Space Forum / Astronomy / January 2005

After watching the live new briefing of the first image from
Titan, I went to the ESA site to view it further. After reloading
the page a few times, the following image appeared, labeled
"First Image From Titan". However, several minutes later, this

I'm trying to find a decent picture of the Huygens probe, as it would appear
after landing (i.e. after shield jettisoned etc) as it is now; either a
photo of the probe before launch, an artist's image of the probe or an
artist's image of the scene on Titan, but with a clear view of ...

its been really clear here for a few days.  Today my new camera bits
turned up. Now its cloudy, and will doubtless remain so for, hmm, maybe
6 weeks.
Sorry.

Yet?

Is it me or is Rolf Harris looking younger?

Tony

I am a newbie in astrophotography. I wanted to ask if somebody in this
group knows about the following items:
1. if there is a cheap digital camera in the market that I can use to
capture images in the night sky without a telescope (I know this sounds

First images show what appears to be river channels flowing into a 'sea'!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4175099.stm

I imaged Q2 Machholz and have a movie showing its motion across the sky
during an 80 minute period.  I have shrunk the movie to a mere 208 kB
for my modem viewers, so please take a look.
Simulated eyepiece view through the NP101, finder chart, isophotes,

While showing a group of primary school kids the delights of Saturn
the other night, I pointed out that the 'star' to the edge of the
field of view was in fact Titan.  I then explained to them that
Huygens would be parachuting down to the surface of Titan.  One of the

Has anyone had any experiance with Optrons telescopes? The reason I ask
is that I would like to get into astronomy but until I find out if I
like it or not I do not want to spend a lot of money on a scope.  Having
said that, I want a reasonably good scope - realy looking at a ...

Hello all
I have a celestron celestar C8 (not deluxe) that has a RA drive. I
would like to fit a DEC drive and a hand panel. I have tried david
hind however he no longer stocks the parts as the model is obsolete.

If most matter(maybe superclusters) have been separating at
an ever faster rate for  13+ billion years, what is the minimum
percent of the speed of light the furthest group is now
traveling relative to our speed? How does this relate to the

Have just sent a drawing,with explanation, to Simon Miller who kindly agreed
to have a look at what I've come up with so far. If anyone else would like
to review it, could you send me your email address (you can reply to me
directly)?

Apologies, but my new scope has probably contributed to the gathering of the
orange cloudy things upstairs. It will hopefully wear off soon.
I need to collimate a Tal 2m, and this looks reasonably straight forward.
(if you have long arms or suitable assistant.)

1) After the big bang until now, are all super clusters moving at