Space Forum / Astronomy / November 2003

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I was looking at the moon earlier and i was thinking,
Is there a way to measure teh magnitude of the skies above us?
I live on the Isle of Wight, and i was jsut wondering what it would be
Stuart

Hi have a Celestron Radial Guider and a Meade 1.24" Flip Mirror.  How
can I connect the two together?  What kind of adapter do I need?

  Thanks Craig for the clarification that the transmitter
frequency for all transmissions to Pioneer 10 was the same
and produced by a circuit that multiplied 96 in the early
days;48, later, times a very precise 24 MHz  local oscillator

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I currently own an LX10. I've been looking at an upgrade to something
larger, maybe 11, 12" or larger SCT.
Just got December 2003 Astronomy magazine and looked at the reader gallery
with dozens of Mars photos, the kind of thing I'm interested in. Are they

The York AS is holding a workshop aimed specifically at "new" telescope
owners after Christmas (details below).  The aim is to explain the basics,
and more advanced areas if required, and show people the best way to use
their new scopes and get the best out of observing with them.  ...

I wonder if anybody has an Excel (7 or up) worksheet in which I can
calculate the longitude, latitude and phase of the moon for any given date,
time and location.

On Friday, November 28, 2003, at 06:16 PM, Paul Zielinski wrote:
andrew laidlaw wrote:
Gentlemen,
Before responding to several outstanding mails I'd

Do any normal people contribute to this ng, or is it pretty much reserved
for nutcases and crackpots?
Frank

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I have been following this company called GCT for a few years now.
They claim to be working on technology capable of controlling gravity,
and after studying their site I have to say it does make sense in a
way.

I have a meade 10 inch the tube being the sono cardboard type. I was
thinking of replacing it with an aluminum tube mainly for the looks. Anyone
have any suggestions on what to look for in a tube since they seem to vary
price wise with each lookup/

At last, orion optics have brought out new reflectors with longer focal
length tubes. Ideal for those of us who enjoy the moon and planets.
Now they are manufucturing 6inch F/11, an 8inch F/8, a 10inch f/6.3, etc in
their Europa, GX and DX range of newtonians.

Friend of mine has a meade Starfinder 8 inch with EQM. When he goes to sight
in an object there is a certain amount of backlash which he has to
compensate for by putting the image on the other side of the field of view.
Can this be corrected somehow?