Hi, I guess this has been already answered but I'll add my two cents. I own a 8" f7 (home built) and a CG5 is too wimpy of a mount for it. You'll need a...
Hi folks, This is an unusual entry for me – as it does not involve describing my observations through my Lightbridge but through a friend's refractor and a...
-I'm surprised that the 200X per inch mag and .125 mm exit pupil didn't give you some trouble at 800x in the Tak. Kinda tiny exit pupil for my floaters. Hank...
Can someone help? I use Patrick Chevally's excellent Cartes du Ciel (version 2.76) planetarium software. Somewhat surprisingly, while showing the positions of...
Rex De Silva
caranx@...
May 3, 2009 10:56 am
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, it omits No. 4 Vesta. Can anyone tell me if ... Hi Rex I cannot help you with your specific problem but if it is simply that you want to see where it is in...
Hi Andy, Thanks for sharing your observations. For someone who has never experienced the Takahashi on a rock solid mount with first rate eyepieces, it widened...
Oh, it does Bob, it does. With my Stellarvue bino's in my 12" Lightbridge, and the Barlow to make it focus, it is just like sailing over it, and bright. My...
Thanks for the comparison of views. Pretty much the same comparison as what I have seen as well through my 3" Oracle refractor, 8x30 binocs and f5 8"...
Well, we tested my Hubble-Optics 14" mirror yesterday. I was pleasantly surprised to the max! We do not have an interferometer, but our club has a very nice...
Eyepiece Coordination? Let me start out with I have a bad case of auteur fever. I awn an Orion star-blast 6 which astounds me and i have a wish to upgrade.Im...
From: "wallyrush" <wallyrush@...> ... That's pretty much a personal thing, but observing from the side of the scope is what the vast majority of us do....
I would strongly consider the Zhumell 10" or 12" models. See www.telescopes.com You get more bang for the buck, plus those very nice machined aluminum...
... Hi, the information you need is 'how high is the ep at zenith?' then you can find out what observing chair will put your eye at the same height. Obsession...
Anyone have advance information on the perfromance of this scope? Anyone care to speculate? The price is $999, vs. $499 for the standard 1.0 angstrom...
Hi folks, This is an unusual entry for me – as it does not involve describing my observations through my Lightbridge but through a friend's refractor and a...
I think I had posted the first part of the preceeding post before - so to avoid confusion the reason for the re-post is the follow up observations - I have...
... Hi Andy, That is very true. The bigger the scope the more it is "seeing limited". However, not everyone lives in areas of marginal seeing. I get very good...
Good seeing makes an enormous difference. Many years ago I was vacationing in the Adirondocks and the picture window of our hotel room looked out over a lake....
Hello, folks. After being away from observing for a few years, I just placed a order for the Orion Skyview Pro 100mm ED. It comes with 2 EP;s, 10mm & 25MM...
Hi,I have an Otion 6" dob,that came with the same plossl's...I upgraded to the stratus wide-feilds 5mm,17mm24mm..I use the 17 most couse its my fav. (nice...
Hi, This topic is a little OT but anyone involved in photography (and astrophotography) may find it interesting. I was crusing B&H Photo's used store (...
Well Venus, if you don't know it is Venus, is by definition a UFO and has been duly reported as such innumerable times. This is most appropriate since many of...
... Patrick has a Yahoo Group specifically for questions about CdC - 9 times out of 10 you'll find the answer already has been given somewhere over there. ...
... Patrick has a Yahoo Group specifically for questions about CdC - 9 times out of 10 you'll find the answer already has been given somewhere over there. ...
... Hi John B, in your opinion, and I ask because I have come to respect your opinion, where is the boundary between what you see in a large aperture mass...
... Hi Brian, The answer to that question will almost always be no in reference to DSO's. The bigger telescope will almost always win and the 12" Obsession is...
Thanks to all those who responded to my queries re. Vesta. Rex [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Rex De Silva
caranx@...
May 7, 2009 9:40 am
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... This is my experience as well. I did a side-by-side comparison between my 11" Starmaster and 12" Guan Sheng, and the Starmaster had a slight edge. I also...
... I'd also add that proper collimation goes without saying... I've used lots of big light buckets (15" - 25") at star parties that gave nice views on DSO's...
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