New equipment curse

To all amateur astronomers in southwestern B.C. and
Washington:

I apologize. I just bought a neat new piece of equipment,
which means it's going to be cloudy and/or rainy for
the next 6 weeks. Sorry.

The equipment in question is a Losmandy G-11, which
I've put together in the middle of my living room floor
(being single has its advantages... :-) and currently
have my 5" Synta achromat perched on it. It looks like
an overgrown finder scope.

Before you ask: no, I didn't get Gemini. Maybe next
time.

Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..."
ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Hospital/Shafte

Congrats Laura! Now if you new equipment buyers could get together and all
buy at the same time so we could get the bad weather all over with...

Clear Skies

Chuck Taylor
Do you observe the moon?
Try the Lunar Observing Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/
Lunar Picture of the Day http://www.lpod.org/
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"Laura Halliday" wrote in message
om...
To all amateur astronomers in southwestern B.C. and
Washington:

I apologize. I just bought a neat new piece of equipment,
which means it's going to be cloudy and/or rainy for
the next 6 weeks. Sorry.

The equipment in question is a Losmandy G-11, which
I've put together in the middle of my living room floor
(being single has its advantages... :-) and currently
have my 5" Synta achromat perched on it. It looks like
an overgrown finder scope.

Before you ask: no, I didn't get Gemini. Maybe next
time.

Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..."
ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Hospital/Shafte

Congratulation on your new G11,
I have my one now for 3 month and could
use it only for 2 weeks the most, February alone
hat more than 300mm of rain. The mount is a real good
performer, you will enjoy it.

All the best, Rolf.

"Laura Halliday" wrote in message
om...
To all amateur astronomers in southwestern B.C. and
Washington:

I apologize. I just bought a neat new piece of equipment,
which means it's going to be cloudy and/or rainy for
the next 6 weeks. Sorry.

The equipment in question is a Losmandy G-11, which
I've put together in the middle of my living room floor
(being single has its advantages... :-) and currently
have my 5" Synta achromat perched on it. It looks like
an overgrown finder scope.

Before you ask: no, I didn't get Gemini. Maybe next
time.

Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..."
ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Hospital/Shafte

Laura

Congratulations on the G11. Id love to have one. I have the 6" synta
on the G5 mount with a surveyors tripod. The scope still cries out for
a bigger tripod and mount. Good luck with your setup. And yes being
single does have its advantages.

Rich



On 28 Feb 2004 21:36:57 -0800, (Laura Halliday)
wrote:

To all amateur astronomers in southwestern B.C. and
Washington:

I apologize. I just bought a neat new piece of equipment,
which means it's going to be cloudy and/or rainy for
the next 6 weeks. Sorry.

The equipment in question is a Losmandy G-11, which
I've put together in the middle of my living room floor
(being single has its advantages... :-) and currently
have my 5" Synta achromat perched on it. It looks like
an overgrown finder scope.

Before you ask: no, I didn't get Gemini. Maybe next
time.

Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..."
ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Hospital/Shafte

YAHOO!!!

The clouds parted long enought tonight for me to set
the G-11 up in the back yard, bolt my 5" Synta
achromat to it, plug in the gel cell and press some
buttons.

After an initial period of confusion (the controller
appeared to be set for southern hemisphere operation,
confirmed when I came back in and looked inside the
box), everything worked fine. The mount is rock steady
and the tracking is precise. Things just sat there
in the reticle of my guiding eyepiece, even with my
very quick polar alignment (I got the polar scope
with the mount). It was a pleasant novelty to
refocus at high power and not have the image bounce
all over the place.

It will not be difficult to pull off miracles with
this thing. This is gonna be *fun*...

Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..."
ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Hospital/Shafte

In article , Laura
Halliday wrote:

After an initial period of confusion (the controller
appeared to be set for southern hemisphere operation,
confirmed when I came back in and looked inside the
box), everything worked fine.

For some strange reason it appears that many Losmandy mounts are
shipped set the the southern hemisphere. This must be a real
convenience for the 1% of the buyers (or whatever) who actually live
there.

--
Joe Bergeron

http://www.joebergeron.com

On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 19:20:47 GMT, Joe Bergeron
wrote:


For some strange reason it appears that many Losmandy mounts are
shipped set the the southern hemisphere. This must be a real
convenience for the 1% of the buyers (or whatever) who actually live
there.

Give us a break!
We dont have a pole star to align with :P