A Crawl Around Cancer – the Crab
I recently did a spot of observing with my trusty 20x60mm binoculars. It was also an opportunity to reacquaint myself with some of the familiar celestial…
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Meade LX200R 10-Inch Telescope Review
I am relatively new to amateur astronomy. I’ve had a Meade ETX-125 for about 6 years, but it is only within the last 2 years that…
Read the article →The Moon and Sixpence
The human eye’s capability of discerning patterns in detailed scenes or images (where sometimes such patterns do not exist) is well known. A recent personal instance…
Read the article →What to Know When Buying Binoculars
Recommended Astronomy Binoculars We are asked nearly every day: “What are your best binoculars?” And every day we answer: “How do you plan on using them?”…
Read the article →Google Earth: Explore, Search and Discover
By Gary Nugent Google launched the highly anticipated full version of Google Earth, the search engine’s stand-alone global map utility on June 28th. The application [~10Mb]…
Read the article →Spaceport New Mexico and the X-Prize Cup Part 2
by Charles Vane The X Prize Foundation and the state of New Mexico hope that the X Prize Cup wil draw large crowds to southern New…
Read the article →Spaceport New Mexico and the X-Prize Cup – Part 1
by Charles Vane The X Prize Foundation and the state of New Mexico hope that the X Prize Cup wil draw large crowds to southern New…
Read the article →Outback Observing
On a visit to Australia last summer I took the opportunity to look up Rudi Vavra, who contacted me on the Internet a couple of years…
Read the article →Coronado SolarMax 90 H-Alpha System – a Review
By Kevin Berwick Introduction SolarMax 90 Etalon I recently decided to buy a SolarMax 90 filter from Coronado. Before I launch into the review proper, you…
Read the article →The Drift Method of Polar Alignment
Drift alignment seems to be a major stumbling block for amateurs who want to move up to serious astrophotography (i.e. photography through a telescope). Here is…
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