Unusually for 30km from London the sky was cloudless during the evening of 27th October, and despite the inevitably orange / grey appearance of...

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:30:02 GMT, John Steinberg wrote: What drives your interest? And please feel free to be as long...

A first sight of the faint comet imaged on Oct 24 near M31 with a Canon 10D and a 300mm f/2.8 lens. Visually it could not be confirmed (at mag 5 sky), seems...

I have a birdwatching spotting scope. The optics is very good but magnification is too low for most astronomical purposes. I have been wondering if there is...

Dear Friends, The activity with the sun is getting better and better and is proving to be a tremendous replacement for the recent Mars opposition. Today's...

I've been enjoying Stary Nights Backyard, which I recall was about 50 USD. But I know this might be out of your range. I know Stary Night Enthusiast is the...

In article , Esmail Bonakdarian wrote: John Steinberg wrote: Esmail...

Stephen Paul and I had an interesting experience in our last observing session. Splitting ALMAAK in Andromeda ( a very nice Albireo like double) we decided to...

Update! After taking the binocs on a trip and having the alignment go out one time (from being knocked about a LOT), I DID find that it has alignment...

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Space Weather News for Oct. 28, 2003 http://spaceweather.com One of the most powerful solar flares ever recorded erupted this morning near giant sunspot 486. ...

http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/images2003/28oct03/cme_c3_big.gif This shows the halo CME event. Protons hitting the CCD camera

Hello, I've seen very mixed reviews of TAL scopes but was wondering if anyone has any impressions of their mounts. I'm specifically interested in the new...

Hi all. The first CME hit @ 0130 UT this morning - and Bz stayed pointing north, and thus no aurorae. It may be that the 2nd has arrived (0840 UT) - the solar...

I took 4 GPS position readings of easily identifiable landmarks within 5 miles on either side of my lot and compared these to the USGS topo maps available on...

The first arrival prediction for this mornings CME has been published: http://www.spacew.com/cme/index.html This could be one to rival the March 1989 aurora...

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Here is a great site folks http://www.sec.noaa.gov/pmap/ It shows a map of where the current aurora is Martin Poles

Hi, Roland's point that an SCTs spherical mirror induces chromatic error or imbalance leads to some questions. Is that also true in Mak/Cassegrains? Why...

The 2003 Deep South Regional Star Gaze - October 22-25 Percy Quin State Park, McComb, MS Disclaimer - This started as a simple observing report of a few...