SUNSET: 
A Young, Hot Enceladus?
How could a frozen world like Saturn's moon Enceladus ever be hot enough for geysers to form in the first place?
Best Pluto Occultation Ever Predicted for North America on March 18th
The best occultation of a star by Pluto ever predicted for North America will occur between 10:40 and 11:00 Universal Time on Sunday morning, March 18, 2007.
Grazing Occultation of Bright Star During Tonight's Lunar Eclipse
Observers watching the eclipsed Moon with binoculars in northeastern North America on March 3, 2007, wiill see a 5th-magnitude star wink out.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
Smart Eyepieces
Smart Astronomy has introduced an affordable line of high-power eyepieces.
Lightbridge Knobs
The Astronomy-Shoppe now offers the Meade Rescue Kit — a hardware upgrade for the collimation adjustments on Meade's LightBridge Dobsonian telescopes.
Cloud Control
Diffraction Limited's new Boltwood Portable Cloud Sensor enables you to sleep when conditions are astronomically poor, and then alerts you with an alarm when the skies clear.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
Canon DSLR Filters
If you own a Canon digital SLRcamera, you’ll soon be able to protect its sensor from dust during long exposures with Astronomik’s new EOS Filter Clip System.
Shooting Stars
Shooting Stars — and anything else that requires long exposures — is within your reach with Orion Telescope & Binoculars new StarShoot Deep Space Color Imager II.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
Economical "Go To"
With the overwhelming popularity of Go To telescopes, it's surprising that a product like the Cube from iOptron hasn't come along before now.
Multipurpose Spectograph
You can view the solar spectrum or split spectroscopic binary stars with Shelyak Instruments Lhires III Spectrograph.
Affordable Narrowband
Baader Planetarium, long a source of premium astronomy accessories, now expands its line of imaging filters to include a set of four narrowband filters.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
Stellar Apo
Stellarvue adds a new affordable 4-inch apochromat to its line of premium-quality refractors.
Affordable Active Optics
Santa Barbara Instrument Group, pioneer of the first commercially available active-optics for amateur telescopes, has developed the AO-8 for their popular ST series of self-guiding USB cameras.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
Lightweight Observatory
Smart Astronomy has introduced the Clear-View Portable Observatory Tent, a lightweight and effective means for you to observe in comfort, free from wind and annoying stray light.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
Clear-Sky Gadget
If you live in North America and have a PC running Windows Vista, you can have Attilla Danko's Clear Sky Clock (CSC) on your desktop 24 hours a day.
Portable Tracking
Orion Telescopes & Binoculars now offers the TeleTrack, an ultra-portable mount built for small telescopes and cameras with telephoto lenses.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
Extra Narrowband Hydrogen-Alpha Imaging Filter
Orion Telescopes & Binoculars' new Extra Narrowband Hydrogen-Alpha Imaging Filter lets you shoot high-contrast views of emission nebulae even from light-polluted locations.
An Ancient Building Block of Life
Astronomers have long assumed that carbon-based molecules — essential for life as we know it — were among the building blocks of our solar system. Now they have the evidence to back their claims. The smoking gun came from measurements of the famed Tagish Lake meteorite.
Titan: Assembling the Puzzle
Since it arrived at the ringed planet, NASA's Cassini orbiter has flown past Saturn's cloud-enshrouded moon Titan nearly two dozen times. And with each encounter, scientists come closer to piecing together the complex story of the Saturnian system's largest satellite.
A Curiouser and Curiouser KBO
To date astronomers have found more than 1,000 Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) beyond Neptune. The strangest one of all may have fathered a whole KBO family.
