Yep, must admit, I enjoyed that S@N. No Tej, I won't be specifcally mentioning the Mars / Antares conjunction... not enough time to fit everything in...
Easiest way to share an image from Flickr in this forum (now that we have BBCode activated) is to go to Flickr and click on the "Share" icon. Then sel...
I personally now use something called Alignmaster Never used this, but have heard good things about it. Link is here. You're right that the Polar Al...
Many congratulations... look forward to seeing the result. Most amusing to see Pete Lawrence under that blanket... are you sure he was imaging? Looks...
Looks like the image source is from your laptop - you'll have to post the images elsewhere (e.g. Flickr or Photobucket) and link back to the image her...
Just realised that it's a Sky at Night night. BBC4 at 10pm. "The Hunt for ET"
That's significantly better than the previous image, Tej! The stars looks round now. You've captured some nice colours in M57.... obviously no chance ...
Sounds very interesting, but I'm not in London this weekend, so I'll miss it.
I did not know I can polar align the HEQ5 Pro to any bright star Check the firmware on your handset... if it's version 3.35 you can do it... if it's ...
So, just to be clear, you have a really nice, relatively portable, imaging kit... nice f/6 scope and an auto guider... a HEQ5 mount (use one myself as...
Jackson, Mississippi, is further south than London therefore it was closer to the comet making it easier to see Impressive that you can see through t...
I love this Mary Chapin Carpenter song. She must have had bloody good eyesight to see Halley's comet in 1986! It was rubbish trying to view it with t...
Poor little M92... whatever has it done to you to deserve such treatment ;) Seriously though, Tej, I think this is a great effort given the constrain...
When in doubt, reach for the OED: astronomer ► noun an expert in or student of astronomy. astronomy ► noun the branch of science which deals with ce...
Genius though he was, I don't think Newton was a particularly nice man. Interesting that Keynes showed such interest in Newton... one could say that t...