Posts Made By: George Koehler

Looky here:

http://www.sportsmansguide.com/cb/cb.asp?a=76976

Xantrex xpower 600. It is a 40 amp/hour sealed lead acid battery with 12V dc outlet and built in inverter powering 2 AC outlets. Seems a very good price to me compared with the lower capacity units offered by most of the astronomy equipment suppliers.

"Do I look like someone who cares what God thinks?"

Pinhead in Hellraiser 2

I discussed this in work tonight with someone. Several pilots on the frequency had remarked about how impressive the aurora were tonight ( im an air traffic controller on long island). I remarked that i didnt think we'd be able to see them due to the skyglow problem here, in fact i had never seen them at all before in this area. Well lo and behold i looked out the window of the car while driving home and i thought DAMN. they were spread all the way across the northern sky with rays a bit beyond the zenith. Very excited i sped home well above the speed limit, ran in to get my binocs, and called my sister to tell her about it. I zipped down to the beach (about a half mile north of my house on long island sound). By the time I got there clouds had rolled in across the whole northern horizon to 2/3 of zenith and i couldn't see a damn thing. Crestfallen, I returned home, by the time i got back the clouds had passed the zenith and half the sky ( the wrong half!) was obscured. Oh well.