Hi dchan Tell us your real name, please! A mag zero sky? Yuck! That's the worst I've ever heard about! Could you see the Sun? :-) Clear skies! (however...
Hi friends Last night was the clearest night I've had for a very long time. No clouds, no haze, but some wind, with stronger gusts. The day started with...
... the windows. Every other object is invisible. A pair of 8x30mm could bring the sky upto approx. mag 3-4. I wonder how could I stay interested in Astronomy...
Hi Friends Yesterday was also (somewhat) clear, as I stated in my post "A superb night". But it was far from as clear as the night before. Nevertheless I saw...
Anybody have personal experience with this scope? I've played with it's cousin (Pronto) at star parties but only with low power eyepieces. Apparently it has...
Boy Thomas, sounds like you really had a good night a few nights back. I've been out observing myself the last few nights, the sky finaly cleared up for a...
Looks like some of us are having clear nights recently. For me, I just returned from a 15 min. observing session! Here are the reasons: Time: 8:40-9:00pm PDT ...
Hi Pete Ah, the Tau Canis Majoris cluster! I haven't seen this one myself, as it is pretty low from my latitude (55* north). It would have been easy as pie on...
I live at about 40 degree latitude so that cluster gets a little ways up in my sky, trouble is though, at my house I have on an average a 5.2 mag sky but it...
Hi everyone, Sorry it has been a while, I am hopefully going to be able to see Juipter tonight as i dont have to work tomorrow. Went and had a very short...
Hi friends Just for the sake of correctness. A few posts back I said that the world's air traffic was up 40% since 1995. I was wrong. It's up 60% since 1990. ...
Hi Everyone, I am thinking that you all are having great weather as rtherte has not been many post in the last week. Just wanted to find out about filiters,...
Orion use to have a good line of .965 filter, moon, color and light pollution/nebulas filters. I've got most of them. Trouble is they stopped carrying them ...
By the way, I did have a couple of good nights and I hope to have a report out short about that. What about the rest of you? Pete Kellermann Moderator...
It seems i have found Comet Machholz, just the only draw back was was it was extremely cloudy and the comet was very dimm to the point where adromeda usually...
Wow, did I just have a great weekend. Friday night I spent the night in my drive with my 60 running through a hand full of messier objects. The sky was clear...
I have uploaded some pictures of how I mounted a Daisy BB Site on my telescope. One picture you will notice I leveled the telescope tube, than mounted the...
That was excellent you are indeed right, some experts say you cant say jack diddly but its happenes to be a fact that what the box says is right and you should...
Hey, where is everyone, sure is quiet around here lately. Anyone one been out observing? Last week I wrote about observing NGC1907, has anyone else seen this...
Been raining or cloudy every day for over a week here along the Upper Texas Gulf Coast. It wight get sunny and cloudless during the day, but it clouds up...
Man, don't know what happened to the last message. Hopefully this resend will make it in one piece! Dan Been raining or cloudy every day for over a week here...
Has not been the best weather in Sydney but gor a few nights in. I had a great veiwing of Jupiter all be it for ten minutes before the clouds roled in. With...
Hi Pete We have had a lot of snow lately, so no observing here. :-( On that superb night I told about a few weeks back I saw NGC 1907 as well in my Telementor....
I got a 40mm fl .965 eyepiece from them along with a couple other items. They are only about 25 miles from my house. Did you lose the lens out of that ...
I did not relise until a couple of days later, so i think i will have to get another one or i could barlow my 40mm but i am not a huge fan of the barlow. It...
Did you read Jay Freeman's article in May 1999 Sky&Telescope mag about him using a 55mm Vixen to do the Herschel 400. He state that you should be able to do it...
I use my orginal mount, I don't really have much problem with it. I generally find if you tighten up all the screws and nuts the scope will be fine as long as...
Hi Pete Go ahead with the H400 and show the dobsnobs how to do it! I would not be able to resist such a challenge myself! At the very least you probably can...
Thats great, I know I could get a least 200 of them or more. I just don't have access right now to perfect dark skies. If you look at a sateilite picture of...
