Dear Rich Wood, Thanks for your replies. I dont mind spending more than USD200 for the scopes. Incomes are not too bad in India and scope is something that is...
Dave, The shaft is 20mm, which interestingly enough, is larger than the stock Atlas counterweight shaft. I've replaced my Atlas shaft with a 7/8" shaft for...
Thanks Doug for the info. That really helps. I needed to replace an 11 lb. counter-weight on my Celestron CG5 with an Orion 7.5 lb. weight. 20mm works! Clear...
Just created new photo album Mr. Bill and posted pictures of my latest acquisition... a 120 ST f/5 Orion refractor. This has been retrofitted with a Moonlite...
I am just starting on this venture and know nothing about telescopes. I have a Meade ETX 90 EC. (A present.)I am reading NightWatch by T. Dickinson and he...
Obviously, the larger the aperture the more resolution you will get from Deep Sky Objects. On the larger more prominent planets (jupiter, saturn, venus, mars)...
Hi, Rich, Thanks for your comments. I agree totally on the equatorial mount. I recently purchase the StarMax Mak 90 with an equatorial mount and I must admit,...
Thanks again, Joe, Iıll probably try using my Olympus with the Mak for afocal photo. I think Iıll just get the Orion universal camera adapter for now. It...
Hi, Ken, I am reading NightWatch also. It is a good book. Dickinson seems to like to recommend Dobsonian scopes for beginners. In another book he co-authored, ...
Well Dorothy, I thought Austin was the only place on earth with bad weather (Grin). I do direct observing with the 120ST and a Badder (SIC) filter from...
I just posted the last nights image, its not that good, I am still getting tracking and focus down. But one of these days I will have to venture to a dark...
Hi again, Joe. I am sorry to hear that you are also having bad weather :). March was the coldest month and almost the wettest in Redding, CA in 70 years. I...
Well, I am trying to get a web cam to work. I am about to make a purchase of a baseball bat to train it. The thin Mylar will give better images of the sun,...
How did I SPAM you? If I did a baddy, I apologize. Was it my feeble attempt to do a smiley; I canıt remember which way the colon and parentheses go so I guess...
Dorothy, I sent you the m51 shot offline, it was returned and said I had to make a request to send you personal e-mail. Don't worry about that. Now you are...
Hi, My name is Fred. I live in upstate NY where there is more cows than humans. I need a little help making a decision. I have a short tube 80 by Orion on a...
Hi all, I haven't posted for awhile. We've had about 6 months of cloudy skies in upstate NY. Last week we had a 3 straight nights of clear skies and I...
Well, I FINALLY got the chance to try my SkyView Pro Intelliscope. I've had the upgrade kit installed for a couple of months, but either the weather or some...
Well I set up with the clouds and strong wind for learning how to do planets. I got ran off but managed to find out the Orion 150 Mak will do planets well....
The 45mm almost sounds like too low a power to be effective with an st80 which has a focal length of 400mm. Be aware that if you use too long a focal length...
Joe, I have Earthlink as my ISP and have my spam level set to high because I was getting so much junk. You know how it is. I forget about it but when someone...
Fred, there are several good books that tell you how to find stuff. I havenıt tried them because it has been totally miserable weather where I live in...
Sounds great, Don, I have the opposite problem to you. I only have a good view to the east and even that is blocked by trees. I also have light problems, local...
Joe, Iım glad to hear that. I hope my Mak 90 will do ok even tho the aperture is small. Are you going to try to photograph the planets? Dorothy -- From:...
Fred; With a standard 1.25" focuser a 32mm Plossl will give about the maximum normal field of view available as the limiting factor is the eyepiece field stop...
Being not to smart, The sky clock said don't even try and set up, so I did, with strong winds (They felt good to me) and a thin layer of wispy clouds pushed...
I wanted to tell you about my first scope, I was 14 and it came one month before Christmas, it stayed in a closet for that month, and I spent that time...
I have two 6 MP images, Saturn is not that good, but it will supprise you. I need to get to some form of dark site. Joe Dorothy McKay <maxstax2@...>...
Joseph Romewrote: ...Come to think of it, I haven't matured one bit on that issue... I'm the first to admit that I'm the biggest 'kid' in the house! Don...
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