I'll be there for 8:30pm, Mike. Usual spot we use for the official Flamsteed stargazing.   Looks certain to be a clear sky night tonight.

Although looks fairly clear tonight, I will be going tomorrow instead as it looks to be an even longer and clearer night.

My cricket season almost over, I'm going to overlap my stargazing season and hopefully start this Sunday night which is currently showing a clear sky ...

I use a 12V hairdryer for my eyepieces. Works a treat to get that bit extra time of stargazing. It gets bad reviews and justifiably so because fran...

Thanks Bill. I love learning about these past heroes of science. Just read this article which you pretty much summed up her main achievements, well...

Ha, NASA sends nutcracker to eliminate threat.   Another one in 2027 will be just one Lunar distance away.   I would have like to timel...

That's just as crazy as Quantum entanglement and two slit experiments where photons act as waves when no one is looking but then act as particles when...

Tej wrote: Focus the telescope by eating the doughnuts Tej, you should write an astronomy travelogue book with that as the title!   Unfortunat...

Well, that tip from Rupert made my new M13 image reach Flickr Explorer. Thanks Rupert, no more higher ISOs from me unless necessary!

  You might find that by dropping all your ISO 6400 (and maybe also 3200) images that the noise level is so much lower it can be stretched more ...

I thought this year's SGL was excellent! It was educational as well as entertainingly presented and I loved the refreshing new location of down under...

Haha, I wish I read this when you posted it!   But I did not know the meridian actually lies 102 metres east, that was an interesting article. ...

Ahmed, that's a member's gallery that Andy presents on a big screen before the monthly lecture starts...hint,hint ;)   Astounding first astro i...