From: Ray Byrne <ray@in4media.co.uk>
Date: August 10, 2009 11:10:12 AM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] some lunar images [2 Attachments]
Willie I'm intrigued but you go and have a good old kip (London/English slang for sleep) and I'll catch up with you on this. BTW I find you're name familiar what other groups are you on? My word I've just look at your attached scope pix - your secondary is bigger than my Apo that's one hell of a beast and you obbo looks amazing too makes my 2.1 metre dome look like an outhouse :o]
On 10 Aug 2009, at 17:58, Willie Strickland wrote:
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
ATB
Ray Byrne
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