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Posts Made By: john raymond

May 8, 2008 03:48 AM Forum: Equipment Talk

Whats Up with These Huge Refractors

Posted By john raymond
If you want to have fun at the star party, bring a large refractor.
John

May 13, 2008 10:18 PM Forum: Eyepieces

A test for you and help for me!

Posted By john raymond
Dennis

Dob:
Try a Nag T6 13-11-7 + a TV 2x Barlow for Parfocal barlowing. The T6 are also good for binoviewing.

Taks:
Get a Tak or Tec eyepiece turret and a complete set of Tak LE's, then use your favorite 5 ep's per session. I have tried this turret at several star parties and its very nice. Wish it were mine.

Here is a photo of a TAK turret with the TMB monos.

May 31, 2008 07:25 AM Forum: Eyepieces

TV 22mm. Pan

Posted By john raymond
It's not to be found on Anacortes or Televue websites.

http://www.televue.com/engine/page.asp?ID=144

John Meiners said:

Does anyone know if TeleVue is still making/selling the venerable 22mm. Panoptic Eyepiece ? thanks, John M

May 31, 2008 07:43 AM Forum: Maksutovs

collimating 7" Meade Mak

Posted By john raymond
Daniel,

Why do you believe the scope to be out of collimation? How do your stars look?

I had poor images in my scope: with the stock Meade prism diagonal, and with a 2" mirror diagonal when the mirror came loose. (Easy fix)

The scope is excellent after cooling off and when seeing is good. Works best here in the summer when the night is as warm as the day and its hazy and humid.

After 8 years the goto still works but the keypad buttons are worn. I've noticed a lot of ads this year: Wanted Meade LX200 Keypad.

Im very interested in instructions for removing the weight also.

Regards
John
Daniel Sinotte said:

Does anyone know how this is done...by an amateure...a very mechanical amateure?

August 14, 2008 04:22 AM Forum: Ask rating questions here

Email response times

Posted By john raymond
I had nearly the same experience. I saw an ad and replied. The seller responded, and we made the deal. I wrote that I will send the payment the next day, in the morning. Here is the next email:

[COLOR="Red"]"LET ME KNOW IF YOU WANT IT AND WHEN U ARE SENDING THE M.O"[/COLOR]

follwed by this 20 mins later

[COLOR="Red"]"i marked it sold but am gonna pull that if i dont hear from you on when u sending m.o" [/COLOR]

Now Im eating dinner and going about my business thinking I made a sure deal. I did check my emails a little later and replied again, with the actual date and time I planned on sending the payment. (which was the next morning. Did I have to spell it out?)

I did recieve the item I wanted, but never recived another email, not a rating. I just looked and the guy has 5x ratings recieved to given. So check the ratings first- wildly lopsided ratings - beware! People who lack the courtesy to leave ratings usually lack courtesy period.

John

September 24, 2008 11:07 PM Forum: Deep Sky Observing

The benefits of aperture

Posted By john raymond
Rick

I think you need more aperture already.

Take a good long look at Classified #587094

Regards
John

December 12, 2008 02:20 PM Forum: Refractors

D & G Optical Achromats

Posted By john raymond
Great scopes.

The smile says it all. Wish I still had it.

John

December 19, 2008 01:30 PM Forum: LUNATICS

Predicting the moon position

Posted By john raymond
Pete

Try this for observing and identifying lunar features:

http://www.ap-i.net/avl/en/start

For position, phase, occulted stars, for any date or location, try Skytools 2.

Good luck,
John

January 31, 2009 02:29 AM Forum: Deep Sky Observing

Clusters of Clusters

Posted By john raymond
Nice scope! Nice mount too.

Did you see the planetary nebula in M46?

Why is all the cool stuff in California?

John

February 15, 2009 12:44 AM Forum: Eyepieces

Eyepiece recommendation for Swarovski scope

Posted By john raymond
First make sure the eyepiece you want will come to focus in this scope. Best to try some out before buying.


My recommendations:

Panoptic 24mm (20x)
Nagler Type 6 / 13mm (36x)
Nagler Type 6 / 7mm (68x)
Nagler Type 6 / 5mm (96x)
Nagler Type 6 / 3.5mm (137x)

Regards
John

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