't pay attention in school, you...

Where do I even start...? I can't really remember not being interested in "what's out there." I can remember as a little kid trying to make a model of the...

Have any of you tried "sidewalk astronomy"? That is, every week or so go out to a public park or field somewhere with a telescope (I have a C8 with an...

After a long summer of clouds, rains, and mosquitoes, I (and many other members of the Astronomical Society of the Palm Beaches) finally managed to avoid the...

As you may have read previously, I just put a sheet of EbonyStar on the bottom of the XT10 baseboard, and that works just super with the "real" Teflon...

I am wondering if I could use windex type cleaner on my eyepieces, after a night up at the corner, I find them with finger prints and eye gung from long...