It has been updated: http://uncle-rods.blogspot.com/ Why, this is becomin' a Sunday afternoon TRADITION! ... Peace, Rod Mollise Author of Choosing and Using a...
Transparency was good this morning because of thin clouds. Seeing was just average. It is very nice to see the shadows of Ganymede and Europa at the same ...
Time to treat yourself to a C14 Chris. You're resolving details on the moons of Jupiter. So now you should resolve MORE details! Good on you! Greg N...
Thanks Greg. Still saving Pennies to get one and hopefully my wife will approve. Regards, Chris ... Christopher and Vicky Go Christone Industries Manufacturer...
Hi Greg, I joined the C14 group a few years ago. Just quietly lurking. My buddy Tomio Akutsu already got a C14 here and he just installed fans on it last...
Well he was able to buy a new corrector in Japan!! The scope is still not perfect but usable. It was a heart breaking experience but it had a good ending! ...
I am so very happy to hear that, Chris. Heart breaking indeed, and impossible to imagine something like this would happen (especially with a compact and heavy...
Thanks Daniella. This year has been really exciting because I was a part of the group that used the HST to image Jupiter last month. you can seen on of our...
Yes, I saw that you received special mention as part of the Hubble Jupiter imaging team in the write up in S&T about the third red spot. Congratulations ! ... ...
People, Does anyone know, offhand, what it costs to have a 10 inch Meade SCT tube re-coated? The wait? Any tips will be appreciated. Thanks in Advance, Dean...
Hi Bud, it seems I only did step 1 of Thierry's collimation, the coarse kind. I will have to redo it at high mag. The springs go between the secondary and the...
Thanks Rod. Frank also said I need to add 1 or 2 barlows. I thought I would first need base-line collimation before attempting that. The star was blurry and...
Hi Eric, thanks I will give that a try. DeepSkyStacker actually measures all stars in the field and determines an average FWHM when it registers the images....
Hi Phil, thanks for your detailed response. Looks like I didn't make it past the first phase of Thierry's page. The springs are bigger than the gap between the...
Greg, Thank you for your reply. However, I don't think that I did a good job of making myself clear. I was thinking about the optical coatings, i.e., the...
That's probably unnecesary. The kinds of events that would be required to remove your coatings are on the order of sandpaper and sulphuric acid. It is often...
... It looks interesting. You used to see springs on the collimating screws on Newtonian mirror mounts all the time. I am not brave enough to take my...
Yep. I haven't ever seen an SCT that was stored under decent conditions needing anything recoated. Peace, Rod Mollise Author of Choosing and Using a Schmidt...
You'll only find screws on fairly recent Meade scopes. IMHO? They are a Good Thing. Peace, Rod Mollise Author of Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain...
I thank you both for the advise. Dean ... conditions ... Behalf ... required to ... acid. ... dried out ... was true of ... on both ... clear. ... plate- ... ...
It was a little scary this morning. Jupiter was just 20 degrees above a big storm cloud. There was thunder and lightnight! Fortunately, seeing was very good...
... Oh? Then I suppose the spring-loaded secondary on Meade SCTs since 2003 (beginning with the 14" LX200GPS and later trickling-down to the other sizes) is a...
"2003" is "fairly recent" in my book, Bub. ;-) ... From: sct-user@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sct-user@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Thad Floryan Sent: Tuesday,...
... Been there, done that: <http://indianastars.us/construction/construction5.html> In the middle of construction, we had the wheels on the roof, but hadn't...
Unfortunately using 3 spring-loaded "pull" screws is the least stable type of collimation adjustment method. Some Newts use two sets of screws, one set pulls,...
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