Looking out at M31 we see it as it was 2 million years ago. It is two million years ahead of what we see. This is true for the entire universe. What we see as...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F01%2F11%2Fwm ars11.xml&sSheet=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F01%2F11%2Fixworld.html I wonder, if Beagle had...

Well I finally picked up the scope yesterday afternoon and immediately returned home to set it up. It came in 2 boxes, one for the tripod, one for the scope,...

Is the potential of our obtaining 3.5% solar isolation too much to ask for? Is having roughly 50% of tidal interactions as based upon a 24 hour cycle too...

What we'll sooner or later need are some of those hocus-pocus conditional laws of physics, just like what supposedly had us walking moonsuit butt-naked on that...

I was wondering if anyone has enquired to the final depths on this topic. I am very happy to take astrometric positional shifts in nearby star positions,...

I feel rather embarassed to tell this story but I guess we all make mistakes and if it stops anyone else from making the same one then it will be...

Not being into astronomy or knowing anything about it except for Earth, Moon, Sun and lots of 'twinkling lights', a work colleague came up with an interesting...

I have been experimenting to see how faint I can go with my low cost, low resolution spectrograph setup (8 inch VC200L, Star Analyser diffraction grating and...

Hi: What is the highest radio frequency used for radio astronomy? According to the link below, it is 3438...

Looking to sell a mint Orion Europa 200mm f4.4 Any good sites/places to sell it and what sort of price would you guys suggest?? I thought around the £350 -...

What can I image in 5 minutes? This page is intended to show that it possible to obtain pleasing images of galaxies with as little as 5 minutes...

So if I build an observatory in my garden next year and put a light in it (red or otherwise) - I have to pay some joker to inspect the wiring ??!! Part P of...

one of those pointless hypothetical what-if questions... So, assuming the rule of "you can't go faster than light" (E=MC2 and all that) what would happen if we...

In message , orion94nl writes Hi all, On this website, http://mars.telascience.org/home you can...

Here is some info about my DIY Meade LXD55 remote focuser. I thought others might be interested in how I did it and what mistakes...

Hi all, Here's a shot of Mars taken on the morning of the 25th September under reasonable seeing for a change. Although the planet's rather small at the...

Why didn't it become a planet? Why isn't there a partially formed planet there at that orbital interval? Gravitational order designed the solar system. Mitch...

Interesting as to how the following topic by "M.Smitters" is in Mailgate stelath mode. Apollo moon landings : YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THIS...

The frequency of emails with viruses arriving on my PC has risen sharply in the last couple of months (nearly all called W32sober, though they are beginning to...