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There will appear four planets on the western horizon right after the sunset in early February.
The first one, the closest and most likely the easiest to observe is Neptune. 60 degrees up and south you'll find not only Neptune, but Mercury, Uranus and Venus also. The easiest from all these planets to see is Venus, so it's better to start with it, and then move on to other ones. All three of these planets are in the constellation Aquarius.
There are more to see with your astromonical binoculars or observation binoculars or whatever you have at home. So get them out your closets or get one if you don't have. And enjoy!

Steiner is bringing out the new Peregrine XP, a premium binocular that features 44mm objective lenses and 25mm ocular lenses to grab more light than you'd get with binoculars featuring the typical 42mm objective lens setup. The company is using a new water-repellent Nano coating for the lenses, which are housed in a lightweight, waterproof magnesium body that's shockproof and submersible. Peregrine XPs have an ergonomic design that incorporates a gel-filled grip and thumb pad embedded in the forest-green armor coating. Available in 8X or 10X, they have twist-up ocular barrels and profiled eyecups.

Unless you're a penguin, it's unlikely you did much sky watching last week.
If you want to see a very easy to find target, extremely bright and shining planet, when the sky darkens, look southwest. And you'll see it –Venus! It a can't-miss sight!
Take your binoculars out of your closet, for example, I like compact binoculars and look about 10 degrees lower right of Venus – you'll find Mercury. If you happen to be using an astronomical binoculars, you should see it about 2.5 fields from Venus. And don't forget that Mercury will be much dimmer and more golden comparing to Venus.
If you want to be amazed with the exquisite beauty that you will never forget, then try to find Saturn, and won't be disappointed. To find this magic wonder of the night, gaze low toward the east about three hours after the sun sets. It will look like an out-of-place star in the constellation of Leo. If you can't find Leo, just try to find the giant backwards-question-mark pattern of stars that outlines the lion's head.
If you ever need assistance in finding constellation groups, there is so many literature about it. And you can also search online for free charts.
So, good luck to you in your start and findings!!!

Do you like watching the night sky? Or maybe you are fascinated with the opportunity of bird watching? Are you in the middle of deciding what type of binoculars you need for your application? Do you need help with guiding you and explaining you how to buy, what to buy and where?

If you look at the Milky Way with your astronomical binoculars, you'll see hundreds of stars in your field of view that aren't visible without the binoculars. If, however, you train your observation binoculars on the area above Fomalhaut, you won't see more stars than you do with your unaided eye. You won't be able to seen that many stars even with a telescope, as most often people think by mistake. This area of sky is called The Great Emptiness. It contains a very dim constellation, but even when you look there the only thing you see is darkness and emptiness.
Still, it's very interesting and exciting to look at the stars. Check the how to buy binoculars guide and enjoy it the way I do! Clear sky to you all!!!

I've recently bought a new thing for me – a digital camera binoculars just recently, and here is what I learned about its capabilities and things you can do with it.
You can't imagine, but camera binoculars have many uses. You can use it for sky and bird watching, during picnics and even trekking. If you are a researcher, you are definitely welcome to use it for your needs too. It's still a comparatively new piece of technology and not yet widely popular.
As you can quess, a camera binocular is a binocular with built in digital camera. Camera binoculars are extremely useful for people who research the lives of birds and animals that live deep in exotic locations. Ordinary digital camera doesn't have enough zoom for this kind of job.
Horses races are another place where you can use your camera binoculars. You can capture great moments, take many pictures and even make a video!
With your camera binocular you can do much more than I've just described… So, have I already convinced you in buying one???? If yes, then you need some tips, because buying your first camera binocular can be very tricky. My opinion always was to go only with the famous brands, such as Bushnell camera binoculars, Celestron, Meade and other. Don't get yourself into something cheap, don't be penny-wise and pound-foolish.
Select the right Digital Camera Binoculars for you and start your adventure!!!

I will tell you about the observatory on Mount Graham in Arizona. Well, It's got one of the biggest Binocular Telescope. Scientists will be studying the formation of solar systems through this telescope. This Binocular device receives PLANETQUEST, the second of two essential telescope mirrors. The size of this mirror is 8.4-meter (27.6 foot) in diameter. The place where these giant binoculars are located is now under construction, so you won't be able to visit this place for another couple of months.
But anyways, the combined mirror surface area will be able to catch the light of planets trillions of miles away.

When I gaze up on a clear night sky either with my astronomy binoculars or even without them, I feel so insignificant. I'm sure that our earliest ancestors admired these wonders much more than we do now.
Have you ever thought if there are any other civilizations out there? Maybe they have their own lives? Maybe they are smarter and have more interesting lives than we do here?

Our Universe contains countless other solar systems that are billions of years older than our world. Our sun turns out to be merely one rather ordinary star among hundreds of billions in a galaxy that is seen with a regular observation binocular. So, I'm sure that people are smaller than they always think about themselves. Our lives are small temporally, as well as spatially.
Can you imagine this fourteen billion years cosmic history scaled to one day? If that happened, then 100.00 years of human history would be only four minutes, and a 100-year life would be only 0.2 seconds. From all this information we can learn that we are not that special at all, that we are insignificant.
Though I believe that advanced life has huge growth potential In making our place in space and time remarkably significant. And because of this I feel more optimistic!!!

5. Start noticing patterns among the stars. Have you ever thought how we know about all the stars, comets, planets, constellations in the sky? I'm sure that our ancestors were doing the same thing while sitting around a campfire. They were attentive and kept an eye on everything. So, start today and try to find a noticeable star pattern, and then look for another one nearby. Notice straight lines of stars, triangles and curves. Make up your own stories about constellations as our ancestors did. Enjoy it and have fun!
6. Try to find local astro-friends. If you are a college student and live in a college town, look for some astronomy courses. You can also check local schools, astronomy clubs and museums. Ask people in the libraries, they might have some specialized literature and atlases. Even more than that, you can also involve one of your friends or a family member in your hobby!
7. Acquire a telescope. So, it's been almost half a year by now since you started. Can you recognize some of the major constellations? Have you studied a planet or two? If you answer yes to these questions and you think that you have acclimated to the sky around you and want something more then your astronomy binoculars, then it's definitely a time for your first telescope. But before that you need to learn how to choose the right telescope. And if after all you decide that you need more optical power, then you need to buy binoculars.
8. Your lifetime friend. The best thing about becoming a stargazer is that you acquire a lifetime friend. A friend that will be loyal and faithful to you, a friend that will never let you down. And as friend, sky needs your time and attention. So, don't forget to observe it as often as you can! Watch it a lot and watch it regularly!

Good luck to you! And remember that sky belongs to all of the stargazers, it's a free gift to all of us!!! But it needs patience, persistence and love!

Here are the tips for those of you who want to feel themselves as a part of a bigger picture, for people with a sense of curiosity and wonder. Even if you haven't tried it before, take a second and you will like it. Make a difference in you life and create a link between you and the night starry sky…
1. Look up above you. Most of us go through life looking either straight ahead or down. But you need to look up to see all the beauty around you, the sky, and the stars. When you stand outside at a bus stop, take a look at the sky. Good advice: try to use Binoculars for Astronomers, like Bushnell Binocular. When you go outside to grab a paper before sunrise, gaze toward the sunrise horizon, attaching special Binocular Accessories. Start noticing everything interesting around you, patterns among the stars, bright objects on the sky and so on. You just need to startlooking up and noticing.
2. Start watching the moon. Huge Binoculars will help you here, and you will need a Tripod for Binoculars. Moon is visible from city apartments and balconies, suburban decks and wide-open rural areas and it also connects you to everybody on the planet, because, we all see the moon at the same phase. So, for a little while try to watch the moon at the same time each night and try to notice differences.
3. Start watching the sun. But don’t look directly at it, unless you are using telescope sun filters. Try to notice the point on the horizon where the sun rises or sets, and remember it as seen from your kitchen window, or some place else. Try to memorize or even start a sunrise-sunset calendar in order to see if the sun point changes as the seasons pass?
4. Don’t buy a cheap telescope yet, stick to your binoculars. Take out the pair of observational binoculars you stuck way at the top of your closet? Look through these binocular at the moon, and bright objects in the night sky. Point them at noticeable patterns. Try to find star clusters, comets, starlit band of Milky Way. Simply scan the sky with your astronomical binoculars and enjoy the view, even if you don’t know the name of what you see…
Enjoy, and more information is coming soon…

There has been a lot of rumors and buzz around McNaught Comet since it was discovered just last year. Since it got closer to the sun and became brighter, the word was already out - the comet was very magic and special.
During morning hours these days you are able to observe the McNaught comet passing by, if you get your astronomical binoculars. In order to see the bright object with the tail blown by sunny wind, you need to get up at sunrise, go out and face east with your Long Range Observation Binoculars. And if you draw a line in your mind, the comet will appear in the south from that line. Astronomers also advise you to do it at low nebulosity in order to be able to see the bright dot with dragging tail.
This comet was discovered in 2006 by the Australian astronomer Robert McNaught. Some astronomers say that the McNaught comet is the brightest comet visible from Earth for the past 30 years! It'll still remain a spectacular comet for some more weeks, perhaps even months (no one can say for sure), and could become the brightest comet in the recorded astronomic history.
You still have some time in order to see it, enjoy! Clear skies to you!

What does freedom mean to me?

Freedom is when you love and when you are loved and when nothing else matters to you…

Freedom is when you look through binoculars at the starry night sky…

Freedom is when you run in a deserted street under rain at night…

Freedom is when you wake up on the weekend and know that you don't have anything planned for that day. You can organize it the way you want.

Freedom is when you lie in you bed after a very long and stressed day and you feel how your body is relaxing.

Freedom is when there are many dear and close friends, whom you trust and who are ready to help you any minute. It's when you smile every time, only because you see them.

Freedom is when you don't chose words when you talk to the person you like. It's when you can say anything you want.

Freedom is when you can be yourself.

Freedom is to be good to people and expect nothing in return.

Freedom is to love.

Freedom is you!

Recently I've head the peculiar confirmation about a difficult situation with the Pentax Company. Pentax Company announced about their merge with the Japanese Hoya Corporation. This agreement will be finally signed in April of 2007. After that, by October 2007 a new company HOYA PANTAX HD CORPORATION will be formed. Capitalization of the Hoya Company is two times bigger than Pentax. So, taking into consideration this fact, Hoya business will be taken the majority of attention. This company specializes in producing the equipment (glass substratum) for LCD panels and other LCD components, in producing optics and objective lenses for the home based and special purposes (setting, applications). Pentax Company, in its part, is a leading brand on the digital camera market, and is a serious objective lenses supplier for the SLR and general use optics, such as binoculars, glasses and more. The main Pentax customers are such companies as Casio and Sanyo. Pentax and Hoya integration will allow Pentax Company to get an access to one more customer and client widely known in the field of digital photo techniques – Sony Company.

Have you started planning your summer vacation yet? If yes, I bet you have many countries to choose from. And this is why I'm here, I can help you narrow your wish list and maybe even help you make a decision.
Well, if you love the night sky, full moon, looking out at planets and comets, then Prague is definitely for you. This summer in Prague you'll be able to enjoy the total eclipse, two meteorite swarms and 8P/Tuttle comet. Besides that, astronomers promise auspicious conditions for observing some planets and galaxies, especially in June. Eclipse is expected to take place on the night of June 4th. This sky show will start 16 minutes before midnight and continue for a little over an hour. Star shower will reach its peak on August 13th, when 100 Perseids an hour will fall down on Earth. Second meteorite swarm, represented by Gemini, will be best seen on September 14th. The expected density is 110 meteors an hour. And the most anticipated sky object is the 8P/Tuttle comet! Astronomers advise to get ready and bring your binoculars to be able to observe it.

This is a rare case, when fraud is accepted with happiness, when the client is willing to be fooled and more interesting that he's willing to pay for it! This not very complicated invention is able to make people's days. This is the sky, and it's never raining there!

Once, Bill Witherspoon, the president of the Sky Factory Company, came to the dentist office, to make an appointment for his kids. And during the time sitting and waiting for the doctor, he was captured by the sky picture on the office ceiling. Bill had an idea that this sky can be very helpful to the patients in the hospitals. He thought that they could even look at the stars through binoculars or telescopes. But the ceiling picture wasn't enough for creating the illusion of transparent roof. And Witherspoon found the solution. He decided that it's impossible to use false ceilings.

So, this is how false sky ceilings were born. The light comes from the lamps with color temperature of 6500 kelvins. This is very close to the daylight. So, this light is going through the acrylic glass with painted sky, clouds and even blooming Japanese bushes on it.

Witherspoon's sky became very popular for office and home decorations, but most of all for medical offices.

Recently there appeared a very bright comet on the sky. Astrologists say that in maximum of its brightness this comet is able to darken Venus and even compete with the Moon. In the evening and at the sunset time this sky object is clearly seen even without the use of binoculars.

The Comet C/2006 P1 was discovered by the Australian astronomer Robert McNaught on the 7th of August, 2006. It got its name "McNaught" after the discoverer.

In fact, more than thirty comets had been named after this Australian astronomer, but none of them was brighter than 17 size star. But now this comet holds a record, first of all because on January 12th it'll pass very close to sun and, secondly, it's extremely bright.

Orbit's perihelion of the comet is located just 25.4 million km or 0.17 astronomical units from the sun. For comparison, the closest planet to the sun, Mercury, is 0.38 astronomical units away from the sun. So, now you can imagine how close McNaught is to the sun.

Now all the professional astronomers and amateurs from all over the world are being fascinated by this comet and inform that it is seen during the day, not only at night time.

According to many traditions (I'd personally say superstitions) comets are being considered to be the forerunners of misfortunes and disasters, though this statement is rejected by the modern science. Year 2006 was the year of the new unusual "emerald" comet SWAN (C/2006 M4), this year started with McNaught… who knows what's next. No one knows what will happen to our planet due to abundance of these facts, but we'll see very soon.

The space object, so called 2004NM4, which crosses the Earth orbit two times a year, has real chances to bump into our planet. The stone lump can "touch" our little ball, and then all pacific tsunamis will appear as simply pranks of the nature and nothing more. Astronomers has already given this asteroid a real name, it’s Apothis. This name is Greek, they used it for their God of Darkness and Chaos. The scientists defined its size, weight and the way it supposed to go more precisely. The last option didn't give any notes of optimism. It appears that on April 13th of 2029 the asteroid will go between the Earth and Moon. And the distance from our planet will be only 30-40 thousand km. In the night sky you’ll be able to see it even without Astronomy Binoculars or even a telescope.
So, start getting ready for this event right now and …..GOOD LUCK!!!