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HMM you have me thinking now, i have just loooked in my Patrick Moors year book 2011 and its not listed! must be a new one, check this out with picture too Will Earthbound Comet Fulfill 2012 Prophecy? : Discovery News

Hi, Isabelle, wow that was moving fast, you did well to get it, we have ISS coming over every night this week in York UK for 6 mins, @ 54 degrees when its not cloudy.

yeah it was the same here todd, just creeping up behind some trees, i was hanging out the bath room window looking south ,after ISS had gone over its over uk ever night this week wsw to east at 54 degrees for 6 mins. When its not cloudy!

Last night around 11.43 after ISS passed, the moon was rising in the south, and was full and very big, and yellow, it did not take long for it to climb high in the sky. Looked very impressive.

very disappointed on the lunar eclipse, it was coming out of totality in south east only 6 degrees on horizon, no chance of seeing it with building and trees in way. Watched it live on line in Cyprus and Dubi via sloosh live telescope, managed to get some screen capture pictures of it of it. come on people lets see some pics of this historic event, a video would also be nice.

No it may have been some old post? from last year!! some one has MOANED!! about and reported me to ANT, some bad languge but it was @@X@X it out!! BUSY BODIES.

well done ,you finally seen it! yeah it does go really fast. if you go on NASA web site ISS sightings it gives you exact time and what degree approach is , the higher the better if its 4 mins say? it travels slow, may get time to swing dobson on it.

just received e mail from administrator about bad language? at 5.15 pm on here, i was not on the sgl site at this time, whats going on!! beware passwords may be not safe!! i have contacted ant on admin.

Good job, well done, good post, liked the image, yours paul.

Hi Isabelle, always a daunting task, i too spent 2 hours fiddling with mine with a chesire collimator, but when you have done it a few times it is easy, i only do the main mirror now, has the secondary is usually ok. Only trouble with dobs if you are moving them about in and out the house, i think they go out of colimate, yours paul.

Endeavor landing june 1 st those who dont know, now live via NASA site.

Hi Isabella, good post has always, skies are bad here at the moment in YORK UK, it never really gets dark at all, (our summer time now) i have been up all hours checking, but its still a tinge of blue, or full gray sky, i think we have had 2 clear night a few weeks ago and thats it. Not seen the four planets in the morning before sunrise too low on horizon here for me very disappointed, i look most mornings but skies are bad,the astronomy lark has gone on the back burner for now , roll on winter!! still pondering on another scope mind you? yours Paul.

Nice scope!! wow!! yeah i agree, with what you say, i have spent winter nights, not finding what i want to see!! very frustrating, i look on stellarium first for the stuff but never find them.I did have a goto skywatcher 130p but...... it would not go to!! froze to death in winter fiddling with it, and did not see anything!! put me right off the goto scopes. bought a dob instead. I too have limited time so yeah goto would be good, good if you can get them to work.I am still thinking of getting another one!! thinking that is!!

Try a skywatcher heritage 130 dob, portable easy to use and good viewing. £140 now or 130 if you shop around. I know some one who bought a national geographic type same thing, he has had a go with mine and said it was miles better than his.

hi Isabelle, nice video, looks well good there.

Good holiday Isabella?, look forward to some photos of Kennedy space center. hope you had a good time.

for all you who don`t know shuttle is up launched at 1.55 pm our time.Launch was going to be 30th may? don`t know why it was bought forward? must have fixed the heater problem on the fuel tanks. All ways impressed with the launch never fails to amaze me!! we may see double pass of ISS and shuttle IF the weather is clear!! IF!!

hmm no but..... i was thinking about our children's children's and what if they got date wrong it would mean next year!!. also the article says its 400 mtrs size? so how come it weights 50 million ton? some one got there sums wrong.

Just read this, asteroid to come closer than moon, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1383778/YU55-asteroid-hurtling-Earth-scientists-say-just-miss-us.html?ito=feeds-newsxml but dont worry it will hit us in 100 years time. :eek:

http://earthsky.org/tonight Any one viewed this nice gathering of planets? little too low on my location not a good east view, reckon about 6 degree above horizon? i have got about 10 degree tops of houses in east. you will need to be up before sunrise 5.20am before there lost in the sun. Also noticed there some lovely nebula`s in Sagittarius if you get a nice dark morning.

yeah todd is right , i found this in winter, was convinced i was looking at some think else, used stellarium to work out where i was, yeah it was a smudge, i was expecting the cigar shape!!

HI, ISABELLE, looks like my heritage same sort of spec, but yours has full length tube instead of collapsible truss. you should see Saturn ok,try the 6mm on its own then the x2 barlow for a bit more mag if the image is small ,also globular clusters should show well with the 15mm ep has i use that one a lot. yours paul.