Hi all, I'm giving an introductory talk on astronomy next week and one of the topics I'm covering is the Solar System. I can find all the info I want on the...

(summary: what the strange crud on my focuser, and how/should I clean a mirror?) I've always hankered after a telescope, and wandering around a car boot sale...

Has anyone got any hints/tips/links for disassembling the Dec Axis on an EQ6 ? I got the links for the RA axis but for the life of me can't find anything else.

Hi All waiting for a pair of BIG bino's to arrive to revitalize my lapsed interest.... What's your favorite object to view ? Cheers Bill

Many of you know of Dr Chuck Wood, lunar columnist at S&T, and author of The Modern Moon. He frequently posts in the Lunar Observing Group, and will be the...

If you could throw an object very high, so high that it would take a few hours to fall back to earth. Would it land in the same location it was thrown from or...

Dear Friends, We were privy to GREAT weather in Greece for today's solar eclipse. For a couple of sequences, please...

I appear to completely missed another Sky at Night - that is, not even noticed its existence until away from home on the day of the last broadcast. The subject...

I thought it was around 1607, but in Channel 4's "Elizabeth" Leicester is shown looking through his telescope to identify one of Drake's sailing ships...

How do you know how much weight is needed to balance a LX90? I have various cameras etc but am not sure how to balance my scope. It seems that my 'naked'...

I'd like to offer a big 'thank you' to all the members of the LAS who yet again put so much hard work into making sure that the rest of us had a great time at...

The Milky Way's near-twin galaxy, Andromeda, harbors a supermassive black hole at its core that is surrounded by an unexpected and unexplained disc of young...

Published Thursday 6th October 2005 14:52 GMT A row over funding is threatening the future of the Galileo satellite constellation, according to the head of...

Just been on the radio that the satellite which was going to monitor the ice caps has crashed into the sea. Steve

After a perfect partial last Monday morning from SW London the sun refuses to peek through constant cloudcover 'till this morning but even then through...

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Europe's dedicated ice explorer, the Cryosat spacecraft, blasts off into a polar orbit on Saturday. The satellite carries a sophisticated radar altimeter that...

Astronomers have for the first time observed the visible afterglow of an elusive short-lived gamma ray burst (GRB). Long-lived bursts have been seen in the...

Hi Group, Does anyone know of a retail store that sells Zeiss Victory IIs around Bristol UK ? Many places will order them in, but no one seems to have them...

Also may be of some use, a Dallmeyer mount F1.9 152mm camera...