Re: Free poster for outreach?
RASC ottawa has a large portable display wall. They've used it at
science fairs. You poster would be approprate for that wall. I don't
recall who at the rasc maintains such, but Chris Teron probably
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Attilla Danko
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#34827
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Free poster for outreach?
Hello Ottawa astronomers,
I've been going through all the stuff to put on my walls and I came across
a large poster that I really like but have no wall space to use. Good
overview of the planets,
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PolyWogg
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#34826
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Re: Observing the Geminids tonight in the east end is a GO!
Update: ?I’ll arrive at about 10pm
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Pierre Martin
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#34825
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Re: Observing the Geminids tonight in the east end is a GO!
Hi Gordon!
Good to hear! ?Hopefully you can make it. ?It’s suppose to be a bit windy so I’ll likely setup further down that road, along the row of trees - in a spot where there are no hydro
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Pierre Martin
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#34824
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Re: Dobs, 3D printing, and optics...
Paul,
I’ve still got three 3D printers (gave one to my brother recently). I’ve
used them to print a few things for astronomy, but more importantly I think
for you is I also had the chance
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Graeme Hay
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#34823
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Re: Dobs, 3D printing, and optics...
This one got a ~1.3 page write up in the Jan 2023 Sky and Tel and was reviewed quite favourably.
Rick
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R WAGNER
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#34822
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Re: Observing the Geminids tonight in the east end is a GO!
Interesting! I may show up. I will send a follow-up if I do. :)
—G
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Gordon Dewis
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#34821
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Re: Dobs, 3D printing, and optics...
In my internet travels I did see this design that might be of interest if you haven't seen it yet. As a bonus, it appears to have a bit of a community which I find is very useful for big
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Steve Attfield
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#34820
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Observing the Geminids tonight in the east end is a GO!
Hello all!
I plan to be out to observe the Geminids meteor shower tonight, at a dark sky site east of Ottawa.
It has been a long while since we've done any group observing sessions, therefore I'm
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Pierre Martin
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#34819
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Re: Dobs, 3D printing, and optics...
I shall be interested to hear how your 3d printed scope turns out,
since I would not think to do so.
I've been 3d printing for 6 years. I've printed hundreds of things.
Most of them were telescope
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Attilla Danko
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#34818
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Dobs, 3D printing, and optics...
Hello knowledgeable OAFs:
Soooo, let's start with the fact that I am NOT Mr. Handyman. But I did
recently get a 3D printer, and my goal for 2023 is to build my own scope of
some sort.
I found a
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PolyWogg
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#34817
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Re: HomeBrew accessories for Celestron mounts: need testers!!
Possibly not know to the general OAFs community, Mark helped
rebuild/refurbish the 18" starmaster that Mike Wirths donated to the
Ottawa RASC. It could not have been done without Mark's
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Attilla Danko
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#34816
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HomeBrew accessories for Celestron mounts: need testers!!
Hi.? I am Mark Lord, and am quite active on the CloudyNights site.? I use a Celestron 8" Evo, and have used Covid isolation time to design/build several interesting (open source hardware and
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Mark Lord
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#34815
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Re: Heart and Flaming Star Nebula
A stunning image. I particularly like fine dark-lane detail. The star
colors look ok to me. The stars look like they're showing a small
amount of image rotation. Perhaps your polar alignment wasnt
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Attilla Danko
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#34814
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Re: Heart and Flaming Star Nebula
I reprocessed my image of the pelican nebula in the foraxx pallet.? This was first light with the istar phantom fcl 140 and the back focus is off.? The nebula looks good but the stars are off.
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gregz12@...
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#34813
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Re: LEONID METEOR SHOWER ALERT
Hello all,
I wanted to add that this may be the most active year for the Leonids (assuming that the prediction for the outburst is correct) until the 2030s.
Lets hope for clear skies!
Pierre
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Pierre Martin
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#34812
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Re: Light pollution Masson area
Hello all,
Like many of you, I noticed the massive glow illuminating the clouds too. ?For some reason the cannabis green house seems to get a whole lot brighter at certain times of the year. ?The
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Pierre Martin
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#34811
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LEONID METEOR SHOWER ALERT
Earth is approaching the debris zone of Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, source of the annual Leonid meteor shower. Forecasters expect a minor peak of 15 meteors per hour on Nov. 17th (~2300 UT), followed by
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Pierre Martin
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#34810
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Re: Light pollution Masson area
It is a massive $100M Canabis production plant/greenhouse.? Lights (orange glow)? upwards. Yesterday it was visible from very far North (at least 50 km) and higher local intensity than the city of
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marco Vanderkooij
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#34809
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Re: Light pollution Masson area
Hi…
I saw a discussion about it amongst some geocacher friends on Facebook yesterday or today. Their comments were it seems to have gotten brighter. A photo taken from Orleans (I think) that I saw
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Gordon Dewis
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#34808
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