Silliest Idea for a mode- Dora

Sep 03, 2007 43 Replies

Pat Flannery wrote: : : fixed with a little Squadron Green Putty, : "fixed" and "Green Putty" in the same sentence? Unless, of course, it is like "I fixed the mess Green Putty made when it fell on the part". Otherwise, it is like "military" and "intelligence", or "fiscal responsibilty" and "government", etc. : : I want you to seriously consider why you bought this, and then I want : you to read this article: :

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I believe it was already correctly summarized by Samuel Longhorn Clemments when he wrote on the detrimental effect of mixing cats and human traits. Besides, if you want to rule the world with minimal effort, it is much better to use minions. Scribes have already noted the very detrimental effect of opposible digits in felines on the human race, but they overlook the fact that that would lead to manual labor on the part of said felines, or waiting until the appripriate mutation happened in the ape family once again. Besides, everybody knows that a feline diet of fast food keeps them thin. What felines really want is slow food. Fast food is okay as a game every now that then, but a diet of it is, well, slimming. : : Kill the kitty; get your mind back. : I do not suffer from insanity. I find it to be quite liberating, actually. : : Hopefully, what happened to me won't happen to you. : You won't drop a part into a open bottle of paint and find it several : months later as the paint bottle empties, after spending a hour or so : looking for it on the floor during the model's construction. : Ouch. : : A real Texican would tear that rock apart with his teeth. : Hell, son...David Bowie...excuse me...Davy Crockett, is watching over : you from the ruins of the Alamo. : How do you think _he'd_ deal with a little piece of piss-ant rock that : got in his way ? : Move back to Tennessee? However, your comment about using their teeth might explain some of the dental issues I have noted in the wild populaton. It also might explain why TxDOT is so slow in their building projects as well...

Bruce

253mm f/4 Newt

253mm f/6 Newt

253mm f/15 Classical Cassegrain

253mm f/9 Ritchey Chretien

106mm f/5 APO (guidescope )

Assorted cooled CCD cameras and AP1200GTO and AP900GTO Mounts And I still have the original Parks Superior Mount that the 253mm f/6 was mounted on.

Bill

You are my new hero ;-)

ST 80, C 8, C 11 on a G 11, and now the DS 10 newt. Visual observing almost exclusively. Waiting for a JMI focuser for the DS 10, so I can use my

2" EP's. For a 1987 AC drive, it tracks well. I use an AP 8002 drive corrector (still have the photoelectric auto guider 7002 for it !) Going to be a great star party scope !

Weather here has been bad all summer, but have been out six times in the past two weeks, fall clear skies are here. Got to catch the fleeting glimpse...

I am going to image the Moon this week weather permitting.

Clear Skies 8-)

Argh ... you mean a "broke" hero ?

Had a pretty good C-11 on a G-11 with all the Van Slyke goodies and with mirror locks it performed pretty good. But the curved field was pretty bad and my camera at the time was an ST-7 which has a *small* chip. So it was pretty disappointing except for really small and bright things. A C-11 is the best bang for the bucks IMHO.

Here is an example:

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Then after upgrading the camera to an ST11000M and replacing the C-11 with the 10 inch Ritchey I saw significant improvement on faint stuff.

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Kudos. There is no substitute for a *big* newt

As I said I have a big Parks Superior Mount that had a 10 inch f/6 on it. Rebuild it, removing the rotating rings and updating the focuser and mounted it on my AP1200GTO for a while and with the Televue Paracorr the results were quite passable.

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I had one of those too. Got my feet wet with autoguiding using it too. it interfaced nicely with the old Parks mount. But truthfully the G-11 was/is better. In fact, after taking delivery on the AP1200GTO I had to machine a pier cap for it so I was using the G-11 in the meanwhile and the last few sessions with it, and the 10 inch f/6 (horribly overloaded at 65 pounds) produced tracking results of better than .5 arc sec which is actually better than my seeing will actually support.

Indeed it will be !

In North Texas this has been the *worst* spring/summer of record. Rain and Clouds continually for almost 4 months. Argh. FInally the last few nights have been okay, not that the moon is back in the picture of course. But at least I've been able to image.

Soon it will be deep sky

You too !

Regards

Bill

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