Posts Made By: Jake Jacobson

They really are growing! Taken this morning with a 6" apo refractor and digital rebel.

I was lucky to have good seeing this morning. 652 has become a monster! I noted small whitish filaments within it during visual observation, but they were gone by the time I had the camera hooked up.



Here is a close up:



-Jake

Another image from today. Could AR0652 get any bigger?
I have been imaging this spot since it was tiny. When it is done, I wll put together a full sequence.

-Jake

I just finished processing this one. Taken with a Digital Rebel and 8" f/5 newtonan. I took one min. exposures for this, and now I realize I should have gone longer.

Comments appreciated!

Jim - Here are some more of Bush's accomplishments to add to your list. Be sure to read them all, as the list is quite long. Very impressive!!!

BUSH'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
* Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
* Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
* Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
* Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
* First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
* First president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
* First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S. history.
* After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
* Set the record for most campaign fundraising trips than any other president in U.S. history.
* In first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.
* Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in U.S. history.
* Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
* Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in U.S. history.
* Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
* Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in U.S. history.
* Presided over the biggest energy crises in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
* Presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
* Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
* Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest him (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.
* Dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S. history.
* Presidency is the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S. history.
* Members of cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history (the 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleezza Rice, has an Exxon oil tanker named after her).
* Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
* First president in U.S. history to order a U.S. attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation.
* Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
* Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in U.S. history.
* First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the human rights commission.
* First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the elections monitoring board. 
* Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history.
* Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
* Withdrew from the World Court of Law.
* Refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
* First president in U.S. history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. elections).
* All-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
* Biggest lifetime campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
* First president in U.S. history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
* First U.S. president to establish a secret shadow government.
* Took the biggest world sympathy for the U.S. after 9/11, and in less than a year made the U.S. the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in U.S. and world history).
* With a policy of 'disengagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
* Fist U.S. president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view his presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
* Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
* Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
* Failed to fulfill pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive.'
* Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capital building. After 18 months has no leads and zero suspects.

I shot this one this past weekend using the Digital Rebel and my Synta 8" f/5 newt at prime focus. This was my first time out with an autoguider (208xt), and it was really nice to set the camera for 10min exposures and just "walk away".

Comments appreciated!

-Jake

Hopefully someone here can help me.

I'm trying to find out the # of teeth on both the EQ1 and EQ2 mounts - I am looking to retrofit a drive to an older mount of mine.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Q: What's the difference between Vietnam and Iraq?

A: Bush had a plan to get out of Vietnam.

This is my second attempt at this region - my first time around wasn't too hot. :S

This is a total of 5 images 10mins each at ISO400, taken with my 8" f/5 newt.

Comments appreciated!

-Jake

Another image from last weekend. Taken with my 8" f/5 newt and Digital Rebel.

Comments appreciated!

-Jake