I recently installed Stellarium and am having a blast exploring the un iverse. I recently found a HIP object that has a unusual grouping of stars near it. The...

There is going to be something to view at sunset on Feb 16. Jupiter and Venus wiil be very close to each other.

I am going to visit a class of 11-yr olds and I would like to teach them about the phases of the Moon. One prop that I thought I would bring, and leave with...

News flash: "Seans Lie by way of Obfuscation and Transference", however this is not saying they are not informative to many of us that are so often unable to...

The problem: A Bitter Pill: The Primordial Lithium Problem Worsens Richard H. Cyburt, Brian D. Fields, Keith A. Olive JCAP...

Might be interesting? DOCUMENTARY: Joanna Lumley in the Land of the Northern Lights On: BBC 4 (107) Date: Wednesday 13th January 2010 (starting in 27...

Hello, did anyone else see the meteor shower around 00:30 last night in the English Midlands? I havent seen the like before, a single light point, no tail,...

Seeing the previous posts mentioning Precession prompted me to wonder what is the actual lowest star we can see from a certain location over the full...

There was a gap in the snow clouds so I snapped these with my Nikon D5000 and the 200VR lens hand held so not perfect but I'm quite happy with them...

Forgetting the magnetic pole, then: At the true North Pole, i.e. that about which the Earth is rotating at a given time, would a GPS read exactly 90 deg....

Hi all, this is a deep shot of the galaxies NGC147 & NGC185 in wide field: 1,4 ° x 2,1° Istrument Pentax SDUF II - D=100mm F= 400mm with ST-10XME Exposed. 8...

I'm trying to access http://www.ukastroimaging.co.uk and am consistently getting an "account suspended" page. Google's cache shows a snapshot from December...

Hello, Does anyone has any info about Practical Astronomer, I didn't receive it for a long time.... Thanks for your info... Best Greetings From...

Hi all, this is a new image of area adjacent to Barnard's Loop particularly interesting. Rich of peculiar objects (Herbig-Haro) and reflection nebulae other...

I've been offered the chance to get a decent 'scope as a Christmas present from my wife - been using my birdwatching one for astro use for the last few years...

Another lovely shot Danni. Thanks for sharing it/ Pete K "Danilo Pivato" wrote in message...

Christmas is right around the corner. Do you have a list handy? Do you know exactly what you’re buying everyone, or what you’d like to buy? Are you stressed...

A friend recently told me that people now know of many planets in other star systems, and that they have excelent photos of them from the Hubble 2. One in...

On Nov 21, 12:29 am, "Angelo Campanella" wrote: Rather than a cavity, the region is one of zero gravity! Sorry: The region (core)...

I am doing a project to see how many times a planet passes in front of another one and believe there to be 122 occurances like this in the 6000 years ...