Astronomy: Search The Galaxy

Hi there, I recently became interested in astronomy after participating in a star party… After a lot of research I bought a Celestron PowerSeeker 127 EQ (newtonian reflector) for myself. Overall, I am very happy with this telescope …
Original post by toftat

Between the moon and controled burning of farm and bushland around here there hasn’t been much to see but we had a clear windy night on the 16th so I went for the easiest target. This is a mosaic of 3 stacks of 150 to 400 shots each. …
Original post by winensky

With some of the new papers released recently, could not the same process that are in operation here on our local moon, operate on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn (Io, Europa, Enceladus, Theyths, Dione etc…)? …
Original post by infoferret

It should be called Astronomy Night, have a look up at the stars tonight.
Original post by brian suda

Captured 4/2/08. I have struggled with the processing…..fighting my inclination to over-sharpen and over-push the contrast. Now, if I can only come up with a way to smooth out the background. It may be that this is about the best my …
Original post by WABarry

Hi all, Will here from wilmington NC, I have been a stargazer for years, I currently have a home made 12 inch dobsonian, a Meade ETX 80 that I carry camping and I also have a desire for a meade LX200 16 inch GPS Glad to be on board with …
Original post by Glockguy

… so he resorted to some shots of a few bright stars and the moon. Like I have said before, LASS is growing some serious astronomy photographers and only time will separate us from their initial efforts and some fine images in the future.
Original post by bigadd

I suspect that the people working on this rig were wondering where the concrete shelter building was located. This doesn’t have much to do with astronomy except I wonder if the storms we may encounter on Mars when we get there will be …
Original post by bigadd

Has anyone else tried clicking on this (picture of the day) to no avail?
Original post by astronig

Kilometer-scale neutrino detectors such as IceCube are discovery instruments covering nuclear and particle physics, cosmology and astronomy. Examples of their multidisciplinary missions include the search for the particle nature of dark …
Original post by unknown