Chris: Your images continue to amaze me. They are just terrific. BTW, congratulations on being included in Sky and Telescope again! Keep up the great work. ...
Hi I am considering moving my old orange tube C8 from it's spur gear AC forks to a set of Meade LX5 forks, to take advantage of the worm/pulse tracking and the...
The sky was mostly cloudy this evening. Transparency was very bad but seeing was excellent! The SEB Outbreak has developed into a very complicated system ...
Hi,group, I might be in the market for a new SCT, and I have been thinking of possibly purchasing a Celestron CPC 9.25 XLT starbrite. I have read and heard so...
Yes, you could win a fabulous astro-prize at Shingletown Star Party 2007, which takes place from July 9-16, 30 miles east of Redding, California! You could win...
Who won? :-) Haven't seen any of Rod's exhortations to send in photos in a l-o-n-g time (and I was away for a week), so is it over/cancelled/pending? I suppose...
Richard Feinberg, Editor in Chief of Sky&Telescope, comments again on the IAU's flawed and minority opinion in his July 2007 editorial, available here in PDF...
Whattaya mean "who won"?! It's still goin'...with entries being accepted until 30 June. I expect we'll get a flood of entries in the next week or two? If we...
If the holes match you've got it made. I assume you don't have the Meade fork mount or you would know that already. The alternative would be to remount the...
Hi: Yeah...I might sell that LX5 fork and use the proceeds to help finance a CG5. I mean...nice and steady...good tripod...computer...ability to use ...
Agreed. The minority does not decide for the majority. Besides, going back and saying it never came to pass rarely works, at least not for me. What was done...
We went through the exact same process when the first asteroids were discovered. The first four were discovered 1801-1807, and called planets. Then starting...
Hi pros, I just went over my scarce archive and had some reprocessing on one of my Saturn pictures. This is the best picture I got so far, with this new...
Hi That is a pretty nice picture. It appears to show a little atmospheric refraction as it is a bit blue on the bottom right and a bit red on the top left....
... I was wondering if anyone else has noticed the increase in water vapor in the atmosphere that has severely reduced the historical trasnsparency for all...
Pluto may be a "planet"...but the problem for the IAU is coming up with a good definition of that. It's clear to me--sentiment aside--Pluto is quite different...
I received my new Intes M500 Mak in good order from ITE. I especially appreciate the individual optical tests Mike does on each scope. He also inspects,...
The 9.25 CPC is an absolute STEAL righ now with the rebate. I was looking for a new scope and went with a different configuration because of portability. As I...
A 9 1/4 OTA ain't over 50 pounds. Try 20. Now, a fork mount CPC C 9 1/4 (fork and drivebase and OTA) is about 58 pounds, but it's easily handled by most...
... Just pulling your chain, Rod! :-) It's been too quiet here recently, and my nighttime skies preclude any viewing (fog, clouds, fog, ad infinitum); my...
Yeah...same here. But that's normal for the Gulf Coast durin' the summer. Oh, we get some observin' in, but a summer like 2006? Where there's night after night...
... Orion (<http://www.telescope.com/>) even has a longer bar, 16.5", that will work with any Meade 8" SCT. As I posted in the EQ6 group earlier this year: ...
... "straight"; Synta ... You'd be surprised. Synta has come a l-o-n-g way with their mounts from the original EQ-6; my original sample was simply junk....
... A lot of the furor and fuss over the IAU's "definition" was due to the sneaky way it was carried out. As I wrote earlier today in Usenet's ...
... vapor in the ... for all North ... knew I ... warming. I ... increasing light ... in the ... at the satellite ... transparencies ... 3-4 years ... Exactly...
... with a ... over the ... to them? ... one, is ... On the upside of all this, NASA's New Horizons mission is still on the way to Pluto and has regaled all...
