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... Not sure I'd say I commented "negatively" on your product.... I was only expressing my _opinion_ that I feel there are more issues with these focusers then...
A special request to all who might have been out observing Jupiter Thursday and Friday, April 29 and 30. How did the seeing compare on those two nights? ...
... Gene, I only got up for about 1/2 hour on Friday and just had my refractor. I would have very clear seconds, about 2 out of 10, where seeing was really...
... refractor. I would have very ... excellent. But I was out a couple ... better, though the clear ... Crazy, huh? ... Yep, it's crazy alright, but it...
Gene, I was out both Thursday and Friday night, say from 8:30pm to 12 midnight. From my location in Hoboken, the seeing was much better Friday night, but for...
Gene, I am further up the coast (NH) than NY or NJ, . However I must say that last night, I saw more detail in Jupiter than I have ever seen. Was only out for...
Hi Gene, I was leaving a meeting Friday night about 9:30 in Newton, MA and I looked up did a double-take on the moon and stars. Just naked-eye I could tell the...
... Chris, Just a note, transparent does not always equal good seeing. In fact, I've found that it often doesn't. Some of my best sessions on the moon and...
Hi Gene You know I'm in NJ also and was out both Thursday and Friday nights. On Thursday I my views were so poor that I started having bad thoughts again...
Thanks to ALL of you. Putting all your remarks together, it begins to look like the mirror squirreled away in the box in my basement was NOT the super-super...
... The prefect is the enemy of the very good? Of course I bet we all wish we had the luxury of having a spare objective mirror.... Didn't you send a mirror to...
... Phil, I had pulled the post you just anwered because I thought that the question was pointless. But your answer, below, about doing a star test IS a very...
... Phil, Are you saying that the clarity or stillness of the rings just out of focus is telling or that the fuzzier rings on the inside of focus verses on the...
Bas I haven't heard good or bad from the group. If I can stay away from EP vendors that is my next investment. Looks like quality stuff to me. Anyone else ...
... Just observe the way the diffraction pattern is altered by the seeing. The perfection of the rings doesn't matter at all. Looking at the stability of the...
... Except now I feel rotten for not schlepping the scope out and observing Friday night! And my excuse was I wanted to get up at the crack 'o' dawn and...
I too tried to observe the GRS Thursday night, but was unable to make out sufficient detail. Friday night was windy where I was, sufficiently so to blow small...
... Were you observing from New Providence, and when? Next door in Berkeley Heights here, there was no noticable (to me) wind between 8:00 and 10:00 PM on...
... Here's what weather.com reports as weather conditions for 07922 (Berkeley Heights) on April 30 (as reported at Morristown): Time Temp (F) Dew Point...
... enough ... Hi Chris, I observe mostly from my home, which is a heavily wooded lot. Sometimes, I can't help but be under or near a tree to access many parts...
... Chris, A second data point after Rick's reply: On Friday night, my scope was pointed low to the SW (Venus and Saturn) for about 30 minutes total during the...
Rick and Gene: Thanks for the detailed replies. It is likely I was overly cautious, on account of being inexperienced. I will try to be a bit more liberal and...
... <doobahh@y...> ... I am looking for quite a while to buy an UHC filter, and my first choice, after much reading was the Astronomik UHC. The trouble I have...
I have an XT8 & LX90 and am considering purchasing the XT10(i). I considered the LX200 10" but it's to heavy for me. Should I wait till they resolve the...
Hi All I originally stumbled onto my new 2" compression adapter from Greg Diehl (Hac the Sac)'s Web Page. At first I thought I would just like to have my 2"...
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