One thing you can do is place a piece of carpet (indoor/outdoor) inside of the LS bearing. I've done something similar with my Dob bases and it works great. On...
Folks, It is my understanding that there are now encoders available for the Universal Astronomics Unistar mount through I believe but am not sure JMI. Does...
Check out this website www.astro-tom.com/project/binocular_mount.htm Photos, drawing, material list. I built this and it works great. Materials from Home...
Mr. Bill, Is this book an "observing" guide as well or mostly a "reference" book? My point in asking is that it would be nice to have an observer's publication...
Mr. Bill, Is this book an "observing" guide as well or mostly a "reference" book? My point in asking is that it would be nice to have an observer's publication...
Mr. Bill, et. al., While looking for the Bart and Priscilla Bok book on-line, I came across an apparently new publication called "Astronomy of the Milky Way"...
... Hi Mike I would say it is more of a reference book. I would recommend Atlas of Deep Sky Splendors by Hans Vehrenberg (Sky Publishing) as an observing ...
... I found that Delrin works better then Teflon because it doesn't flow (flatten out) when tightened down as part of a cluth assembly. It can be bought in...
... Hi Dan, Thanks for the compliments. I'm a software engineer by day and a beginning stargazer at night. ;-) I'm using an $89.00 USD pair of Eagle Optics...
I recently concluded a poll on another Yahoo Group that I founded and moderate - UnitronTelescopes. Using information from the poll plus web addresses...
Steve, Every size binocular from 8x42 to as large as I can get will be included. I am using my own 8x42 swift ultralites. It will be important to include...
Hi! May be it will be easier to say what country you are from (if your country were not listed yet). I'm from Ukraine. Or you can add your country name to the...
... Remy Bosio has already gone thru the membership list and will be pasting his response back to me into a message on this board. The Ukraine as well as many...
... Hi Barry, I'm pretty handy with the Perl programming language (9 years) and already wrote up a program to parse a list of email addresses and process the...
Barry,et.al., here is the results of my survey. This list is the countries and the number of members from same: South Africa=2 London/UK=15 India=4 ...
Remy, Thanks for doing the legwork! Thanks too to others who volunteered to do this work as well! One question - When did Alaska secede from the United States...
News Flash!...Alaska "is" still part of the USA! Other clarifications: Jeddah=Saudi Arabia Adventure Islands=Canada Hong Kong=China Nova Scotia=Canada At least...
I did a quick search of which states have the most members. I looked into the member profiles for this information, so it is not a concise tally. A lot of...
Well my new "Saturn Prismatic Space Binoculars Model NBA-71" arrived yesterday afternoon.Please see the phograph under the forum photos section(titled Miyauchi...
... <dannyhalstead thanks for the review--I also have the UA Unimount for my Miyauchi 20x100 and 8"SCT. It is a good mount. I hope you enjoy yours as much as...