Re: Richard's Answer: posted to share...
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season,
Richard, I wouldnt rag you for that. I thought that was an exellent
post on eyepiece selection.
Now, being too easily confused with Hare Krishna at sidewalk
sessions, about that I
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Richard's Answer: posted to share...
Richard Sent me the following really helpful message, then asked me to
post it so that "Attilla can rag" him. Looks like it's open season,
Attilla! ;-)
And thanks very much for the advice
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Re: Drop 10mm Speers for Pentax XL 10.5mm?
Oops. I cut an pasted the wrong link. I mean this one:
http://www.excelsis.com/vote/astro/eyepieces/index.html
May your wave-front errors be zero.
-ad
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Drop 10mm Speers for Pentax XL 10.5mm?
Photon man wrote about buying a used 10.5mm Pentax XL for
cdn$350.
Hmm. Efstonscience in toronto lists the 10.5mm Pentax
at cdn$449.00. Eagle Optics sells it for us$238 (about cdn$424
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Ricardo, ( or others ), yer advice requested...
Richard, are you pitching for some kind of group photo or what!?
Once you've recovered from your group hug, and if you're not too
fragile yet, might I ask you for a bit of eyepiece advice? ;-)
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Click it!
In a similar vein as Mike's MP3, but for persons who might be away
from their computers, and might still wish to use their own voices
to sing an irreverant Monty
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Re: [amasot] Re: And then there were 3!!!
Yes Yes you give these people an inch they take the whole bloody lot! ;)
Now you think I could find a halfway decent shrubbery pic? NO! useless
internet, virtual trees I found, vast libraries of
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Re: [amasot] Re: And then there were 3!!!
Hey Richard,
With all that booze you'd be a Knight who said Hic.........right then on to
business.......I would like a ....SHRUBBERY!!!
Wow a -5 meteor cool I wish I would have stayed up longer, I
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Re: Free at last...
So good to see you here, Ricardo of Harding. Well met!
And so, with Janice online as well ( welcomed her locally ) , now we
are 5! Heck, with numbers like that, we might just be able to muster
up
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And then there were 3.1!!
This sounds like a fun place - my 3.1 inch Vista & I are in!!
For my first official act as a member of this discussion group, I will
get me to the nearest Roger's outlet before the moon is next new
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All kinds of sky events...
In response to the Knight who up until recently said "Ni!":
When you saw that amazing halo in the daytime, too bad you didn't have
one of those chrome hubcaps that people use to take all-sky photos.
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Re: And then there were 3!!!
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degrees
Indeed. Halos are neat. They come in many varieties. The coolest
one I've seen was during the day. It was a cold winter day. It
was nominally clear but there was thin fog all over the
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Re: And then there were 3!!!
Welcome, Oh Knight, to this extremely small, but enthusiastic enclave
of observing buffs! Be most welcome, Mike of Wirths, for thine good
reputation preceedes thee...
MINI OBSERVING
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long range weather forcasts?
Anyone know a web page with good long range weather
forecasts for ottawa?
If there is one, I'd like to try getting the calendar items
to automatically link to the right long term weather forcast.
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And then there were 3!!!
Hi there,
I'm new to the region and am anxious to find an astronomy group that
isn't into bullshit politics and ego trips... I think i have found
the right place! ;>)--
-Ni!
Mike the anarchic
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Feb 26th - Belated Observing Report
Monday Feb.26th/2001
Sess# 276 7:30 - 10:30 Farm Road lm=6.0 s=7 clear -11C
Observing session, by myself, to test out Janice's f/5 80mm Short Tube
Scope, at a darker site. I used the newly
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Re: Why Crescent Moon Icon for March 7th?
It seems the time machine used for predicting cloud cover
has gotten mixed up with the time machine used for
predicting moon phases. I shall have to pour cold water
over both of them.
Thanks for
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Re: Local Girl Scout Session Cancelled
I
Too bad about the weather.
However, next time you and Jan are out volanteering as individual
gentle astronomers, feel free to invite your gentle astronomer
freinds along for company (if you feel
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Re: Nice pics
OK, Attilla, I uploaded a few of my sketches to this Group in the
directory at the following address:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amasot/files/Astro%20SKETCHES/
I'm hoping this might encourage
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Local Girl Scout Session Cancelled
A local astronomy telescope viewing for girl scouts that Janice and I
were going to attend will be cancelled due to weather conditions.
Snow and wind will make it impossible for us to give a sky
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