Levelling is an issue, definitely. I carefully balanced the mount and did a polar alignment and it all seemed OK, but the GOTO just kept on missing by (sorry)...

Join Professor Brian Cox and Dara O'Briain to wonder at the night sky, with extraordinary images beamed in from telescopes across the globe. Learn how to...

Roland Rieß wrote: Wer bräuchte Hirten, gäbe es keine Wölfe? (Wer hat gleich noch mal den Teufel, und wozu, erfunden?) Mich würde interessieren, auf...

There is a lot of history wrapped up in those 3 words,so much history that it covers every conceivable topic a person can think of from invention to...

According to a local old sea dog, there is a 50 year cycle to the height of tides superimposed on the usual new/full moon / sun distance, cyclic variation. If...

Amateur images of Trans-Neptunian objects - Haumea http://www.martin-nicholson.info/haumea/haumea.htm Haumea - 2003 EL61 Haumea is a dwarf planet and a...

My binocular lenses have a bit of grease on them. Anyone have any good recommendations for cleaning lenses please? The lens cleaning cloth they came with...

The Real Flying Saucers - Channel 5 9.00pm 16/6/04 The premise of this programme was to suggest that the U.S. military are involved in the promotion of...

A unique opportunity to experience and practice the scientific exploitation of CCD astronomy, under professional supervision in a unique Mediterranean setting...

Just watched the SaN programme which included VT from the recently recovered 1963 episode. It included an interview with "Arthur Clarke" who talks to "Pat"...

Oh no, the Argos glow in the day constellation toilet seat is back http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/0090711.htm

"Gareth Slee" wrote in message ... Proof there is a God, and boy has he got issues...

By accelerating/decelerating it through straight or round curved geometry. This is weightless gravitational change of motion. Mitch Raemsch

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 all, I wonder if someone might help me settle something? I've heard a lot of theories about a brown dwarf star in our solar system or there about's. Some...

Hi all, Here is the Leo Triplett with the ST-10XME in Nikkor 300mm f/2,8 @ f/5,6 40 X 30o seconds (tot.: 3,3h) at my website. In the image there are 5 minor...

Obama friend arrested for soliciting prostitute and Shutdown meeting at White House as time dwindles Above all of these things,Xbox Live Points, what will...

Looking north from East Yorkshire there is an unusually bright contrail-like feature. It would appear to be in the stratosphere - meteor?

Its a puzzle to me but I have to ask; If the Sun vanished in an instant would all the orbiting objects instantly fly off into the universe or would they fly...

I have been explaining the fact that gravity is purely/only an effect of thermodynamics since the turn of the century! http://physics.sdrodrian.com ] So it is...