Posts Made By: Dave Mitsky

December 13, 2008 07:27 AM Forum: LUNATICS

Big Bright Full Moon at Perigee on Dec 12

Posted By Dave Mitsky

Here's a somewhat mediocre shot of the Moon Before Yule that I took afocally through my apertured-masked 80mm f/5 Orion ShortTube 80 achromat and a Sony DSC-S600 point and shoot digital camera.

Dave Mitsky

December 13, 2008 07:49 AM Forum: LUNATICS

Big Bright Full Moon at Perigee on Dec 12

Posted By Dave Mitsky

Here's one without the aperture mask.

Dave Mitsky

December 22, 2008 12:19 AM Forum: SCI-FI

Federation Legal?

Posted By Dave Mitsky

How about the two Stargate series for recycling actors from other science fiction shows including Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Firefly, Farscape, The X-Files, Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers, Earth 2, The Outer Limits, and The Twilight Zone.

Dave Mitsky

December 31, 2008 05:05 AM Forum: Solar System Observing

Venus, the Moon, Jupiter, & Mercury on 12/30/08

Posted By Dave Mitsky

Here's another shot from a different vantage point and with no zoom applied.

Dave Mitsky

December 31, 2008 05:53 AM Forum: Solar System Observing

Venus, the Moon, Jupiter, & Mercury on 12/30/08

Posted By Dave Mitsky

It was still fairly bright when I took this photograph of Jupiter and Mercury. Mercury lies to the lower left of Jupiter and is rather hard to see.

Dave Mitsky

December 31, 2008 05:57 AM Forum: Solar System Observing

Venus, the Moon, Jupiter, & Mercury on 12/30/08

Posted By Dave Mitsky

And a final picture of the two horizon-hugging planets. Mercury is near the center of the and is just above the upper layer of clouds.

Dave Mitsky

January 4, 2009 09:01 PM Forum: Eyepieces

Televue 15m Panoptic or wf?

Posted By Dave Mitsky

I've also owned both of those models and thought that the 15mm Panoptic was an improvement. I experienced no problem using either one with a 2x Celestron Ultima Barlow lens. Neither eyepiece had much in the way of eye relief.

Dave Mitsky

January 4, 2009 09:03 PM Forum: Eyepieces