Space Forum / Amateur Astronomy / February 2006

If I just lived about 300 or 400 miles north, look at what I could get! Bid
so far is at $60.00
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-13-1-inch-Coulter-Dobsonian-telescope_W0QQitemZ75935
88387QQcategoryZ28181QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Informationen ueber unser Sonnensystem, die Planeten und Trabanten des
Planetensystems.
http://www.unser-sonnensystem.info/

In December 2004, observers were treated to the flyby of C/2004 Q2
(Comet Machholz), a tailess maximum mag. v4.1, comet with a high
inclination (~34 degs).
Mag v5.1 Comet C/2006 A1 (Comet Pomjanski) is (for northern hemisphere

I have an 8" f/6 dob.  I presently have a 40mm eyepiece for wide field
observing giving me 1.6 deg TFOV, 30X mag, and 6.7mm exit pupil.
Unfortunately, I live in seriously light-polluted suburbs, so the sky
is just too bright (mag 4 on a good night).  Often, I can't even see

It looks like all this week will be "The Pits", it's raining out here right
now. I just hope the plastic sheeting I put on the roof slows down the
weaking of the trailer roof that the owner calls an "Act of God" I call it
to laze to work.

I'd like to find a good northern-exposure-to- the-horizon site near
Portland, Oregon
where there is little or no city light pollution.  Anyone willing to help?
Bruce

Recently I purchased used a GM-8 EQ head, no tripod.
I'm looking it other options than the $400 Losmandy tripod, like the
Meade field tripod, with a Losmandy adapter,can be bought here, for $90.
http://store.yahoo.com/peepersoptics/ma.html

Hello to all
I'm fairly new to this group and astronomy and astro photography in
general. I have tried
to take a few shots of the moon over the years unsuccessfully.The

I'm intrigued by binoviewers, though not to the point of spending more
on them than I did on the scope I'll use them with. In the economy class
choices seem to be:
o Williams Optics

"Madame Tussauds waxworks, the owner of the London Planetarium, has
decided to close the facility as the company shifts its focus from
science education to entertainment."
"The planetarium (renamed the Auditorium) will soon replace its shows

This depicts 10 years of observation of variable xray sources in the milky
way.
http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/xray/

Thursday, February 23, 2006
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press release for all peoples of the world ...
birth of Electrodynamic Blue Star, Global Consciousness!

I'm looking for a telescope that can be easily carried (scope and
tripod/base) and give the widest actual field of view with a 1.25 or 2
inch eyepiece.  I want a quality scope that will give "perfect"
resolution at a magnification of 30x to 40x but 100x is not important

Do you read the nice stuff, the enlightening stuff, or does the cruelty
offered by others turn you off?
I'll admit that I don't check this board very often, and it is because
of the level of rancor among some of you.

I'm trying to find Comet Pojmanski (C2006 A1)... My Starry Night Enthusiast
(SN) show the best time to view is around 5:40 AM in Denver (actually just
west of Denver). SN shows this comet as a 6.53 Mag. Is this something I
should expect to see with an ETX 125 or am I expecting ...