Any Cloudy Nights folks on MeFi? I am googling around in getting going with backyard astronomy and Cloudy Nights appears to be (or to have been) a decent resource, but it has been nothing but failed MySQL connections and php pathing errors since I started digging. Any info? Is it dead, Bones? [more inside]
posted by mwhybark on Aug 4, 2009 - 4 answers

Amateur astronomers and their crazily expensive telescopes. I remember reading about them at, I think, Wired's website, but I can't find the article. It wasn't a normal article, but more of a gallery with photos of the astronomers and theirs telescopes, including samples of their work. Please help me find it! [more inside]
posted by CKZ on Nov 14, 2007 - 5 answers

Could telescopes eventually clearly show extra-solar planets? [more inside]
posted by snarfois on Oct 8, 2006 - 12 answers

Telescopes! All this mars stuff has got me wanting to look at the heavens, up-close like. Anyone have reccomendations for a good entry-level telescope? Is it realistic to expect a decent look at mars from a consumer-grade telescope? [more inside]
posted by Hackworth on Jan 31, 2004 - 7 answers