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Posts Made By: Glenn Gordon

November 22, 2004 05:01 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Digital Setting Circle Interface

Posted By Glenn Gordon
Hi,

Can anyone tell me who manufacture an interface which would go between some US Digital Encoders I have on my scope and a planetarium program running on a palm pilot?

Thanks,
Glenn

April 5, 2005 02:50 AM Forum: Equipment Talk

DSC Calibration Question

Posted By Glenn Gordon
I added DSC's onto my dob. I am running a Bbox equivalent encoder interface and a PDA running "The Sky Pocket Edition" software.

After I do my aligment and have no trouble locating DSOs, however the planets are not where the PDA thinks they should be; on the ecliptic plane but an hour or so ahead. I am trying to figure out if this is a time zone or daylight savings time issue caused by the PDA's internal clock.

Another issue, when I select an object from the database, I have an option to slew to it using some graphic bars that get smaller as I get closer. However the RA is off by 180 degrees and the Dec is off by 120 degrees. Any thoughts on that issue?

I am new to DSCs so any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Glenn

October 27, 2003 02:57 PM Forum: Religion

Can Free Will exist - or is it all in our heads?

Posted By Glenn Gordon
Quantum mechanics sets forth a probabilistic framework. But that hardly helps with the question of free-will. Should our freedom just be a matter of probabilities, just some random swerving in a chaotic system?

Are we merely gears in a big deterministic physical machine or are we just some random swerving?

-Glenn


November 7, 2003 06:29 PM Forum: Telescope Making

Truss Material. Aluminum bar??

Posted By Glenn Gordon
Steve,

Using .75" Dia, .049" Wall 6061 Aluminum tubing will work fine for a 12.5" f/5. Here is a link to the one I just finished...

http://www.astromart.com/messages.asp?message_id=99307&page=

Let me know if you need any help.
-Glenn

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November 21, 2003 08:13 PM Forum: Religion

Energy Bill

Posted By Glenn Gordon
What do you think are the most promising alternate energy sources? Hydrogen? Solar? Geo-thermal? Fusion? Zero-point? etc...

-Glenn

November 26, 2003 04:05 PM Forum: Religion

Thought for the Day... 26.11.03

Posted By Glenn Gordon


"Sir, you raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument."
-Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784)

December 18, 2003 07:43 PM Forum: Religion

Re: Andrew S. takes his questions to Equipment Tal

Posted By Glenn Gordon
"I was wondering what happened.

To many windows open.

Any thoughts?"


Andrew,
Not too many windows. There is a glitch in the Astromart software. Lets say you're browsing this forum (not logged in) and you go to post a message. The software takes you to the login window, you log in, and then it takes to to a reply window which is for the EQUIPMENT FORUM, regardless of which forum you were browsing prior.

It would help to avoid postings in the wrong forum if the Astromart programming were corrected so that the user is taken back to the forum that they were actually trying to post in.

-Glenn



January 12, 2004 05:28 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

How many cheap scopes before......?

Posted By Glenn Gordon
After my binoculars, my first scope (still my current scope) was a 12.5" f/5.

I realize this is a large scope for a beginner, but I wanted a scope that would last me a lifetime and I liked the engineering challenges associated with building my own scope.

I am still learning to use it, still learning the sky, and loving every minute of it :-)

Here it is...


February 12, 2004 09:52 PM Forum: Religion

Re: Wondering the same thing myself..

Posted By Glenn Gordon
"Why does it always seem to come down to a "lesser of two evils" vote?"

Jake,
At least you're smart and realize that voting for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil.

Voting for what you don’t want is a “wasted vote”.

Most people don't vote their hopes, they vote their fears.

-Glenn


November 22, 2004 05:53 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Digital Setting Circle Interface

Posted By Glenn Gordon
There is a program called "2Red" which turns the handheld's default colors to red and black, so you can use it at night without sacrificing your night vision.

http://www.in2space.com/2red.html

-Glenn

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