Posts Made By: Greg Shaffer

Patrick Keafer said:

I've been mildly supportive of this diplomatic deal with Iran as a starting point but some things being leaked are completely ridiculous:

The agreement in question diverges from normal procedures by allowing Tehran to employ its own experts and equipment in the search for evidence of activities it has consistently denied - trying to develop nuclear weapons.

Olli Heinonen, who was in charge of the Iran probe as deputy IAEA director general from 2005 to 2010, said he could think of no similar concession with any other country.

Is the US and UN so desperate for a deal they have lost all common sense?


http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAN_NUCLEAR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-08-19-13-06-05

Darien Perla said:

Hello guys,

I recently joined astromart and im setting up my papal account. Do you recommend to open another bank account to process transactions from your buyers? or does it provide protection if you used your savings or checking when linking bank accounts?


Your help is greatly appreciated,
Darien.

Richard Feller said:

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I placed an ad on 7/27/2015 and edited it tonight. I cannot see it in the classifieds. Did iI do some thing wrong? Ad # is 892492; CGEM 9.25 HD. Thanks.

Marc Gimbel said:

I purchased an item through the Astromart classifieds about 2 weeks ago and would like to leave positive feedback for the seller, but can no longer find the ad. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks,

Charles Shahar said:

For insurance purposes I would like to print an ad involving a purchase I made 8 months ago. The number is: #850637
Is that possible? Are these entries archived?

Thanks,

-Charles

Russ Carroll said:

What Kevin McCarthy messed up. Amazing.

The GOP looked MATURE compared to the moron questions by CNBC. Very disappointed in CNBC. Becky Quick should go back to "fawning" over Warren Buffett.

Rod Kaufman said:

If these attacks were carried out by home grown islamic terrorists, stop letting them in!
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/13/world/paris-shooting/index.html

Thomas Dey said:

I consider the Horsehead to be right up there as one of the most challenging visual targets, and have only seen it a few times under the most ideal conditions. Decent sized scope and a specialized filter like the H-beta especially help - and even then I can only occasionally say, "Yep - OK - I definitely see it!" One of those objects that images superbly in H-alpha but not to the eye in that band because it is so blasted DIM and our Night Vision "scotopic - rods" are blind to the uber-red H-alpha. So far, so challenging. About a month ago I got TWO Gen 3 Night Vision monoculars, added 12nm H-alphas and looked at the sky. YIKES! All the H-alpha stuff just POPS because the device of course transforms the view to bright green phosphor that one can look straight at. I can see Barnard's Loop piece of cake and the nebulosity to the E and S of Orion's left belt star no problem at all. I had assumed the Horsehead Notch (B33) would be impossible at 1x. But tonight I looked again and - I SEE IT! Just as it should appear, a tiny dark notch hooking in from the left and upward. Again and again I ask myself if I'm actually seeing it at 1x and the answer keeps coming back - Yep...there it is. So now, after the fact - I check the literature and see it is about 4 arc-min in size (certainly resolvable by cone's centralis vision) and the NV 1:1 phosphor rates 64 line pairs/mm At a 1-inch focal length (both objective AND eyep), that translates to about 2 arc-min (for the pair) --- which would be just comfortable to resolve the object. I'm also convinced that using the TWO NVs feedng BOTH eyes immensely reduces the scintillation. So there you have it - I can see the Horsehead at unity mag using Gen 3 NV True Binos. And that's pretty amazing! Has anyone else tried this?! If you think I'm nuts, I understand. Comments/observations welcome! Tom