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Astronomy Clubs - Fundraising, PR, and Recruiting By Ronald Abraham 11/2/2009 Do we need a new forum?
Oklahoma Weather - Reprise By Ronald Abraham 10/26/2009 Difficulty finding holes in Oklahoma's clouds need not discourage people if they work together making lemonade.
	Oklahoma Weather By Ronald Abraham 9/10/2009 Whether or not you area weathering the weather, the weather is weathering you.
Astronomy Clubs as Non Profit 501-C Organizations By Ronald Abraham 8/5/2009 Is your club growing? Shrinking? Here are some thoughts to get you thinking...
Comments on low cost, long focal length 2” widefield eyepieces By David Russell 8/2/2009 The market offers many options for low cost wide fields eyepieces, but they don't deliver sharp performance in the outer 20 to 30% of the field. My thoughts and a proposed solution.
	Ultra-Low-Cost Fine-Focus Gear-Reduction Drive By Ron Masters 5/29/2009 A simple, $15 gear unit can give you a 3:1 focuser reduction drive that will work for any scope.
	Meade 7” Maksutov, …Updated 5-18-09 By Steve Hollenbach 5/18/2009 You might get the impression I’ve become so obsessed with the Meade 7" MAK OTA, that I put too much into it. Yes, I’m really stuck on this one!
“I think therefore I am, but who are you?!” By Steve Hollenbach 5/5/2009 This is packed with my own opinions on religion and faith, but they are an essential key to my outlook on life. Read on if you like, or ignore me. However, you can’t ignore life.
	Astronomy Outreach at Camp Eberhart By Darren Drake 1/19/2009 The Ultimate Outreach experience....
	Meade 7 inch MAK revised By Steve Hollenbach 12/19/2008 After more work done on Meade's "BIG MAK" I have revised the counterweight article.
Focal Reducer for Meade 7" MAK By Steve Hollenbach 6/18/2008 Here's the third article of the three I had planned. Increasing the True Field Of View of the Meade 7" Maksutov.
	Making the most of the Meade 7" MAK By Steve Hollenbach 6/13/2008 Meade's big MAK has very few drawbacks. Let's get rid of them!
The Magic Bullet for the SCT By Ronald Abraham 3/18/2008 Have you oiled your telescope today?
	Monochromatic VS OneShotColor CCD By dietmar hager 3/9/2008 do these CCD necessarily have to be competitors?
Can't afford a 4" APO? By Gary Poliquin 12/17/2007 Yes, Tommy, there is a good 4" short focus achromat.
SKY-MAP.ORG - How Our Vision was Born By Konstantin Lysenko 11/29/2007 I have never suffered from a lack of imagination. As a child, I spent many hours dreaming of stories written by Ray Bradbury. I carried books by Clifford Simak and Robert Sheckley to school instead of textbooks. I swore to my parents that I had witnessed first hand the stories described by Isaac Asimov. I considered Stanislav Lem a close relative because my great-grandmother was also from Poland...
To Survive in the Universe By Konstantin Lysenko 11/29/2007 "I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet."[1] The SKY-MAP.ORG authors completely share these concerns of Stephen Hawking. The only words we could add are that the greatest threat to the human race is the human race itself.
	A Clean Chip Means Better Images. By Luke Schmidt 5/16/2007 A few specs of dust on your CCD chip can easily be removed with a flat field, but what happens when the dust grains out number the stars? Cleaning your imaging chip doesn't have to be an ordeal with PecPads and Eclipse Cleaning solution.
Lightholder 16" F/4.6 By Ralph Ford 2/23/2007 A perfect 16" mirror? If not, its pretty darn close!
	An amateur astronomer's experience at Camp Eberhart By Darren Drake 12/27/2006 Imagine having the chance to spend a whole summer showing kids the universe through your own scope and getting paid for it.....
	Adult Beginners Astronomy Camp Mt. Lemmon By Robert Morlan 12/20/2006
Irrationality as a virtue By Justin Dildine 10/15/2006 A recent outing with my telescope has me pondering human behaviour
	SHARING THE SUN: A PUBLIC SOLAR VIEWING EVENT ORGANIZED BY B.R.A.S.S. By ANJAL SHARMA 10/12/2006 The sun is a dynamic and fascinating astronomical target which can hook people onto astronomy. That's exactly what we set out to do by organizing a solar viewing event!!!
	Telescopes and Resolution By Darren Drake 9/11/2006 How far away can your telescope resolve newspaper print?
	From One Extremist To The Other By Scott Bennett 6/2/2006 Between Evolution and Intelligent Design: Can There Be Compromise?
	Me & My Barber By Scott Bennett 5/15/2006 Can our imagination really take us to the stars?
	If you had just one eyepiece, what should it be? By Michael Covington 12/28/2005 Any serious observer normally has at least half a dozen telescope eyepieces. But if you had to limit yourself to just one eyepiece, what should it be?
	Know Your Coaxial Connectors By Michael Covington 12/28/2005 "The trouble with standards," someone said, "is that there are so many of them to choose from."
	The Krakow Mystery Object of 1926 By Michael Covington 9/3/2005 On September 2, 1926, Harvard Observatory received a telegram from Krakow, Poland, reporting a "comet" at R.A. 15:53, declination +3 55... (Michael A. Covington is the author of Celestial Objects for Modern Telescopes and other books.)
Acquiring New driving Practices By Ansuman Pal 8/19/2005