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Astronomical Observing with Small Telescopes

Observing deep sky objects with small telescopes presents new and seasoned amateur astronomers a place to log their observations and share information about naked-eye, binocular and small telescope astronomy.
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First Light

Nov 22, 2009
First, a follow up on the DEC balancing issue. I did get it balanced in DEC. I had to move the OTA back as far as possible in the tube rings and slide the whole assembly back almost to its limits to achieve good balance. First Light. As many...

New Telescope Has Arrived!

Nov 21, 2009
The Celestron Omni XLT 150R arrived Wednseday, November 18th. Of course I didn’t get to take it out of the box until Friday and start to putting it together. After a quick read through the manual, I unpacked the mount and started assembling. The...

A faraway planet intrigues: Exoplanet with extremely tilted orbit raises new interest in stellar astronomy

Nov 12, 2009
(PhysOrg.com) — Two teams of astronomers have found a planet outside the solar system that might be orbiting backwards compared to its star’s rotation, a discovery that could shed light on how unique the relatively perfect alignment of our solar system...

The famous Double Cluster

Nov 11, 2009
I came across an article on Cloudy Nights Telescope Reviews the other day that just made me want to grab my 10×50 binoculars and go have a look. Of course, it was cloudy, so much for that good feeling. But, there is nothing like a great article about...

About Telescopes And Getting Into Astronomy

Nov 6, 2009
Messier 52, an open cluster located in a rich Milky Way field in Cassiopeia. Astronomy is a fascinating hobby, and when you own your own telescope, astronomy takes on a new meaning. Suddenly you get to see the craters on our Moon. You get to see the...


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