The Fed Ex man knocked on the door yesterday. He had an oblong box for me. Don't you love getting packages? I do too. But it kind of kills the joy when it is a...
Come on Carl tell us how you really feel. Don't hold back now, let it out. I know the feeling. I have gotten good deals on eBay that turned out to be unusable...
Depends on what time it is, and how much you had to drink. Like the guy who got drunk, craweled out of the bar, crawled home and crawled into bed, only to find...
Carl, There have been LOTS of reports about these trash scopes in the last couple of weeks in almost every group I belong to that has anything to do with Meade...
... In all fairness I have to give the seller a chance to make good on this before I slander them. I haven't contacted them yet. I'm busy, unfortunately work...
Just want to put in my two cents. I just installed a Mitty upgrade to my super wedge. What a deal, Frank Sperl is a great machinest and super person. We never...
Mike, I have ordered many things from Bill Vorce at Telescope Warehouse and have never received bad products from him. He does sell scratch and dents but ...
I have never ordered anything from Telescope Warehouse. In this case there is no evidence that this scope came from them. I have also never ordered anything...
FYI... I'm now putting together another order for parts for the Belt Drive Conversion Kits for the Meade LXD55 / LXD75 GEM mounts. These kits should also fit...
Greetings, I am a new member to this group and a new owner of a LX90 GPS. I'm glad to be here. My new LX90 GPS seen first light last night for a few hours....
... The three inner screws are the collimation screws. See here: <http://www.bobsknobs.com/Meade/SCT/M8-6.htm> and <http://www.scopestuff.com/ss_95col.htm>...
Hi: I contacted the seller. He's very cooperative and told me that the duct tape was his idea to prevent just such a thing from happening. Hmm. He said that ...
... That one instance is a typo. They -meant- Autostar 497 (at least i only found one instance, on page 19). ... If it offers a blocked star, simply tap the...
Bill Vorce of The Telescope Wearhouse has not only sent me new mirrors but threw in the mounts too, so you can end the conjecture about from whom I bought this...
I knew they were in AZ and I have had great experiences with Bill Vorce and so have other people, so, I was confident this was going to be solved for the best....
I am new to the telescope world and have a few questions. I would appreciate it if you could help me. I was given the telescope in question as a birthday gift...
hi. happy birthday. got one the same as yours a year ago -long gone now! for starters- its all about light and aperture! having had an etx i would say a whole...
Greetings, I have a small problem I haven't encontered yet. I'v attached a new Meade 6.3 reducer on the back of my new 8" LX90 and then a Meade visual back,...
OK? That depends...I will tell you it's normal. Using an eyepiece of this focal length with the focal reducer on bright terrestrial objects will indeed make...
... "telescope.com" is Orion and they don't sell Meade telescopes. "telescopes.com" is Telescopes.COM and they do sell Meade scopes. For the moment, until...
... Yes. The eyepiece focal length, in mm, is usually printed on the eyepiece. The magnification of the scope+eyepiece together is scope focal length divided ...
This happens when using low power in the daytime. At low power, the exit pupil (roughly speaking, the "beam" of light coming out of the EP) is wider, and in ...
I thought this would give many of you an uplift. Thanks to Arizona for sky pollution laws, and now New Mexico for putting some sense back into astronomy and...
Then all the places where the first few dozen asteroids were discovered should re-declare them to be "planets", as they were for the first few decades of ...
Since when should politicians be allowed to make decisions in astronomy? I don't call this "sanity," I call it POLITICAL PANDERING...and foolishness. ;-) ...
Actually...... I look at this very much in the same light as a recent "vote" and approval by city hall in a historic town in Arkansas called "Eureka...
I think it's kind of funny and great in a sense. If the IAU can arbitrarily determine the definition of the word planet and objects previously called planets...
... If I remember right, there's a town in CA, that has some small fine, like $500 for setting off a nuclear weapon within city limits. [Non-text portions of...
