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Posts Made By: Doug Walton

April 1, 2005 06:08 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

April 2, 2005 04:10 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

April 2, 2005 04:16 AM Forum: Pictures of Me and My Telescope and........

Resting up Prior to an All Nighter

Posted By Doug Walton

I had that EXACT setup about 4 years ago. Nice.


April 12, 2005 03:50 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Questions about collimation and focuser movement

Posted By Doug Walton

1. Your focuser sounds like it has too much slop to allow you to establish and/or maintain critical collimation.

2. See #1.

You also may have a laser that doesn't fit well into your focuser, thus making things even worse.

April 30, 2005 02:36 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Schiller--exercise in image scale

Posted By Doug Walton

Just curious - what would you guess is the diameter of the prominent craterlet in the left-side floor of Schiller? I'm trying to get an idea of the resolution and distances I'm looking at.

These days, looking at the awesome lunar and planetary images that are often posted here by you and the usual cast of characters is what I look forward to most. Please keep them coming!

Doug

May 11, 2005 08:30 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Tectron / Catseye for collimation

Posted By Doug Walton

My choices:

Catseye 2" Cheshire
Catseye 2" Autocollimator
Tectron 1 1/4" Sight Tube (unless someone makes a 2" sight tube, then I get that one)
Glatter or Kendrick 2" laser



May 24, 2005 10:17 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

LX200 12" weight

Posted By Doug Walton

I had one and used to set it up by myself all the time. You just need to be focused on what you're doing when you are doing it. smile

September 12, 2005 06:14 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Collimating 14" Tscope

Posted By Doug Walton

Catseye 2" collimating toolset plus a Kendrick 2" laser. That covers it nicely.

October 9, 2005 07:32 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Schiller and Bayer

Posted By Doug Walton

Looks like a view from the Apollo Lunary Module.

October 31, 2005 01:17 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Aristoteles

Posted By Doug Walton

Notwithstanding the good processing work, that must be the best LX90 that Meade ever produced.

:-)

Nice stuff!