If anyone out there is involved in amateur infrared astronomy, I'd love to hear from you as soon as poss - I'm researching several articles on the subject for...

'Photon' is a new bi-monthly astronomy eZine which is issued in PDF format. Written by amateurs for amateurs, it focuses on topics that relate directly to...

Hello, I have a series of 15 back-to-back images of Jupiter I took with my Olympus C4050 on a Meade 10" f10 SCT, afocal setup. I've tried...

Here's another comparison image. This compares Thor's Helmet Halpha taken with an Astro-Physics AP155EDF and ST10XME camera (binned 1x1) with one taken with a...

Last night was one of those nights where you just gotta go for it: we had some unforecast clear skies last night between monsoons of near-biblical proportion....

IC405 is an emission nebula glowing richly in red H-alpha light. By employing a selective spike filter that passes only the H-a emission line, one can block...

Just a few weeks ago, Jay McNeil noticed an odd little nebulosity in some images he had taken of the area around M78. It turns out that a very young...

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...

Check this out: http://www.fairchildimaging.com/main/area_486.htm or for sheer size: http://www.fairchildimaging.com/main/area_595.htm can you imagine a...

Some folks here were interested in the 18" scope I mentioned I was building. This is based on the CPT18 from Resource International. I am making modifications...

Would this new chip revolutionise ccd-astronomy also? It uses fulll colour layered sensor array! http://www.dpreview.com/news/0202/02021101foveonx3.asp Julius

Dear all, enclosed of this message a direct link to last Saturn (yesterday), with 3D Analysis (Rings). Thanks for yours attention. Clears skies Sandro...

Hi All, Stan Moore suggested that it would be interesting to see all of the widefield Ha images on the one page at the same scale to get an idea of...

I needed an imaging fix so I imaged NGC 7380 by Hydrogen-alpha at night and the large sunspot group 0564 by day. Between imaging and processing that leaves...

The last posing title was garbled - sorry. Reposted. I needed an imaging fix so I imaged NGC 7380 by Hydrogen-alpha at night and the large sunspot group 0564...

Last night wasn't scheduled to be a good observing night according to the usual sources (NWS, Clear Sky Clocks etc). But it looked to me like there was a...

The Albuquerque Astronomical Society (TAAS), a non-profit organization of New Mexico amateur astronomers, is now selling a computer screen saver featuring...

I imaged the Leo Trio last night. This morning I saw a posting by Roy Cummings stating that there was an asteroid in the area of M65/M66 last night, 940...

Hi all, I am marco an Italian amateur astronomer, I have just published my Internet site also in English, if you want to visit it the link...

Eric Weder of the Yahoo C14 group pointed out that there was a second asteroid in the Leo Trio Image I posted earler today. This one is 15805 1995 GB1, which...