Hi all For years I've only owned mew and modern equipment. Finances and interests are now resulting in purchases of used and vintage equipment, some of which...

Hello, I have just bought an FS-102 and with the remaining money I would like to buy one 2" eyepiece, a barlow and a diagonal. I think I will buy the TV 2X...

Any opinions about the requisite stiffness of 3/16 aluminum in constructing triangle for a flotation cell for a 15x2 mirror? Joe

HERE'S WHAT THE ENGLISH THINK OF THE FRENCH. 1. How many gears Geeze, these are recycled WWII jokes, can't you do better than that? Jon

It is 3 am and I just got done putting all of the equipment away so I'm just giving a preliminary. I almost didn't go out, in fact it was clouded over when I...

The other day at a garage sale a projection TV was for sale. Looking at the projector lenses I wondered if they could be used to make a refractor. The TV was...

A man stopped by just before I closed down tonight, he was given a DOB and is having trouble with it. It's a 6inch coluter one. He's going to bring it down for...

Has anyone ever seen 2 naked eye comets at once? According to Cartes Du Ciel, we have a chance at the end of May! -- Tom Rankin - Programmer by day, amateur...

You are not a real amateur astronomer until you have: ** Realized that you would give up a significant amount of your salary for a later in the...

We have a new lunar artrist of high merit on the scene. He is Anthony G. Sanchez and he has graced alt.binaries.pictures.astro with a...

I have a wide-field diagonal that I can use in the visual back on my ETX-90. The standard 45 degree diagonal that came with my ST80 is pretty mediocre...

I've had a copy of Wil Tirion's _Bright Star Atlas 2000.0_ for years. It's just always in with my stargazing stuff and comes on camping trips. I generally had...

Tonight the cobras head was perfect seeing under a gibbous moon close to the terminator. It is quite a geologic feature. That valley or rift must be volcanic...

NEWS NUGGET: May 3, 2004 DEMISE IN FIRE AND ICE The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. The fiery, dying...

Location: San Diego, CA Time: 2000-2300 PDT (0300-0600 UT) Equipment: Celestron 9 1/4S Darkness: Not Seeing: 7/10 Transparency: 8/10 2000 - Started...

And that's what it was... just a glimpse at about 8:20pm local time before it set over the mtns SW of town. I was using my Tele Vue 76 with 16mm Nagler for 30x...

I have a question about the program "The Sky". I originally bought it to install on my "Number One" laptop, with the intention of using it with my LX200GPS +...

Had to move down to the beach for the start of this one. My two sons Richard (12) and Douglas (10) came down, helped and froze in the...

In Pravda's lunar eclipse article at http://newsfromrussia.com/science/2004/05/05/53774.html they write about the lunar eclipse, but the photo shown with...

I like the new Astromart. The new Astromart is bigger better more exciting than ever! Gotta love Herb for his hard work... Chas P.