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April 6, 2007 02:58 AM Forum: Film Astrophotography - Imaging and Processing

Same-Scale DSO Collage

Holy cow, what a great picture! Film exposures, what's that? I'm kidding of course. Fantastic! Pete

September 13, 2007 01:27 PM Forum: Insects - Flowers and Other Small Stuff - Photos

Nice picture David! Back in 1981, I was hang gliding in southeast Oklahoma and was at about 3000' above the ground in a thermal and looked over and saw a grasshopper flying right next to me. It apparently got sucked up from the ground into the same thermal...I've never seen a grasshopper with such big eyes!

September 17, 2007 04:03 PM Forum: Meade

Meades lxd goto mount.

Posted By Pete Brayton

Rick,
You can go to the Meade website (www.meade.com), click on the Customer Support link on the left side of the screen and then click on Manuals. Scroll down and you'll see the link to the LXD75 manual.

October 16, 2007 04:09 PM Forum: Off Topic Discussions

Radical Animal Rescue Groups

Posted By Pete Brayton

A friend of mine was trying to give away some kittens for free. He had several takers...some of which were people who owned large snakes and wanted the kittens to feed their snakes! He decided to not give them away for free and had to charge a nominal fee to keep the snake lovers at bay. What with the Michael Vicks of the world, maybe a little background information on would be pet owners is a good idea.

February 13, 2008 06:55 PM Forum: Beginning Astronomy?

sharp at higher power

Posted By Pete Brayton

Thomas,
How do the images look at low power? Are they clean and sharp or still a little fuzzy? When you focus with the 6mm, is the focuser racked in/out all the way with no further room to go? If so, you might have to move the main mirror forward or backward in the tube...not a fun thing to do! Also, have you checked the collimation of your mirrors. That might be the biggest issue and I would look into that before I started moving the mirror around. I had an Orion 8" reflector that had good optics, so I doubt if you have a bad optical system. I hope this helps some.
Pete

March 19, 2008 06:18 PM Forum: Politics

What is really important?

Posted By Pete Brayton

Amen brother!

March 20, 2008 02:51 PM Forum: Meade

7" MAK coatings

Posted By Pete Brayton

Steve, check the under side of the OTA near the back end. I think they put the stickers there sometimes.

April 8, 2008 08:07 PM Forum: Beginning Astronomy?

What does "ED" mean?

Posted By Pete Brayton

Bill, good question. "ED" is a type of glass used in refractors. Specifically, "ED" stands for "extra-low dispersion" glass which produces images that do not suffer (as much??) from chromatic aberration. Chromatic aberration is the inability for light of different colors to focus at the same focal point. Pete

November 25, 2008 04:45 PM Forum: ASTRONOMY

Eyepieces for PST?

Posted By Pete Brayton

I have used my regular eyepieces with my PST. The Cemax eyepieces apparently are designed for the PST but, I don't think that they are necessary. Just use what you have and if you don't like the results, you can switch. I have a Celestron 8-24 mm zoom eyepiece that I use, but it shows a lot of vignetting at the lowest power.

January 4, 2009 05:33 PM Forum: Meade

Problem with #497 Autostar

Posted By Pete Brayton

Have you checked into Weasner's ETX website? He provides lots of info and might have a suggestion.

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Same-Scale DSO Collage

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Meades lxd goto mount.

Radical Animal Rescue Groups

sharp at higher power

What is really important?

7" MAK coatings

What does "ED" mean?

Eyepieces for PST?

Problem with #497 Autostar

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