Welcome to Scope Buddies
A site where you can get in touch with fellow astronomers, share your pictures with them,
create groups and interact with them. Basically, a site created specifically for amateur
astronomers with their needs in mind.
Summer is here
How are you spending your summer in the nothern hemisphere? ScopeBuddies would like to know about your best nights and what you have seen this year. And everyone in the sothern hemisphere, we'd like to here from you too. Just send in your pictures and articles to Feedback@ScopeBuddies.com and we'll share them with the community.
What happened to the Give-away
No, we didn't forget it. We have all the items to give away, we are just waiting to update the site a bit before starting it. We at ScopeBuddies are planning on giving away
Accessory Cases for your eye pieces, Green Laser Pointers, Astronomical Binoculars, and who knows, maybe a couple of telescopes too.
Keep a lookout for announcements on the home page.
What does this site offer you?
The initial site (here) had the basic capability to search for fellow astronomers near you. This
version of the site expands on that idea add adds the following:
Mark your location so others can find you
Mark Dark Sites and astronomy clubs so others can benefit
Upload Pictures
Find and make Friends (Buddies)
Integration with Google Maps for ease of use
Latest News
25,000 new asteroids found by NASA's sky mapping - NASA has discovered approximately 25,000 new asteroids over the past six months using their Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer space telescope...
Giant stars seem to form just like smaller ones - Astronomers have found a disk of dust around a huge, massive star in its early stages (only about 60,000 years old) of growth...
Got News? Send us your favorite news articles to share with fellow astronomers. Send an email to News@ScopeBuddies.com
Links
CloudyNight.com - ScopeBuddies.com exists today because of a sticky thread in the beginners forum on CloudyNights.com
Got Links? - If you come across any good non-commercial websites and want to share it, send an email to Links@ScopeBuddies.com
All Registered Users
This map shows all registered users on the site and the list is updated
once every hour.
You may sign up on the site and mark your location so other astronomers can find
you. If a user has not entered his/her Latitude and Longitude, we derive it using the
city and country in the profile.
Click on the Circles or Scopes on the map for user details. Click and Drag mouse to move around map.
*Due to privacy reasons, actual user locations are not shown. The markers displayed are within 2 miles of the actual location.