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February 16th 05 03:41 AM
by DL
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Help with DSC setting DEC=0 (Sky Wizard 3) by
Mike Pupeza
How do I set my DEC=0 for great alignments?
I'm just back from the Winter Star Party and it was great. I had good
observing for at least 4-5 hour on 3 nights,...
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A great lunar read by
CLT
Geologic History of the Moon by Don Wilhelms is one of the great reads on
the moon. It has been out of print for ages though. However, a while back,
it was...
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February 16th 05 12:19 AM
by CLT
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Dangers of Remailers by
Alex
The Brits didn't threaten to nuke Boston when the IRA were bombing
London even though there was ample evidence to show that the USA was
funding terrorism. Be...
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Astro Website/Sketchbook Advice Sought by
Sketcher
After a period of neglect I'm about to start filling another
sketchbook with "finished" sketches based on "at the telescope"
sketches. Some of the finished...
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February 15th 05 07:20 PM
by RichA
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Maybe it's time for a luxury SCT? by
RichA
Every notice that SCTs are sort of "middle ground"
when it comes to mechanics/looks? They don't have
the build quality of the APs, TMBs, Questars, etc.
But,...
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February 15th 05 06:53 PM
by RichA
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Polar Alignment by
Eric Johnson
My primary observing site is on the deck behind my two storey home.
Aside from blocking a substantial portion of the northern sky, I have no
way of aligning my...
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Teaching by
Phil Hawkins
Morning All
There appears to be a large difference in available courses on astronomy
in the Southern Hemisphere to what is available in the Northern....
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Fun with Physics by
Tom Kirke
Here is a recent paper posted to arXiv.org, I thought
the title alone was worth a post, and as a bonus at no
extra cost, you get the complete...
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bulk spec and buy chinese telescopes by
thanatos
Chinese optics are good and cheap
Why can't we form buying cartels to go directly to the manufacturers - sort
of like a mE-bay :)
That way any interested...
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Working with the Cassini raw images by
Thomas Womack
I have a cron job on one of my Unix boxes which downloads new raw
images from the Cassini site when they become available.
This means I now have on the order...
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February 14th 05 06:25 PM
by Mark
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Earthshine and the 4-day-old Moon by
orion94nl
Hi all,
On January 14th 2005 I observed the 4-day-old moon with the 4-inch
refractor. In the Solar system section you will find an observing
report and some...
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February 14th 05 06:04 PM
by Mark
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APO cooling down by
Lukman
How is the cooling down of a 5" or 6" apo determined? Is it dependent
of the design? Will an F6 have faster cooling down than an F8 (or F9)?
Lets assume that...
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February 14th 05 05:32 PM
by RichA
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observing jupiter the next few years by
md
hi,
playing with my planetarium software I noticed that Jupiter is very low in the sky this year (I
am at 52N) and will even be lower in the sky the next few...
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New Toy and Friendly Reminder by
Dawn Baird-Chleborad
First, for your calculating pleasure, we have just uploaded a Newtonian
Diagonal Calculator to our website. As my dear partner (and the husband who
better...
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