"Chris.B" wrote in message
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"astrono_me" wrote in message
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"Mary Shakespeare" wrote in message
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I am new to all this, but I now got a pair of binoculars and I have
borrowed from my local library "Exploring the Night Sky with
Binoculars"
by
Patrick Moore (Good book by the way!!) and tried looking out on our
balcony
and I think I saw Mars, it looked like a star with a red tint around
it.
I give it another go tonight or should I wait until next week when
the
Weather Forecast said it will be frosty.

Mary

I'm also new to astronomy, I borrowed a pair of Binoculars and bought a
similar book also by Patrick Moore "Astronomy Without a Telescope" - I
like
his style of writing and i think it will probably turn out to be a good
"newbie" reference. The Binoculars I have are 20x50's shall be trying
them
out on mars and moon tonight! - Clear skies permitting.

Steve
www.534n13w.co.uk

May I suggest that you invest a little time at your browsers looking
for Chris Marriott's SkyMap Pro (demo version). Search with skymap
pro. It is a free 8.6Mb download. It will help you locate the objects
you want to see and show where they are when you can't! Great fun and
very flexible. You'll see what I mean when you have it onboard your
computers. Many of us wouldn't be without this and other popular
software packages. Welcome to astronomy heaven!

Chris.B

I have loaded a package for my Psion Revo called Solun it seems to work ok
but i'll have to wait for clear skies before I can test it for real.
Also my Revo doesn't have a back light - duh! But when I get my red-light
sorted I'll give it a try.

Steve
http://www.534n13w.co.uk