advice on planishperes

I've been given some money in my paypal account from revver and am
thinking on buying some stuff. I noticed a planisphere at barnes and
noble localy that they had at $25 and i've seen a differetn one on ebay
for $15. can someone suggest if one or another is better?

Tater wrote:
I've been given some money in my paypal account from revver and am
thinking on buying some stuff. I noticed a planisphere at barnes and
noble localy that they had at $25 and i've seen a differetn one on ebay
for $15. can someone suggest if one or another is better?

For hardcore astro geeks, I recommend the Firefly Planisphere Deluxe
(about $35 to $40 U.S.). It's chock full of information, with a large
image scale. For something more compact and less intimidating, I also
like Sky and Telescope's planisphere (not the Night Sky edition), which
goes for about $15 U.S. It uses the same two-sided technique as the
Chandler planisphere, for those of you familiar with that one, but it
is easier on the eyes than the Chandler, in my opinion. (The Chandler
is somewhat easier to see in deep dark, though.)

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Tater wrote:
I've been given some money in my paypal account from revver and am
thinking on buying some stuff. I noticed a planisphere at barnes and
noble localy that they had at $25 and i've seen a differetn one on ebay
for $15. can someone suggest if one or another is better?

Hi:

Yes. My choices?

If you want a BIGUN, David Levy's planisphere is big and good.

Otherwise, I think the David Chandler Night Sky Planisphere is about as
good as it gets. Many of you may remember Mr. Chandler as the author of
one of the early deep sky observing programs, Deep Space 3D (from way
back in the DOS ages ;-)).

http://www.davidchandler.com/nightsky.htm

Uncle Rod

"RMOLLISE" wrote in message
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If you want a BIGUN, David Levy's planisphere is big and good.


We looked at the Levy, and it is big. However, it didn't have much more
detail than smaller ones, and was just more spread out. Given this, we
bought the Firefly, which has a lot more stars and all of the Messier
objects plus other stuff. Well, I have to admit that my eyes ain't getting
any better, and the Firefly is hard for me to read at night, even with a
magnifying glass. My sons have less of a problem with it. I would like to
give Levy's a try at night, and so will be on the lookout for it at star
parties.

Dennis

RMOLLISE wrote:
Tater wrote:
I've been given some money in my paypal account from revver and am
thinking on buying some stuff. I noticed a planisphere at barnes and
noble localy that they had at $25 and i've seen a differetn one on ebay
for $15. can someone suggest if one or another is better?

Hi:

Yes. My choices?

If you want a BIGUN, David Levy's planisphere is big and good.

Otherwise, I think the David Chandler Night Sky Planisphere is about as
good as it gets. Many of you may remember Mr. Chandler as the author of
one of the early deep sky observing programs, Deep Space 3D (from way
back in the DOS ages ;-)).

http://www.davidchandler.com/nightsky.htm

Uncle Rod

The larger Chandler planisphere is the one I own. I like. It's about 10
years old and the plastic is beginning to deteriorate. No one close to
where I live sells them right now (I've looked), so I foresee a purchase
from Amazon or some astro site on the Web in the not too distant future.

--
Pat O'Connell
[note munged EMail address]
Take nothing but pictures, Leave nothing but footprints,
Kill nothing but vandals...

Brian Tung wrote:
Tater wrote:
I've been given some money in my paypal account from revver and am
thinking on buying some stuff. I noticed a planisphere at barnes and
noble localy that they had at $25 and i've seen a differetn one on ebay
for $15. can someone suggest if one or another is better?

For hardcore astro geeks, I recommend the Firefly Planisphere Deluxe
(about $35 to $40 U.S.). It's chock full of information, with a large
image scale. For something more compact and less intimidating, I also
like Sky and Telescope's planisphere (not the Night Sky edition), which
goes for about $15 U.S. It uses the same two-sided technique as the
Chandler planisphere, for those of you familiar with that one, but it
is easier on the eyes than the Chandler, in my opinion. (The Chandler
is somewhat easier to see in deep dark, though.)


A sampling of some of the available planispheres since the 1950s can
be seen he

http://thadlabs.com/ASTRO/Planispheres/

"Tater" wrote in message
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I've been given some money in my paypal account from revver and am
thinking on buying some stuff. I noticed a planisphere at barnes and
noble localy that they had at $25 and i've seen a differetn one on ebay
for $15. can someone suggest if one or another is better?


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This site, sponsored by Canon, has all sorts of paper items -- a big section
on origami -- amazing:
http://cp.c-ij.com/english/3D-papercraft/

Hello,
I'm Olli from the google discussion groups and thanks you're been very
helpfull.
When i ask the opinion from very know amateur astronomers like (Leo
Aerts , luc Debeck, Dominique Dierick, Etc from(belgium) they all have
own an C9.25 and some off them still have. The all pretend to have seen
extremely good views and also talking very good pics with it! Also Rob
Lefeber from the netherlands who's very known over there told me that
of the 20 people who has the C9.25 are very pleased with it and never
had a bad one. In the past there could be a bad one in the C8 but not
in the C9.25. Your professional opinion is also welcome ! From the 4 or
5 people (good amateur astr) i've had on the phone would advise me the
C9.25 or the new 10 "lx200 R!
and this on an HEQ6PRO because only use for visual. What would you
chose between those two and what is your opinion of the lx 200 r 10 "?
My expectations are high on sharpness and contrast! I Are the planets
like saturn not warmer in color in the C9.25 or an maksutov than in the
Lx200 R?
I think in the Meade the planets are whiter or am i wrong? because i
like these warmer colors!
Thank you very much!
Greetz
Olli

On Jan 7, 5:29 pm, "Joe S." wrote:
"Tater" wrote in message

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I've been given some money in my paypal account from revver and am
thinking on buying some stuff. I noticed aplanisphereat barnes and
noble localy that they had at $25 and i've seen a differetn one on ebay
for $15. can someone suggest if one or another is better?

Check it out:http://cp.c-ij.com/english/3D-paperc...ad/starchart_e...

fianlly got down to printing this.

not bad! wish the clouds were not in the sky......

not bad! wish the clouds were not in the sky......

Those clouds are the Milky Way my friend. Pretty much all planisheres
have them. 8^)

Errol
pasnola.org