hi Andrew I need your phone number? also what night do you plan on coming over to help me with the wiring on my scope? Thursday I will go see the Keck...
Clifford livermore
cliffstargazer@...
Sep 3, 2008 10:42 am
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Cliff, You can get me at 333-7333, my cell phone and only phone outside work. I to will be at the Thursday event, hopefully, weather permitting, setting up the...
Andrew Cooper
acooper@...
Sep 4, 2008 6:00 am
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I have a Celestron C8, and I would be happy to have a quick and dirty way to collimate it. Orion sells a Cheshire eyepiece which can be used with an SCT,...
Richard Stauduhar
ricks@...
Sep 7, 2008 10:40 pm
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SCT's have only one adjustment that is normally necessary, tip and tilt of the secondary. The usual method is fairly simple and requires no special tools, only...
Andrew Cooper
acooper@...
Sep 7, 2008 11:17 pm
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Won't work, it's a gimmick. It would work if the primary mirror was perfectly aligned with the eyepiece tube, but that is very unlikely - it's probably close,...
Andrew and Marc, Thanks very much for your replies. The appeal of the Cheshire was that if it worked it would allow daytime alignment and would be independent...
Richard Stauduhar
ricks@...
Sep 8, 2008 7:44 pm
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Aloha all The West Hawaii Astronomy Club will host it's regulary scheduled monthly meeting tomorrow night at 7:00pm at the Keck Observatory. I will give the...
Hi Doug, As subject says, thought sending picture to you via this e-mail address might make things easier for you to bring it up tonight. Aloha, Carlton ... ...
carlton lane
carltona27@...
Sep 9, 2008 9:08 pm
1453
Mark T. Senft, DPM 75-5591 Palani Rd Suite 3006 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96740 O 808.331.8485 F 808.331.1333 C 808.936.3338 ************** Psssst...Have you heard...
rockdockona@...
Sep 11, 2008 8:08 am
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S-T-E-L-L-A-F-A-N-E...that's right Stellafane in Breezy Hill, Springfield, Vermont. The Amateur Telescope Builder's Society started by Porter. The "swap...
MSNBC Space news has photo of a planet, 8 times the size of Jupiter and about 10 times further from its sun than Neptune is from ours, which you can easily...
carlton lane
carltona27@...
Sep 16, 2008 1:45 pm
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Hi all, I'm planning on selling my 35mm Panoptic eyepiece on astromart, but I thought I'd give folks on island a shot first. The eyepiece is in good...
... Anyone out there who ... Hi Steve- On the off chance that you did not get the manual (blue book) with the scope - this is a *must* have. You can download...
The LX200 is a decent scope, I have used the 10" and 16" models a fair amount, the LX200 was Meades first real GOTO product and as such was designed to be...
Andrew Cooper
acooper@...
Sep 17, 2008 5:38 pm
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Andrew, Are you there? I'm out in my yard with my scope. Trying to align it altaz... ... From: Andrew Cooper <acooper@...> To: whac@yahoogroups.com ...
I downloaded the manual right away when I bought it. I'm now in the back yard trying to align it altaz. I got a set of Bob's Knobs and installed them. Just...
Just got back for the day and sat down to read my email. Probably too late to help you. Let us know how it goes. Andrew Steve McGee wrote: Andrew, Are you...
Andrew Cooper
acooper@...
Sep 18, 2008 9:11 am
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Well, I was able to adjust the cullimation with my new Bob's Knobs. I adjusted it viewing Polaris, with the scope turned off. I first did it with my 25mm,...
hi Dan as of now will be going up sat to the vis and looks like don will help me to bring the 24 inch. cliff ... From: Dan...
Clifford livermore
cliffstargazer@...
Sep 23, 2008 7:41 pm
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Way Cool buddy!! I will see you at vis. Josh cant make it I saw that your daughters movie was over here in Hilo. Congrats dan On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:41 AM,...
Hi all, In the continuing effort to clear out my closet of unused astronomy gear, I'm selling a Ritchey-Chretien optic set (primary and secondary mirror)....
Planning on being there, rigged for photography this time. Of course actual presence is dependent on things like weather and the other items in my life I...
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