Come and say hello and tell us a little about yourself.

The place to come for help and advice with astronomy. Feel free to post any questions you need assistance with and people will be glad to help.

Useful primers and tutorials designed to help you get started in various areas of astronomy.

Sub-Forums: Glossary of Terms

Astronomy related chat and general banter.

Sub-Forums: Heads Up

Look here for any official forum announcements and to discuss any future events.

Board for all Imaging Day discussions

Space news from around the web - automatically updated 24 hours a day. Contact admin to suggest other news feeds.

News on official SGL organized events. Also externally organized star parties (Spring/Autumn Equinox, Kielder, SW Astro Fair).

Sub-Forums: SGL5 The aftermath, SGL4 The aftermath, Starparty / Camping equipment and associated needs.

This section is made available to members to aid communication in arranging get togethers. These are not official SGL organized events. PLEASE be safety concious and don't go out on your own!!

Sub-Forums: Society Speakers

This is the place to list all of the upcoming IYA events and to post back your photos, videos and reviews of the events you've attended.

As the name suggests, images will be shown here that the Moderators feel are worthy of your praise! Submit your images in the normal sections and they will be selected from there. Good Luck!

Sub-Forums: SGL Summer Competition, Published Members

Check out our ever growing astronomy knowledge base, if you want to help write content, please contact one of the admin.

This section is reserved for the sponsor of SGL.

The supplier review board is for members to tell others of the service that they have received from a retailer. You need 50 posts in other sections to be able to post a supplier review. To protect SGL from legal action a supplier review MUST be factual about what happened. Please do not tell us how you felt, why you think that a supplier did what they did or make any comment on the ethics/morals of the retailer. I.e. Keep to the facts only! We reserve the right to reject a post or remove a post after approving it.

Help with choosing your setup, picking the right telescope for your needs or just helping you get up and running

For members set up's and general equipment comments/chats.

Sub-Forums: Members Equipment Gallery

For reviews only, giving new members advice regarding astronomy equipment. ||Read a good astronomy book - review it here.

Here you can share/Discuss Telescope Mods you have planned aswell as camera's,Mount's,Binos etc etc..

Sub-Forums: DIY Observatories

For any discussion on techniques, tips and tricks for purely visual astronomy.

Sub-Forums: Observing - Monthly Guides

The place to find out the Forum's targets for the month, the Monthly Sky Charts, and the current Constellation under discussion

Share your observations of our close friends the moon and sun.

All observation discussion regarding planetry bodies.

A place to discuss deep sky observations including widefield such as constellations etc...

A place to discuss your observations if anything that doesn't fit into another category, e.g. comets, meteors, iridium flares and Aurora.

A forum dedicated to binocular observing only.

The place to discuss imaging.

Techniques, tips and tricks regarding imaging.

Post an image in here for specific help on what may have gone wrong. Do not post an imagine in here and moan that people said it needs improvement :) . Don't forget as many details about the equipment used, settings and oberving conditions as possible should be posted.

Share your Lunar images here.

For all Solar Imaging, white light and narrowband.

Share your images of the planets here.

A place to share your deep sky images including widefield such as constellations etc...

Share your images of anything astro related that just doesn't fit in any other area. Comets, Asteroids, The ISS, Meteors, Aurora etc...

A place to post all your images obtained via unusual means e.g. PDA's or mobile phones. This section now includes images taken using remote set-up's.

For all observations/images of double and variable stars. From the Pretty picture to the full blown scientific reports.

Discuss theory on astronomy, physics and general space science.

For discussions regarding all aspects of Radio Astronomy.