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Vixen Flip Mirror Plus Skywatcher 80ED Pro Refractor

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Vixen Flip Mirror

Vixen Flip Mirror

I wrote a few weeks ago I had bought a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor and I’m very pleased with it (in spite of the excess of grey cloudy skies, we seem to have had recently!).

Well.. I’ve just added a great accessory to the refractor..

It’s a Vixen Flip Mirror.  

And I’m also very pleased to have come across this well-made gadget, because it’s already making my observing so much better. read on..





Help.. Black Hole Confirmed At Center Of OUR Galaxy. And It’s BIG..

 

Simulation of a "small" blackhole at the center of our galaxy

Simulation of a "small" black hole at the center of the Milky Way (credit: Wikimedia)

It’s been suspected for some time..  

The stuff of Einstein, the stuff of  Science Fiction and the stuff of Nothing.. sort of.  It’s a region of empty space, sorta kinda..

German astronomers have spent 16 years, studying the movement of stars near the center of our galaxy (the “Milky Way”).

They have concluded there is indeed, a massive “object” there, perhaps 4 million times more massive than our local star, the Sun. read on..

Eclipses And Other Occultations

Occultation is the term use to describe when one object in Space, passes in front of another object and in doing so, obstructs our view of it.

We are familiar with occultations of the Sun and the Moon. We give these occultations a special name – eclipses – solar eclipse for the Sun and lunar eclipse for the Moon. read on..