I have an SLR with no functioning lightmeter and a 500mm mirror lens (f8 I think) plus a 2x tele converter the camera is loaded with 800 asa film and I will...

http://www.metcheck.com/showdayweather.asp?startArr=26&date=6%2F8%2F2004&lat=52&lon=-2&locationID=40 Looking very promising *fingers crossed* Tony P

Hi Folks I intend to try some imaging of the transit with my 8" schmidt cass and Toucam pro web cam. I`ve acquired an A4 piece of Baader solar film...

....will be on the telly, BBC2 at 13:20 BST today, Saturday 2004-06-05 telling us 'How to safely view the transit of Venus'. Just thought you'd like to know. ...

I keep seeing this web cam referred to - what is so special about it? Is it any good as a standard web cam or still camera? Is it all ToU cams or just the...

who's local press has given any coverage to this? there was a nice article in one of my local papers (s.wales) that got dates and times perfectly correct,...

Hmmm - the Sun doesn't look terribly interesting at the moment. By the time of the transit you could simply make your own by drawing a featureless circle on a...

Hi again folks Is there any way of combining a window displaying a web cam image and a window displaying a gps time synch display. I would like to be able to...

I'm using a Fuji S1Pro digital camera mounted on my Celestron Nexstar 5i telescope WITH SOLAR FILTER any idea what sort of exposure times I should be looking...

Metcheck are currently forecasting 63% cloud cover for June 8th for West Sussex :( http://www.metcheck.com/index.asp Thankfully, NCD is still a long way...

After exhaustive enquiries (thanks Stephen) I am getting more condfident but as the world's worst map reader I need belt and braces. If the Sun is a...

Brought a tear to my eye this one (and not just because of it's proximity to the...

Venus has just appeared on the LASCO C2 - do you think there might really be a transit? http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c2/512/ -- Martin...

Be at our observatory - Crosland Hill, Huddersfield, from 6 am tomorrow. Join local radio, and possibly TV, and look through our Coronado/Takahashi Sky90...

How many pictures are people planning to take of the transit? For instance, I can get about 500 onto a 256 megabyte flash card at "normal" compression and...

Hi All, This afternoon I am rigging up an adjustable arm from the eyepiece of my 6" reflector to project the transit onto a sheet of card at 90 degrees. My...

Hi Again folks Is there any way of linking two windows 1- displaying the web cam image and the other displaying a gps time synch display. I would like to show...

Off to bed now boys and girls, got to be up bright and early in the morning for those cloud reports.... I have received a stern ticking off from my daughters...

Spring's almost at an end but I finally got a few hours to bring The Naked Sky up to date. The summer page will launch at the end of...

Don't blame me for Nature's headline! But the article at http://www.nature.com/nsu/040531/040531-7.html says the sun's light will change by 0.0076%, which...