Sky at Night Magazine

When we look at Jupiter through a telescope, the planet's disc seems quite calm and serene. We don't see any bright trails of light around it, caused by meteorites entering the planet's atmosphere and burning up.

I wonder why. After all, Jupiter is a huge planet, with a mass hundreds of times that of the Earth. That mass must draw meteroids towards it like a magnet! And Jupiter has a huge atmospheric envelope. This provides ...

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I spent a couple of hours looking at Google Mars, and noticed that every crater I found was pretty much a perfect circle, with a cone in the middle, and a reasonably circular ejecta feature surrounding them. I'm pretty sure this would indicate a 90 degree strike, a shallower angle should be more teardrop shaped? Can anybody tell me why there are so few angular strikes.

hello ive bought my first telescope its TA 1100-102 jessops reflecting scope,i cant see anything out of it,i i always though with a telescope you point it at the sky and you can see the stars,clearly not that simple :) the instructions that came with it if you can call it that werent helpfull at all,also if i get it working will i be able to see ...

With all the political correctness out there, I'm surprised someone hasn't come up with "The Person In The Moon". :lol: Time will tell...or will it? :roll:

Hi all, im totally new to all this and have an awful lot to learn. Im hoping to get a scope later this year (do some saving up) and just after some advice.

I know very little about scopes and wonder whats best, I like the sound of a scope with a goto mount, not essential but interested in pros & cons of these, budget is around £400 (maybe slightly more/less), what do you recommend? ...

We know that vampires are sensitive to sunlight but I wondered which wavelengths they were sensitive to. Would a vampire be able to view the Sun through a hydrogen alpha or calcium K filter without harm?

Indeed, would a full aperture solar filter reduce sunlight enough to make viewing safe for vampires.

Do artificial daylight bulbs repel vampires or do we still need garlic?

When we gaze out with our telescopes we are looking back in time but for us in real time. So why is that if we look the other way we can not see the future of where our galaxy is heading? We are in the future of the young galaxies we look back on so why not the galaxies far ahead of us? Or are we already seeing this distant future but got our results ...

I am considering a southern hemisphere hol. next year 2013 and have been finding out about New Zealand and Cape Verde Islands (15deg N.)
Should I take the NZ option or will I get a sufficiently good view from C V Islands?

Sorry for the quite eccentric query. :oops:

Hello everyone,
I am a complete novice when it comes to Astronomy and am looking for some guidence.
First off, I have a very small budget for equipment (£100 - £150) and live in a rather large town so i don't know if light pollution will be a problem.

Any ideas on what telescope to buy that is simple to use but comes with the maximum amount of extras/features etc...

Thanks in advance for your ...

i want to get into astro photography but am unsure as to which dslr is best for the job.i have a strict upper budget of £500.i am very confused and want to get the right camera first try.i am wanting to do planetery photos as well as deep space photos.if poss can you list the pro`s and cons of any camera so i can make an informed choice.any help greatly appreciated.thank you.