Hello All, I lately had a discusion with someone about the "vacuum" of inter-galactic and extra-galactic space. Due to the enormity of the universe and the...

dear sky watchers, i'm planning to get my hands on a relatively inexpensive 15x70 binoculars (to be handheld or mounted on my photo tripod). The reason I've...

A friend of mine was told by a shop assistant that in the cheap low-power range of telescopes, refractors are as good as reflectors. The asistant said that...

Hello, My name is Carlos and I'm doing some research for my Astronomy class. I want to do a research project about Quasars, and I'd love to work with some...

According to a TV documentary last week the moon is very slowly moving away from us. Does it need to be accelerating to do that? If that is the case were is...

I knew it! Thanks for clearing all that up. Damn Klingons! Kirk was right- you just can't trust them! "The Dude" (Not a real astronomer) "CeeBee"...

Problem is humans never stop evolving. Time takes its toll. Bert

Looking at the newly released image, does anyone notice a slight, diffuse glow around bright edges of the rings and planetary limb? The Cassini narrow angle...

The large rock in the image http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/052/2P130989760EFF1120P2426R2M1.JPG looks like the results of volcanic action under...

Hi all I managed to get a 15 minute exposure of the rosette nebular just before the snow clouds closed in. the object in Monoceros is over one degree across...

Is removal from office the only way to stop this kind of garbage? http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=news_porkerofthemonth_Feb04 "Even more...

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http://www.thenakedsky.com/ The update for winter includes a special feature on Orion, as well as the usual charts, with several new targets in the...

Bush about to issue asteroid impact alert At one point last month, on January 13th, American astronomers were only "minutes" away from informing the...

Hi, Just noticed your group and thought i would talk about something that is playing on my mind. I am dyslexic, so if i have misspelt something, please don't...

As a particle spirals in toward a black hole (They do spiral instead of going straight in, don't they?), is there a limit to how fast they can go? Can...

I am desperate. I have an 8'' Hardin Optical Newtonian. I haven't used it in a month or so, and tonight I have a bunch of friends coming over that are dieing...

hermesnines wrote: Sollog says Pluto - Quaoar and DW 2004 are only moons 760+ lines of pseudoscientific pap snipped for brevity Sollog stated in a...

Up until now, I have been imaging relatively bright comets, magnitude 9 and brighter. This comet at magnitude 16.3 was a real challenge! Whereas I usually see...

alt.astronomy: Lets say, for example, that one had a 10" Newtonian telescope with a 2" diam. single eyepiece. That would enable single-eye viewing. Binocular...