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Posts Made By: Milton Wilcox

August 5, 2009 09:45 PM Forum: Birding Optics and Photos

Red Tailed Tropicbird

Posted By Milton Wilcox
Dave, details? Were you panning and at what shutter speed? It sure turned out nice.

Thanks,
Milt

August 7, 2009 11:15 PM Forum: Astro-Physics

I've been bested by an old coot

Posted By Milton Wilcox
Roland, Kudos to you for your patience. This retired engineer seldom admits that he is. My wife, however, is another story, offering up the excuse for any manner of my aberrant behavior from over-analyzing a purchase to wearing socks with sandals. She could start a retired engineer's wives club. grin

Milt

August 10, 2009 04:23 AM Forum: Eyepieces

2 scopes and a DenkII, which EP's?

Posted By Milton Wilcox
Paulo Mesquita said:

I'm aiming at a pair of 24mm Pans. But I don't know what other 1.25 EP's to buy

Paulo, IMO you are starting with the must-have eyepieces for a binoviewer. My suggestion would be to use the 24Pan's for awhile in both scopes before you decide what to get next (if anything). Remember you have the power switches to work with and the only way to know for sure what magnifications they will provide in each scope is to try them.

When I was going through this I prepared a list of star spacings to measure true field-of-view for various combinations. Remember you can also put in one of your single eyepieces to check what you would get if you doubled up.

Good luck,
Milt

September 2, 2009 11:04 PM Forum: Eyepieces

Sell off an Ethos?

Posted By Milton Wilcox
Steve Hollenbach said:
a significant part of that amazing TFOV is not in view. I have to get my eyeball down on the eye lens and look around....certainly other people have noticed this.

Hi Steve,

I love the diversity in this hobby; how two people can both notice the same thing but have completely different reactions.

I actually agree completely with the effect you describe but for me it has been engaging to know that for all the field I can see with a casual look, there is still more waiting if I push my eye in more. Because I hardly ever reach the edge, when I change to, say, a Panoptic, the field stop appears very unnatural.

I have not noticed any difference between my f/7 and f/12 scopes.

My foibles aside, as more Ethoi get out there we will see them begin to trade regularly just like Nagler's do now - for 100's of different reasons. I have a friend waiting for used prices to come down a bit to jump in. But he won't be getting mine...

Clear skies,
Milt

September 14, 2009 05:44 PM Forum: Birding Optics and Photos

Egrets

Posted By Milton Wilcox
Not a bad one handed shot at 3x zoom with a hound straining at his leash...

Having walked my daughter's hound dog, I'm surprised you even got the shot off!. Anyway, very nice reflections.

Milt

October 7, 2009 07:08 PM Forum: Astro Binoculars

Comparison 15x50 and 18x50 Canon IS Binoculars

Posted By Milton Wilcox
Adler feels magnification is more important, and his index is magnification times the square root of the aperture

I agree with Alan (both of you). I owned the 18x version for several years but the IS didn't suit me for serious observing and I ended up mounting it most of the time. IMO, the Miyauchi 22x60 I replaced it with is a far better value for astronomy but unfortunately no longer available.

Thanks,
Milt

November 23, 2009 08:39 PM Forum: Deep Sky Observing

1500th different NGC observed.

Posted By Milton Wilcox
Andreas Saldivar said:
I hope to get to 2,000 by some time in 2011. I love this hobby. There are endless things to see.
Andreas, Congratulations on your achievement - and you sure are correct about it being endless out there. Let's see; if each of the 1173 galaxies you have observed averaged 100B stars, then photons of over 100 Trillion stars have tickled your retinas. Mind boggling.

You should have no trouble reaching 2,000 with 11". I am working on a similar project to reach 2,500 with 10", then I may take a break and revisit old favorites for awhile. grin

Clear skies, Milt

November 23, 2009 08:42 PM Forum: Eyepieces

21mm Ethos

Posted By Milton Wilcox
Herb just posted the price in the TV forum.

Milt

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