Posts Made By: Jeff Morgan

I would give up the electronic toys of convenience long before aperture. Think short Dob. Truss system if storage space is an issue, solid tube it set-up time is the issue.

I'm not sure that being a dean of a liberal arts college has much bearing on qualifications to review astronomy equipment. If he was an astronomy professor, that would be a little different.

Most any bright star would have made for a more revealing test than the moon. Nevertheless, the review was interesting. I guess I would want to see how the lens centering holds up over time. Who is going to be the brave one that goes first?

Neal Kleinman said: Of course I use my Panoptic the most, wide field in my LX200 10".

If maximum wide (true) field is the use, easy decision. 31 Nagler, or possibly 41 Pan.

For widest true field the 21 Ethos would only make sense at f/4 or faster due to exit pupil considerations.

Luca Grella said:

Do you reallly think that 650K job losses and 8.1% overall
unemployment rate is the result of the last 45 days policies?
Maybe Regan was right 30years ago, today he wouild be plain
wrong.

One can blame the previous administrations for many things, but in the end doing so misses a key point: The stock market looks forwards, not backwards. When markets opened on the morning after Obama was elected, the S&P 500 index stood at 1005. On March 6th, it closed at 683. So in the "poll" that really matters, we are down 32%. So far there is no bottom in sight, and the most punishing aspects of the Obama policy wish list, such as Carbon Taxes, are yet to come. Scary.

Reagan absolutely was right, and would be in this day. Even though human psychology is a large part of economics (thus making it less than a "hard science") certain fundamentals are still true where rational people are involved.

1) The way out of a recession is production
2) In the long run the free market and supply and demand is always the most efficient way to allocate resources
3) In almost all respects the private sector is a more efficient producer than the government
4) Government only can be funded at the expense of the private sector

Reagan knew the way out was to unleash the private sector. The result was one of the largest economic expansions in US history. This is an indisputable fact. Team Obama is doing just the opposite. Therefore I would expect opposite results.

Tony Aguire said:

The title says it all. If McCain would have one, I bet the losses the stock market have sustained in the last 45 days would have occured the first week after the election.

Not to mention the fact that this is a GLOBAL economic downturn.

When our choices came down to two senators, I knew it was not going to be good. No executive experience. It's sure showing now.

Your point on the downturn being global doesn't make a lot of sense to me - since the US is the engine of the world economy. As the saying goes, when we get a cold, the world gets pneumonia.

I just upgraded my support level to Brown and classified emails stopped coming at 4:37 MST on the 25th.

I checked my Classified settings, toggled them to Digest format, saved changes, logged out. Then I logged back in to change format back the Individual format (preferred), and saved that change.

Still nothing coming through, please advise.