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Posts Made By: Ron Streetenberger

January 10, 2012 12:45 AM Forum: After Dark

Re: Do people do astronomy with annoying friends?

Posted By Ron Streetenberger
I do a little astronomy but have no annoying friends. People who annoy me cannot be my friend. Why is it an issue?

March 26, 2012 02:18 AM Forum: Equipment Talk

LZOS Mak-Cassagrains

Posted By Ron Streetenberger
I am a real admirer of these great lenses. They are amazingly sharp and contrasty. They can sometimes be found at bargain prices: I paid $120.00 for my 1000mm f10 and $30.00 for my 500mm f8. In addition to using the 1000 as a long range lens on my Sony DSLR. I also find it to be a great scope which gives great views between 40x and 125x, using a Meade 8-24mm zoom eyepiece. It also becomes a fine digiscoper with the latter setup plus a Sony H70 P&S camera. The accompanying photo was taken with the 500mm plus a 1.4x teleconverter. The subject is a line transformer crop taken from a distance of ~40feet.

May 29, 2012 07:27 PM Forum: LUNATICS

Lunar X, 5-27-12

Posted By Ron Streetenberger
Taken with $400.00 worth of equipment, $200.00 of which was bought on Astromart(scope, diagonal, and zoom eyepiece). Old photo tripod price not considered. Not the best seeing but not a bad image. There is a "V" to accompany the "X" in the photo which was digiscoped using a Sony H70 point and shoot.

June 12, 2012 02:26 PM Forum: AstroMart FAQ

Classifieds a week behind

Posted By Ron Streetenberger
Why are the classifieds delayed on my main computer and yet up-to-date on my laptop? Also, the Astromart home page exhibits the same delay.

October 26, 2012 08:55 PM Forum: LUNATICS

1st. quarter moon along terminator

Posted By Ron Streetenberger
Top half: taken with Sony H70 point and shoot camera and digiscoped through Meade 24X eyepiece and 1000mm LZOS reflex lens.

June 2, 2013 05:04 PM Forum: Eyepieces

Pentax 21mm XL

Posted By Ron Streetenberger
MY XL eyepiece will not not come to infinity focus when using a Barlow(GSO 2.5x) that works well with other eyepieces. The Pentax alone requires almost full intravel to achieve infinity focus. What would you suggest to overcome this problem? Would a "correct image" prism change anything? I would appreciate some help with this one.

November 30, 2014 01:30 AM Forum: LUNATICS

Strange line across Manillus

Posted By Ron Streetenberger
The crater Manillus(four o,clock from the Appinines) appears to be sporting a new feature. Any Comments?

June 28, 2015 12:13 PM Forum: LUNATICS

The ravaged south

Posted By Ron Streetenberger
I made this image with a Pentax PF80ED spotting scope and a Sony H70 point and shoot camera. The atmosphere was hot, humid, and poluted.

September 30, 2015 12:45 PM Forum: Solar System Observing

What's Going on in Mare Crisium????

Posted By Ron Streetenberger
Took this shot this morning: 9-30-2015 @ 6:31AM CDT. This should be named "Streetenberger Rille" from this day forward.

October 1, 2015 01:57 PM Forum: Solar System Observing

LROC Resolution

Posted By Ron Streetenberger
Has anyone noticed the decrease in resolution of the images on the Lunar Reconnaissance orbiter camera site? It used to provide images down to 8 meter resolution but now pixilation begins at about 4,000 meters. That is a drastic change. Could they be hiding something? This change happened since I last viewed the site about a year ago.

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