Posts Made By: Victor Kennedy

I bought a secondhand LXD300 mount, and it works quite well with an 80mm short tube refractor on it. Anybody know how well it handles a larger scope?

I'm planning to replace the flimsy aluminum legs on my Meade tripod with some wooden ones. Any tips on what the best material would be? I was thinking ash or maple.

I'd like to get a new mount for my C8 OTA and have narrowed down the choices to a GP-DX or the new Synta HEQ5. The HEQ5 is cheaper and includes the dec and r.a. motors. To add those to the GP-DX is a lot more money.

I'm not heavily into astrophotography; I've made a few eyepiece projection photos of the sun and moon, which were fun, and may want to do a little more in the future, but right now I'm just enjoying the view.

Any recommendations?

I should add that I don't have a lot of choices: I live in Slovenia, the dealer is nearby but doesn't carry many brands, and it's more of a hassle getting big items shipped from abroad than I care to undertake again.

Along with thunderstorms and hailstones.

Anyone know what is the appropriate sacrifice to the Weather God?

For accredited university courses, try:

University of Lancashire:

http://www.studyastronomy.com

Swinburne University (Australia):

http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/sao/welcome2.html

James Cook University (Australia):

http://www.jcu.edu.au/school/mathphys/astronomy/index.shtml

Jodrell Bank (University of Manchester) offers this one:

http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/distance/.

These courses offer either a degree or credit that can be applied to studies in other programs. Here's a list that includes several on-campus courses that offer some online components:

http://home.eckerd.edu/~hudsonrl/chn/sitescol.html

This is more general; most of these have already been covered, and some should be taken with a grain of salt:

http://www.worldwidelearn.com/astronomy.htm

The Open University offers online courses, but they are limited to citizens of the UK and some European countries (such as Switzerland and Slovenia):

http://www.open.ac.uk/science/short/

http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?Q02B27_science

(This would lead to a BSc with a major in astronomy).

Nice shot!

I'm looking for a copy of an article by Don Olson entitled "Chaucer and the Moon's Speed".

Please contact me if you can help.

Thanks.

Excellent performances by the old masters, with some interesting new talent. Only a few disappointing tracks.

TV Genesis

34mm Axiom
Nagler 13T6
Meade UWA 4.8mm (series 4000)

I'd like to know too.