... I'll be back to you on the prize-gitter idea. ... Listen now Uncle Rod, as Ken mentioned we've been on this roller coaster ride with you before. With best...
... my li'l Canon Powershot up to the eyepiece of the ETX125. Yup. All formats can do all things, but some do one thing better. I tend to use that which for me...
HI Frank: Have at it. Sponsor-wise... Astronomics is onboard, and I've approached Anacortes and OPT (waiting to hear back from them). Otherwise the field is a...
Well, other than too much glass--remember, you've got the eyepiece and camera lens in the light path--you also have to deal with vignetting and, the killer for...
... I'd appreciate it if you omitted any of the insect tribes that tend to focus on man's anatomy (mosquitoes, etc.) and harmful virii and bacteria, thanks :-)...
Weather had been terrible during the last few days. It was mostly cloudy this evening but I got a break around Jupiter. Seeing was not very good and...
... Too much focal length happens with EP projection (in the traditional sense of the term, not the way digicammers sometimes misuse it to mean afocal) which...
"Reasonably," maybe, but I never had any luck on the deep sky with afocal imaging. I did get pretty good results in the pre webcam days using a camcorder on ...
Optically speaking, the camera is just replacing the eye at the EP, so you should theoretically be able to get anything that the eye can see. So using a low...
Another route is to buy a refurbished camera from Canon. A "knowledgeable person" on the Canon 350D astrophoto group mentioned that when Canon gets a camera...
Changing the string of topics, I've been thinking alot about almost totally carbon fiber/composite telescopes, (wanting to build one), and I ran across this...
Hello everyone, I have a Celestron Ultima 8 with PEC and I'd like to know what my options are if I wanted to use an autoguider. I've tried searching online,...
Carbon Fiber OTA is theway to go on all new model SCTs. For all of the gadgetry that has been added over the years, it is a good engineering move to reduce the...
Hi: I've got one...a Nexstar 11...and the carbon fiber works well for me, but it's not a necessary thing for most folks. I do a lot of high-focal-ratio ...
Been there, done that. I've got that very telescope. Used it for years. I have now removed the OTA and placed it on a more modern ASGT CG5. Still a good scope,...
Rod, Thanks for the reply. I had a feeling that I was going to need something else between the computer and the telescope port. I was hoping that I could...
I'm sorry, but I'm guessing that won't work. You can try it, but my results with the STAR 2000 were that it caused the scope to take off at the higher slew...
... What's an LX250? You cross an LX50 with an LX200? -John ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8:00? 8:25?...
Hi everyone! Hope Uncle Rod won't mind a little off-topic promotion, but I'd like to announce that the 25th Astronomers Conjunction will be held in Northfield,...
... Heh, heh! We definitely don't want ebola, hanta, polio, etc. surviving (regardless of governments' existing stockpiles). This brings up an interesting...
And what?! Y'all didn't invite li'l ol' ME? I have to miss dinner at the Smoking Hippo? Dang. Seriously, sounds like a good time will be had by all. Unk Rod...
Thank you for the information. Along similar lines, there was a TV Program on the Science Channel which showed a couple times this morning titled "Super Comet,...
... You're welcome. Many people believe the popular movies are total fiction (and I'll admit there's a lot of footloose and fancy-free bad science in them), ...
It was mostly cloudy again today. But it was clear around Jupiter's position. Conditions started bad but improved as Jupiter got higher. The GRS is very...
... After ... summer. ... pretty ... them), ... occurred ... the ... BAYS" ... Did you read that they may have found a secondary impact crater from the...
... Yes. The recent space.com article is here: <http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070626_st_tunguska_crater.html> the same article at Yahoo is here: ...
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