Space Forum / Amateur Astronomy / July 2007

I'm looking to buy my first scope.  I had planned on getting an Orion
XT8 as a Dob of this size seemed the best tradeoff between cost,
performance, and practicality for me.  However, I may have the
opportunity to purchase a Meade Starfinder 10" in excellent condition

I came across this very curiously shaped object and I was wondering
what the experts on this group made of it.
http://www.martin-nicholson.info/dart/dart3.htm

The fact something like this exists is further testament to the fact
of the subject.  Replace sciences with "social sciences" in the
schools and now Third World countries like India turn out most of the
engineers and scientists.

Find another group to loiter.

After years of wanting to get involved in astronomy as a hobby, I decided to
finally persue it.
Would these be wise investments to get started with?
1. One of those "Celestron Skyscout" GPS thingies that you just point at

the history of allman kind and lifeforms dna names events are encoded
in the arabic zodiac.why?

I took a couple of pictures of the Dumbbell Nebula, M27, a couple of
years apart:
   <http://www.whim.org/nebula/astro/dumbbell20050903.html>
   <http://www.whim.org/nebula/astro/dumbbell20070715.html>

Dear group,
I have spent the past couple of evenings pursuing the stunning emission
nebula NGC 6888 in Cygnus with mixed results. Although successful at
capturing the plethora of stars in the region (nearly 8000 stars in my

For the last few years working on the Messier list has been the
center piece of my observing agenda (whenever possible).
I finally finished the list, and while I plan to go back and look
at various objects again, I am wondering what to tackle next.

Father of science Newton has perceived it (light energy mass-inter
conversion) two centuries before Einstein, but without mathematical
derivation.
The law of inter conversion of mass -energy is basic law of science.

Good day
I would like to hear from people who have used William Optics'
ZenithStar 80 II ED telescope.  I am considering it instead of Orion's
80ED.

I recently purchased a DSI Pro.  Although I can use a PC if necessary, I
also use a Mac and would prefer using the latter if Mac drivers are
available for this camera.  Are Mac drivers available for the DSI Pro?
Thanks in advance,

Einstein’s mathematical excellence and Newton’s insightful perception
of mass- energy inter conversion
Einstein’s mathematical excellence and Newton’s insightful perception
of mass- energy inter conversion

I recently took my first set of LRGB images and now wish to align them.
The problem I have is each LRGB final image is of slightly different size
due to stacking sub exposures and the stacking application croping the final
stacked image of each set.