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Posts Made By: ROBERT MOORE

December 4, 2005 06:16 AM Forum: Digital SLR AstroPhotography

M42 with 4 inch

Posted By ROBERT MOORE
WOW I love you shot!!! .. It's already on my desktop I hope thats ok

Bob

December 4, 2005 06:43 PM Forum: Beginning Astronomy?

Webcam imaging for beginners

Posted By ROBERT MOORE
Thanks for the link Tim, I just ordered a toucam so it will be of great use to me.

Thanks

Bob

December 6, 2005 09:21 PM Forum: Coronado-Lunt-DayStar Solar Filters

Status of the Sun

Posted By ROBERT MOORE
here's are some I like
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/latest.html
http://www.spaceweather.com/
http://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/latest_events/
Bob

December 13, 2005 09:58 PM Forum: Telescope Making

Little Gems

Posted By ROBERT MOORE
Very nice looking parts, may i ask where did you get them from

Bob

December 15, 2005 03:00 AM Forum: Reflectors

Confused !!!

Posted By ROBERT MOORE
Here are two links with lots of good info on some small but good scopes. Good luck

Bob

http://www.astromart.com/articles/article.asp?article_id=93
http://www.astromart.com/articles/article.asp?article_id=217

December 27, 2005 08:23 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Orion 10" XTI Intelliscope, Bang for the Buck!

Posted By ROBERT MOORE
Floyd Nice report, I have an XTI10 and found the same things but being new to all this i was not sure about nit picking given the cost. I would know what you did with the focuser and how you added the teflon to the base. my bigest problem with the scope was holding collimation. I did add a fan and cool down is very fast. also thanks for the info on the Warp factor, I have been using a 20mm and could never get it that low somewhere around .5 to .9 with a 3 star alignment, so i'm going to pick up a 12.5mm Parks Lighted Reticle EP.

Again thanks for your report

Bob Moore

December 30, 2005 04:51 AM Forum: Eyepieces

Quality of these EP & Filters?

Posted By ROBERT MOORE
I have Burgess 32mm 2" and a 6mm TMB form Burgess and for the money I think they are fine when people look in the 32mm they say WOW what type is that a TV ... now I don't think I would go that far But as I said for the money.... an OIII for 65.00 ill have to check that out.


Bob

January 2, 2006 09:29 PM Forum: Beginning Astronomy?

counterweights

Posted By ROBERT MOORE
Hi Evan, what GEM are you going to use? I also have a xt10 and have been thinking about getting it off the Dob.

Orion has an Atias 10 EQ and they use two counterweights, each weighing 11.9 lbs. here is the link.

http://www.telescope.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=5151&itemType=PRODUCT&RS=1&keyword=

Good luck

Bob

January 3, 2006 12:05 AM Forum: Beginning Astronomy?

If there are no dumb questions - I may have the fi

Posted By ROBERT MOORE
The Sun does not have any scientific name like the names of plants and animals but among the billions of stars, it does fall in a particular category: Stars are classified based on their temperature and their size. Based on their temperature, they are classified into O, B, A, F, G, K and M stars with the O stars being the hottest with temperatures of about 50,000 K and the M stars being the coolest with temperatures of about 3000 K. Each group is subdivided into 10 classes (eg. O0, O1,..., O9, B0, B1,...).

Based on the size and luminosity, the stars are classified into classes Ia, Ib, II, III, IV, and V. Type I stars are supergiant stars, II means giant stars, etc. Finally class V are stars called main-sequence stars which are "normal" stars (that fuse hydrogen in their cores).

Based on this notation, our Sun is a star of spectral class G2 and luminosity class V (main sequence). So, when we can say "scientifically" that the Sun is a G2V star.

With that said I have heard it called "Sol"

Bob

January 7, 2006 10:57 PM Forum: Beginning Astronomy?

I got $500.00 and NEED to get something

Posted By ROBERT MOORE
OK first, thank you all for your suggestions; some were good, some were great, and some were …. Well thank you anyway.( LOL)

Here’s what I did; it seamed like the majority of you said get something grab & go … But we do have a brandy new Orion Starblast on an gem … but that needs cool down time …not a lot but some. So I went for an 80mm short tube f6 on an EQ4 mount with clock drive, a set of rings for the PST so I can stack it on the new 80mm, some Baader film to make a filter's for the 80mm, Starblast and an offset filter for the XT10i. And knowing that my Wife never reads anything on this forum a Tela Vue 24mm Panoptic. Ya I went a little over the $500.00 but she will never know. ………aaaaaaaa ……..

NO HONNY IT ONLY COST $499.95 PLUS TAX ….. boy gota love that tax


Bob

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