"Artur" wrote: Hi @ all, i want to upgrade my astronimic equipment. i need a engine for my telescope and a good ccd or digital camera. My...

Hi all With the Beagle 2 craft gone missing I have been pondering ways in which the craft might be located. I have noted that the Americans have a method of...

Hi all If you are interested by constructing your own sundial, you may be interested by the web site www.shadowspro.com It provides a freeware program to...

I have found that the motor drive on my scope doesnt quite move the scope fast enough to keep the subject in view, its a helious scope mount and motor unit,...

Private Sale : Helios 200mm F5, only 7m old, EQ5 dual drives fitted, Sokkia surveyors tripod (built like a brick outhouse). Small collection of 3 EPs & 2...

I have a Kodak Megaplus 1.4i for sale - no longer required here. If anyone is interested, you can bid for it on ebay:...

Anyone recomend a good pair of 10x50 binocs? I have a pair of 20x50, but they wobble all over the place and I can't see much. Putting them on a tripod defeats...

At risk of boring the t*ts off everyone, I wish to say that I just posted the results for the Ursids2003...

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I used to use a bbc computer to record the earths mag. field as it had a voltage d to a converter built in, now I have a pc, do any of you use, or know of a...

Fed up with being humbled by my kids playing Halo on the X-Box, the skies cleared enough on Sunday night to have a go at imaging Venus. Very windy and Venus...

I have been an Astronomer in the Amateur sense since 1955. My interests have been mostly in lunar mapping and variable star observations. In my early years I...

I am using an Orion 8" f6 Newtonian reflector and am wishing to obtain some good quality eyepieces over the coming months. I vaguely recall reading somewhere...

What's the best way to autoguide.. I have a 8" SCT (celestron) with Goto, Canon 10D and a Radial Finder (nightmare to use) is there a better way, I like to...

What are the plausible models that prevent Beagle-2 comm via NASA orbiters and direct to Jodrell, but which STILL allow a 'live' (but confused) Beagle that CAN...

anyone from cambridge area here?, are there any good local clubs? simon

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,106942,00.html "The probability of communications is 100 times higher than having Mars Odyssey try," von Weyhe said,...

Just a thought but...from our galaxy I think we can see a few others, Andromeda springs to my ignorant mind. I bleive the nearest is thousand light years and...

Hi, Got a an 8" scope from orion and went for the eyepiece upgrade from the plossels to the super plossels. However, I have only just noticed that on the...

For those with Satellite and Digital, there is a programme on BBC4 tonight/ early morning at 1.10am - 2.10am. Titled Robert Hooke - The Lost Genius. Did...