Guys, Here is some GREAT news: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/04/06/shuttle.rollout/index.html Anthony.

Dear Friends, The Greek gods expressed their anger this weekend in the most categorical way and adversely affected the first lunar total eclipse in three...

Dear Group, Today's APOD is the wonderful mosaic by Pete Lawrence involving the recent Saturn occultation (one day prior to the total lunar...

Dear Friends, Another brief break in the weather last night permitted the imaging of the 16th magnitude quasar PKS 1354+19 in Bootes and whose redshift...

Dear Friends, Perhaps the strangest entry in Messier's catalog is M40 which is the double star Winnecke 4. Although some interesting and attractive galaxies...

Dear Friends, One of the most celebrated quasars is Markarian 205, a fairly bright quasar in Draco (mag 15.24), which has led to an interesting controversy...

Dear Group, I was wondering if someone has experience with the Astrosib RC's (manufactured in Russia) which they can share (publically or in private via...

Dear Friends, It is often assumed that stars are only visible during the evening and well after the sun has already set. This is really a myth since many...

Dear group, Finally there is some activity on Sol. Just coming around into view is the sunspot group AR10960 which has generated a fairly impressive...

Dear Group, I have located a paper from Astronomy & Astrophysics which identified some of the oldest open clusters in our galaxy. I was wondering if someone...

Dear group, The skies finally cleared last night for the first time in about three weeks. With 92% humidity, the seeing was exceptional for this time of the...

Folks, I am trying to locate the aforementioned book without any success. I have tried eBay, Amazon and Willman-Bell but no luck. Any clues or leads would be...

Dear Friends, First light with the new AP160 will be tomorrow with an attempt to pursue some high-power high-resolution imaging of the lunar...

Folks, Does anyone know what happened to the website of Coelum Astronomia in Italy? Anthony.

Dear Friends, There is lots of impressive activity with today's sun and which coincides with today's aphelion. To this end, I kindly direct you...

Dear Friends, I was wondering if anyone here has done any imaging of binary star systems and, if possible, multi-coloured systems? I did some imaging last...

Dear Friends, Although I had doubts about pursuing this evening's partial eclipse due to the low altitude of the moon during the eclipse for my geographical...

Dear Friends, Unless I am mistaken, the beautiful open cluster M35 is the only Messier object in Gemini. For an LRGB result from a few days ago, please...

Folks, Some sad news surrounding the well-known couple, Vic and Jen Winter, whom many of us know one way or another. Here is an obituary of the untimely...

Dear Group, With Cygnus slowly getting into good position for imaging, there is a wide variety of goodies it provides for the interested observer and...