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Hello, I have a question. The tripod of the meade etx70 is not is good as the etx90. When I want to make pictures with an exposure time of 10 minutes the motor...

I live in Western Washington State where over half of the year is cloudy and rainy. Clear skies are rare most of the year. In which case, I've never found it...

Hi All: I have recently acquired a C8 SuperPolaris and would like to get motorized drives for it. I have searched the web and found that JMI and Vixen make...

"Light pollution to become a statutory offence ... won't apply to airports, bus garages but street lights and nuisance neighbors not exempt... fines to...

I'm working on a project of modeling the stars of the constellations in 3-D; not for their positions relative to Earth, but relative to any given person being...

When I was young (or more likely before I was born) my father, a do-it-yourselfer, built a telescope. This would have been probably around 1955-1960 or so. I...

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"Bill Ferris" wrote Outside the stars are calling but clouds are making me blue You know this winter weather is gonna last until June Lyrics by...

Anyone know where I can buy a 1.25" or 2" focuser that'll properly fit my 60mm refractor? It's a Jason 60x700mm...made in the mid 1980s...made in Japan...came...

I seem to remember, sometime this year, someone here doing a review of that telrad like device, because I was looking at it then and the review was not a good...

Thunderstorms for 3 nights in a row. So much for living in a semi arid place! Terry B Moree Australia

With the Battlecar runing again, I went up to the RCSD BOD meeting last night for the first time since just before the old "Beast" of a truck died on me. They...

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This is the same basic design as the Hi-orthos. This is how they keep eye relief at a bare acceptable minimum. I didn't know these existed. And to think I just...

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This spacecraft will be imaging the surface of the moon. How powerful is its cameras, and will it be able to detect any of the junk left from apollo missions?...

I pick up my brand new 10" LX200 saturday..... sorry but I am afraid the netherlands will have no clear skies for a little bit longer (last couple of weeks...

I wasn't sure how to put the question, but others have reported it too: sometimes while observing something thru the eyepiece, I see what looks like molecules...

the last couple of weeks have been foggy and completely clouded. tonight we had a clear night, so I placed my scope in the yard (ETX105) to let it cool. around...