Bought a used one and aligned it--the gotos were quite accurate however the tracking wasn't all that good. mars at high magnification would drift out of the...
I am trying to find an adapter that would mate the Orion EZ finder dovetail to the Intes 'semi-dovetail' (straight sides). The M603 (6 inch) has two of these...
Good Evening: MaxIM Dl seems to have alot of problems with either down loading updates or initial down load or camera control, mount control..etc....it seems...
Hi,all Jupiter 2012-07-09 21:02 UT CM I  38.5° CM II  40.1° CM III  61.2° http://www.astrohome.net/attachments/ext_jpg/120718052304d0427c212ef2c9.jpg ...
Seeing was excellent this morning. This made up for the rainy conditions The GRS is very pale! The region following the GRS is very chaotic with the...
Seeing was pretty decent this morning as I caught this image: http://www.bcastropics.com/img/gallery/3/Jup_L_15_07_2012_102836_g3_q8-RGB5-set_full.jpg Brian...
currently own a 9.25 cpc edge hd by celestorn. The tripod comes with only 1 1/4 eye piece tray. which does not make sense. Celestron provides you with a 2 inch...
Anyone know what a decent orange tube/brown fork C8 is worth, with the nice triangular, spring steel legs? I'm seriously thinking about dumping my Vixen 8"...
That link worked just fine with no complaints from BitDefender. Wonderful images! Thank you. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Conditions were just incredible this morning. Seeing was perfect despite Jupiter just 30deg above the horizon! The NNTZ Little Red Spot(LRS) shows a...
Guys/ Gals, Have a look at some of the recent solar images (including a Damian Peach) being recorded by amateurs around the world over on the new Solar Chat...
I couldn't resist, A Higgs Bosn walks into a church. The priest says,"we don't allow Higgs Bosn's in here". The Higgs Bosn say's,"But without me how can you...
maybe answered long ago, but couldn't find it... does any one have or have a link to drawings and or photos of the hard stops on the dec axis? I'm still...
Probably my issues are just poor seeing and old eyes but I have undertaken to try to improve the collimation on my Meade 14 for the first time in the 1.5 years...
Weather had been terrible during the past weeks. I was able to scrape just one image today before clouds rolled in. Transparency was very variable this...
Hi,all MARS 20120702 12:46UT http://www.astrohome.net/attachments/ext_jpg/12070607392cdfe71d25635686.jpg Best Wishes, Hong Kong @ Daniel Chang [Non-text...
Seeing was pretty good again but I am still fighting the altitude. The color balance is rough with a horrible blue channel but I thought there was enough going...
A friend, who isn't mechanically / electrically inclined, received a C-11 OTA and the Ultima fork mount from an estate. The OTA was separate from the forks...
In the few days since the Yahoogroup has adopted a new format, all of the posts show each word being the only word in a line, so that in my post shown here,...
does anyone know why they only make a very limited amount of focal reducers? I have a celestron f6.3 but it would be nice if they made an f8 or f7 f5 just a...
