support history....Posted By Rex Cox |
Is there a way for me to review my support history on Astromart?
Posts Made By: Rex Cox
August 2, 2012 09:02 PM
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AstroMart FAQ
August 3, 2012 01:55 AM
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Star Parties
Okie-Tex...Posted By Rex Cox |
Okie-Tex is a little over a month away! Who, besides me, is going?
August 4, 2012 04:09 AM
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Sports
Astromart OlympianPosted By Rex Cox |
In Olympic competition today, Astromart member and USA shotput thrower Ryan Whiting placed ninth overall in mens shotput in London. Ryan did well in the qualifiying round this morning, but came up short in the finals.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/olympicsnow/la-sp-on-reese-hoffa-mens-shotput-20120803,0,626374.story
http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/olympicsnow/la-sp-on-reese-hoffa-mens-shotput-20120803,0,626374.story
August 6, 2012 11:03 AM
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ASTRONOMY
ISS occulation--Omen for a good dayPosted By Rex Cox |
I arrived at work a little while ago, got myself a cup of coffee, and went outside. I looked up, and there was the ISS going across the sky from northwest to southeast. I had no idea it was supposed to go over this morning. The best part is that it went directly accross the face of the moon. I sure hope someone around here got a picture of it.
Getting to see something like that has to mean this is going to be a good monday!
Getting to see something like that has to mean this is going to be a good monday!
August 30, 2012 11:00 AM
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After Dark
Sighting in pre-dawn Oklahoma sky 8/30/12Posted By Rex Cox |
I live just outside Oklahoma City. As I walked out this morning at 5:00am to head to work, I looked up and saw what appeared to be a bright comet. It was about 60 degrees above the southern horizon, and about 15-20 degrees W,SW of the Pleiades. I don't know how long it was actually there, but it disipated about 30 minutes after I first saw it. It did not move and it did not change shape. It had a cometary tail on it, but the tail was pointing toward the Sun's position, not away from it. Since it eventually faded from view, the only guess I can come up with is that it might have been a sudden outgassing from a comet. I have no idea if there are supposed to be any comets in that area of the sky. Did anyone else see it?
September 23, 2012 01:05 AM
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Refractors
Re: Scope on another site: (Buyer beware)Posted By Rex Cox |
Yet another reason to do business here at Astromart. Pay the fee, it's cheap insurance. And the telescope in the photo isn't even a Traveler. I'm not sure it's even an Astro-Physics telescope.
Not a lot unlike the guy here who recently was trying to get $80+ for the unlaminated SkyAtlas 2000 deluxe. You can still get it from Anacortes and Sky Publishing for $59.95, and I found several new copies on Amazon for $39. It is not out of print, as some people seem to think.
Not a lot unlike the guy here who recently was trying to get $80+ for the unlaminated SkyAtlas 2000 deluxe. You can still get it from Anacortes and Sky Publishing for $59.95, and I found several new copies on Amazon for $39. It is not out of print, as some people seem to think.
December 8, 2012 05:54 AM
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After Dark
Re: Mount AdapterPosted By Rex Cox |
You might want to try this in Meade forum. You'll probably get a better response.
December 20, 2012 09:22 PM
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My Favorite WIMP.COM or YOUTUBE.COM
Virtual Star Party....Posted By Rex Cox |
I came upon this while web surfing today....
http://www.youtube.com/user/GooglePlusStories/custom?x=starparties
http://www.youtube.com/user/GooglePlusStories/custom?x=starparties
February 25, 2014 01:51 AM
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Audio
Re: Poor quality CD's from original vinyl recordinPosted By Rex Cox |
There can be several reasons, but most likely, a poor job of engineering and transferring (remastering) the old studio master tapes. CD is capable of wider dynamic range than LP, so recording engineers make a new master tape when an older album is released on CD. Because of the digital format's wider dynamic range, it is also capable of highlighting defects and deficiencies of older recordings. If the engineer does a poor job of remastering a well made studio master, that also shows up in the way the CD sounds. I have a massive collection of LP's and CD's, and there are indeed a lot of remastered CD's that sound worse than the LP. Also, if the original master wasn't well engineered (I've heard a lot of those too), then there is only so much that the remastering engineer can do to resurrect it.
A lot of music lovers prefer the sound of vinyl to CD, but I prefer the sound of CD over vinyl the vast majority of the time.
A lot of music lovers prefer the sound of vinyl to CD, but I prefer the sound of CD over vinyl the vast majority of the time.
December 17, 2005 06:51 AM
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Reflectors
Focuser OpeningPosted By Rex Cox |
Larry Sauvain said:
Does anyone have a good technique for making an opening in an aluminum tube to mount a focuser? I can't think of an easy way to make a clean smooth cut.
I'd take it to a machine shop. They'll make a clean job of it and it will be worth what they'll charge. I've had small jobs like that done at machine shops before and the amount they charged was quite reasonable.
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