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90545
... The vote was open to the all IAU members. ... Nobody. The IAU makes rules for themselves. As a technicality, during the "space race" in the 60's, the US...
John Mahony
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Sep 1, 2006
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90546
Turns out my problem looks to be the two nuts that hold pressure on the clutch ring from the lever have backed off. It's a tiny space, but if I can sneak a...
jbsgtulsa
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Sep 1, 2006
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90547
... I've often said the best accessory you can buy for an SCT is a widefield refractor. Perhaps some day you will piggyback a small refractor with 2 inch...
Leo Taylor
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Sep 1, 2006
12:39 pm
90548
Thad, I own one of thee 66mm beauts and have to disagree with your comment on "unsrewing the objective the hide some Rebel yell" there really is not enough...
Dan
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Sep 1, 2006
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90549
Hi, Thanks for the post. Gary Kopff here from Wildcard Innovations, manufacturers of the Argo Navis DTC. ... The first 30 pages of the Manual will take you all...
Wildcard Innovations
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Sep 1, 2006
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90550
Leo, Thanks, your experience with your K1000 is similar to mine. I do have a good wide field refractor with a quality 2" focuser and plan to use it, but for...
Frank Barrett
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Sep 1, 2006
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90551
I think it's also due to the linear response of the CCD. The comatic tail is an order of magnitude lower in intensity than the head (see the Dutch Boys' book)....
Tanveer Gani
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Sep 1, 2006
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90552
... It's a hard choice when you start comparing all of the pros and cons because once you do that, you quickly expand that analysis beyond the camera to other...
Roth Ritter
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Sep 1, 2006
5:58 pm
90553
There exist tremendous differences in the performance of the mount, the scope and the detector in comparing film to digital recording means. By way of...
Dennis Persyk
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Sep 1, 2006
7:43 pm
90554
The biggest drawback to using film? There is no film...not for the deep sky, anyway. Black and white? Tech Pan is gone. Color prints? Nothing available has...
Rod Mollise
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Sep 1, 2006
8:28 pm
90555
Hi Gang: It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. I believe we had about 37 entries in four categories. Not bad...not bad considering. Of the four...
Rod Mollise
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Sep 1, 2006
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90556
Rod, You are right about that! It's interesting that I had listed my old dark room setup on eBay and that same evening there was an article in the Wall Street...
Frank Barrett
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Sep 1, 2006
10:27 pm
90557
... cons ... the ... You are right about that! I did look hard at buying a second hand ST10 (I think I had pinged you about yours <g>). I even had an ST8 on...
Frank Barrett
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Sep 1, 2006
10:36 pm
90558
I have bought recently CGE1400 to replace my C9.25S-GT, now I am very close to selling my old C9.25 and it looks like I can use this money for new "stuff" for...
jarekpp
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Sep 2, 2006
12:12 am
90559
... I still have a lot of it, and you and Dennis's being 100% right really is painful........ -- Allan Mayer http://sctuser.home.comcast.net CentOS 4.3 KDE...
Allan Mayer
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Sep 2, 2006
12:44 pm
90560
Nico That was a great shot, I've seen Usanus under, not so optimal conditions, and that was much better than the optical view I saw. It was low to the...
Joe Bomberger
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Sep 2, 2006
1:19 pm
90561
Hi Gang: I mentioned some time back that I needed a small part for my ETX125PE (the RA lock lever, to be exact), and decided to attempt to obtain it via...
Rod Mollise
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Sep 2, 2006
1:56 pm
90562
And ya' know what, guys? After all the passing and lamenting, all the knocks on quality and all the improvements since, sometimes.......it's just fun to do! I...
Bill Reynolds
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Sep 2, 2006
3:23 pm
90563
I'll tell y'all what... If I still had a very dark site... and... There was still decent film... I'd still be imaging with my medium format and 35 cameras. I...
Rod Mollise
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Sep 2, 2006
3:42 pm
90564
Nico! Sweet! Uranus and Neptune are two of my favorites and I'm looking forward to taking a crack at them myself. Very nice. I kept the shots for...
Bill Reynolds
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Sep 2, 2006
3:47 pm
90565
Rod, et all, The information on Color Print film is inaccurate. Fuji SHQ100 and SHQ200 work quite well on Deep Sky. And as you mentioned Kodak E200 is still...
William R. Mattil
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Sep 2, 2006
4:52 pm
90566
But you don't need a 35mm format sensor to get the same resolution that color films deliver- something around the APS size is sufficient. And for many years...
Chris Peterson
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Sep 2, 2006
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90567
From: "William R. Mattil" <wrmattil@...> Subject: Re: [sct-user] Re: Film vs. Digital ... And, of course, "Momma don't take my Kodachrome away" Makes...
Tom Slater
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Sep 2, 2006
5:34 pm
90568
Hi: Kodachrome, particularly Kodachrome 25 was a wonderful film...that said... It was useless for astrophotography. I shot all the images for my first book on...
Rod Mollise
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Sep 2, 2006
7:29 pm
90569
Hi Bill, Do you know of any SCTs with a 43 mm image circle (35 mm frame diagonal)? I don't. There is some very nice imagery being done with Meade DSIs on...
Dennis Persyk
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Sep 2, 2006
7:37 pm
90570
Hello Bill, I looked at the film images on your web site and they spectacular. Nice work. But I note that not one image was taken with an SCT. You image with ...
Dennis Persyk
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Sep 2, 2006
7:43 pm
90571
What I was saying was......keep your expectations low and you won't be disappointed, enjoy the discipline and mix things up every once in a while! Man does not...
Bill Reynolds
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Sep 2, 2006
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90572
Nico, Wow! That is quite an accomplishment. Seeing must have been pretty good to be able to shoot so long. Way to go! Frank http://celestialwonders.com ... ...
Frank Barrett
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Sep 2, 2006
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90573
Hi: If you like these print films, that's fine. I was less than impressed with them. Be that as it may, the other big factor is the lack of a good dark site. ...
Rod Mollise
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Sep 2, 2006
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90574
Hi Rod, I just looked at all the entries and as you said they are in the WOW catogory. I would suggest that the DSO catagory be broken into DSLR and CCD's....
divenuts
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Sep 2, 2006
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