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Posts Made By: Frederic Caron

January 20, 2004 01:06 AM Forum: Pictures of Me and My Telescope and........

Setup almost complete !

Posted By Frederic Caron
Hi all,
my dream will come true. My C14 will come soon. The mount is ready with modified electronics. The mount consist in a Meade 16" LX200 tripod, C14 wedge and C14 fork mount. Can't wait for the OTA.

The mount stand beside my Ultima 11 on Meade 12" LX200 tripod.


Happy new year to all.


Fred
Quebec, Canada

April 19, 2004 03:52 PM Forum: Pictures of Me and My Telescope and........

The most useless thing in a kitchen...

Posted By Frederic Caron
I've now completed my set-up. Of course the weather is calling rain for the entire week. I assume that is a regular thing among all of us when we got a new telescope. I live in a 3 1/2 appartment and fortunately i'm single, because a C14 in the kitchen of a 3 1/2 appartment must be a divorce case !


Fred

September 17, 2004 02:40 AM Forum: Pictures of Me and My Telescope and........

The great return !

Posted By Frederic Caron
The great nebula is back ! Are you as impatient as me ?

Fred

September 17, 2004 02:58 AM Forum: Insects - Flowers and Other Small Stuff - Photos

Hummingbird

Posted By Frederic Caron
I've took this picture with a 102mm f/5 refractor and a Vesta Pro webcam last year. I'm used to hold the drinking trough in my hands and putting my fingers on the "parking", wait a while and the hummingbirds will land on your finger. Try it at home and you'll see by yourself. That's work !


Fred

September 17, 2004 03:05 AM Forum: Pet Pics

Never let your books without supervision...

Posted By Frederic Caron
If you leave your books without supervision for a while....You may encounter a major problem when trying to return....

That was my case tonight.


Fred

May 10, 2007 03:48 AM Forum: Pictures of Me and My Telescope and........

Shaky and flimsy tripod

Posted By Frederic Caron
Here's my setup for now three years. I've forgot to repost a picture of the final setup as asked by few peoples in january 2004.


Regards,


Fred

April 17, 2002 12:39 AM Forum: Home Observatories

blackening walls?

Posted By Frederic Caron
Yeeessssss !! Paint your inside walls.

That's worth the pain. For my observatory, i've used Corostop black matt paint. That's create a REAL dark environnement inside the observatory. For visual use, it's amazing, the black matt color cut the light reflection inside.


Fred

April 28, 2002 11:50 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Brand new C11 OTA : WARNING !

Posted By Frederic Caron
The new OTA have screws, but they are too close together. The screws on the former OTA are a lot more spaced. That's the problem.

Fred

May 15, 2002 12:02 AM Forum: Equipment Talk

Brand new C11 OTA : WARNING !

Posted By Frederic Caron
I've solved my problem without having to drill new holes in the OTA.

A machinist has builted small aluminium brackets to fit the OTA into the Ultima forks mount.


Fred

February 6, 2003 01:33 AM Forum: Celestron

C11 broken - help needed

Posted By Frederic Caron
Hi Mr. Becker,
i've read about a guy who has changed the corrector on his SCT and never seen the difference from it's original SCT. I think that was on the Yahoo group SCT user by Rob Mollise.

Hope this will help you.

Fred

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