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Posts Made By: Adam Albino

April 9, 2007 06:03 PM Forum: Deep Sky Observing

DSO guide book recommendation

Posted By Adam Albino
Others not previously mentioned (unless I missed the post) are the Vehrenberg photo "Atlas's" - such as "Atlas of Deep-Sky Splendors".

And while not really a large advantage over one of the reference companion books to Sky Atlas 2000 or Uranometria, Becvar's "Atlas Coeli Catalog II" (Later printing - "Atlas of the Heavens Catalog II") has quite a bit of information on as wide range of objects.

April 19, 2007 11:58 AM Forum: Celestron

Ideas for a wedge?

Posted By Adam Albino
I've owned both the "ultima" wedges of the 80's /90's(both the "closed sides" version and the "Open side" version), and the Millburn wedge. All three were very nice. The Millburn was the heaviest, but adds a lot of weight - and you need a good tripod to boot. Overall the "closed side" Ultima was probably my favorite due to lower weight and easy portability.

April 19, 2007 01:51 PM Forum: Telescope Making

Fiberglass tube restoration

Posted By Adam Albino
Take a hint from Fiber boats:
1. Marine Tex epoxy with color add (match as close as you can)
2. Primer
3. Sand
4. Final paint

April 30, 2007 11:56 AM Forum: Beginning Astronomy?

Celestron C-8 collimation screw cap

Posted By Adam Albino
It pops off. Once off - Keep it off, and get some Bob's Knobs....

May 1, 2007 06:30 PM Forum: Celestron

Will a C8 wedge fit on a Meade standard tripod

Posted By Adam Albino
Years ago they did (through the 1990's say)- cant speak for the newer tripods and wedges now though.

May 3, 2007 02:34 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Upright Image-What Does it Mean?

Posted By Adam Albino
In astronomy left to right means little (quite frankly either does up or down). So yes most finders that correct for vertical are Upright only (some however do do both). Most main scopes don't purposely correct for anything - usually a function of the scope design.

To correct for left/right would add another optical path to do so - IE mirror or lens, and in astronomy the more in your light path the less through put, contrast, etc... One of the reasons that usually terrestrial spotting scopes (which are usually corrected for both) are not as desirable for astronomy.

These are general rules however....

May 3, 2007 02:41 PM Forum: Eyepieces

Orion Q70 32mm

Posted By Adam Albino
There are two articles on these in recent days here on AM. Please read them. They are the same as the Meade version (and probably a half dozen other vendors). Bottom line - not worth you spending the $ on - which falls in line with most of these cheap Wide Field eyepieces in my experience. Save your $ and get a Panoptic.

May 9, 2007 05:16 PM Forum: Mounts

Upgrading to a go-to mount

Posted By Adam Albino
The 10" Starfinder is far too much scope for the CG5 and similar IMO. Sure you can do it, but the wobbles are too much for my taste. I'd save for a CGE/G-11. Have you thought of just going with a "push To" by adding a DSC system on the mount you currently have? Perobably a far better bang for the buck.

May 18, 2007 07:58 PM Forum: Beginning Astronomy?

Which spiral?

Posted By Adam Albino
With an 8" scope you'd be hard pressed to see any spiral structure except for a few - and usually only with good seeing. From memory My logs show I've seen a hint of structure with 8" scopes (and as small as 6" and maybe 4") with the following:
m51
m33 (NGC area's)
m31 (dark lane)
M100
M101

I'm sure there are a few others and some "irregular" galaxy's structure as well....

June 4, 2007 08:01 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Who was it that made small parts for scopes?

Posted By Adam Albino
http://www.preciseparts.com/ppmain/index.html

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