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  • Founded: Feb 2, 2001
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9776 RedOctoBoy@...
marbelljr Send Email
Jan 1, 2004
2:41 pm
I have an 8" f/5 OTA (not a dob, but on topic, I think). The focuser has a lot of shift and is not easy to focus. I took the plate off the knob gears so I...
9777 Dan Wolk
poziovahim2001 Send Email
Jan 1, 2004
3:37 pm
Danny, check out ChineseRefractor@yahoogroups.com There are buku posts about focuser fixes! Check their archieves. Dan NM ... focuser has a ... knob gears so...
9778 Joe Cannavo
jpcannavo Send Email
Jan 1, 2004
6:01 pm
... Jule: Long Island Sucks! Not that I'm a total loser, but I spent the "peri" midnight portion of last night with the 15" truss observing saturn. Although a...
9779 Gary Myers
k9rx44 Send Email
Jan 1, 2004
7:10 pm
This is a recent post on the ServoCAT group... since some of you have/will have the ServoCAT tracking system I thought you might be interested! Please...
9780 Joe Cannavo
jpcannavo Send Email
Jan 2, 2004
3:07 pm
... Mike: I still cant get over the visual "gestalt" of you'r setup...very impressive. Two qestions: 1)How does the image you posted of m82 (through the C8)...
9781 Art DeBrito
ionheavens Send Email
Jan 2, 2004
3:50 pm
On my 22" I moved to the tallest tires I could. My limit was if the tires were too tall I could not get the handles on the the scope. I ended up building to...
9782 Gary Myers
k9rx44 Send Email
Jan 2, 2004
4:06 pm
Joe, Mike did not post this - I did as a convenience for those Discovery owners interested in imaging with their dob. A tracking method will be needed, Mike...
9783 Dan Wolk
poziovahim2001 Send Email
Jan 2, 2004
4:26 pm
Hi Art, How's my platform coming along? :) No hurry, scope won't be done for months :( What if you just make a stand for the scope to sit on when not in use,...
9784 westronomy Send Email Jan 2, 2004
7:56 pm
Joe, My answer to this is that viewing an object on a monitor or in a print is completely different than viewing it through a scope (in so many ways), but that...
9785 westronomy Send Email Jan 2, 2004
7:59 pm
... Amen! That would probably be the best New Year's resolution many amateur astronomers could make. Wes Stone Chiloquin, OR 10" f/4.5 DHQ ...
9786 betamonocerose Send Email Jan 2, 2004
9:14 pm
... I agree absolutely!! Charles...
9787 pat_agnew33901 Send Email Jan 2, 2004
10:35 pm
Gang, I'm a refractor nut who's researching his first Dob purchase. Am currently torn between an Orion XT10 (the basic black tube is available again) and a...
9788 Tom Scanlan
tscanlan_ree... Send Email
Jan 2, 2004
11:21 pm
I haven't received mine yet, but my pdhq 12.5" is supposed to be here in mid-january. I spent several days trying to decide between the "inexpensive&quot; X10 and...
9789 Tom Hole
thomasandrew... Send Email
Jan 2, 2004
11:55 pm
... Any ... Pat, Apples and oranges. $2,000 vs $600. Solid tube vs truss. (many would add Chinese vs American, but that is another story) The 12.5" TD will...
9790 lpcheny Send Email Jan 3, 2004
8:18 am
9791 lpcheny Send Email Jan 3, 2004
8:19 am
9792 lpcheny Send Email Jan 3, 2004
8:21 am
9793 pam hart
bob44pam Send Email
Jan 3, 2004
12:21 pm
The discovery optics will be far superior to the orion scope.We had 3 orion xt10 in are club and not one had optics better than 1/4 wave.Junk really.The last...
9794 Joe Cannavo
jpcannavo Send Email
Jan 3, 2004
8:54 pm
... Bob I was always curious abot the optics on that 15" Obsession. Did you ever get it? Joe...
9795 cvntx Send Email Jan 3, 2004
9:27 pm
Hi, I am thinking of getting a 10" Discovery Dob. However, I am worried how successful it will be in my sky. I can usually only see the brightest stars..mag...
9796 pam hart
bob44pam Send Email
Jan 3, 2004
10:59 pm
My torus mirror in the obssesion is the best mirror so far that i have used.That includes a royce 15in and discovery 15in,Both of them were good but the torus...
9797 Joe Cannavo
jpcannavo Send Email
Jan 3, 2004
11:28 pm
... Bob Visually, how does this diff manifest, contrast on planets, DSO's? Also I notice you have a thing for 15" aperture. Any particular reason that you see...
9798 jtpaoletti Send Email Jan 4, 2004
2:16 am
Craig, I wouldn't worry too much about it. S&T had an article a little while back about observing myths. This is in fact one of them. Of course darker skies...
9799 pam hart
bob44pam Send Email
Jan 4, 2004
4:08 am
Not to much difference really.My friend has my old 15in pdhq and the optics as i said were very good.I would take a discovery mirror any time over most for...
9800 Harry Lewin
hml10463 Send Email
Jan 4, 2004
7:13 am
... Pat, My scope, a 12.5 PDQH, is better than it has any right to be given the price. I had Discovery use DX-1 focuser which added $100 to the price. The...
9801 Joe Cannavo
jpcannavo Send Email
Jan 4, 2004
2:18 pm
... Bob One final question: I have always wondered how a binoviewer effects the visibility of faint detail in DSO's at this aperture. I know that binocular...
9802 pam hart
bob44pam Send Email
Jan 4, 2004
3:40 pm
The bino is really great on most objects we all love to look at such as the messier objects.For lunar work the bino is a must,The bino increases contrast...
9803 cosmosphil Send Email Jan 4, 2004
10:00 pm
... wider ... skies? ... Craig, Jason's post has it right. Even in polluted skies more aperture will show you more. It will still go deeper and show greater...
9804 Andreas Paetzold
andreas1804 Send Email
Jan 5, 2004
10:59 am
Hi Craig, I live in a small town close to Hamburg/Germany and I am an owner of a 10" Discovery Dob since nearly 3 years. I am very satisfied with it. It just...
9805 pam hart
bob44pam Send Email
Jan 5, 2004
5:07 pm
Aperture allways wins no matter where you live/plus you live in texas which has some of the darkest skys in the usa.Get the dob and get away from the city once...
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