SingAstro

what an awfully big waste of time sitting in that tin can eating for 21 hrs.
with no clouds in orbit, he should have brought a china-made scope like the 80ED and look at DSOs!!

rich

What brand and type of refractors are you looking for? There are actually quite alot of models you can get brand new for <$1000. Try Samuel and he can recommend a 80mm shorttube package. I think the Orion ST90mm is also within range although not as good as the 80mm. Why, at that price, you can even ...

Hi VinSnr/YL, Capt Kirk lives in the US and is retired. Capt Airconvent is current Captain of RSS Enterprise... :D Anyway, yeah, its pretty frustrating that there are so many conflicting choices. I like Meade's autostar and would prefer a Meade but comparing between the Matthew's LX90 and your N8GPS...

Hi,
Anyone can give a review of their views of the Nexstar 8 (single forkarm) compared with an LX90 8" as well as the nexstar 8 gps (dual forkarm)?
Worth to get?

rich

i also noted some problems. someone sent me a private message that did not display at all . but as both admin is not full time on this, do give them sometime to juggle between their corporal and us...

hi cc,
as i have pointed out also then, it is most likely the re-entry disintegration of a french satellite that was predicted to enter the atmposphere around that time...
good thing we managed to catch it!

rich

Do check out a very good documentary from the 1980s called COSMOS by Carl Sagan. Its available in DVD and updated in late 1990s before he died. In one of the chapters, he describe the probabiliy of life in billions of worlds. Start with millions of galaxies consisting of billions of stars. Take a fr...

I have used afocal projection by way of a scopetronic adapter to take photos through my telescope. If you can't access singastro database @ yahoogroups, the you can check out my pics here : www.pbase.com/airconvent All taken using either my ETX90 or ETX125 with a Nikon Coolpix 4300 camera (or for th...

apart from the prestige, there is really no real advantage to put a man on the moon. The US already did that, and more than 40 years back. The chinese want to go to the moon at least once as an achievement. as for the space station, that's another matter. imagine a permanent spy station above taiwan...

Jean-Yves and all,
I saw them a few times. But by the time I get the scope and setup, it has disappeared, presumably exploded. Can you describe what it looks like at high magnification through the ETX125?

rich