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Re: Sorry for the cloudy skies I'm causing...

David Waterman — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:01:39 GMT

--May 29 I bought new celestron scope.....it rained 26 of 30 days in June was hoping for good weather this July but well THANKS Dave

Re: Sorry for the cloudy skies I'm causing...

geeko boy — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:40:18 GMT

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Robert Alexander ... So you are the one. Grrrrrrr.... ... bruce

Re: Sorry for the cloudy skies I'm causing...

tellurian — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:35:30 GMT

And at a decent price too! I had to get a secondary focuser for my MAK ... it made it a brand new scope! I can even image with it now!! I'd say you will get a

Re: Sorry for the cloudy skies I'm causing...

RICHARD HARDING — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:17:24 GMT

We have to blame someone for the "washout" of sidewalk tomorrow night....unfortunately its you......twenty lashes.......with a hard uncooked noodle!! Ni!!! ...

Sorry for the cloudy skies I'm causing...

Robert Alexander — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:54:14 GMT

I just got a new piece of kit that I'm dying to try out so, of course, there will be no suitable weather for viewing. :-) I just received the focusser I had

Re: Jupiter with Quickcam Pro 9000 and Televue Pronto

Stephen J McIntyre — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:06:57 GMT

Thanks for the tip Rolf. I'll give it a try tonight, even if just to learn how to do it. Hard to imagine though how I am going to squeeze much more out of this

Re: First light WO FLT-132

Stephen J McIntyre — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:37:07 GMT

Nice that you were able to take it out, even if conditions weren't the best. I had serious ground fog in my end of Carp at midnight that shut things down.

Re: Jupiter with Quickcam Pro 9000 and Televue Pronto

Rolf and Linda — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:05:23 GMT

Hi Stephen, I'm glad the workshop paid off for you. One thing I forgot to mention was that at the wavelet stage you can do a shift of the blue and red

Re: Jupiter with Quickcam Pro 9000 and Televue Pronto

Andre Paquette — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:07:23 GMT

Very nice Stephen! Andre ... at 21d. ... http://tech.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/OAFs/photos/view/64e6?b=6&m=s&o=0 ...

Jupiter with Quickcam Pro 9000 and Televue Pronto

Stephen J McIntyre — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:37:36 GMT

Even though the conditions were only mediocre last night, I decided to try and capture an image of Jupiter. Seeing was relatively stable, but there was so much

First light WO FLT-132

tellurian — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:34:24 GMT

I did a very cursory examination of the telescope last night, really just for mechanical soundness and a coarse optical evaluation. Fundamental Specs: 132mm

Re: Mill of Kintail start party: July 25.

Robert Alexander — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:30:42 GMT

... I pretty sure I can, too. Rob Live music -> http://www.WickedGrin.ca: - Fri Jul 18: Royal Oak, Blair @ Meadowbrook, 8pm. - Sat Jul 19: Marina d'Aylmer, 1

Re: Super Handy Cloud Break Tonight

tellurian — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:41:55 GMT

True. I wasn't suggesting that doublets cannot be APOs ... I was just remarking that some people like to think so (precicely because they do not bring "3

Re: full moon sidewalk

RICHARD HARDING — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:35:44 GMT

I'm a strong "maybe". Richard ... From: Attilla Danko To: OAFs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:09:00 PM Subject: [OAFs] full

Re: Mill of Kintail start party: July 25.

RICHARD HARDING — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:31:25 GMT

I can make it on July 25. Richard ... From: Attilla Danko To: oafs Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:03:32 PM Subject: