rj wrote: Playing cards were around since before Jesus was born. By now, that's got to be one ratty looking deck of cards. Socks

The Cards ARE but a tool...you are 100% correct, you red white and blue chancre...they are the tools of the infamous brewery of Busch! Their sole porpoise is...

Hello, Today, at work, the subject of the Columbia tragedy came up in conversation. A colleague told me about a website that had a streaming video of a...

I was just looking at the dobsonians again, and had another question. Both the Celestron 10 inch and the Orion 10 inch both say that they have a "maximum...

Some questions about a passage in the site: http://skyandtelescope.com/howto/visualobserving/article_78_5.asp "When an image is magnified by high power, its...

Has anyone encountered this before. When I used a 15mm TV Plossl in a Celestron 70mm f/8 flourite. The image at 37.3 is ok. But when I insert a...

Some researchers believe there's water on the Moon Ref: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/14apr_moonwater.htm?list89139 April 14, 2005: The first...

I can hardly wait till aril 29 to see the movie. -- Hike High Mountains Fish for Wild Trout

Hi Everyone ! Has anyone tried to mate any focal reducer to one of the Orion Maks? What did you find through the eyepiece when you did so? Thanks ! ---...

Do you also miss this very interesting old program ? Was "Dance of the Planets" an order of magnitude better than any other solar system simulator program ? I...

Let's use this aperture 50mm and 70mm for refractor... 50^2= 2500 70^2= 4900 So 70mm has almost twice the area of the 50mm... Now let me use 10mm...

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Folks, I am trying to locate the aforementioned book without any success. I have tried eBay, Amazon and Willman-Bell but no luck. Any clues or leads would be...

Hi-- When "clouded out" I like to read. I was in the public library in my town and found a copy of "Out of the Darkness: The Planet Pluto" by Clyde Tombaugh...

In sci.archaeology, OsherD created a message ID : From Osher Doctorow Nick has a good...

This evening while standing on the shores of lake erie in Cleveland, I noticed a line of lights along the horizion. This was most likely the canadian...

Anyone here have any experience in Parkerizing steel parts for telescope mounts to reduce rusting? I'm thinking about trying it but would appreciate any...

A beautiful sight in a clear twilight sky... Some pictures of the Moon passing below the Pleiades on the 11th...

Hello. I have ascii version of VSOP 87. However, i don't know how to use these numbers. I have searched the web but couldn't find any good tutorial. Does any...

OsherD wrote: From Osher Doctorow Nick has a good point, in that left wing liberals usually do seem to have sympathies with communists and a large...