Hello Folks The next Star Camp at Trefach is on the weekend of Friday the 17th of November. Details of the weekend programme are now on our...

..seen ~mag -7 on Tuesday 2006 July 18 at ~23BST from Worcester Park SW London tracking north from SE - NE some 20 degrees above the horizon through Aquarius...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/5179610.stm Essex council are to deactivate streetlights in "appropriate areas" between Midnight - 5am. No mention...

Does somebody here have any experience of the Atik 16C camera?

Hi, I tried to capture a short sequence of the NLC display from Friday night(14th). This is an animated gif image of 35 pics taken from about 11.30 until...

In the current hot weather my roll-off observatory has reached new record high temps. Today everything was very warm to the touch and there was a distinct...

I see Bushnell are doing a talking telescope, ive got a feeling that would soon get on my nerves :-) apparently i tells you what your looking at, can you just...

wrote: wrote: Could I be more specific about what I mean? Let's try: NOTHING CAN...

whats inside a meade accessory port module? is it just like a break out box for a couple of sockets? or is there some electronics? as you can probably guess im...

Anybody from South Manchester/North Cheshire got any reccomended viewing locations for a handful of fairly novice telescope owners? I used to work close to...

Time is 10 55 BST. I'm in Cambridge UK. Visible in the north west Tim

I just popped my head out of the door (more in an effort to cool down than anything) and was looking up towards Ursa Major, when I saw something...

has anyone here made one or seen some plans? its for the LX90. they seem a bit expensive to me for what you get. thanks in advance for any replies

Hi, We all got used to browsing the MER images right after downlink. But how about browsing the original images from historic spacecraft in a similar manner?...

'Beyond' - a massive thick photo book featuring gorgeous photos of the planets from the space probes, a bit like 'Full Moon' if you remember that one. £4.99 at...

I doubt if this is news, but I was interested to hear that Patrick says that the solar system only has eight planets.

Hi, we have a Meade ETX 105 and an older Meade 4.5 inch newtonian Meade (4500) How much better is the ETX than the 4500 or is the 4500 better? Thanks

When I heard all the concern about its closing, I didn't realise it was the only one in London. Cleveland (about 1/20 the size of London) has one and another...

I was just thinking how nice it would be to have a small black hole in my kitchen so that i can use it as a garbage can and save the $200 per year that i pay...

for my remote controlled telescope project im going to need an electric focuser. how many cores does the cable have please? im guessing 4 or 6?. also can...