I was only looking at the SkyWatcher, Meade, Celestron, Orion, and Antares. I noticed that only Antares specified the quality of there mirror using PTV ...
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pawb63
Nov 27, 2006 7:25 pm
Hi Len I just like to cause some debate once and a while. Even I like to look through a big Dob scope. ;-) Paul WB ... mount. It's just that I guess I am...
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Attilla Danko
attilladanko
Nov 28, 2006 4:22 am
A few comments: ... Some OAFs already know this: I am very distrustful of schmidt-cassegrains. (Had two of them, one mediocre and one was the ...
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Douglas B. George
maximccd
Nov 28, 2006 5:57 am
... I've had the exact same experience. On the other hand, a friend of mine has an old classic C-8 with absolutely gorgeous optics. ... What great advice! ...
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Mike Wirths
pizzlespleas...
Nov 28, 2006 12:50 pm
Thanks Rolf! I'm not so sure I influenced the weather in any positive way since we had over a month of cloud since we've been back! Still that run of 3 whole...
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Mike Wirths
pizzlespleas...
Nov 28, 2006 12:57 pm
Rolf, Looks like a cool image, better than the previous one you posted which seemed like the colour planes were misaligned. Interesting about the banding, I'm...
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Rolf and Linda
lindy5050
Nov 28, 2006 4:50 pm
Hi Mike, In fact there is no IR blocking filter for these images, for the reason you mentioned, so there is actually a lot of IR content getting through....
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roland_prevost
Nov 28, 2006 8:15 pm
Lucky enough to have three clear snowless, moonless evenings in late November! Condensed version of urban observing notes, for these slow 2hr sessions: ...
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Attilla Danko
attilladanko
Nov 28, 2006 10:44 pm
... It beats zero observing. Glad to hear your getting lots of distant photons....
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L.Knoll
lknoll1234
Nov 29, 2006 12:16 am
Attilla, Doug: Being an old fart I feel I have the right to ask, does astronomical cynicism come with age or visa-versa? :) Although I am the king of...
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Douglas B. George
maximccd
Nov 29, 2006 12:44 am
... No, it comes with experience. There is a positive correlation between experience and age, but age is not a necessary or sufficient condition for ...
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lknoll1234
Nov 29, 2006 1:16 am
For anyone interested in weather and climate, here are a couple (out of dozens, no doubt) of sources of information on the current El Nino trend ... ...
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lknoll1234
Nov 29, 2006 1:32 am
I should have kept my big mouth (keyboard) shut. Now I have a bad case of scope-envy again. However - although I have precious little to compare against - I ...
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Richard Harding
elleray14
Nov 29, 2006 1:54 am
Doug's comments took me back to that old movie "Guess who's Coming to Dinner"....the guy's father tells his son that he has to listen to what he says because...
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Bob Olson
r_olson2
Nov 29, 2006 2:25 am
Hi Richard, I think there is a swap table this Friday and Paul wants to buy something from you!! What are you bringing? Bob [Non-text portions of this message...
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L.Knoll
lknoll1234
Nov 29, 2006 2:56 am
This group is great. Now I have all kinds of handy excuses for not buying a bigger scope. ;) Now how about some equally pithy predictions for the weather in...
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Rolf and Linda
lindy5050
Nov 29, 2006 3:21 am
Here are 3 images of Uranus taken last week. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/OAFs/files/Astrophotos/Rolf/Uran06.jpg As per previous info, there was *no* IR...
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Attilla Danko
attilladanko
Nov 29, 2006 4:34 am
Before I restart the dinner poll, anyone know if the Cathay restaurant is open or if I should leave it off the poll? -ad...
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ve2caz
Nov 29, 2006 6:14 pm
Hello, This is a call to all experienced observers in the hope that you may be able to clarify how one evaluates seeing conditions. I was reading on how to...
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ve2caz
Nov 29, 2006 7:00 pm
I stumbled across this link with answers to some of my questions but would still like to hear from others with more experience than myself: ...
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roland_prevost
Nov 29, 2006 8:19 pm
Good link! Those animations give a decent impression of what stars magnified at high power (40x-50x per inch of aperture) look like, in the eyepiece, for...
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Attilla Danko
attilladanko
Nov 29, 2006 9:49 pm
I've started the poll. <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/OAFs/surveys?id=1853538> -ad...
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keith.hadley
Nov 30, 2006 1:49 am
... buying a bigger scope. ;) ... I can't recall if anyone gave you the most useful advice of all. If I remember, you were thinking of ditching your C8 to buy...
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moxie@...
astrotran
Nov 30, 2006 1:13 pm
This page was sent to you by: moxie@.... SCIENCE | November 30, 2006 Early Astronomical 'Computer' Found to Be Technically Complex By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD ...
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Attilla Danko
attilladanko
Nov 30, 2006 7:27 pm
... I figure, In Ottawa, about 8% of the night-time hours will be usable for deep-sky. After ignoring suckerholes, I'd guess that's about 15 to 20 good nights....
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Joe Silverman
joe1silverman
Nov 30, 2006 10:05 pm
8% of 365 days is 29 days....
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Attilla Danko
attilladanko
Nov 30, 2006 11:11 pm
... Yes. But i figure about half of the clear hours will be in 1-hour suckerhole segments. I really doubt we will ever see 29 full nights that are dark and...
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L.Knoll
lknoll1234
Nov 30, 2006 11:33 pm
I was looking at house prices in the rural Penticton/Osoyoos area. They're out of this world. Oh well, better start saving my pennies. - Leonard ... From:...
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L.Knoll
lknoll1234
Nov 30, 2006 11:59 pm
Hi Keith: As a response to my recent no-holds-barred ($$$) rekindling of astronomy, my wife felt she had to nickname the C8 "the third wife", or on occassion,...
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pawb63
Dec 1, 2006 1:21 am
What am I planning to buy from Richard? I am glad that Bob looks after my interests for me! ;-) Any good stuff that people are planning to bring to swap...
