Astronomers Uncover One of the Youngest and Brightest Galaxies in the Early Universe 02.12.08 A massive cluster of yellowish galaxies is seemingly caught in a...
Some progress on the taarewiki. Do have a look at http://nehruplanetarium.org/taarewiki/pmwiki.php?n=PmWiki.TaareWiki Some pages for discussion archives,...
? It asks for a password. ... From: nandivada_rathnasree <rathnasree@...> To: Astronomy_Activities_2009@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2008...
Tanmoy, are you finding that it asks for a password even for viewing? Anurag is trying various possibilities - but, at the moment we are trying to keep all...
Greetings, Guess what the APOD today? An image of the ISS with a New Space Station Robot who has asked the astronouts call it "Dextre the Magnificent" Comes a...
Tanmoy, no, no, please do not scream, I and anurag will look into installing the table formatter today - I have been trying to upload my observations of the...
Hello All, Astro-Sketching is my prime passion, much more than astrophotography. I am a newbie in this with just a dozen and half sketches, some of them...
Here are some thoughts I have, as a roadmap for collaborative observations, starting today. Collaborative observations, where all the beginners and college...
I am writing the beginner segment, as well as making the relevant images etc. in a state of complete exhaustion just now (help, I might be reaching an...
All AAAD members in the group, please do participate and give your count of stars in the Regulus-Algeiba-Zosma-Denebola region. This is a ridiculously simple...
We have the Bangalore amateur astronomers who have already responded that they would participate in these star counts. We also have amateur astronomers from...
Sure, but what about the clouds? I doubt we'd be able to see even the corner stars of the region while this weather persists... and it'll give a false...
Yes :-( The morning had a lot of blue in the sky, which made me start the day with this plan. Yesterday and the day before, I noticed though, that the clouds ...
rathna: hi. will this endeavor be restricted to beginners and college students alone? and for members situated in india alone? i'm not quite a beginner, and...
Sridhar, Observations from everyone, from anywhere in the world, are welcome. Those who wish to give a more refined estimate of the limiting magnitude, using...
Dear Madam, for last two days i am trying to do this exercise but the weather is not permiting to do so.Anyway let us wait for the clouds to disappear. ...
... last i heard, limiting magnitude here near home should be around 4. i'm a member of the Minnesota Astronomical Society, and they have a few dark sky ...
Most of the students who had signed up during the lecture at GVM college, have now been added in the group. All of you had shown so much enthusiasm, during the...
Some of the discussions from this group, may be missing from the wiki archives. If I have missed anything useful, anyone who finds it, please do feel free to...
Now that we seem to know a lot about limiting magnitude or rather sky brightness let us talk about one other parameter – the seeing One may have apparently...
Mr.Ajay Talwar Delhi Friends and members Will you please let us know a little about the telescope and eye pieces, i.e. if it is a 5 1/2 inch, double sided...
... we ... eye ... the stronger the magnification on the eyepiece, start with a say! twenty or a sixteen maybe even a fifty millimeter for wide field imageing...
I saw this ad in OPT and 3 of them are left http://www.optcorp.com/product.aspx?pid=3555 Sounds good for 55 K. Carbon fibre tube is newer than my aluminuim...