It's about that time again in the Northern Hemisphere. I don't have the exact times, but QuickSat is telling me the ISS Marathon is around June 25, 26 and 27,...
Last night (June 11) at about 11:00pm PDT I saw through my binoculars a brightish (about mag. 2.5)reddish-orange satellite moving from North to the SE. When it...
The etire orbital plane of the ISS, will be in sunlight on June 24, 25, 26 and June 27. So around these dates, you get lots of passes of the iss, so marathon...
... Hi Chris, Have you tried CalSky? I'm hesitant to re-configure my location if you have already tried CalSky and Heavens-Above. We could use some more...
Hi Chris, Just speculating here. . . . but could it have been the returning Japanese Satellite that was recovered Sunday in Australia? The Hayabusa explorer...
No, Hayabusa was very faint until just before reentry. It wasn't until the last few hours that even experienced asteroid hunters (who routinely work to about...
This is interesting, I was in Jersey, Channel Islands, UK on the 20th of May and seen something very similar. It was about 23:07 BST when I seen an object pass...
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... Well, not quite. I remember your email requesting permission to post this, but since this is a very specialized group, and your business, while astronomy...
That program works by looking for pixels with a high red value (that is, it is designed for a red laser pointer). It won't be of any use for satellite ...
I've been fooling around with my LS200 and a SBIG CCD camera in order to observe bright stars during the day. This is a little tricky since I have to "nod"...
Anyone here doing asteroid searching and/or FMOs? This is my real interest - would like to be able to work out orbits, and am wondering about the best...
Meade's literature says their focal reducer can change one of their f/6.3 SC scopes to f/4 - but I'm not sure how badly the coma would show up at the edge of...
I have the same setup and s quite good for visual work, for astrophotos there is severe vignetting with DSLR and might have to do a lot of work on your flats....
... Hi, There are scripting programs for CCDSoft such as CCDCommander but I have never dealt with them. Most are rather expensive and I never had to do...
... This is a very "relative" question, one person's acceptable coma is another person's awful. Going from 6.3 to 4 is not a big jump and would be acceptable...
... As I just posted, it is a matter of taste. Meade's 3.3 reducer says for astrophotography ONLY, not for visual use! My Meade datasheet lists the four...
First off, your questions are rather OT for this group. Try either the LX200 group for the classic: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LX200/>, or the LX200GPS...
Hi, Can someone perhaps post the spacings to F-ratio lists? I have the Meade 3.3 reducer (used) and had no idea it had different spacings, mine came with no...
Hi Dan, Apart from firing up Google and taking the time to learn and understand the optical physics involved in using a Focal Reducer (which is the only real ...
I was photographing the Sun the other day & in the process it`s crossed the meridian & my CG-5 mount of course wants to completely turn around to the opposite...
... That is one of the downsides of having a GEM mount. It HAS to flip when passing the Meridian which means all cabling must be long enough and secured in a...
