This issue was very nice Paul, keep up the good work! James __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun...
Janel Atlas had another article published locally on Stargazing in Delaware, this one focused on giving informal neighborhood stargazing parties. The print...
Steve the Chester County Astronomical Society just started a program called "Clusters" which meet nearby to people in West Chester more than once a month to ...
Since I use an inexpensive video eyepiece to do images of the Moon I am always interested in other cameras. This one came along and really knocked my socks...
James: I have been looking at that for a while. The MallinCam Pro comes with a f reducer and, I am told, does not require significant additional in focus...
Thanks for your response Jean. My only problem is that my 20" does not track but I was wondering if at 2 seconds I could not manually track well enough to ...
James: The amount of blur will depend on where your look in the sky. The worst case will be looking at the equator. The motion there is (360*60*60) seconds or...
Jean-Paul nails the real problem at the very end of his comment. If you've ever tried to get even the Moon on a small ccd chip using non-tracking telescope,...
James: Let me add the following. The field of a CCD can be quite small and as Bob points out, bringing the object in the field of the CCD and keeping it there...
The club owns a SBIG STV video system which combines an ultra low level real-time video output, with "track and stack" and other typical long exposer CCD...
The newsletter erroneously listed two sites for the picnic. The correct site is Dover Park. The newsletter has been corrected, and any download after this...
Thursday - Cloudy. Friday - Cloudy. Saturday - Cloudy. Saturday at 11:30PM clear! However heavy dew and ground fog prevailed making it a mostly Messier night....
over the years i have noticed star parties that begin with bad weather usually end in excellent weather for sunday and monday...i can't remember ever coming...
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Jun 7, 2005 10:48 am
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Thanks for the responses from all of you. It really explained a lot that I have to consider. Jean, your analysis was very helpful. James ...
We had the same weather situation at the Almost Heaven Star Party at Spruce Knob, WV: late Saturday night alternated between clear and overcast until the...
The NOVAC sponsered 1st annual AHSP was almost exactly the same story, on Sunday night there was a couple hours viewing with the rest of the night foggy,...
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Just to let you know, - we have requested clear and transparent skies with low dewpoints for our fall No Frills - hopefully this request is processed in time. ...
Thanx, I didn't realize that Greg Lee had already expressed my observations about the AHSP. See you tonite hopefully! ... From:...
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Good afternoon, I am trying to access the No Frills section of the DMSG site and it sends me to an unavailable page. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a...
Don Surles asked about this at tonights meeting and here is the website that you can go to for free access to this observatory and some of the missions that it...
I had said every Monday evening at 9:00 PM but it seems to be every evening so I stand corrected. " Time to SLOOH™ Astronomy is your nightly ticket to...
The other night I stumbled on a pretty little pair of double stars. These are easy to find because these bright stars are less than 10' from the galaxy NGC...
Well, dear folks, I hope you got out your telescopes in the brief clearing this particular evening. It was public showtime at the Chesapeake Planetarium in...
... So close but still to far. My name is William Davis Jr. I have been a member of the DSG for a couple of months now. I have been looking for this mount for...
The sky was clear last night but the moon occupied the sky most of the evening. I'd like to draw your atttention to M 13. The next time you're viewing it (aka...
I am selling my 4" Celestron Refractor with an upgraded CG5 mount, RA & DEC motors, hand controller, battery pack, 2" Diag. I'll give any DMVSG first bite at...
Leonard White and I gave a presentation outdoors at the Middletown Library this past week. It really is nice to observe with Leonard as I always have a good...
During the last meeting there was talk of the next mirror making event. Also there was talk of making larger mirrors. That got me thinking and Don is right if...
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