Kemble's Cascade, located in the constellation Camelopardalis, is an asterism — a pattern created by unrelated stars. It is an apparent straight line of more...
The two rings are useful for threading a camera that has a thread diameter of 37 mm, to the Hyperion eyepiece, which also has a thread in front, of 54 mm. The...
These are my best pictures of Theophilus and Cyrillus craters yet, through Celestron C8-inch reflector telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow, mount CG5 (EQ5),...
When I'm not imaging comets (and there aren't any really bright ones right now) I turn to emission nebulae. Last night the moon limited me to about 17.7...
Has anybody here ever been on one of the Star Gazing Cruises? If so do you think it was worth it? Has anybdoy here been on more than one of the cruises? If so,...
I took a taxi with a friend of mine and went to the edge of Baia Mare town (Romania). It was pretty cold but we were lucky with the thermos with hot tea we...
Saturn is probably best known for its system of rings, making it the most remarkable object in our solar system. I have some images processed in Registax 5...
Orion Nebula seen through my telescope reflector of 203 mm mirror, camcorder Sony CX 130. In this video you can see well enough the white cloud of the nebula...
hi frnz,i wanna ask a question. If u know something about it then plz reply....last night, i saw a very large circle like structure around the moon. It...
Astronomy for Beginners, Jeff Becan, 2007, ISBN 9781934389256 This book attempts to explain Earth, the solar system, our galaxy and our universe, in clear and...
A friend on the RASC (Royal Astronomical Society of Canada) mailing list recently asked if anyone knew of a replacement for a program he used, but that stopped...
This is the first photo capture of a video I made with the Sony CX 130. The old one CX15, is not working, and now I am glad I had to buy this one. This is a...
The space agency announced that they had found two planets, each about the same size as earth, orbiting a star about 1,000 light years away. The two planets...
"Opportunity" from NASA, has found evidence that liquid water and potentially habitable conditions, once existed on the surface of Mars, scientists say. ...
At 0124 UT Dec 17, 5:24 PM local time Dec 16, I observed a very bright meteorite 5 degrees west of Venus. It appeared to be about magnitude -8 and subtended...
I've photographed the Moon's crater Vega wich is at the sout-east edge of the Moon, through the 8 inch newtonian telescope and the HDR Sony CX105 camera. In...
Demonax crater in my Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow, mount CG5 (EQ5), camera Sony CX105 to 8x optical zoom Processing: video...
