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Posts Made By: Steve Little

July 9, 2002 12:50 AM Forum: Equipment Talk

Help for 10", 12" LX200, C-11

Posted By Steve Little
Drew this up awhile ago. It's the plate from a 10" wedge.

Steve

May 19, 2004 07:03 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Best Eyepieces For New Televue 85 User ?

Posted By Steve Little
Me too! smile
Just received the 85 yesterday and ran all my eyepieces through it last night.
High power, I have the 3-6 Nagler click stop
Next is the Type 1 9mm Nagler
Then the Meade 14mm UWA
An old 20mm Nagler Type 2
The 50mm Plossl was a little much, I'm thinking the 35 Pan, or 31 Nagler would be perfect to round out a set that would fit in the soft case with the scope.

It's an awesome little scope!

Enjoy,
Steve

June 2, 2004 06:56 AM Forum: Equipment Talk

Suggestion for filter for a Televue 85 ?

Posted By Steve Little
OIII works the best for me and my TV85. Not enough aperture to see much of an improvement with nebular filters. The narrow band and wide band filters do little to nothing even in dark skies with the 85, but the OIII does help "pop" out more details.

YMMV

Steve

June 14, 2004 02:50 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Need AAM setup help

Posted By Steve Little
Hey Ben,

The AAM is essentially the same as the JMI NGC Max. I didn't see an AAM manual at Celestrons site but there is a NGC Max manual at JMI's site.

Just going from memory alt and az should be either a "+" or "-" followed by the encoder resolution (ie: +004000).
The chart... in the description of an object displayed on the unit, there will be a chart number. You can specify either Sky Atlas (SA) or Uranometria (UA) charts for the number to match up with.
Hint: The 4000 tic encoder goes on the RA axis.

HTH
Steve

August 7, 2004 04:48 AM Forum: Equipment Talk

Please help me identify....

Posted By Steve Little
Here's a late 70's early 80's Vixen that looks the same.

Steve

August 22, 2004 05:54 AM Forum: A Day in the Life of the Administrator

Just call me DRACULA/DRACO

Posted By Steve Little
Vlad the "toaster"?

Steve

August 28, 2004 12:07 AM Forum: Politics

Thought for the Day, 27.08.04.

Posted By Steve Little
So if Kerry wins we could be looking at "Surgeon General Dean"?

"...clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. Here I am, stuck in the middle with you...."

Steve

August 29, 2004 07:02 AM Forum: Politics

Bush - the Elitist

Posted By Steve Little
Politicians above a certain level no matter what party are by nature Elitist. Just as CEOs, clergy, professional athletes etc....etc. Wouldn't expect any less out of them.
What about all those people in MA complaining about Kerry jumping in lines, asking for special treatment because he is a US senator.
Oh yeah, the big meal with the "common people" at Wendy's! Then they all climbed on the campaign bus and ate their real meal of fillets and goose liver pate delivered by the local yacht club. Going to be hard to find a non-elitist in politics today, the last one I remember was long ago by the name of Ghandi.

August 31, 2004 11:02 PM Forum: Politics

Seems odd........

Posted By Steve Little
Oh no! It's not my stereotype. I apologize if it came across as that, and I was duped by the media.
The stereotype is portrayed by television in their sitcoms and even in some of the dramatic shows (Law and Order, for one). Also most media outlets portray the "typical NY stereotype" to some extent.
It came from an article I read on delegates trying to find lodging for the convention. They were met with big banners across the front of rental places stating "Republicans no welcome". It also showed want ads in the rooms for let section of the classifieds "No Republicans, but protesters welcome". This article claimed it was widespread.

I just read another article that talked about many hotels in the area removing Heinz Ketchup bottles from their resturants so as not to offend the Republicans.

I worked in NY for 2 years (lived in CT) and met many fine people there. While there were some that fit the negative stereotype they were far from the norm.

September 8, 2004 12:10 AM Forum: Politics

The Budget Deficit:422 billion and counting

Posted By Steve Little
Not as bad as it sounds. Fourth largest deficit dollar figure adjusting for inflation and the seventeenth largest by percentage of GNP.
My car payment is twice as large as it used to be! Funny thing is the car costs three times as much as it used to be. Somewhere there I lost a "times as much". Oh, a year longer on the term and interest rates are way lower.
Apples are apples, oranges are oranges and both sides will spin the numbers to their advantage.

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