Observational and Visual Astronomy [Archive] - Page 2

The First Three Southern Deep Sky Catalogues (2 replies)
Observations of a new mak user (3 replies)
Bigjoes double star tips ammended (1 replies)
Target suggestions for new Mak user (5 replies)
Alert NEO 2019 OK @ 9.4mag zooming through the Skies (2 replies)
Large prom on sun today. (9 replies)
Suggestions for observing in early August (3 replies)
Solar Eclipse Live stream (0 replies)
The structure of the Milky way. (7 replies)
Daylight Jupiter Occultation (9 replies)
Lunar with the Vixen R130sf (1 replies)
Another new Sunspot! (5 replies)
Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower (0 replies)
AR 2740 - just coming into sight!!! (6 replies)
Righto. Time for someone to confess... (8 replies)
CCDs for eyeballs - you can see one photon !?! (0 replies)
Clear skies in Melbourne tonight (4 replies)
First time really using my daystar is it me or between 8 and 9oc on the Sun (where e (1 replies)
AR 2738 19 April Ha wings and CaK (2 replies)
Astronomik UHC Filter (7 replies)
Observing 3C 273 with smaller scopes. (4 replies)
AR2738 Plenty of activity!!! (1 replies)
Single polariser on the Sun (2 replies)
Large sunspot AR 2738 swinging into view! (5 replies)
Nightfall DSO Journal in South Africa has posted two new publications (0 replies)
Clean! (3 replies)
Circumsolar arc (2 replies)
Our South African astronomy journal is now public-access like any print magazine (3 replies)
2" vs 1.25" EPs (6 replies)
Orange Sun (0 replies)
Moon-Saturn (3 replies)
Question for the Ha imagers and viewers please (27 replies)
DEEP & FAINT PCG 2184533 Observing Report. QLD Astrofest 2018 (3 replies)
Ballarat light pollution... getting worse recently ? (17 replies)
Cloudy weather in northern NSW ? (0 replies)
Procyon B... no joy last night (35 replies)
Large Prom from today 14th Feb 2019 (4 replies)
Plenty of proms today! (1 replies)
Cool Mercury / Neptune conjuction coming up (5 replies)
Double Star Shoot Out - TS vs iStar (0 replies)
Prominence 3rd Feb 2019 (4 replies)
In case you missed it - Lunar impact!! (0 replies)
Latest issue of "Nightfall" journal from S Africa is out (1 replies)
New AR 2733 now showing! (1 replies)
Solar proms in Ha visible (8 replies)
Does anyone still just "look" these days (27 replies)
M42 magnificent tonight through the 12” (4 replies)
Share your SQM? (17 replies)
Minor proms and Filaments 31 Dec 2018 (0 replies)
Meteorite over Whangarei, Northland, NZ (2 replies)
Moon setting further north? (5 replies)
What was your best observation of 2018 and the best of 2019 ? (15 replies)
Solar prom visible... (1 replies)
Does anyone have a contact for Andrew James (3 replies)
Big article on the Horsehead & its region from Nightfall in S Africa (6 replies)
Solar proms in Ha 28 Nov 2018 (3 replies)
New numbered sunspot (0 replies)
Planetary Nebulae distances in Gaia DR2 (3 replies)
Moon sketching (2 replies)
How are cloud maps on CloudFreeNight generated? (2 replies)
mag5 comet (36 replies)
ISS over Sydney 1/11 at 1953? (2 replies)
PAIR of LARGE!! column proms visible (10 replies)
doing visual from a window sill on 2nd floor in the city (0 replies)
AR finally numbered! (0 replies)
Reinvigoration (3 replies)
Solar proms in Ha 8th Sept 2018 (4 replies)
Light Pollution (3 replies)
Solar activity 4 Sept (0 replies)
Why does Mars never look like any of it's Maps? (11 replies)
Bright light any ideas? (10 replies)
Anyone for Doubles ? (17 replies)
Seeing in Melbourne tonight (10 replies)
Solar AR/ filaments/ proms in Ha 25 Aug 2018 (5 replies)
Resting Ha Sun..... (2 replies)
Conditions improving? (1 replies)
ClavIIus - my favourite crater. (8 replies)
Jetstream settling? (4 replies)
Windy Melbourne (2 replies)
Some nice solar proms and filament today! (2 replies)
Hoag's Object (5 replies)
Mars dust storm clearing? (8 replies)
Easily-built observer's chair (1 replies)
Polarization filter for visual use (1 replies)
Bad conditions, yet good seeing predicted in Melbourne? (11 replies)
Phobos and Deimos spotted! (16 replies)
First observations with 180 Mak (3 replies)
A new observer's challenge list: O runaway stars (0 replies)
Mars a disappointment (15 replies)
Saturnian Challenge II - Encke’s division (19 replies)
Hubble Space Telescope tonight (2 replies)
Melbourne Sky 14/07/2018 (1 replies)
Solar Activity (2 replies)
The role of Imagination in Visual Observation (17 replies)
Saturnian moon challenge (9 replies)
Comet C/2017 S3 (PANSTARRS) - Out Burst (6 replies)
Superb seeing in Sydney tonight (2 replies)
Boost your night vision (11 replies)
Pluto favorably placed near 50 Sagittarii (1 replies)
Can meteor colours be this intense? (7 replies)
*FOUND* Need to borrow a tall tripod or mount combo in Brisbane (0 replies)
Solar activity - or lack of (2 replies)
Colour in nebulae (2 replies)
Fading in and out (1 replies)
Mars Profiler and Jupiter GRS Transit finders (0 replies)
Where is he? (1 replies)
Gold Coast (0 replies)
Orbits of Jupiters moons. Maths question. (3 replies)
Great Red Spot more obvious? (22 replies)
A night observing on the 100" Hooker telscope (15 replies)
"Safe" use of eyepiece sun filter (7 replies)
152mm reractor vs SDM 16" shootout (31 replies)
Elachbutting Rock - West Oz viewing point (1 replies)
Europa Transit (1 replies)
Magellanic mystery solved at last (8 replies)
Brisbane tomorrow night (5 replies)
Europa transit tonight (6 replies)
Observing planets in winter (12 replies)
strange colours on Moon (2 replies)
Brilliant Green Fireball at 1932hrs (2 replies)
Goto’s for an obs night? (9 replies)
Nice solar proms today! (0 replies)
HA Rey Constellations a big improvement (0 replies)
Quiet Sun????? (5 replies)
strange phenomenon - any ideas? (12 replies)
is NGC1999 a visual object? (4 replies)
Difficult doubles as means of guaging seeing? (2 replies)
Monthly constellation corvus posted (0 replies)
Quiet Sun? Rubbish!!! (5 replies)
Large falling object tonight (2 replies)
Thar be Proms! (1 replies)
Bigjoes double star observing tips. (22 replies)
Solar active area??? (9 replies)
Doubles anyone ? (71 replies)
Did anyone spot Venus already ? (8 replies)
Three new online publications from Dana in S Africa (1 replies)
Jupiter and Mars after sunrise (4 replies)
Lunar Eclipse 31 Jan - Stellarium preview form East Gippsland Victoria (0 replies)
The finest triple double in the sky? (22 replies)
A few deep sky objects with my sixer (6 replies)
What's up at the moment? (2 replies)
Norfolk Island stargazing trip (5 replies)
Iss (4 replies)
Phobos & Deimos (8 replies)
DY CRUCIS and MIMOSA (5 replies)
Morning Planets (22 replies)
What colors of the stars do you see ? (4 replies)
Gamma volantis. (12 replies)
Victoria camping sports with dark skies (11 replies)
Best latitude for observing ? (16 replies)
A new free online magazine for Southern observers (3 replies)
From Dana in S Africa -- Riding with the Valkyries, an O runaway star observers guide (1 replies)
A new free catalogue of online resources for Southern observers (0 replies)
2018 Curtiss Cross Predictions (0 replies)
2018 Lunar X Predictions (0 replies)
Very Nice filament brewing (1 replies)
M31 from the deep south (2 replies)
Best Wide Field Targets in the Southern Sky (6 replies)
Your favourite time for viewing the Moon. (13 replies)
Orionids (6 replies)
Long enduring fireball train on Aug27 (0 replies)
Solar activity Monday 9 Oct (1 replies)
A Good Book and the Northern Lights (1 replies)
Did anyone see a lunar eclipse in flight ? (1 replies)
Solar Region AR2673 (2 replies)
WO 3.5mm 110 degree extremely wide angle eyepiece (3 replies)
Ant Nebula (0 replies)
Nice seeing in Toongabbie tonight (2 replies)
Docters 12.5mm (4 replies)
Dark Doodad in Musca (3 replies)
The Milky Way (3 replies)
Quickie in the cold. (10 replies)
Looking for a Sky map fro July in Central Australia (5 replies)
Southern Drift alignment of equatorial mount (9 replies)
Another Jupiter impact recorded (5 replies)
ideal spot for naked eye star-gazing at Australia in July. (15 replies)
Nebula filters (5 replies)
Linger time (5 replies)
Venus -clouds or no clouds? (7 replies)
Altitude Measurement for Dob (7 replies)
Northern Tas Last Night (8 replies)
Jupiter (1 replies)
Regor .. Named by gus grissom (4 replies)
Regor .. Named by gus grissom (0 replies)
Best Jupiter Observations ever using the Baader Hyperion Zoom (8 replies)
2014 jo25 (7 replies)
Red fireball Canberra 1935 (6 replies)
Low power limits? (1 replies)
Venus Inferior Conjunction (1 replies)
Proxima Centauri b transit observation (3 replies)
Proxima Centauri b transit observation (1 replies)
Fire In The Sky Central West Nsw (2 replies)
BOSS 2 Bright possible Supernova (8 replies)
Dark skies .. (6 replies)
Nice proms visible (1 replies)
ZUBEN ELGENUBI , Sigma Orionis, Iota Cancri, h3945 (2 replies)
What to expect (4 replies)
Amended double star tips (18 replies)
DOUBLE STARS -Some interesting ones (34 replies)
Sky for the Month, TRIAL Feb-Mar 2017 (3 replies)
Leo triplet (6 replies)
Flashing Satellite out in the South. (28 replies)
Technique for observing ISS with small apertures (2 replies)
NGC 6822 Barnard's Galaxy (2 replies)
Northern Tas Viewing (1 replies)
Moon info (6 replies)
Discovering Asteroids as an Amateur Astronomer (2 replies)
Finally the pup (12 replies)
What to show complete newcomers (19 replies)
Visual bright objects and bright spectra in Vela ‘the Sails’, etc (0 replies)
A Demographic survey of astronomers (15 replies)
Views into the Trapesium (14 replies)
Cta 102. (4 replies)
Another night in heaven (3 replies)
Are there two ways of determining surface brightness? (11 replies)
Increase in Eyepiece diameters?? (7 replies)
Do I have a meteorite? (4 replies)
Observation Report 11-18-2016 - Long Island, NY (0 replies)
Two TOAs Go Toe to Toe for 10 hours ...... (16 replies)
Anyone in Macclesfield SA ?? (2 replies)
Sydney viewing sites. (3 replies)
Meteor entry or Satellite burnup (3 replies)
Eaa? (3 replies)
Nova in Sagittarius (0 replies)
Observation Report - 10/14/16 (2 replies)
Magellanic Cloud Globular Clusters (26 replies)
Visuals: star spectra examples, Saturn-bow (3 replies)
Nexstar Evolution 8 - what a package! (1 replies)
Invitation to basic observations of ‘rainbow’ colours from the stars (0 replies)
Largest refractor (49 replies)
Detail on Mercury? (3 replies)
Mooned out Darwin (1 replies)
Moon tonight 7pm (1 replies)
Bino vs tele (11 replies)
Club Observation Night - Aug 3, 2016 (1 replies)
Satellites Whizzing by Overhead (7 replies)
Quaoar (13 replies)
Close Venus-Mercury conjunction this weekend (2 replies)
Nearby Galaxies (1 replies)
Did anyone else see the super bright flare last night? (0 replies)
Any triple Globulars? (9 replies)
slow, bright meteor below cloud level (6 replies)
Sketch: Mars and Saturn June 12, 2016 (1 replies)
Light pollution measurements : nice report (2 replies)
Venus at 100% illumination (3 replies)
June 2016 Observation Log (11 replies)
Jetstream pushed north of Sydney. Sign of good seeing? (2 replies)
Your ABC helps you "Learn how to find your way around the night sky" (2 replies)
Your ABC helps you "Learn how to find your way around the night sky" (0 replies)
May 28/20, 2016 - Mars and Saturn and clusters and ... (2 replies)