In the past week, the spacecraft team continued their checkouts of spacecraft subsystems, and conducted Trajectory Correction Maneuver (TCM) 1 with great...
About two years ago over the Christmas to New Years holiday I put my early 80's (pre-go to electronics) Celestron C8 behind my snowmachine and hauled it about...
I wonder how the coefficients of expansion (& contraction) of the glass versus metal/aluminum compare? I think it would be possible to measure the existing...
Reminder from the Calendar of AlaskanAstronomy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AlaskanAstronomy/cal Active Galactic Nuclei: Feeding the Monster Thursday February...
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Reminder from the Calendar of AlaskanAstronomy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AlaskanAstronomy/cal ERNC Astronomy presentation Friday February 3, 2006 7:00 pm -...
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UPDATE: I believe the ERNC presentation is going to be given by Jeff Medkeff instead of ScottUpNorth. I also believe the skies are going to be good for...
Reminder from the Calendar of AlaskanAstronomy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AlaskanAstronomy/cal Happy Birthday to two great astronomers! Saturday February 4,...
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Nah. Just collect them. Hint: The bottom half this scope used to belong to you. I have done a lot of work on it since then. YOU are the scope swapping fool of...
It's about -7F here in South Anchorage right now. Brrrrr. I am still gonna be there tonight with the "new" scope! I'll be the guy looking like the Thinsulite...
Just got done with a 4 hour stint outside. Temperature seems a bit warmer than yesterday, -2 vs. -10. I beat the cold by using my shed as the control room for...
Uf-da! Skies were reasonably good at the ERNC last night. There was a thin overcast at first but it mostly drifted towards Anchorage by about 9:30pm. My...
I have a question for anyone who cares to answer. I am not knowledgeable enough to decide. Is the new Celestron 9.25 CPC telescope or the Meade 10" LX 90 GPS...
Tough call. I like the Meade Autostar more than the Celestron NexStar. I like the Celestron 9.25 optics more than the Meade LX90 optics. I like Meade customer...
TELESCOPE: My 11" SCT is permanently mounted on a pier with wedge and I have 110v power to the observatory in which it's housed, so dying batteries are not a...
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