Hi all, I posted a while back regarding getting a telescope as an Christmas present for a relative. I recently saw two telescopes with the following...

....by live radio meteor observation online. My Radio Reflection Detection page has been online for just over a month, providing live views of events as they...

Can anyone tell me what I saw last night - I'm in my late 30's and this was a new one to me. It was a full moon, but it looked like there was a "hole in the...

Galileo never got close to Jupiter as stated. This made evident at this URL http://www.user.dccnet.com/vtrade/HomePage.html

Does anyone know where I can obtain data on illumination levels (lux) for civil twilight under perfect atmospheric conditions ? I understand that 3-500 lux is...

Big lunar halo, visible right in city centre. Diam at least 20 deg, sky quite hazy but star visible inside it

http://www.marstoday.com/viewsr.html?pid=11224 http://planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/2003/nozomi_mars-mission-abandoned.html http://www.newsha...

Hi, Pretty new to all this, so dont laugh to much! Best way to describe the bit is; skinny tube with cross hairs, magnifies a little and turns everything...

This is not another "what scope should I buy?" question, you may will be pleased to hear! I have visited Stephen Tonkins excellent site and would need to...

On this websites you find a selection of 4 current satellite views, showing visible satellites (Europe), current cloud coverage, earthquake activity, storms,...

In article , Uncle Al wrote: Hubble may *not* look at the moon. The brightness would burn out...

The Geminids have started! See and hear them live online on the Radio Reflection Detection Page. Spectrum analyser and LIVE audio online now. No extra software...

Hi all Had a reasonable view of this years Geminids. I went up to Holt Heath (fairly dark site near to where I live) Saturday night between 20:00UT and...

Approximately one month on from the total eclipse of the Moon at the beginning of November, the results of the Lunar Parallax Demonstration Project (LPDP) have...

I was looking at the Beagle 2 web site http://www.beagle2.com/, and they've finally got it together and are selling some things from a nice looking site. And...

I've currently only have a small 60mm refractor on an equatorial mount (although it does seem to have quite sharp lenses and the images look far better than...

This could be a mistake but the novelty is inviting me to try... Saturn captured on my laptop and wirelessly sent to my website. Colours look ok to me but then...

I was recently on holiday in the US, and purchased a #1244 Meade electric focuser for 71UKP equiv, (rrp UK is 149 from BCF). I had the fortune of talking at...

Bugger and i was going to attempt my first imaging tonight. Looks like i picked the wrong time of year . can anyone tell me if it would be ok to use a...

Chaps, Has anybody managed to get a decent view through a scope at venus over the last few evenings? I did have a go yesterday but the scope was very...