... - ... it's ... Orion ... you ... Thanks for all the advice everybody. I have ordered Sky Atlas 2000 and will spend more time 'star hopping' to locate the...
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Geoff Gaherty
gahertyg
Feb 1, 2005 12:13 pm
... Orion really charges ridiculously high prices for piers, considering that all it is is a tube with three legs at one end and an adapter for the mount at...
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Geoff Gaherty
gahertyg
Feb 1, 2005 12:28 pm
... This is similar to my experience starting out 45 years ago from my parents' back porch in Montreal. I was able to observe 65 Messiers with my 4.25"...
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Geoff Gaherty
gahertyg
Feb 1, 2005 12:45 pm
... My recollection from the last time I visited the UK, nearly 20 years ago, is that there was a lot of use of low pressure sodium lights, those ones with the...
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mrbitsy
Feb 1, 2005 12:47 pm
I hope this is a reasonable question! I use my best (left) eye for looking through the eypiece, but I am not able to close my right eye! This really dims the...
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mrbitsy
Feb 1, 2005 12:48 pm
... Yes, the scope came with a 10mm and 30mm. I guessed these were not the best quality so I have purchased a 12 mm Radian, 40mm meade 4000 Plossi and Meade...
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Geoff Gaherty
gahertyg
Feb 1, 2005 1:01 pm
... If you can possibly do it, cancel the 40mm!! It will be almost useless in your scope because of its short focal ratio. The lowest practical power of a...
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buck8one2
Feb 1, 2005 1:04 pm
Hi Ray Buy a pair of those clip on sunglasses that flip up. Then remove the left lens and blacken the right lens with magic marker or paint, you get the point....
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Geoff Gaherty
gahertyg
Feb 1, 2005 1:05 pm
... With practise you can learn to ignore what you see with your non-viewing eye. But you can buy an eyepatch at your local chemists (drug store for North ...
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Chuck
cscappaticci
Feb 1, 2005 1:10 pm
That's a good point Geoff, I believe some of the U.K astronomy retailers sell a light pollution filter that just filters out the low pressure sodium light...
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Rick Jack
jack11973
Feb 1, 2005 1:12 pm
Clyde, I was just kidding...I sure hope you do find the time to take your scopes on road trips to enjoy the sky the way you should be seeing it. I feel sorry...
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Chuck
cscappaticci
Feb 1, 2005 1:14 pm
Absolutely! With a 24mm Panoptic, your 12mm Radian and your barlwo, I'd say you're set for eyepieces. They're all keepers even if you upgrade scopes in...
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Ldstryker@...
kyphoron
Feb 1, 2005 1:23 pm
Being relatively new to the hobby myself I feel your pain. I have been in the hobby 1 1/2 years now with a serious scope. When I started I could only find M...
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buck8one2
Feb 1, 2005 1:56 pm
I have to agree with Paul. For me the hardest part while just starting is understanding the scale between charts and the sky. With practice and a pair of wide...
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Geoff Gaherty
gahertyg
Feb 1, 2005 2:05 pm
... I'm pretty sure we _all_ went though this at some point. I have pretty good observing records from my early days, and still remember just hoiw difficult...
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John Bambury
ausastronomer
Feb 1, 2005 2:05 pm
... I agree 100% with Geoff, the longest focal length eyepiece I would care to use in an F5 scope is about 30mm. In addition to that the 40mm Meade 4000 is no...
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ronbee
ronbee77
Feb 1, 2005 2:59 pm
... not ... can ... If I ... this ... else ... Hello there Ray, I highly recommend an eye patch and join the "ranks of the pirates" ;-). Before I got it, I...
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Florian
Florian_Boyd
Feb 1, 2005 3:07 pm
... That's the best part! ;-) -Florian...
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jamesd43081
Feb 1, 2005 3:24 pm
Right, my Tak 7.5LE, and under good skies the 5LE work extreamly well; downside, the eyepieces each cost as much as the scope. Inexpensive eyepieces work well...
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ubergroovin
Feb 1, 2005 4:16 pm
do you mean 10mm and 25mm? the orion version of the same scope ships with 25 and 10, 30 is not a common focal length included with a scope. I was going to...
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ubergroovin
Feb 1, 2005 4:16 pm
... viewing eye. ... North ... pirate! ... ARRRRRRRRRR! even scopestuff mentions that their eyepatch (about $5) is not for use by pirates. Good old Rite Aid...
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mrbitsy
Feb 1, 2005 4:17 pm
... more". ... I'll pop down the chemist and have a look - I don't mind playing a pirate! Ray Keattch...
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mrbitsy
Feb 1, 2005 4:17 pm
... Good suggestion, I;ll have a look at some. I have to squint really hard to get my right eye to close but then my left eye is nearly closed as well! Ray...
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rfclef@...
rfclef
Feb 1, 2005 4:18 pm
In a message dated 2/1/2005 4:48:52 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, ray.keattch@... writes: Anyone else suggested a good solution for covering one of the...
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starhopper44
Feb 1, 2005 4:18 pm
I tried an eyepatch over a period of time which required me to be going indoors frequently during my viewing sessions, in trying to preserve my night vision in...
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mrbitsy
Feb 1, 2005 4:18 pm
... the ... Right, The 40mm is still on back order so I just cancelled it! ... I thought going for a low power eyepiece would be good for finding objects...
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sjohnson@...
sjohnson2843
Feb 1, 2005 4:23 pm
I tried an eyepatch but had trouble with it in terms of the band that goes around your head. I could never get the band to sit in one place and found it...
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ronbee
ronbee77
Feb 1, 2005 4:24 pm
... This is an excellent point Jay pointed out, Ray that I had forgotten since I hardly do DSOs these days :-(. Came in handy indeed even when looking at the...
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ronbee
ronbee77
Feb 1, 2005 4:27 pm
... that goes ... and ... So, I ... of these ... Assuming your right eye is the seeing eye, try making sure the band goes around and behind the left ear,...
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bujin92001
Feb 1, 2005 4:31 pm
Hi Kevin... I'm using a Starlight H9 camera and the mount is a G11. I want to get a wider field than what I'm getting now with the C6 but (and I may be nieve...
