I am familiar with the astro.com site in the OP. I do not think there is much in the specific link that will be of interest to astronomers, because it is oriented towards use of astrological assu...
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I have an LX90 and I am considering buying a crayford microfocusser for it so that I have better control over fine focus.
My question is - has anybody had any experience of these (i.e. the typ...
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April fools day 2013
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I recieved the following article from The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News
(ref : Number 829 June 19, 2007 by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein
www.aip.org/pnu [http://www.aip...
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I am an ametuer to astronomy. I want to get mechanized telescope from Orion.
Here is the telescope: Here [http://www.telescope.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=116611&itemType=PROD...
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Yesterday at dusk we were greeted by this glorious view of the Belt of Venus. This is quite a common occurrence where we live although not always as nice as this one.
Looking east beyond the ret...
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Tonight @ around 1154PM I watched 2 very bright objects in the sky. It was far to bright to be an Airplane and the lights were not blinking. It was moving far faster then a plane. Could it have be...
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Things have been just perfectly correct the last couple of nights...
After I got off work Wednesday night, I stopped by Mom's to take the trash to the curb (Thursday is trash day, y'know), and...
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Hello and thank you for your time.
I live in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan (across the river from Sault Ste Marie, Canada). My wife and I have been watching Venus and Jupiter for awhile now, and h...
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I don't have a telescope or anything (well, I have a fairly useless 2" Tasco refractor back in the UK, but nothing where I am now. But one day, when I have the money... ) - I'm just asking th...
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In the now closed thread about aircraft black box evidence for alien space craft, Van Jaij asked "How, specifically, are we supposed to be looking for alien spacecraft? What should we do, in ...
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Pick all of the dystopias you found interesting and reasonably well-drawn. The first round is multiple choice.
Max Headroom refers to the original British movie, not the TV series. Because TV min...
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My vote goes to Conjoiner Drive in Alastair Reynold's Inhibitor series. A Conjoiner Drive contains one end of a microscopic spacetime wormhole. The other end is located few seconds after Big Bang....
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So reentry into the Earth's atmosphere is a dicey proposition, as we well know. The speeds at which the shuttle comes in at generate overwhelming friction and consequently, heat, which leads to pr...
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Here is a scenario that I am wondering about.
Part 1 - There is a planet 100 light years away. We can see this planet very clearly and manages to pretty much always stay in our view.
Pa...
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Marc Kamionkowski has posted a nice review of current cosmology on astro-ph today:
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0706.2986 [http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0706.2986]>
The paper is aimed at an aud...
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Hi people, I have a quick question.
I was observing Jupiter several nights ago through a 10" f4.5 reflector.
The resolution was very good, the moons were sharp.
Checked out M13 and ...
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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070621.html [http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070621.html]>
What an interesting composite image.
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If you could turn of...
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How bright will the Sun appear 5 byr inh the future when it will be in it's first red giant stage?And how bright it will be when it will be helium burning star on horizontal branch?AGB supergiant?...
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I hope the following arguement if invalid, but I can't see a flaw to it.
Drakes equation draws upon many parameters to illustrate that even though intelligent life is unlikely, the sheer numbe...
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This came out on another forum, and I was not quite sure where to put this, so I will land it here. Please tell me if I am wrong about anything here.
The idea of Big Bang machinery, as far as ...
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I know this sounds like the Planet X issue but it's not; my question doesn't stem from that. Can anyone tell me if, hypothetically, there was a large enough body passing near our planet, say 5-8 t...
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=pnbuhjliC...elated&search= [http://youtube.com/watch?v=pnbuhjliCKA&mode=related&search=]>
So what would happen if gravity went into effect in that movie?...
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=pnbuhjliC...elated&search= [http://youtube.com/watch?v=pnbuhjliCKA&mode=related&search=]>
What would happen if some God like being could line up that man...
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