Hi Lee, Hope your well. Your a "genius & Wizz" when it comes to mounts etc. I have a Celestron GT mount with an Alter M500 on it but can I buggery get it to...

Witnessed an amazing solar prom lift-off and rocket into space ~160,000km this morning over a 10m period. The sun is certainly dynamic! Pic...

great picture! cheers, john

After continued problems with my Celestron ASGT eq 5 mount and having it repaired twice I have now given up on the idea it will ever work well. I am now...

Hello all, Telescope House have again got the ETX70 in for £170 - which is just within my budget. I currently have a Skywatcher 900mm/70mm/f12 refractor, which...

I have just posted a new link in the Daventry Nova and Variable Star group that includes details of 172 high amplitude variables that appear to be un-named in...

I love the way English astronomers go along with Albert's fairytale and how he uses Newton like a puppet and especially that lovely bit of Newton/aether...

Superb little book An Guide to the Constellations with a Star Atlas by Rev. James Gall Pub.Gall & Inglis 25 Paternoster Square London 1904 . Lovely cover and...

Dear All, I am just in the process of moving from the centre of London to a nice unlit part of Surrey and wish to buy a decent telescope to begin learning...

When the guys got fed up with the Piltdown man hoax and the conceptual nightmare that created obstacles in that field (and are still being felt) they just took...

The great English poet William Blake knew the destitution caused by the empirical doctrine more than anyone else and detested everything Newton stood...

The Solstices are when the Sun, considered as a body moving round a spinning but otherwise fixed Earth, is at its furthest north and south; and the Equinoxes...

Can you help? As a collector of C19th/C20th card planispheres I have been encouraged by other collector friends to write a short book, as there is nothing...

What is the most likely scenario for a planeted binary system? a. Planet or planets revolve about the binary stars or b. Each star has its own solar...

I've posted at http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/solatrax.htm some ideas for using a standard tripod with pan/tilt head to support a small scope in quasi...

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:04:53 +0000, Richard Ng wrote: I am looking for a digital camera to capture the beauties from the sky, I mean stars and other...

Anyone catch site of the daylight meteor reported in the Shropshire Star, and elsewhere? Approximately 10:00 UT Sunday 20 February 2005 seen over large areas...

Jean-Luc Dighaye of EurAstro, based in Munich, has just sent me this: could be fun if the sky is clear and your arms are long enough to hold the binos above...

Saturns rings seem to be opening up at the moment, (i'm talking week by week) when as we all know, they were widest a couple of years ago and so they should be...

On Saturday night I was looking at the first quarter Moon at my lowest available power of 100x, (35mm Panoptic in 14" f/10 SCT). Turning away for a higher...