PST Question

My PST gives great views. Let's start there.

When I take the EP out and just look in the EP holder, one side of the sun
looks like an old huge pixel image. It's very, very ragged on the left
side. But with an EP, the view is uniform and clear all around the disk.
Is this a defect? Why doesn't it just look unmagnified? Why only on the
left side?

Thanks....just haven't had time to call Coronado.

Doink

"Doink" wrote in message
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My PST gives great views. Let's start there.

When I take the EP out and just look in the EP holder, one side of the sun
looks like an old huge pixel image. It's very, very ragged on the left
side. But with an EP, the view is uniform and clear all around the disk.
Is this a defect? Why doesn't it just look unmagnified? Why only on the
left side?

Thanks....just haven't had time to call Coronado.

Doink,
You might try posting this to the yahoo PST group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Coronado_PST

Bryan
Doink

Doink posted:

My PST gives great views. Let's start there.

When I take the EP out and just look in the EP holder, one side of the sun
looks like an old huge pixel image. It's very, very ragged on the left
side. But with an EP, the view is uniform and clear all around the disk.
Is this a defect? Why doesn't it just look unmagnified? Why only on the
left side?

Uh, you are supposed to use an eyepiece when you use the scope. The PST uses
a rotating multi-sided prism to do its focusing by changing the path length
through the prism as it rotates. That might have something to do with what
you see without an eyepiece. You should not expect any kind of useful image
without the eyepiece in place. Clear skies to you.
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Another idiotic spammer... Sheesh, not even enough guts to post something from
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Another idiotic spammer... Sheesh, not even enough guts to post something
from
an original source. Anyway, its not me.

The spammer is trying to flood news.admin.net-abuse.email and your replies
in that newsgroup help him do that.

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 01:05:58 -0600, David Knisely
wrote:

Another idiotic spammer... Sheesh, not even enough guts to post something from
an original source. Anyway, its not me.

You are responding to software. In doing so, you are helping the
software accomplish what it was designed to do: flood
news.admin.net-abuse.email with thousands of follow-ups. Please stop.

--
Kevin S. Wilson
Tech Writer at a university somewhere in Idaho
"When you can't do something completely impractical and intrinsically
useless *yourself*, you go get the Kibologists to do it for you." --J. Furr

to the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro (Ibid
p. 324). What is breathtaking about this is that this is
something that not even Exner had uttered yet, at least not for
dissemination. And she won't until her get-together with Kitty
Kelley in the February 1988 cover story for People. This curious
passage leads one to think that Davis may have planted the seed
from which the Kelley story sprouted.

To go through the entire Davis book and correct all the errors of
fact, logic, and commentary would literally take another book.
But, in line with my original argument about anti-Kennedy
biography, I must point out just two parts of Davis' discussion
of JFK's Vietnam policy. The author devotes a small chapter to
this subject. In his hands, Kennedy turns into a hawk on Vietnam.

Davis writes that on July 17, 1963, Kennedy made "his last public
utterance" on Vietnam, saying that the U.S. was going to stay
there and win (p.374). But on September 2, 1963, in his interview
with Walter Cronkite, Kennedy states that the war is the
responsibility of "the people of Vietnam, against the
Communists." In other words, they have to win the war, not
Americans. Davis makes no mention of this. Davis similarly
ignores NSAM 111 in which Kennedy refused to admit combat troops
into the war, integral to any escalation plan, and NSAM 263,
which ordered a withdrawal to be completed in 1965. This last was
published in the New York Times (11/16/63), so Davis could have
easily found it had he been looking.

In light of this selective presentation of the record on Vietnam,
plus t

the
beginning of what was originally to be the last year of the
Review Board. Smith wrote the piece before the extra year was
granted by Congress. Smith's friendliness with Hersh, seems to
further this. For according to the ARRB's original timetable, the
Vanity Fair piece would arrive at the beginning of its last year
and Hersh's attack book in October, right when the Review Board
was originally set to shut down. This would make a nice pincers
movement with which to smother the Board's serious and
blockbuster work amid sexy smears about abortions and Marilyn
Monroe (Hersh).

In historical perspective, the Times and Safire, and the Post and
Ben Bradlee (who, as we shall see, also embraced Exner) opened
the flood gates to all kinds of National Enquirer type stories
about JFK's private life. Rumors about Monroe, numerous
secretaries, these all started to get tossed about. A prominent
one about to be recycled emerged just a year after Exner. It was
promulgated again by Bradlee's Post via The National Enquirer.

Mary Meyer

Mary Pinchot was the niece of that early conservationist hero
Gifford Pinchot. She married CIA officer, and Allen Dulles
protégé, Cord Meyer. Mary's sister was named Tony and was married
to Ben Bradlee. Mary and Cord divorced in 1956 and he later went
on to become a CIA - associated reporter for various papers
including the Chicago Tribune. In the fall of 1964, while walking
along the tow path of the C & O Canal in Georgetown, Mary Pinchot
Meyer was murdered by being shot through the face. A suspic