From: Willie Strickland <cwskas@earthlink.net>

Date: August 10, 2009 10:58:01 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] some lunar images

I am in central texas.  I am attaching a few pictures of the scope below.  It belongs to the Central Texas Astronomical Society of which I am a member.

The moon was around 65 deg altitude for those images.  I have a hard time focusing in the dark even with my glasses.  I had never tried the focal reducer with the DMK and just wanted to give that a try last night.  I have plenty of magnification, Jupiter will fill the 640x480 frame without the focal reducer.  Seeing was pretty good it seemed.  I intended to give Jupiter a try, but it was too low on the horizon by the time I got going.

Sorry to be so brief, but I have been up all night and I am getting pretty tired.

Willie Strickland

cwskas@earthlink.net

On Aug 10, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Ray Byrne wrote:

Wow! that's a big scope is it a Dobo design? Where abouts in the world are you i.e. is the Moon low in your sky at the moment? I only ask as with that aperture why did you reduce the EFL it must have been seeing I suppose