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Jan 1, 2005 4:51 pm
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Hello All, My name is Steve. I just joined this group like ten minutes ago. I recently bought a Meade 4.5" reflector (autostar) on ebay and received an email...
Join the club, Steve - got mine off eBay 2 weeks ago - getting used to it -
waiting for cloudless night simultaneously with booze/celebration-free
period!! ...
Greaham Bensley
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Jan 2, 2005 9:12 am
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Forgive if this has been highlighted already, and I missed it over the Festive gorging season, but today www.SpaceWeather.com flagged up the path of Comet...
Hello Fellow Astronomers...and Rock Hounds of all ages, This posting has been cleared by the owner/moderator so don't delete it yet. I am proud to announce...
For those of you who may be forced to set up for viewing in a location where Polaris is not available, I've added a file to the "Files" area that contains some...
Hello all, I have a department store purchased Polaris 114EQ-D scope and i have noticed that over the years, (roughly 7) the primary and secondary mirrors...
Jim, Check several URLs in the Group's "Links" area that point to information on the web about cleaning your optics. Use extreme caution though .... ...
Thanks for the info Jim. Jim ... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/links/Cleaning_of_Op ... secondary ... take ... the ... this ... way ... I ...
Fellow Astronomers... I too had experienced the cloudy mirror problem. It didn't curtail my sessions, but I felt it was not giving me the best views I could...
Thanks for posting that link below Jim, that was really useful as it answered questions I was about to raise too... (read help files first -read help files...
Joe, I really wanted to explain my mirror situation to the group for feedback, THEN.... I saw your post and wanted to give a huge thank you to you for ...
Martyn, If you can't see the north star (Polaris), you can still align your scope using another procedure that was discussed in Message Post No. 9303. It's at:...
Martyn, Thank you for your compliment. Yes, it would be quite worth it to either replace or "re-coat" the mirrors. I found recoating more expensive than...
Martyn, Is there any way you could get some decent photos of your "Petri Dish Syndrome" mirror? I'd really like to make it available to others online ......
jim does the lenses stop at 4mm or do they get stronger or could i do something with scope itself without detroying it nothing wrong with the two i have right...
I'm not completely sure I understand your question, but let me try to provide an answer. It is possible to use higher magnification eyepieces than 4mm with the...
Hello all, I am still in the process of getting the most out of my store bought Polaris 114EQ-D and have recently received an Orion Astotrack motor drive....
One of last years Night Sky magazines had an article on buying your first scope. It gave a nice formula for estimating the maximum magnification based on the...
Gene, One rule-of-thumb for maximum practical magnification is ~50x per inch of aperture. So, as you said in your post, a 4.5" scope should not be pushed ...
ccs_hello thanks for the reply. I was actually wanting to know about the amount of time it takes the motor drive to make 1 full revolution. Sorry for making it...
... That sounds reasonable. The drill is to count the teeth on the ring gear that the worm drives. Divide 24 hours by the number of teeth, and that tells you...
Forgot to mention. That rate is for sidereal motion. Wide open, as you put it, should take much less time, depending on what "wide open" really amounts to. ...
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:48:31 -0000, "jimfedina" <jfedina@...> is said to ... AFAIK this is the answer you already got, because an equatorial drive...
Martyn Harrison
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Jan 8, 2005 11:27 am
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Jim, It seems that eBay itself is cramming a data miner to my PC on every page I check out lately. I noticed this last night while doing a search for...
Johnny, I use a number of anti-virus and anti-addware software packages: 1) Lavasoft sells two products together that are quite useful: Ad-Watch is a ...
Johnny, I forgot to include the newest to my collection: MicroSoft's new AntiSpyWare. It's free (_www.microsoft.com_ (http://www.microsoft.com) ), and seems...
do you know anything about the tasco. the computer version of outerspace. I was wondering how to enter the orbit of are solar system and other nebula's or...
