Ed, the 8" appears to be the best mirror of the three as far as quality of the optics. As Jeff mentioned the 6" with 1/4 wave surface error is 1/2 wave error...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Meade-16-F4-5-Newtonian-Telescope-Mirror_W0QQitemZ7626272015QQihZ017QQcategoryZ74925QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem This one is going to be a little...
Greetings Everyone I'm new to the group and wanted to introduce myself. I am the curator at the Weinman Mineral Museum in Cartersville and we hosted your...
Hello, Julian! Welcome! I wasn't able to make it to the Astronomy Day events this year, as we have moved to Athens since the last one. I'll tell you honestly,...
Hello Mr. Gray! We met at the WMM-I'm the big, tall, Amazon-looking woman with blonde hair.<g> It's good to have you here. blackleitz wrote: The new museum ...
... We let Michelle stay because she's such a cool person and has a couple of really sweet kids.....lol... Seriously, girlfriend, you know you are welcome...
... Well said. ... Just a, O thats neat, novice myself. ... Now Bev, think larger, the 200 car parking lot would sugest room for a NWGAA camper. :-) We will...
If you are interested in long term climate change-or short term climate change for that matter, this is an interesting read, and yes, there is an astronomical...
Hey Bev et al., ... blonde ... Well, I certainly would have remembered a tall Amazonian blonde . . . hmmm ... 200+ ... to ... that ... associated ... in the ...
*LOL* thanks, Bev, I know. It's just that it costs $50 to fill up the truck, and I'm thinking we'd have to refill to go and come back. Shoulda fixed the...
The one night in MONTHS that I've had free when it's clear outside, and my fragging scope fratzed out on me during the alignment! No noises, no grinding gears,...
OUCH!!! That has to hurt. Can you manually aim the scope at all, until you get it fixed? Look forward to seeing you at the next meeting on.... June 24th. What...
I managed to look at the Moon for all of about two minutes by aiming it by hand. Grrr.... I'm going to go hook everything up here inside and see if it'll work....
Hi Carol, Many of those external power supplies have either a fuse or circuit breaker built in or the fuse may be inline (small lump in the wire) between the...
Welcome Julian, I remember meeting you on Astronomy day and we're glad you signed up. Come on out to our viewing session on Saturday June 24th if you can. ...
I just updated the header to show our next meeting on Saturday the 24th. I'm not sure if I will be there since I will be coming back that day from about a week...
Jeff Garland wrote: It would be good to ... Eric gave me a book or two to look at and glean for children's educational activities. I have a few ideas and will...
The power supply has a fuse connected by two red wires. One wire goes to the top of one of the batteries and the other goes down the side and presumably to a...
For download, I think PDFs are the way to go. You could just upload the PDFs and let folks download at will? I've got some quizes/games someplace - if I can...
First, thanks! Second, I know you hate doing this type of thing, so are you SURE you want to add one more "web development" project to your list of things to ...
I don't want to get into anything big and hairy - no. lol But I don't mind creating and posting PDFs & links to them. That's no problem. Yes, if you guys can...
http://www.quia.com/pages/sagemon.html I have a quia account - anytime I make a game, use a game, or add a game to quiaa it can be freely linked to. Here are...
Okay, I won't bombard you with a bunch of stuff... :) If I do, we'll just find some other willing accomplice to row the boat for a while <g>. Thanks a bunch...
Well if it does not burn deuterium, then its not a brown dwarf. IMHO. We could easily claim that Jupiter is a brwon dwarf without that clear definition. I...
