Welcome, Mark. Looking forward to meeting you at Ron'n'Bev's. I'm in the light pollution, too, in far west Cobb, almost to Dallas. I've seen a number of...
Bet that made for fun family gatherings for a few years there :-) Did you see my little 6" f5 I just finished? It's not as nice as your masterpieces but it's...
... Just found the pix in the "Photos" folder. Wow, that scope looks great! That's really beautiful woodwork. The carvings in the alt bearing are fantastic. I...
We saw a few scopes online with similar bearings. I cut disks out of a 2" board using my 6" holesaw, Laura sketched the face and I scroll sawed em out....
Jeff - That's an impressive scope. I love the organic look of it. Just beautiful. And, of course, I can only aspire to Curt's craftsmanship. Hopefully I'll be...
Just wanted to welcome new member drthomreece. Here's what he said when he signed up: "I am an amateur astronomer from Marietta, GA. I own a Meade ETX-125. I ...
The sides of the rocker box look organic cause we didn't enough cedar boards left to join them full width :-) We held two up overlapped and decided they...
Hey Curt, If you get a chance take a look at this: http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~atolea/WAS/8inchcompact.pdf That's sort of the idea that I'm going for next. An 8"...
... Ah, yes... Mike Lockwood's 12.5" Dob-Cass. Really a nice scope. I'm not sure I'm ready to tackle a convex hyperbolic secondary, though. Another approach...
Hey guys I hope everyone had happy and relaxing holidays, I'm looking forward to getting out to the field and freezing my toes off again. Question My object...
On this page you can enter the NCG or IC object and get a mini start chart: http://www.ngcic.org/pubdb.htm ... looking ... again. ... objects ... IC ... for IC...
I have a new iphone and this thing takes incredible pictures. This is out my window and the white dot thats on the upper right hand side is the moon (It was ...
Early in the morning? Probably Venus. iPhones are pretty incredible. All the young dudes and chicks at the office ran out to get them when they first came out...
... I can't open the picture, Amie, and it probably wouldn't help me much anyway. First, both things "move". They are just roving across the sky at the same...
Hey Bev! I called but you did not answer? You were out feeding the rabbits :o) LOL I dunno *HUGS* I will try again later today :o) Thanks for the correction...
... I was taking TJ to his grandparents..home now. ... You mean 10AM? The moon has been rising around 3:30 AM (3:38 today) and setting around 1:45 PM (1:47...
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/space/5414039.html A good synopsis for January skywatching.. -- BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm NW Georgia USDA Zone 7 34.498N...
Comet 17P/Holmes remains visible in binoculars but is now very much fainter. The January 2008 sky map places it directly above for mid- northern latitude...
I was doing some 'research' and started playing around with the known dates of Halley's comet. We are taught that it comes every 75 or 76 years, but that...
Bev use your planetarium program, like The sky, and run simulations on Halleys and see if it came close to...say Jupiter? You can definately run those type...
Strange. You could explain the short ones if they mistook another comet for Halley's. Not sure how you explain the long ones and overall you kind of would...
Yea that's what I thought too. I was looking for plans for the self sustaining air tight shelter or the unlimited spaceship since I figured those were about...
