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Posts Made By: Dwight Bogan

December 8, 2005 07:04 PM Forum: Politics

The inevitable tangent

Posted By Dwight Bogan
A Republican Sex scandal would have been swept uder the rug. People involved would have been either bought off or shutup by getting the dirt on them. Last in order to have a Republican Sex scandal you would need a Democrat to do the planting. Similar to what was done to Clinton only in reverse. I would not put it past the Republicans to have had Monica in their employ from the beginning whether she knew she was being manipulated or not. Something similar was done to Lyndon Johnson in the 60's only at that time the people behind the president got the goods on the Republican perpetrators.

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Dwight L Bogan

December 10, 2005 04:45 PM Forum: APM

TMB 150 f8 Achro

Posted By Dwight Bogan
If you already own a Tak FS102 and are happy with it why would you want to go with an Achromat in the first place. The color error and lack of contrast are going to be first things your going to pick out over the Takahashi scope. If you cnanot afford a larger APO and I take it your not into imaging why don't you go for a Newt such as one of the Starmaster dobs with the Zambutto mirror I think you might be surprised how well one of the larger dobs work.

Here are some links to consider

http://www.starmastertelescopes.com/html/truss-scopes.htm

This is what a larger Apo is really good for.

http://astrophotography.aa6g.org/Astronomy/astrophotos.html

Have fun

Dwight L Bogan

December 13, 2005 06:58 PM Forum: Beginning Astronomy?

binoviewers

Posted By Dwight Bogan
CONUS CON tinental U nited S tates

How's that for a explanation.

As far as you other question is concerned that not everyone buy's a Bino Viewer besides myself I know of only three other people that have them. Mine is the Baader Mark V and one of my Observing buddies also Owns the Baader as well

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Dwight L Bogan

December 30, 2005 08:01 PM Forum: Politics

Bush Border Control: Stadium Lighting

Posted By Dwight Bogan
Now the illegals will be able to cross 24 hours a day seven days and week, and they don't need to carry flash lights either. Most illegals cross during the daylight hours then fan out across southern Arizona at night.

Now all my choice observing sites along southern Arizona are going to be trashed. Going after the employers hiring illegals to replace American workers will never happen because those employers support Republican agenda's kind of a neat catch 22 situation.

Where I work all of our janitorial staff and most of our cafeteria help are people from south of the border some of whom do not speak English and I mean they really don't. You can't tell me that those people are here legally and they all have green cards

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Dwight L Bogan


Rod Kaufman said:

Just when we thought we were done with the wall at the border nonsense, the Bush adminstration is all set to move forward on their ingenious idea for border control: stadium lighting!!! Yup, they want to light the place up. Trouble is, many of the crossings occur during the day.
Mayor Ray Borane of Douglas Arizona states rather bluntly: "Everything is about the border, about controlling the border, but that will never happen."
We need to enforce existing laws and control the problem by going after employers that violate our laws by their illegal hirings of undocumented workers.
The useless idea of needless stadium lighting is another boner republican idea...

December 31, 2005 01:31 PM Forum: Takahashi

Mount Advice

Posted By Dwight Bogan
A forty lb load on the EM200 and your going to be pushing it a bit, but I.m pretty sure the mount will handle it. I know of one person who uses a 10 inch AP mak on an AP600 goto and that tube assembly about 35 lbs I have one so I know.
With the tube assembly and its mount plates and accessories this will tip the scales to over 40 lbs and the 600 goto handles it just fine. You might want to consider the NJP and if your willing to wait there are NJP's that show up on Astro mart from time to time. Another alternative would be the Astro-Physics 900 goto but there is a waiting list unless you can scare one up on Astro-mart. Last there is the Losmandy G11 which is OK for Visual but if you get into imaging your going to have to upgrade the mount with new worms and mounting blocks for the worms. As far as trying to upgrade the EQ6 I would not bother not unless the upgrades cost less than a hundred bucks and less than 40 hours of sweat equity I would not bother you'll never get its money's worth out of it.

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Dwight L Bogan

January 17, 2006 07:40 PM Forum: Religion

Re: Has the Garden of Eden been located?

Posted By Dwight Bogan
If that were so how come the Tigris and the Euphrates are still pretty much where they are today. Same goes for the Nile the Yankse, the Mississippi, Great Lakes and so on. A massive world wide flood, where's all the water? That covered all the land including the Himalayas at over 29,000 ft do you know how much air is at that altitude and how cold it is. Mt Ararat tops out at 17,000 ft. Oh and BTW if you are much above 20,000 ft you are dying, not unless you have an oxygen bottle with you. Those kinds of altitudes in fact anything much over 12,000 ft is not healthy for sea level living people. Suppose you had enough water to cover the entire land mass at those kinds of altitudes. Where did it all go. If you say its all in snowpack think again all the snow and ice melted in the world would only raise the ocean levels by 50ft. Water under the ground. The amount of water in the ground would not even fill up the Great lakes. Lake Superior and Lake Bakai are the two largest reservoirs of fresh water in the world. People sure like to make such incredible claims about an event with even considering the logistics involved.

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Dwight L Bogan

January 20, 2006 05:41 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn 1/19

Posted By Dwight Bogan
Good one Christopher, Was this one taken with your C11 on AP 900 mount?

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Dwight L Bogan

January 23, 2006 03:44 PM Forum: Religion

Bible; Fact or Fiction

Posted By Dwight Bogan
If there is not an inspirational section most book stores have those sections it would probably end up either in fantasy or in the Political sections grin

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Dwight L Bogan

January 31, 2006 04:18 PM Forum: Refractors

FS-128...... value

Posted By Dwight Bogan
I would expect you to get the amount of money you paid for the instrument as a starter. Right now is not the best time to try to sell high dollar equipment I would wait a month or two when income tax return season is in full swing.

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Dwight L Bogan

February 12, 2006 05:19 PM Forum: Politics

Bush Administration Busting Canadian Drugs

Posted By Dwight Bogan
The Republicans and the Bush adminstration want all senoir ro go broke and become destitute in their last years. Gee do I buy my Meds or do I buy food this month. This is what some senoirs have to deal with on a day to day basis. Not everyone who is retired has a pension and a company medical plan to fall back on when they retire. Quite a few people are strickly on Social Security for their own survival. Hope you younger Repubs out their can read the handwriting on the wall. When you get to 65 and beyond their will be nothing for you to rely on in your golden years. Plan on making good choices for your stock picks and your real estate deals. Aslo a good paying job making in excess of 100k a year will be essential. Less than this you won't make it. When the time comes this is all your going to have to live on. Oh keep a gun, two bullets and a bottle of whiskey handy too. You may need them.

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Dwight L Bogan

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